City and County of San Francisco Wednesday, June 26, 2019

>> good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order.

This is the June 26th, 2019

special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair of the budget and

finance committee.

I would like to thank carmen and lawrence from san francisco government T.V. For broadcasting

this meeting, Madame Clerk, are

there any announcements? >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear in the July 9th, board

of supervisors just board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much.

Let's see. So I just want to welcome everyone back.

Good morning, today is the final day of the board's deliberations as we work to craft a comprehensive starting plan to pass out a budget committee after hearing from hundreds of people at public comment earlier this week. As I've mentioned before, we

have received over $400 million in budget requests here, and we

are working hard to address incredible need and communities -- in communities across san francisco. Yesterday, I released a spending

plan after hearing from the public and from my colleagues. My hope is we can grow the available funding even more to prioritize a few more outstanding issues. Today we will address a few more

items and recess the meeting so my office can work with the controller to prepare a spending

plan.

Colleagues, I propose we recess

until 2:00 P.M. After our

meeting today to allow for that time to work.

Does that sound good? That is great. Thank you very much.

Madame Clerk, will you please

call item number 3? >> resolution concurring with the controller specification of the total previously approved

can be provided by a contractor and the city and county employees. >> thank you very much.

I believe we have our controller >> good morning, supervisors. We presented this item briefly

last week. I am obviously available to

answer any questions you have. >> great. Mr. Controller, I think when I

pulled this item that last year,

the item was just for June. It is actually a pretty hefty

item. We do contract out a lot of employees, and so in the

original legislation it said that for an emergency situation -- can you give me some clarification on that, and

whether or not -- how will we

need to declare an emergency situation in order to contract out these folks?

>> I would be happy to.

The authority contract services lives in the charter under voter initiative from the late seventies. That is the prop jay contracting

process which we described. The language in the ordinance as it refers to emergency isn't

driven by the need to declare an emergency under the chart here,

but under a provision every labor contract.

That is what -- it is only in

cases where the city is proposing a new contracting

proposal that affects current bargaining unit members or requires positions being cut from the budget.

I think this is a legislative holdover from the past that has been carried forward year after year. It is actually not required for the board or the mayor to declare an emergency to move

forward with this item.

>> so we have had this in place for about 15 years.

Is that correct? >> the contracting allowances

under prop jay and it goes further than then -- further than that. The majority of the services you

see in front of you have been contracted out for 15 years or more in these cases. >> okay. The reason I mention this is

because many of those positions that I looked at were

entry-level positions and that

we could actually be hiring employees, our own employees.

I know it's more expensive, so was this designed first as a

cost savings measure? >> I believe, yes, these contracting proposals when they were first entered into many

years ago, were designed to save city money, and are finding as they continue to do so. The choice about whether you

want to move forward isn't going for our office, it is one for

the mayor and the board to decide.

Our job is to certify that if you do continue to contract out these services, that they do

result in cost savings and that's the analysis. >> that is the purpose. According to our records, it

shows as though we do have some cost savings from that. >> that is correct. >> okay. I think it is a bigger issue,

actually, about contracting out that can't be discussed in this length of time now, so why don't

we move this particular item to

the full board of July 16th.

>> can replace a public comment? >> yes.

Are there any members of the public who like to comment on

item number 3? Seeing none, public comment is

close. I would like to make a motion to move this with a positive recommendation to the full board meeting of July 16th.

Can I have a second, please? I will take that without objection.

>> hold on.

I said we should just go ahead and pass those out, but I also

think we should look at this. >> yeah. I think you're absolutely right. I think that this is something we should look at because I also would like to see the numbers of whether or not we are

contracting out more people than we have before. Historically, how many people are we actually contracting out? I think it would be a good

starting point.

Okay, thank you very much. We passed that out of committee, that's great. Let's hear item four and five. His recreation and park in the room?

They are not in the room. Okay.

Then let's take item -- can you

please read item one and two, please. >> item one is the budget appropriation ordinance

appropriating all estimated receipts and estimated expenditures for the city for

the fiscal year ending June 30

th 2020 and June 30th 2021 item two is annual salary ordinance in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for

the fiscal year ending June 30 th, 2020 and June 30th

2021 continuing, creating, or establishing these positions. >> thank you very much. This is a continuing

conversation that we have had --

oh,.

Here is recreation and park. Okay, great. I believe that we have a report

from the controller on items one

and two. Recreation and park has just gotten into the room now. I thought we could get rid of that first, but they are a

little late.

And then the B.L.A. Has a report , also, for us. >> thank you again for continuing this item from last week. The analysis that my office wanted to perform was whether or

not, which reduction the mayor

has imposed on the budget, that the committee is enacted with

reductions on the B.L.A., and with the additional possibilities that were discussed in committee last week

we simply wanted a review of the current payroll and hiring plan against that revised budget to ensure that there were funds

available to support those and to determine what positions are funded here and which art. We really appreciate having the opportunity to do that and have that item back here today.

Would you find, after much work with the department, they have

presented us with projections for the coming fiscal year,

which we find to be credible. It indicates they can, indeed

support the current payroll and their hiring plan within the

budget as it has been amended, which means, effectively, the reductions you were talking

about last time of the four probation officers, which I believe was a motion that

supervisor ronen raise, those are indeed funded positions. The board does reduce those

positions and the department

would have to start -- stop the

hiring processes for them. They would be taking money from their budget. That is my report on this item. >> thank you very much.

Let's hear from the B.L.A. Now.

>> good morning. As you hopefully have seen, we

handed out a revised list of recommendations for the juvenile probation department to correct

for a technical error.

The current total recommendations for the

department in fiscal your 2019,

2020 total $274,315. Those are all general fund

ongoing savings, and for fiscal

year 2020-2021, the total is now $286,279.

Those are all general fund, all ongoing savings. >> thank you very much. So there has been a correction

to the budget and amended. I believe these are recommendations that have already been accepted by the

department of juvenile probation is that correct? >> that is correct. >> I believe you have already indicated to the controller that

it is the intention of this committee to assess.

Generally, tonight, we will seek

consensus on whether or not we accept the amended version from

gpd. Good.

Mr. Controller, please know that the board has --

[Indiscernible] >> question. >> yes?

>> to the B.L.A., when we state

that the first year is ongoing, is that you who deals with the

second year, or z-letter 286,000 for the second year of top of

the 234,000?

>> basically what we are getting in savings for the first year is

200 some deeper thousand 305. For the second year,

incrementally increases. Those are the savings for each

of the years. I just wanted to make sure that

we didn't Miss These. >> correct.

>> thank you very much. Good morning. Thank you for agreeing to the

recommendations of the B.L.A. and continue our conversation, I think we had some discussion

about four positions that probation officers have taken over, and I believe these are probation officers that used to

work at log cabin.

Is that correct?

[Indiscernible] >> there are officer conditions

in the department's budget. There was a separate conversation with respect to

five log cabin around councillor positions that are currently vacant, and one director

position for the ranch.

The department is in concurrence

that the log cabin branch positions should be removed from the department's budget with the

accompanying attrition his adjustment for those positions

so that there is no question or concern with respect to those

positions. We expressed at the last hearing

our desire to maintain the four deputy probation officer

positions that were identified

as vacant and pending being filled.

There were a total of 62, two of

which, during our last conversation, supervisor ronen

reflected in need to maintain those positions given the specific assignments. There are two positions that we were targeting for school-based probation officers, and two positions that will be

designated to deliver cognitive, behavioral interventions for young people on probation.

At this time, while we certainly

concur with the controller's position with respect to the

department's ability to fund

each of those vacant positions,

we would respectfully ask that there be some reconsideration

with respect to taking all four of those positions so that there is at least some flexibility for

the department to implement any

new legislative mandates that we

are going to be responsible for, specifically, I'm anticipating that there will be some legislative requirements

associated with S.B. 439 which

is a new provision that requires alternatives to this system for

young people who are younger than 12 years old.

So as I stand here today, I certainly respect the recommendations and I appreciate

supervisor ronen's concern with respect to reducing our budget. I would ask that the be some

reconsideration to preserve some

portion of the remaining four deputy probation officer positions. >> thank you very much. Supervisor ronen?

>> thank you.

Thank you for recognizing the

need to reduce the positions from a log cabin that are no longer needed. I appreciate that. I do continue to feel that it's

important and necessary to

reduce those four positions, and I just wanted to repeat for the

committee the reasons why.

First of all, the research doesn't support having probation

officers clear the role of, you

know, being inside of middle schools and providing cognitive behavioral intervention.

As I shared last week, research published by the anti-casey foundation in 2018 indicates that putting probation officers and middle schools will disproportionately impact youth

of color, and will not have a preventive impact, but increase the likelihood that youth will end up in deeper and deeper

involved in the system. Furthermore, experts in the

field have stated that having probation officers conduct

cognitive behavioral therapy is again, placing law enforcement officers in an inappropriate

role. For example, the national institute national institute for

criminal justice reform recommends that probation officers should be connecting

youth and families to cognitive behavioral support in the

community, not in the department furthermore, these supports can be covered for youth under

medicaid, meaning we could draw down federal funds for offering therapy in a community rather

than paying for it to county funds.

Second, these roles that mental health and development

professionals are already doing

both in our schools in our community. School social workers, wellness

center directors, nonprofit youth development staff and therapists can play and do play these roles. I reached out to members of the

san francisco school board, to the united educators of san francisco, and two sciu, and all of them were shocked and

dismayed to hear about both of these proposals because they have workers already playing

these roles in our schools, and they are concerned that no one from juvenile probation has reached out to them to let them know that this was even being

considered. Finally, as a board, we have decided to close juvenile hall

by December 2021.

I believe that eliminating these positions is a crucial step

towards the further -- getting closer to that goal. We must be looking at the budget over these next two and a half

years to see where we can make smart decisions with regards to vacant positions and positions that are no longer required for day-to-day operations. Therefore, I would like to make

the following motion. I would like to make a motion to

cut forward -- four deputy

probation officer positions and

associated salary funding that were slotted for the positions I discussed.

Two, to be in middle schools and to run cognitive behavioral intervention groups.

I would also like to make a

motion to cut position authority for five unfunded positions for

log cabin branch.

Three of those are class 8321

and one is class 8564. As we discussed last week. These are positions that have been vacant since the closure of the ranch and that the

department has not budgeted for.

Finally, if there are recommendations that come out of the blue-ribbon panel that

require additional staff that worry are not anticipating right now, we can revisit that at the

appropriate time, you know, with

budget supplementals, with position supplementals, et cetera.

I hope to have this part -- the support of my colleagues for

these motions. >> through the chair, supervisor

ronen, I just want some clarification.

So I get the part of cutting the

position to save some money so we could put it back into the ad

back process, but I thought you

want that money for a specific

activity or line item.

So if that is true, is this something that has been

discussed through the request to

support certain projects.

What we have been doing is asking everybody to come up with

ideas that we do have funding to add back and we are not saying

cut here and give us certain things, so I'm a little

uncomfortable with that they need to have some discussion about that. I don't know if we have had. >> can I explain?

That is a good point. When we passed the legislation

to close juvenile hall, the part

of that was we weren't -- we were going to cut from the

budget the $13 million that it takes over time to run juvenile

hall, but not take those

investments out of the area of

serving youth that fall to the criminal justice system. So while it is not specifically

tagged to any item in the ad

back amount, there are already

on the adback list many items,

including reopening of the girls ' group home in san

francisco, programs through other organizations for youth,

and there was one other, the program through huckleberry youth services.

It is not that it is tagged precisely for those services,

but it goes to the general ad

back fund, and there are, on the ad back list, those youth

serving services that equal

about the same amount. It is not anything official like we are reserving them for a

particular proposal.

The important point, I'm sorry if I'm not explaining myself well, but the important point I

want to make is that as, over time, we cut the budget for

juvenile hall, we shouldn't be

diverting that money into other needs of the city.

We still need those investments in the youth that need the most -- most help in the system and we should be reinvesting that

money in alternative interventions for youth who commit crimes to get them on the

right track.

So to repeat, we are not getting rid of anything, we are not reserving. If we cut these positions, the

money goes to the general adback pot, but all under our ad back list that we have all seen,

there are community-based interventions for youth involved in the criminal justice system

that, you know, we have collectively agreed are a priority to fund. Does that make sense? >> I am okay as long as this is

on our list. Otherwise we would go down a slippery slope of cutting from this particular department and it has to match up with something. >> absolutely.

That is not what is happening. >> thank you. I would say as budget chair, also, as you know, we have

$400 million of ask, so we are not adding any more ask to this list. This is the list as it is.

You have all seen what has been requested. Definitely we can use these

funds toward that, but I think it is the prerogative, quite

frankly, of the budget chair to make that list and also to

prioritize items in that.

So I am going to turn it over to supervisor mandelman. I thank you might have questions

>> yeah. Chief nancy, you are going to

somewhat -- you are in somewhat

a peculiar position, as you know most of the departments who come

before us, we have gotten recommendations -- recommendations from the budget and legislative analyst and that has formed the framework in which we have approached cuts to that department.

In general, we have accepted those recommendations, and in a

few cases we have had

discussions about those recommendations and have done some or all of what the B.L.A. Was recommending.

In your case, it appears we are entering into programmatic discussions about the work of your department, which is different, maybe not different

for -- from other years, but this is the first time I have seen this this year as a new member of this committee.

So I am a little out of my depth in waiting into the programmatic discussion. I know that as I expressed last

week, the notion of probation officers in middle schools gives

me some visceral discomfort, but

I also know I have no notion at

all of what best practices are. I did some googling, a sense of

some of these programs have been cancelled in other areas, but it also sounds like it is not uncommon for juvenile probation departments to have probation

officers in middle schools doing work there. I think it might well be right that that is not a terrific program, and I would love to

hear more about -- again, it sounds like this is also something relatively new, and so I do wonder whether we should be

undertaking that project right now given what all else is going on with the juvenile probation

department. I guess again, I would ask you

to explain your need and the benefits of those two positions. >> absolutely.

>> but also, then the other two

positions and why we should not

-- I mean, again, we would be illuminating physicians that have been in your department, even if they are not currently?

>> that is correct.

>> if you could just take one more try at making the case for

either those jobs, or the need for those positions in your department, given the fact that

the numbers of youth a gpd are going down. >> thank you for the question.

First and foremost, the juvenile probation department has had a

long-standing partnership with our schools in san francisco. Probation officers are routinely visiting schools, working with

school personnel, working with the young people within those

school environments. That is not uncommon, that is

not new pick a study of a school

based program in philadelphia -- are not new. A study of a school-based program in philadelphia with probation officers working with

low level risk offenders lead to a 68% reduction in school-based

arrests. That is significant. Statewide, in the state of pennsylvania, the study also found that 70 9% of school

administrators thought that the program was effective and reduced recidivism and a majority thought it improved the school climate. Currently, as we sit here today,

san francisco has 65 middle

school students that are active

on probation caseloads. We are already working with middle schoolers on our caseloads. Those middle schoolers are attending 18 different schools

can san francisco, coordinating and organizing our work with respect to that population of

young people is just about creating more efficiency. It is not about expanding the scope of our work, it is not

about changing the scope of what

a probation officer does, it

simply is about to reinforcing

and concentrating the efforts of two of the probation officers

within our department to liaison with those schools, and with those young people who are active with our department

already, and to be a resource when there is a situation that

occurs, that potentially could

result in a referral to juvenile probation, but have a probation officer who could offer

alternatives and other resources to which the young person could

be connected.

We are not looking to expand, we are looking to rearrange the services. To your earlier point, this is

the first in five years that I have made a budget presentation where the conversation was about

the operations of the department

specifically and how existing funded positions are being allocated, and so this is somewhat unusual in that regard. And then the last thing I will

say about this is that notwithstanding the fact that there is an ordinance that calls

for the closure of juvenile hall

by 2021, the fact remains that we still have to operate the

juvenile hall and all of our

probation services up until that point.

And so to start carving away positions without any thoughtful

analysis as to the impact or the

programmatic impact is taking a

step in the dark. It isn't based on any organized

report or analysis and we find

that somewhat public -- problematic. What I would recommend is before

we start cutting positions where

we haven't done any thorough analysis that we engage in a staffing analysis, and then that

report informs any decision that this board would make with

respect to reductions in the budget. And I would completely support

that.

I do believe that as we continue

to our level best to keep the number of young people in our

juvenile justice system down, to

continue to enjoy as a result of

ongoing and continuing based

practices unless we have a thoughtful document that is

based on a formal expert analysis to suggest otherwise.

At this point, I would recommend that there is a need for us to

serve the 65 young people who

are already on our caseload in middle schools and -- in a more effective way, in an organized fashion with the schools that we

are already in partnership with.

>> are you finished? >> hilary, did you... >> yes.

I wanted to ask the budget and

legislative analyst a question. Is juvenile hall currently

overstaffed? >> from our brief review that we conducted last week, we do believe that juvenile hall is

overstaffed currently.

>> and that is because while the

population of children being incarcerated at juvenile hall

has declined by 67%, the staff at juvenile hall has only

declined by 6%, is that right? >> unfortunately, I don't have that number in front of me, but

the population of children at

juvenile hall is well below the

capacity for the facility, and with the log cabin ranch been

closed recently, I believe that there were several positions that were shifted from log cabin ranch to the juvenile hall. >> that's right.

I believe these numbers are correct, but correct me if I am

wrong and if any of the official

budget crunchers for the city, I understand that of the 23

positions that staffed log cabin ranch, 19 were moved to juvenile hall, which is two thirds empty,

so while the population of juvenile hall has declined over

the years by 67%, the

corresponding to staff reduction has only been by 6%.

So my question to you is, how come you didn't recommend budget

reduction or staff reduction at juvenile hall given that it is your opinion that it is

overstaffed?

>> we did make recommendations

to eliminate one of supervising

probation officer. Regarding the juvenile hall

positions, they are filled

positions, and because we have

general direction not to reduce

services or to eliminate a filled position without calling

that out more clearly to the committee, we would not make that kind of recommendation.

>> that makes sense to me. You don't usually recommend

cutting filled positions. So even though juvenile hall is

overstaffed, you would wouldn't recommend cutting those positions because they are filled positions.

But why didn't you recommend cutting new positions? These four positions, they are four of six positions, by the way.

I'm not even trying to cut the

other two, which, quite frankly,

might be a mistake on my part, but I am going to let that go

because the chief has made a case they are necessary,

although I am not sure they are given that juvenile hall is overstaffed right now. Why can't you just shift

positions over if it is overstaffed? Why didn't you recommend to the elimination of any of those six

positions given they are all new positions? They are vacant, they are not

currently staffed. >> they are not new positions as you stated, they are vacant positions that the department

wishes to fill. We did conduct an analysis that

we provided to your office. While we didn't make any recommendations in this area, we

did state that the department is

not planning to fill those log cabin ranch councilors or the

director position, and that if

the board were to eliminate

those positions, we do not -- because they do not plan on

filling them, we do not think there would be a significant impact on the department

services, but that the board

should reduce the attrition

savings line for those positions because they were not planning

to fill those. For the deputy probation officer

positions, we just believe that this is a policy matter for the

board to make.

We do believe that it would

probably impact the department's

ability to hire -- the timeframe

of hiring other positions, however there is some uncertainty with the department 's funding. We understand that the department is anticipating some

right state grant funding to be coming in, which might assist them in hiring some of those positions.

So some of those positions that are now under the general fund

could potentially be funded by

that state funding, which they have -- it would continue a

pattern that they have been

moving positions off of general

fund to state funding -- to grant funding. >> all right. Thank you.

I would just say to my colleagues, that the city has

been asleep at the wheel when it

comes to juvenile hall.

We have been spending $13 million a year to

incarcerate 40 children at any given time. Many of whom come out worse than

when they went in, and we all admit that it's overstaffed, but despite the drastic, which is

great news, the drastic decline in the population of juvenile hall, but the staff is, for the most part, in the budget has,

for the most part, remain stable

on top of that, was shut down log cabin ranch, which is overseen by the department, and

we still haven't significantly

reduced the budget of this departments.

Now is the time to start acting.

The board of supervisors, by a

10-1 vote has decided to shut

down juvenile hall by 2021, as

the mounting evidence in the field shows that this punishment

based system makes kids worse than better off.

It is not a truly rehabilitative function. When children are locked in a

cell for 12 hours a day, most of

whom suffer from mental health illness and who have been traumatized the vast majority of

their life, that that is not a method that helps in the

rehabilitation.

And despite that fact, I am

making a motion to make a very,

very modest cut to the budget. It is an overstaffed department, I'm not suggesting that we cut any filled positions, I am simply requesting that we cut

four positions, which again, the

evidence shows, and not just the evidence, commonsense shows that law enforcement should not be conducting cognitive behavioral therapy.

Therapy should be not someone

who is responsible for punishing and incarcerating youth, it

should be for someone that the youth can completely trust, who is a professional in the area of

rehabilitation and studied in

that field. I just don't understand why this

would even be controversial, and quite frankly, I'm disappointed with all of us, including myself , from not having brought this up earlier because we have

been, quite frankly, over spending money on this department for too long. Enough is enough. We need to start taking action

now. >> thank you very much.

President He -- President He

President He -- I am a little bit confused. There are four positions that you would like to fill, I

believe that is what is on the

table right now, and one

question -- I will ask this

question first, with the 65

middle schoolers that are under your umbrella, aren't they

already assigned caseworkers? >> those probation officers -- those young people are assigned probation officers. Having a school-based probation

officer would allow us to have

coordination across the different schools with liaisons that are working specifically with school administrators, councilors, and others, with

respect to those young people in the various middle schools.

Right now, it is disbursed. I think there is an opportunity for us to coordinate that in a way that is more efficient, especially with the younger

individuals on the caseload.

I have to comment that if young people were getting worse as a result of their involvement with san francisco's juvenile hall, then our numbers would be going up. They are not. Our numbers are going down. >> I'm fine, you can save those comments for later, that is not my question.

So the other thing, I just need to clarify in my mind what I need to clarify to make a

decision.

The other week, when did you come here last? I'm sorry. Was it last week? >> a week ago.

>> when you were presenting why you wanted these school-based

probation officers, it was to

reach out to talk to middle school kids and there May not -- that May not even be on

probation of any kind, and that

was how you were selling it, I'm feeling like it seems like your

argument or your rationale keeps on changing a little bit.

>> the rationale is not changing

>> did you not state that you

were trying to reach out to more middle school children that are not in trouble? >> I did not repeat all of the arguments that were submitted that the last hearing, but they

are all still relevant and

absolutely there is great value in having probation officers working with young people who

are at risk, who are not yet involved in the juvenile justice

system, and being a resource to school administrators with

respect to other programs and services that are effective in working with those young people. That is an added benefit, it is

not a different rationale -- >> okay. , so I did hear that. >> I apologize for not stating that. >> I just wanted to make sure I

heard it right.

So, since then, I have looked at

many cases, and I didn't read it thoroughly, but I did read it.

I also received some other

communication by e-mail or

letter from one or two organizations that are pretty

reputable in my eyes that really argue differently your points.

It is one thing to say -- at

this point, I believe that if I

trust the researcher where the paper that they put out, it was

more focused on those that are

not in the system yet, that it's

actually not a good idea to mix

that with probation officers.

It didn't say much about the

ones that are in the system, that's why I asked whether you

have caseworkers already, and what are they doing.

Are they supposed to be helping with that situation?

So I'm beginning to feel like you have some legitimate arguments, but this is beginning

to feel a little weak to me.

>> I appreciate those comments.

I would just clarify that probation officers are working

primarily with young people in

the community, and some of the young people on their caseloads

do end up in juvenile hall, but probation officers in juvenile

hall are not interchangeable with therapists.

The staff who work in juvenile

hall solely work inside the institution.

The staff who work in probation services, the deputy probation officers, of which the four

positions are a part, they work

with young people in the

community, not in custody, so they are working primarily with young people in the community.

So when we talk about staffing levels, we cannot look at the

probation department's full

contingent of employees and make

decisions about the capacity based on everybody who works in

the department. The 19 positions that came over

from log cabin ranch are not all therapists working in juvenile hall.

There were 11 that went into juvenile hall.

There were cooks, secretaries, and analysts that also joined

the department from log cabin ranch.

I believe that there is an

opportunity for us to work with

young people on probation in a more efficient manner then we

have thus far, and while I

recognize that there is this desire to incrementally reduce

the department's budget and in

anticipation of the closure of

juvenile hall, we have to look comprehensively at all the programs and services that support -- that the department delivers and all of the

obligations and responsibilities that we have before that decision is made.

If I have one young person that is sitting at san francisco

general hospital and I have to send two staff to supervise that

young person, and if they are hospitalized in patients, that

is two staff every eight hours,

24 hours a day.

So while on the surface it looks

like there are more than enough

staff, there are very specific circumstances that require one on one or two on one supervision of the youth who is in our custody. And I think we have made the

case that the needs of the young people in san francisco's

juvenile hall today are far more

significant, far more trauma induced needs, and young people who require a higher level of

supervision. And the last point that I will make on that is that while we

have young people who are supervised directly by staff, we

also have to have the capacity

within an institution to deploy

staff when there is an incident,

and that can't happen if we are staffing at the bare minimum. We have to have a sufficient

number of staff to respond to a major incident inside juvenile hall.

And that is how we have staff the staffed the facility and I

agree that there is an

opportunity to look at further efficiencies in reduction.

My only point is that if we are going to do that, it should be

based on a thorough staffing analysis. >> thank you.

>> you're welcome. >> supervisor stefani? >> thank you. I just want to add something

really quick that, you know, I

am open to cutting these four positions because I feel like we

can re-examine their need as we do our work on the brute -- blue-ribbon panel, as we

reimagine the juvenile justice system, and as we work together. I want to make a point because

this has been such a contentious

topic and I think, often we don't always come from a place

of hope, and we don't always

come from a place of realizing how much we actually have accomplished in san francisco,

and I don't want to let that go. I want to emphasize that, you

know, everyone on this committee

wants better outcomes for youth. Everyone on this board of supervisors wants better outcomes for youth. Our mayor wants better outcomes for youth.

I know you want the same thing,

and that is something, I think, to celebrate in san francisco. When we see what is happening on the federal level, when we see

what is happening in texas with for-profit child detention centers and people are fine with that, when we know that this

board -- we are just talking about four positions that we can re-examine, we can look at, and we can get a better understanding of how do we do better by our youth in our middle schools. How do we do better by our youth you having to go to juvenile hall? I think we should actually celebrate the fact that that is all we are actually discussing

here today is the fact that we can look at these four positions

, re-examine them when we are looking at them in the blue-ribbon panel and continuing our work on this very important

topic with you and with the

mayor, and with this board. Although, obviously I was the 10

-1 person, it is not because I thought that we can't do better, it is because I have a feeling

that we are going to have a difficult time making that deadline.

At the same time, it is not that I didn't think it was well-intentioned.

We all want to do better by our youth. Including you, chief nance, you have done a lot of good things. While I am open to this cut today, I want to know and celebrate the fact that we are all working together to make it better for juvenile justice system. Thank you.

>> thank you. >> chief, I would just like to

say that I think that it doesn't have a lot to do with the

juvenile hall and the closing of juvenile hall.

It is really about these four positions. As I stated before, I just don't

think that for san francisco public schools, and I have served on the school board for

eight years before I came here, we are investing a lot in middle schools. We have a lot of pure resources now, and I feel like we are taking a different direction. We used to also have police

officers in our middle schools, and we are weaning ourselves

from that also. I think that the san francisco

unified school district has

invested a lot in. Councillors, they have invested a lot in wellness centers in certain schools, so I just think

these positions actually are not -- even though you're working with the school district, I

would just say, they are not necessary in our schools because

we are actually, I think our schools are going in a different direction. I think what we have before us

here today is really about these

four positions, we would

illuminate these four positions,

including also the log cabin positions that the chief has already conceded to. Do we have consensus on the

board about the four positions?

On nod would be good. That is great. I would like to indicate to the

controller. Can you please note that it

isn't just notice to the committee to eliminate the four

positions for the middle school and also the cognitive health groups, and so the behavioral

health groups from the gpd budget. Okay. I would just like to know, thank you for your work and coming back again today. I know you answered a lot of questions. I'm sorry that we have a difference of opinion about these positions. >> I understand. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

I don't -- do I continue those?

>> Madame Chair, would you like to call items four and five

since recreation and park were not --

>> I would, please. >> excuse me, do I need to do

public comment on items one and 1212? >> if you wish to do public comment now, you May do so. I don't believe we are ready to

act on item number 1 and 2.

You May decide to do this later. >> okay.

That is great. >> let's call items four and 51 st. Thank you very much. >> item number 4, ordinance amending the parkour to permit

the park department to set

emission fees for the job for the court tower elevator, the

conservatory of flowers by a

pricing based on certain factors item five, ordinance amending

the park code to recommend the department to impose a sub- charge of 1 dollar per nonresidential adults to serve at the japanese tea garden to fund a restoration of that facility until such time as the

restoration is complete. >> thank you very much.

I believe we have the general manager of recreation and park here.

I am so sorry.

This was me, I believe we have

come to an agreement, and we have proposed language and

amendments.

So, did you have copies of those

thank you very much. Colleagues, I believe to refresh

your memories, I actually

continued these items because they don't have an issue with

the amount of surcharge, and I

know that we need to raise some of these fees. I think one, the main reason is

because he wanted to do flexible pricing so that we could

actually help with spacing out

of the people who attend -- I

mean, who are visiting these

venues so that it would alleviate some of the mass

crowding that happened. And so I have asked recreation and park to come back with language that actually -- I don't have a problem with the

flexible pricing and the pricing

of up to 50%, what I had a problem with was that I wanted

to have it set once a year so everyone can agree upon that for

the year 2020.

[Please Stand by] >> I'd like to start your time --

>> now I got to switch my

strategy because you switched

the goddamn topic.

>> would you like to start public comment?

>> nonresident, you got a lot of

nerve talking about nonresident.

You got 3,000 -- strike that --

you got 320,000 undocumented

people that not residents in the

city and county of goddamned san francisco. And they're not homeless. Is that clear?

You got illegal immigration, getting brand new apartments,

paying $2, $3 a month.

Paying $3 a month for the past several years and he said he had increase in his rent and his

rent has been increased to $80 a

month for a brand new studio apartment.

Is that fair? Then you got citizens,

understand me, paying $3,000 a month for the same type of

apartment.

You have the audacity to talk

about nonresidents paying fees.

How come you don't talk about noncitizens? you have controversy over one

area of the city for tourists to

pay and you chance to charge

yourself rent, you only charge

yourself a $1 a month.

Turns out it's a $1 a year.

How much you going to charge to

have people go to the street in

the world, lombard street. Nonresident people. That's disgusting.

It's not fair for you to switch

the issue like that when a topic

is being addressed and then you

switch over like that.

You got 8,000 homeless people.

Then you got 320,000 -- [Bell Ringing] >> thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Wright.

The reason I did -- the reason I

did not call public comment for

items 1 and 2 is because we are

not voting on that now.

We will recess at 2:00. We're going to continue it and come back.

And then after -- if you do public comment now on items 1

and 2, you will not be able to do public comment when we bring back the whole budget. And I think you're going to want

to be there for that.

>> [Interjections]

Mr. Wright! Mr. Wright! No. Done. Mr. Wright, we're done here, Mr.

Wright. >> [Interjections] >> I don't know, Mr. Wright.

And since I'm chair of this

committee, I really don't know right now.

Because right now time talking

about items 4 and 5.

Another public comment, I'm sorry.

And then -- yes, so anyone that would like to have public comment, please line up.

Everyone has two minutes.

Mr. Wright took five, but here we go.

>> john, here in the coit tower hat. I want to clarify the amendments, chair fewer, the

amendments you handed me, they say are -- there is still a change or two in them. I want to clarify that what is

in the language is what was stated, that the department will

be able to lower fees -- I think

at any time, which I don't think

anyone disagrees with to incentivize visitation.

And to raise fees up to 50% in different months, different for different attractions. It might be helpful to go

through the attractions and

explain to people when.

What I can't tell from here is if the department can do this

and let you know, or if the

board needs to hold hearing like this and have potential back and forth, or clear understanding of

what the fees are going forward.

What I have in my hand, it doesn't say that the department needs to get approval before the

fees take effect, which is what we would ask. Otherwise, the fees occur and all this is basically is a noticing requirement.

So once a year, conditional and board approval would be what we would ask the ordinance to contain.

If it's going to be as you

outlined, that this should be transparent, it should be open and have a good reason.

if the amendments say that, I apologize, but I would ask if they do if they don't.

Thank you. >> good mid morning, supervisors.

I'm bonnie, I'm the area manager

at san francisco parks alliance.

And I want to stress that san

francisco parks alliance

supports the nonresident flexible pricing at these

specialty gardens and coit

tower, as well as the japanese teagarden. We've been consistent in voicing

our support at the R.P.D. Commission as well as the

commission meeting on May 16.

We believe adult nonresidents,

flexible pricing will allow for more manageable traffic flow within the sites and in the surrounding neighborhoods.

It also encourages attendance at

non-peak times that will result in a richer experience for all people who attend because there

will be less congestion.

We support the fee increase at

japanese teagarden, the japanese

teagarden is one of our historic

gems and residents and visitors

alike walk away stating that constantly.

We fiscally sponsor two of the

specialty gardens, japanese and the conservatory of flowers.

The japanese teagarden is dedicated to raising funds for

this renovation. We also feel flexible pricing

and the maintenance fee will have long range effects and benefit the people that visit them.

Thank you.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker.

>> good morning. Fellow citizens.

My name is kathleen wells.

I'm a united states constitutional practitioner and a national executive

entrepreneur.

My request is unique and unusual.

I have requested a half a million dollar budget to fully implement all of the legal

groundwork I have laid here in

the united states of america.

Specifically, I'm looking to collect and receive on a united

states constitutional judgment

demand and lien placed on the united states currency presses. Let me say that. I exercise my united states

constitutional right that this moment to exercise freedom of

speech and freedom of the press. First amendment, united states constitution.

What I need to do -- and I don't

have the time now -- is to talk

to each one of you to educate

you on how this city can move

forward now and receive currency funds rather than cutting the budgets for all of your honorable agencies.

Again, my name is kathleen wells

and I am the national executive entrepreneur.

Thank you for your attention. >> Supervisor Fewer:

next speaker, please.

>> good morning.

President Yee, honored

supervisors fewer, stefani, mandelman.

My name is jane chin. Resident of the outer ridge district number 1. I have to say that I am really, really blessed to be living in

an area that is surrounded on

three sides by parks.

Ocean beach, lincoln park and golden gate park.

I am also a member of the board

of the san francisco botanical garden. I'm here to speak in support of

the flexible pricing program. Noting that the program will

only impact non-san francisco adult admissions. Admission will remain free to san francisco residents, members

of the garden and school groups.

And flexible pricing offers free admission to everyone at certain

hours, which removes any hardship this might create. Important to note is that

according to the american public garden association our current

price at $9 for nonresident

adults is below the 25th percentile for large botanical

gardens across the country.

So we're due for an increase.

Flexible pricing will not negatively impact visitation.

Since August 2010, when we first began charging nonresidents,

visitation has increased 129%.

Flexible pricing will only help

us better serve our visitors and community.

It will help encourage visitation at less busy times

and provide enough needed support for revenue, improvements and programs.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> good morning.

My name is ryan.

I'm the curator of the botanical garden.

I'm in support of the flexible pricing. The garden is an amazing resource.

we're visited more and more each year.

We're a respite in the city. And our high attendance on the weekend, more and more people come on the weekends, and I think this flexible pricing

would be great, because it will encourage people to take advantage of this fantastic resource during the week.

And help a lot of the pressures we face with extra visitation to our amazing garden. Thank you.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please. >> good morning.

I'm Dr. Joseph, I'm an mauritius professor from madison.

I partially retired in 1996 when

I began to volunteer at the

botanical garden and I learned

that children doseant and adult

dosant did walks and became a director of the board of society. I continue to serve as a life

member on that board.

Over the last 24 years, the botanical garden has been a

major activity that I've participated in to bring people closer to the world of the

nature around us. Which I think needs more

attention than is usually given.

We live in district 7, in norman

yee's area.

And I just want to thank

supervisor yee for the close

working relationship that we in

that district have with him in looking at issues. After careful consideration, the

board and the leadership team of the botanical garden society

voted to wholeheartedly support

the flexible pricing program.

it would only impact -- [Bell

Ringing] -- nonresident visitors.

Since 2010, since we began to

charging nonresident admissions,

we've seen an increase in the

number of nonresidents and residents, and most importantly

thing, we've gained resources to

improve garden from the point of view of irrigation systems,

planting, pathways and so

forth -- [Bell Ringing].

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much,

next speaker, please.

This is just item 4 and 5, about flexible pricing on these park facilities. >> okay.

I'll withdraw.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   done, okay? Any other public comment on item 4 and 5? Seeing none, public comment is

closed. Any questions? Nothing? Okay.

Can I make a motion to move these amendments to the full

board with a positive recommendation. President Yee, seconded, take that without objection. Thank you very much. Oh, excuse me, someone -- >> we're just going to clarify

to the board of supervisors

meeting on 7-16.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   that's right. So sorry.

Madame Clerk, did you get that. July 16. >> just want to make

clarification that item number 4 is amended, was amended and

recommended to the full board on

July 17 --

>> Supervisor Fewer:   16.

>> sorry, and item number 5 was recommended.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   so I'd like

to move item number 5 to the

full board of July 16. Take that without objection? Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Thank you very much.

Okay, Madame Clerk, what I'd

like to do now is recess this budget and finance committee.

Is Mr. Wright here?

Oh, Mr. Wright, I'd like to open up public comment?

>> is this on one and two now? >> on items 1 and 2, and

remember, if you speak now, Mr.

Wright, you can't speak later. >> always want to speak after

you speak when the trail is hot.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   okay, trail is hot, come on up. Another thing, I want to tell

the listening public, if you would like to comment later when

we recess back, I will open up

public comment again for those people who would like to speak.

Right now, Mr. Wright would like

to speak on items 1 and 2 while the trail is hot.

>> now, talk about you sleep at

the wheel, you more asleep at

the wheel, you're drunk driving,

that's what you're doing.

Being disappointed in yourself, you should be furious. You talk about your wasted money, that demonstration you

did yesterday, where you agreed

to another goddamned navigation center, when you have the audacity to what is the best way to house people without sending them through your system and putting them back on the goddamn

streets and I show you how to build a 27 story apartment building complex to give permanent housing for the people that need housing. It didn't matter.

Makes a fool out of his self after his demonstration.

This is not a solution to the homeless problem.

This is not a solution to the goddamn homeless problem, what the hell you doing it for then?

If it's not a solution to the

homeless problem, why you doing it?

You're ignorant, and unproperty

tax -- about the goddamn

services and salary, you want to talk about salary. You see this guy here, city college. Everybody is going to school for free.

If it's a good goddamn program

how come your $32 million in debt?

He said he was $11 million in debt.

All the other colleges in the bay area, their students not going for free. You got them coming out here and now you got to have them going

to classes for free and by the

same, where they live at, their junior colleges don't charge.

Had this chance to work for free.

You ask me that estion, how we going to take care of the problem and keep them off the street. I show you how to house people -- [Bell Ringing] -- and

you still don't take my advice.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you for your public comment.

I'd like to continue -- do I close public comment? Any other public comment?

Come on up.

you have two minutes.

>> I'm housed at la nay and I

think it's ridiculous that you

give me housing in a dual diagnosis building and I'm in

district 6, and this doesn't

even say district 6 downtown.

They lump us in with tenderloin. So from the time that I've been

there, I've cleaned up that block.

I've gotten those honduran drug dealers.

I've got a fence put up in front

of the old city college building.

Bottom line I'm being identified

as a nuisance.

They're in the process of evicting me.

And I would like to know how all

these agencies that keep putting

signs on my door saying they

want to help me from being evicted.

I'm going all the way to the judge.

Because when you give someone a notice to quit, you don't

continue to collect rent from them.

There is a lot of ridiculous stuff going on.

Why do you have A.D.T. And I

live in an S.R.O., which I call

it a charming studio and a charming building.

And everybody in my building is

turning into ice people, who don't even speak english and it's atrocious.

And I just -- I want to just

take time -- some time off of

this record to find out this young lady who you are, and then the other woman, because I really would like to talk to you all personally, to let you know exactly what is going on. Because it's appalling.

it really is.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much. Any other public comments? Seeing none. Public comment is closed.

We will recess this meeting until 2:00 this afternoon.

And so I'll see you back then.

A. Gilda [

]

>> come on. Let's say it for a little bit. Are we excited?

Are we excited?

Doesn't this room look amazing?

>> The Hon. London Breed:   we're

all here today for so many reasons.

Look to your left, look to your right and realize we are here today as family, as a strong community.

Are we invincible?

Are we invincible?

My name is latifa, and I cannot

wait to go.

I cannot wait to be a part of this amazing day, this amazing experience, and to me, to many

of you all, this is not about networking. This is about an opportunity for women to understand that we are not alone, and we can

correct collective solutions --

create collective solutions to

so many of the ills we face. In this room, there are folks from every sector. Folks in finance and medicine,

and I believe before we leave today, there will be new

coalitions developed, there

will be no partnerships

developed, and new sisterships created.

Am I right? are we invincible? [Applause] >> I have no doubt that the collective strength in this room can heal the ills in san francisco but the world.

We're here today to create new answers, to build on new possibilities, and to have a lot of fun.

Are we ready to have a lot of

fun? So I don't know if you know, but I've been to events that mayor london breed has done, even when we were growing up in

the fillmore, so get ready. To kick off this morning, I

have a special treat for you. You know, when young women get

together, not only do they

express their collective

brilliance, but they bring

electricity to the room.

Say it with me.

Girl brigade.

Girl brigade is an amazing

performance group working to

develop and empower girls in san francisco.

Take it away, sisters. [Performance] [

]

>> we are girls, growing into women, your daughters, your

daughters on this earth. In the cities, in the villages, in the towns, we are here.

We are here in the scent of a

flower, in the living rainbow of light, on every blade of

grass and every ray of the sun. On every grain of the sand and

every drop of rain, and in the

heat of the morning sun.

We are girls, growing into

women, vast as the ocean and plains. Growing into women, growing

into articulate, wide-eyed,

true time wonderful women. [

]

[Applause] >> wow, girl brigade, you provided us with so much more of a performance.

The drum reminds us who we are.

Culture, performance, lineage, they brought that to the center.

And reminds us of who we are

coming to the four corners of earth means who we are.

It's living the promise of our heritage.

Give it up one more time for girl brigade. [Applause] >> so I have this very difficult job.

In two minutes, I have to introduce someone who requires

no introduction, and yet, I was

given this intensively difficult task.

Mayor london breed. [Applause] >> so I have a lot of cards here where I'm supposed to go

down and talk about her amazing accomplishments.

I'm going to tell you a few.

I should not use the cards, right?

I should just tell you about

this woman because she's my friend.

But every women in the crowd is

like, but she's my friend, too. She's a daughter of san francisco.

Come on, give it up. [Applause]

>> why it's so timely that she brought us all here today, it's like many young girls from all

over the city who get on a muni

bus -- when I was little, i

used to see london getting on a muni bus.

We were both young women living in the fillmore.

She showed us it's not about love of man, it's about love of

community service.

When london breed run

an for her

district, every single day, she

made sure the children in those hauls had everything they

needed, and can I say, she has

brought that vigor to city hall.

Over the years, you would see

her around the community, at

baby showers, at graduations,

making sure her community had opportunities to thrive and

opportunities to stay together.

She has taken that love to city hall. What's important about today and what's going to be important about us living in

that same inspiration is that

we have a mayor of this city that we love. She is a daughter of the city

but she is a promise of what is possible, of what's possible. I can go on and on, but this woman, to me, I am inspired by her. I love her, and she is everything that we need as our

city's commander-in-chief.

London breed.

[Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   good morning, ladies, and good morning, men.

I know it's a few of you here today. Thank you all so much for joining us.

You know, when I became mayor

of san francisco, I knew it was

going to be a challenging job. I knew that we have pressing issues that we face in the city

around homelessness, affordability, around

transportation, and making sure that we continue to grow and provide opportunities in this

city, especially to the next generation.

I knew those challenges were

ahead, but I also knew there'd be days like this.

I knew there'd be days like this where we can come together, women from all over san francisco, from the richmond to the sunset to the

bayview to the fillmore to the

lakeview and every place in between for the sole purpose of

talking about how we as women,

together, can be invincible.

Today, it's about finding our strength.

It's about putting forward our

best selves.

It's about also, in the process, lifting one another up. You know, I was so fortunate to live in a community where yes,

I had a tough community that raised me, and Miss Brown was invincible because Miss Brown didn't play. She made you do your homework, she made you clean your house, she made you come in at a certain time. As a kid, I don't think, I

don't want to do it, I don't want to do it. You don't realize that she's doing it because she cares,

because she loves you, and because she wants the very best

for you. People in our community who told us what to do, they wanted

the very best in us.

And part of what I'm so fortunate about is I really understand and appreciate the value of what that means for the next generation. You know, I'm really excited to be the second woman mayor of

san francisco and the first african-american woman to serve in this capacity. [Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   but I'll tell you, it's not just about being in this position as

a woman, it's also about the opportunity of opening the doors for other women to lead this city, as well.

Since I've taken office, I've been able to appoint some incredible women to elected office, including the board of supervisors, school, and community college board.

And of the 105 commissioners

that I appointed to serve on commissions throughout san

francisco, over 50% of those

folks are women.

[Applause]

And let me and.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   and

let me tell you, like the

fierce leader of our country,

nancy pelosi, will be here

today, and valerie jarrett, who

influenced one of the best people in the white house. And when she wasn't influencing

michelle obama, she was

sometimes influencing barack.

Today is about inspiration,

today is about putting forth our best selves.

Today is about mentoring, and

today is about reaching our best selves.

For kaiser permanente, I just want to say thank you for the incredible sponsorship.

I also want to thank our

incredible sponsor, susie

tompkins-buell and the buell

family trust for this summit.

Thank you to uber and -- I'm trying to remember all of them.

There are a lot of them. Thank you to the california women's foundation for your work on this summit and for putting it together, as well.

So many amazing people, so many

incredible sponsors, you'll see

them downstairs in the resource fair.

The golden state warriors, I know it was hard for us last

night, but don't worry. When they move to san francisco, they'll be here, and they'll win another finals. [Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   and

let me say, today is about

networking, today is about coming together, but we all have to remember is we still have challenges in this country. And part of what we're

challenged today is to take our knowledge, to take what we learned, to take this excitement and spread this all

over the city and all over the country.

We sadly know that women's

reproductive rights are in danger in several states in this country.

We sadly know that women are paid less than men in this

country.

We knows there continues to be inequities that exist for women

all over the country, whether it's positions as

in board rooms,

positions as C.E.O.S of fortune 500 companies.

So the goal here is to sink in

all this advanced knowledge and

think about ways that we can

put our best selves forward, but also, we always have to remember to reach back and pull up one another. That's what today is all about, because I'll tell you, had it

not been for some of the most incredible incredible women in my community, the amazing mentors who looked out for me, I don't know where I'd be.

I'll just tell you a quick story.

My first job at age 14 was working as a place called the family school.

Now, I showed up the first day.

Maybe I wasn't necessarily dressed like I am in my mayoral

attire like I am today.

I wasn't dressed appropriately. When I answered the phone, I

didn't answer the phone

appropriately -- hello, hello -- like I did at a business. And the woman that worked with

me, she explained what the appropriate attire was, she explained to me the proper way

to answer the phone -- hello. Thank you for calling the family school.

This is london breed, how May I help you?

How to type the basic things.

But I had an attitude -- yes, london breed had a little bit of an attitude. But she didn't see it as not wanting to help someone, she

saw it as an opportunity to help.

She saw it as an opportunity to grow.

She saw it as an opportunity to

develop me into an amazing office assistant because she

wanted to lighten her workload. [Laughter].

>> The Hon. London Breed:   but

she also wanted to make sure that when I went to the next job opportunity, that I would

do well.

She wanted to inspire me, but she wanted me to go to college.

And that girl with an attitude

ended up working for the family school throughout the entire

time that I was in the high school.

They kept me there not only

during the school year, but

year-round, it kept me in an amazing environment where I

could get letters for college

and they helped nurture me into the woman that I am today.

I am so excited about this women's summit because this is an opportunity for us to nurture one another. This is an opportunity for us to be inspired and come together.

This is an opportunity to show

the world that we are invincible.

So ladies, have a wonderful time today.

Roll up your sleeves, and enjoy what we have to offer. At the end of this event, you

don't want to go anywhere because you are going to see an

amazing performance from an

incredible singer, one of my

favorites, ledicee.

Thank you. [Applause] [ ] >> mayor breed suffers no fools. Am I right? My grandmother used to say that.

I don't know what it means, but

it means she is no joke.

That she is running a $13

billion city wearing a pink suit. [Applause]

>> and five-inch heels, and

that is what our future looks like. I would like to bring to the

stage -- and if you haven't settled into your chairs, settle in, okay? Because some of the baddest

sisters in the united states

are about to enter stage right, okay?

So youngsters and elders alike, get out your notepads. The power of this next hour is unpropelled. Mayor breed puts on a good show. She puts on a good party. To introduce our next panel is someone we must all watch, we

must all take note.

Beverly anderson is the executive vice President Of cards and retail at wells fargo, and she is one of today's best sponsors.

Let me tell you about beverly

anderson -- let me just say that again. Executive vice President Of

cards and retail sales at one of the world's largest

financial institutions.

I need some applause -- [Applause]

>> -- because we're all about

breaking glass ceilings today.

She sits on the wells fargo

management committee and on the

board of the wells fargo foundation. Black enterprise has named this

sister one of the most powerful women in corporate america.

Not like the region, okay? In corporate america.

To breaking glass ceilings to

suffering no fools to providing opportunities for women like

us, for changing the nation,

please help me in welcoming

beverly anderson. [Applause] >> good morning. I was back stage, going who is she talking about?

We need somebody else to come up here. Good morning. Oh, my gosh, and thank you for

coming here.

And how about mayor london breed? She's fantastic. She's amazing.

And latifah, such energy at 8:00 in the morning.

She's amazing.

I'm beverly anderson, you heard that, head of card and retail services at wells fargo. And I have the distinct pleasure of introducing valerie jarrett and kate kendall, who are going to have a dialogue whom I know will motivate and inspire you.

But first, let me say that I am

awe struck by all the men and

women that are here who are

leaders in your own right.

So I want you to give a hand for the way you raise your families, the value you bring

to your communities, the way

you live life to the fullest, so thank you for all that you do. [Applause] >> now I know if you're anything like me, you've been

in places before where you've thought how did I get here?

How did I take this turn in my career?

What's next for me?

Am I confident? Am I courageous enough to go down a new path? Do I stay? Do I pivot?

I promise you're going to get

answers to this question today. I'm particularly pleased to

introduce this next guest because it resonates in my own life. I grew up in paducah, kentucky before finding my way to harvard and then into banking.

My life has been full of zigs

and zags and reboot. It's taken to your knowledge to

listen to my -- courage to

listen to my own voice, and

replanning when life didn't go the way that I planned it.

And it's clear in valerie's

book, "listening to my own voice,."

if and you haven't gotten it, you need to.

It is amazing.

In valerie jarrett's roles as

an advisor to the obama white

house, and now as an advisor to

the obama foundation, let me

tell you about her voice.

She was born in iran, and then,

she moved to chicago, where she

was bullied because she didn't

speak like other kids, she didn't look like other kids.

She retreated into her own world.

She moved from chicago, going to harvard.

Her family tree literally reads

like the who's who of black american history.

this leads me to the second

part of valerie's story, resiliency.

This was thought out in the ten-year plan that she had. Go to college, go to graduate school, get a great husband, and have a fantastic family.

Has anyone here had a ten-year plan go exactly the way you've planned it?

Well, I love the way valerie

talks about navigating the zigs

and zags of life. She advanced in corporate law

firms, making partner, but she

acknowledged she never had joy.

Her passions came in life by swerving.

She went into local chicago

politics, and larger missions, oh, such as serving the

President Of the united states. Hermann

her mantra is adventure is a

swerve, not a straight line.

Through figuring out how to have it all, she realized you

can't have perfection, and she

also realized that help is a necessity.

She learned that freedom can sometimes come when you let go

of the plan.

Valerie truly found her voice

during these wonderful swerves.

Her journey let me to the final insight about her story, and that is her platform. In a recent interview with trevor noah, valerie was asked,

who is she advising now? And her answer was very confidently, I'm advising myself, and there are a few key

things that I care about, and

let's look at them. Gender equity.

She once told President Obama that the women in the white house weren't heard, so doing

what he would do, he invited

them to dinner, told him he valued them, and they all became much stronger in the white house. Gun violence. She has been a strong advocate

and supporters of the young survivors, particularly those

survivors in parkland, florida.

And civic engagement. Valerie is a firm believer that

we must do all we can to strengthen our nation,

particularly now. Otherwise, we and our children will live with the consequences

of our apathy.

Voting is still one such right

that too many people take for

granted. Did you know that 46% of people

did not vote in the last election? Valerie knows there's still

plenty of work to be done.

So I got to know her through

her book, through her

background, and through her work. Kate kendall led the national

center for lesbian rights for 22 years and is currently the campaign manager of taking back our court.

Kate's story is equally incredible, having built the nclr into one of the most

important and powerful national voices in conversations around

equality while raising three

children and being an engaged partner.

So it is only fitting at this

amazing women's event where we're all going to be invincible in a city known for making history and driving

transformation that the invincible valerie jarrett

tells us her story and imparts

her wisdom so that all of us

feel empowered to find our voices.

So without further adieu, I

welcome valerie jarrett and kate kendall. Thank you. [Applause] [

] >> wow. Good morning.

There's a lot of you out there.

Thank you. [Inaudible]

>> here comes somebody. Mine's working -- okay. There we go. There's always a plan b. >> all right. So good morning.

How's everybody doing? [Applause]

>> I am -- I'm so happy to be here, to be in this conversation with valerie jarrett, who I have admired for a very, very long time, who was really one of the guiding lights for President Obama.

I mean, he had his own moral center for sure, but it's also really important to have key leadership and trusted advisors

who can always show you true

north, and that is what you did with him for both of his terms, so thank you for that. >> it was my honor.

Thank you, kate. [Applause] >> so you mention in your book,

one of your chapters is pink me moments, which you can imagine

there might be many working in

the white house with the obamas.

This is one of my pinch mes, to

be here with you. [Applause] >> so I want to begin with -- I

was stalking you last night on

twitter -- and don't worry, you won't even know I'm there.

And I noticed a tweet from you that I just want to get a little bit of a read about

where we are right now in this moment because this has been

a -- a troubling week for

democracy in this country, and

you tweeted a statement by the federal elections commission

ellen weintraub expressing her

dismay and distress, and the fact that she would not allow

her office to endorse or abet a

foreign power providing opposition information to a candidate in an election, which donald trump said he would accept.

I'm just wondering about that, what do you think about this

moment and what do we all need

to do to ensure that our elections are fair and free from corruption?

>> well, I have to say, I have conflicting feelings about

social media. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it. In a lot of ways, it's brought us together to communicate, and

people that don't have their

own huge megaphone can use it.

But often, it is so mean and nasty.

My daughter keeps telling me,

don't read the comments, but I read the comments.

I say that with caution because I don't want all the mean

people on twitter to following

me on instagram.

I try to stay positive and not get frustrated with the way

people behave.

But I have been frustrated by the lack of people to speaking and do what's right.

When you see something as basic

as interference in our

elections, which there is clear evidence happened last night,

attempt after attempt to infiltrate and influence our

elections, that's not what a democracy is about.

Just as an example, if some foreign government wants to

give you information, don't you wonder why? Don't you assume they're trying

to influence the outcome?

And if you truly believe in the democracy of our country, don't

you want to be selected by the american people, not someone else?

And that is so basic, and that's why I'm getting worked up. I think yesterday at the new

york times, they had a great event, focusing on gender equity, and I made a point of saying thank goodness for the press.

I said how do you feel because you've come under personal

attack, and she said I'm fine.

But it's not fine when you and

your families are put as risk

because of irresponsible behavior. My book is called finding my

voice, but the power of each of

us individually and the awesome

energy of all of us

collectively, using our

invoices to be engaged and

minimally vote, let's start by

not being disenfranchised by ourselves. And then, we have to put pressure on our own secretaries of state. That is who's really responsible.

Yes, we have to have the federal government investigate and the D.O.J. Trying to find out who is influence it from

abroad, but we also need our own secretaries of state stepping up to the plate and doing everything they can to

ensure it's not happening, that

there's no meddling in the election itself.

We tried in the obama administration, to sound the alarm when we heard the russians were trying to

influence the election, and we

said let's have a bipartisan

hearing to do what we can.

And there was a deafening silence by the republican party. Now how much confidence do you

have in yourself is by getting people not to vote, and the people targeted inevitably were young people and people of color, so it's up to all of us

to watch what's happening and

be vigilant about ensuring that it's fair, by putting pressure on the officials that can have an impact. And then, we have to look at how we're using social media

and are we regulating it appropriately. And I know one thing, that it's being used as a force for bad

and evil, and the question is

how do you stop that from happening while not I had nvading our right to privacy and

freedom of speech, and

hopefully, we can figure it out. >> yeah. i've been listening to the

mueller report on audible.

I feel everybody should, it's a

duty of citizens.

It makes it chillingly clear

that on every single platform,

in every single day, the election was interfered with.

I want to get back to the boom. K.

The book was a tremendous read,

it was riveting, and it was not only about your time in the

obama white house, which was

amazing, but you began your

book at a time, 79th floor of the sears tower, questioning your life. Then you end your book with

your acknowledgements and a

question your daughter, laura, asked you, what would you tell your 30-year-old self? So there are a lot of times between when that happened on the 79th floor of the sears

tower, and the end of the book, but what would you tell that

young valerie jarrett or young women who are facing a decision

point? >> I have so much to say to you, because I look back to

that person and she's almost not recognizable to you.

Let me do the 30-year-old valerie jarrett, when I came out of college, and I thought I needed plan. I will say I drifted through college.

At first I majored in premed.

My dad was a doctor, until my boyfriend invited me to the

anatomy class the same semester

I took organic chemistry.

Then, I thought I could go to

business school, but there was

this great party before the gmats.

and I never made it to the

gmats. I had an older sister here in san francisco, and she said go

to law school. It'll buy you some time.

And I thought okay.

But I thought I needed a plan for the next 20 years of my life. I'm going to go to school, I'm going to figure out what my passion is in the practice of law, I'm going to fall in love,

I'm going to get married, have a baby by the time I'm 30, thinking about that biological clock ticking away -- fortunately, it takes later --

and I'm going to live happily ever after. So for the 2e7b years right

after that, 21 to 31, I did that.

I got out of school, I went to

a law firm, and I went to an even better firm.

I married figuratively the boy next door in that our mothers

grew up in the same apartment building, our grandmothers were friends, our dads were friends. I had a crush on him since he

was eight and I was 12.

Totally unrequitted. He was an altar boy.

I used to go to church with my

grandmother frankly just to see him, hoping he would pay

attention to me, and he did not

pay attention to me until I was

19 and he was 25.

And I was at a friend's

wedding, and he looked me, and

I thought I'm going to marry you.

What could go wrong? Oh, my gosh, so much went wrong.

But I did have my daughter just

shy of my 29th birthday.

Best thing I ever did.

And wouldn't you know, my

little daughter who's now 33, is having a baby. Best month of my life. So I begin the book, sitting in this fancy office.

I was the first lawyer in my family. My parents were very proud of me. I was leading a life that many people thought would be that perfect life, and I was miserable. I was miserable in my marriage,

I was miserable filling out time sheets, and I couldn't even figure out what I'd done, and I didn't care so much about the clients, to tell you the truth. I know I'm hitting a chord with some of you. You know that feeling.

And I felt, well, what am I going to do? I was not meant to be this miserable.

And so one of my best friends worked for the city of chicago,

in the law department.

And I know there's many of you

here in public service. One of the reasons I like to support events sponsored by

mayors is I spent the next nine years working for three mayors of chicago.

And I'll never forget, one of

my friends said why don't you consider a life of public service. You'll feel better about

yourself and I'll have a life mission. And I did. I have to say, at the same time that I'm struggling in this marriage, I'm trying to be the

perfect wife, the perfect

mother, the perfect lawyer, my perfect self. And I thought the way to do

that was to be perfect everything. The this is the thing. I thought -- I also thought if

I were just smarter, if I were better organized, more efficient, if I slept fewer hours, then maybe this wouldn't all be so hard. And what I didn't realize, I was number one, making it hard on myself, and number two,

particularly in the law firm, the deck was stacked against me. I was trying to compete on a completely uneven playing field, and I had no life

outside of work. I was nine months pregnant

trying to close a real estate deal, and I would say I'm going

to the vending machine, or I'm

going to check my voice mail. But those of you know when

you're nine months pregnant,

what do you do?

You go to the rest room. But it wasn't something that I

felt I could say to the men in

the room. And that swerve was when the adventure began.

So swerve ladies, swerve. >> swerve. [Applause]

>> you were born in your iran,

and your early childhood there

sounds ideal. I'm very concerned with where we are headed, and I think it's about the feelings and thoughts that people have about the

middle east and iran specifically.

[Inaudible] >> -- and being at war?

>> well, first, my childhood -- so you're wondering, what in the world was she doing being born in iran.

My father was in a position, and as he was coming out of

serving in the army, he was

looking at serving at an

academic institution.

He wanted to do research at a large teaching hospital.

And he couldn't find a job equivalent to his white counterparts when leaving the army.

So my mom and him said let's look at opportunities outside the -- of the united states.

He was offered a job in shiraz, iran. Of course his parents told him don't go. You don't know the language,

you don't know anything about the government, and of course,

it was before the days of cell phones.

My parents were just like, look, there are no opportunities here, so they took this leap of faith, and

they went to iran. And I was the second baby born in the hospital.

They practiced on some other baby first. They're not sure whatever happened to that baby, but I

came second. We lived there until I was five. But my father did some research in iran that caught the attention of folks at the university college of london,

and so they went there for a fellowship. and from there, the dean of the university of chicago heard my father give a paper, and he offered him a job at the university of chicago, my

father's dream job, and that's where he spent the rest of his career.

And he used to stay to me

sometimes the short he was distance of where you want -- shortest distance of where you

were to go is the longest.

Now, the relationship was very different with the united

states than we have today.

The shah was very interested in improving health care, technology, so physicians were

being recruited from all over

the world to develop hospitals

all over iran, so that's what

took my father there.

So the people of iran are good and wonderful and decent people. I think in terms of what we do with iran, what we tried to do with other world leaders,

including france, germany,

russia, iran, the E.U., is

enter into a deal that prohibited them from developing

nuclear weapons, and that that would be good for the middle east, and it would be good for the united states. And the current administration walked away from that deal.

So now, who knows who's going to happen? It's totally destablizing to the miding dle east, and we should be worried.

But you have to say to yourself, in this current environment, why would you ever start a war if there was a

diplomatic alternative?

but we had one, and so I don't know what the current administration is doing to us,

but we are in a less stable position as a result of pulling out of that deal. >> yeah, we are in a less

stable position because of this administration. I was struck by the tone of

your parents and really came to love them. When your father passes later

in the book, it was emotional for me having lost my mother

many years ago in 2003. It is one of those losses that

you never get over, and it is a

very unenviable club to be in.

But you spoke about the love that you have for your parents and they have for you. And they were clearly your

number one champions. What are some of the gifts that

they most gave you -- your

mother is still alive. >> yeah.

>> and tell us sort of where she is and where are you in your relationship with your parents? >> I'll talk about my mother.

If I talk about my dad, I'll cry.

My mother is 90, almost 91.

She's still working -- yeah,

who does that? [Applause]

>> 52 years ago, she started a

graduate school in early childhood education. She also still drives. That's not funny. I'm like mom, use lyft.

I'm on the board of lyft. You can use lyft any time. I'm still working on that.

But she and my dad, they just

loved me unconditionally.

they set hi expectations but --

high expectations but then gave me the tools to succeed. They said you're black. Don't expect anything to be easy. Life is going to be hard, but you'll have us as a safety net

as long as you're working hard. Now my mother did crazy things. When I was going to stanford,

she calculated what every single class cost and gave it

to me on a piece of paper and

said, if you're ever tempted to

cut class, this is what it costs us. Where my father thought the

world would be my oyster.

Even though my dad grew up

under jim crow, and my mother

in chicago, I realized much later in life when -- this is a

good story about my parents.

It sums them up.

Interestingly, after President Obama won in 2008, he and the

first lady went on 60 minutes

the weekend after the election.

You can tell from the interview how much in love they were, how

much respect they had for one another, and the love for our country.

And that's the same thing I

picked up from them so many years earlier. My dad was ill at the time, and we watched the interview from his hospital room.

All through the campaign, they were convinced that there was

no way that a black man would win a presidency in their lifetime. They used to say, don't you think you should get back to

your day job and not traveling

so much? When he lost new hampshire, my

mom was like, don't you think

you should go back to work?

I'm like no, if he doesn't win,

michelle is going to shut this down.

At the end, she asked me, what

made you believe that he could win win?

And I said mom and dad, you raised me to believe that if you had a goal, and you stuck

to that goal, and you worked hard, and you believed it, anything was possible.

And my mom said, well, I never believed that.

And then, my dad said, well, me either. And I shared that story because it was the first time that I

was shocked, quite shocked,

because this was the way that they raised me. I realized for the first time

my parents raised me aspirationally.

Not shackled to the floor, but

free to explore in my own reality. You try to raise your children not in the world you know but

in the world as you know it will be, and so that sums up barbara and jimmy bowman quite well. [Applause] >> there's so much about your time at the white house that is

riveting and also funny.

I laughed out loud when your --

you had to sort of eat what

President Obama ate, and the

meetings, they just all had it

prepared and brought it all up. President Obama, he's ripped,

and it's because he doesn't

eat.

And you said he's eating his

ump UMPTEENth salad, and I he looked

down, and he said this salad is

sad, and everybody was like okay.

We're not going to eat salad

anymore.

Our current administration, it would just be enough to make me

lose my mind for many of us,

and yet, your equilibrium

through the time that you served kpud

served exudes from the book. How did you do it? >> I'll tell you another story because this is really a big piece of it. So first of all, when I worked in local government -- another

pitch for local government, I

had a chance to really experience what service is all about. And because your constituents are proximate to you, you're right there -- you can't go to

the grocery store, or they flip

notes under your door at hope.

She said so-and-so stopped me about this development. I really liked that, but you

learn that it's 24-7, and that you're always on, and that you are there in service of people

who need you. And that experience really

helped shape my attitude in the white house.

And one of my complaints about washington is people forgot why they were there, and they

needed reminders, and they were

willing to put their short-term political interests ahead of

you, the american people.

And part of how I kept myself grounded was I had story about

the earlier people. But the story is this.

maybe about March of 2008, we were in texas during the primary season.

We thought the primary would be over a lot earlier, but it's still going.

And it's early one morning,

about 7:30 and President Obama,

he's not a morning person. I am.

I was happy to start in the

morning because this is the best it's going to get all day.

But I had to learn to tamp it

down because he isn't.

A guy in the elevator said

excuse me, senator obama, he said sir, I have something I want to give you.

And he pulls from his pocket a patch from his military uniform.

And so senator obama realizes

what it is, and he said of course, I couldn't possibly accept that. And they go back and forth with

the gentleman insisting, back and forth, back and forth. Finally, the gentleman says

sir, I've carried this patch with me every day for 40 years. It's given me the courage to serve in the military, and I've had some ups and downs in my life, and right here, I want you to have it.

And I burst into tears. I don't cry these pretty tears. You know how you can't catch your breath sometimes, and it's

a very small elevator, and I'm just trying to shrink.

So later in the day, I said to then-senator obama, I said,

what did you do with that patch?

And this was long before people

started handing newborn babies

ten-deep over to him in a rope line.

And when they started doing

that, I thought, he'll take

care of the baby if it gets to him, but some of them never got to him.

You're handing your baby to a stranger. And I said, well here did you put it? He said, in my pocket.

I said no, I meant, how did it

make you feel that he's separating from this? Sorry to the men in the room, but you know, too.

>> there's a reason that I'm a lesbian. >> all right. That's the best line of the entire day.

But to your point, he comes back at me, and he said, I put it in my pocket.

And so he reaches in his

pocket, and he pulls out about

ten or 12 different trinkets

out of his pocket, and he told me the name of the people that

gave it to him, if he knew it.

And fast forward, I get to the white house. And I thought, what am I going

to do to keep myself grounded? I there were some people that I met that stuck with me. There were others, but for some

reason, that act of generosity, that belief that if I give this to you, it will help you, and even though I'm separating from my dear, dear possession, it's for the greater good. And so I thought how about if

every single day, when I get to

the white house, I think about him as I'm coming in through the gates of the white house, and it will remind me of why i'm there.

So for four years, every single day, did I that.

To me, it's -- I did that.

To me, it's about what our campaign was about.

It's about inclusion, people

knowing they can make a difference, collectively and individually. A reporter heard the story, and she called me just before the term, before we went on vacation, and she said, I want

to do a story on that guy.

And I said no.

What if he was an axe murderer?

Well, don't you know, she found

him, and she sent me an e-mail.

His name is earl smith, and he's head of security at a hotel in austin, texas. I was on vacation with the obamas, and I was on the treadmill, and I got off and

wrote him an e-mail. Mr. Smith, I don't know if you remember me, but I was the

woman that burst into tears on the elevator, and I just wanted you to know that you are the one that inspired me.

And he wrote me back, and said

I remember you, and there's not

a day that I don't regret

giving that to him every single day. So Mr. Smith came to the inauguration, and the day after, I brought him into the oval office, and he and I were

joking in the outer oval, and

he was just as delicious as I

had fantasized him to be. He was a wonderful man,

laughing good sense of humor.

As he entered into the oval

office, he saluted President

Obama, and of course President

Obama saluted him, and of

course I burst into tears again. And at the last inauguration, I invited him to sit with Mrs.

Obama in the box.

I say this all because it was never about us, it was about you.

And what worries me now is it's starting to feel like it's about us.

We have to keep focused on you, and that's to me, what

leadership is all about.

It's an unselfish act for the

greater good. [Applause]

>> thank you. [Applause]

>> and we're saying the carnage

to communities when love of personal whatever overcomes love of country.

Just hearing that makes me so nostalgic.

I'm entering into the five stages of grief after the election all over again. >> I'm

sorry.

>> I called a colleague this week and told him I was going

to be interviewing you, and I told him, what should I know?

You could tell -- everybody I talked to about you couldn't

stop talking about you.

I'm like I have got other

things to do, but they just went on and on about you. So what he said was you were the conscience of the white house.

I can't imagine a higher compliment, especially when

you're surrounded by barack obama and michelle obama who already have a pretty strong sense of true north. So -- and I don't want to take anything away from the President's leadership, and I

want to speak specifically about lgbtq issues. Brian and ellie and everyone else I've talked to said again

and again that you made the white house's centering around

will be bank account issues and

what the -- lgbtq issues and centering, that you were more

than an ally, that you were the tip of the spear. You ready ran interference to

make sure the white house was in the right place. And I guess I want to ask, where does that come from? We all -- I guess it's more important than ever that

particularly white people be

the fiercest bad-ass allies for black people in this country than we've ever been before because our future, not just people of color, but our future depends on that.

But that's in the midst of seeing tremendous peril and damage.

In the midst of the obama white house, you continued on point

to the white house being in the

right place when it didn't really require that you do that.

So where's that come from?

>> well, I think all roads lead

back to barbara and jimmy bowman and how I was raised.

I know what it's like to be an outsider.

Here I am, with a british accent, I come from a country that nobody's heard of. I used to get bullied in school.

I know what it's like to be a woman surrounded by men, and I

know what it's like to be

an african-american woman and

everybody else is not. And I believe we're supposed to be our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper.

And I grew up in a time where

all kinds of people who fought the good fight against

injustice, and that's how

change happens in our country.

The mentioned the moral spear,

and brian is the whole. Brian was just true blue and determined but also took a lot

of incoming heat.

And I think one of my favorite

stories, when the white house

was rainbow lit, one of our

interns was doing research, and

she brought me an idea.

She said how about if we light the house in a rainbow after the marriage equalities decision comes down from the

supreme court?

And I'm like that is a damn

good idea, girl. And it was the most requested

photograph of President Obama's entire eight years in office. And one of the most extraordinary days of my life. And I spent the entire evening on the north lawn of the white house watching the sun go down

with so many people who had worked on this for so very long.

So I say this to say I had a lot of good company, and that's what it takes.

Change takes people who feel their responsibility is to fight for the greater good.

And if everybody is be treated equal, our country is not as good as our country should be.

I encourage you to read the speech that President Obama

gave in the rose garden after the equality decision.

That speech was written in like

an hour, because it was the day

we were going off to charleston for reverend pinkney and the

others killed in shoot -- the shooting.

I called the President And he

picked up the phone abruptly,

and said what? I'm, like, so I said all right, well, President Obama, the

marriage equality decision came out today, 5-4.

And there's a long pause. Who won?

Oh, shoot, I buried the lead.

He said oh, what a great day.

He comes down, and called the plaintiff and congratulate him

and write a speech, and the

rose garden usually, the unwritten rule is if you didn't

work on the issue, you're actually supposed not to go out

in the rose garden, you're

supposed to be busy.

The rose garden is just people

who were directly involved in it. That day, the kr colonnade was

packed with young staffers.

He said that day sometimes these moments come like a thunder bolt until you realize what led up to it.

I think in our current climate, we expect things to happen like that. I'm disappointed as many of you are in the last couple of

years, but our democracy takes

hard work, and it does zig and zag. By the time the supreme court ruled, it was 37 states and the

district of columbia, and now,

love means love for everybody,

and I'm so proud that happens under our watch, but don't forget the decades of work that helped people get to that point.

>> absolutely. [Applause]

>> I remember that day so well. Nclr had been involved in one

of the cases that went to the supreme court, and I stayed in san francisco. Much of my team was in D.C., but I thought I want to be home, I want to be here when it

happens, and I was doing at 10:00 A.M. What everybody else

was doing, refreshing the blog.

And it was really early for us, 7:00. It was the summer, so the kids were asleep. And it refreshed, and it says it's the marriage case.

And I remember I could feel the blood just drain from my head,

and then, it said, opinion my

kennedy, and that's when I knew we'd won.

And so I screamed, the dog

starts barking, and the kids

wake up. It was an extraordinary day.

I remember when I clicked on

somebody on social media and saw that picture fortunate of the white

house, I burst into tears.

But that juxtaposition, it

feels -- when we won the doma ruling, and the doma rules was struck down. That was the same day that the

court eviscerated voting rights. When we won marriage in california, we won marriage in

california, and then, it was taken away by 3r07 prop 8, the very same election day that obama won his first term.

I feel like you've been on that wild swing and yet sort of found a way to thread it and

create a narrative where we're all in it together. >> that's the hope. And you're right. There were lots of swings in one day. The emotion was often raw. The day that -- the day that

don't ask, don't tell was

repealed by congress was the same day that they didn't vote on the dream act and move it forward.

And my team had worked on both issues, and so everybody was crying. Some people were crying because they were upset that the dream act fell through, and some people were crying because they were relieved about the repeal

of don't ask, don't tell.

I remember, I went up to -- cecelia munoz oversaw many of

these issues in my offices.

So I went down to the oval office to check on President Obama who's been working the

phone on both issues, and I

said gosh, everybody's upstairs crying. And don't you know, he walks into cecelia's office, and he

said look, I appreciate how

upset everybody is, but for those of you disappointed in the result, realize how long it took us to pass don't ask, don't tell. We've got to keep up the good work. And I say that to those of you

that are as devastated by

what's happening at the border

of these countries, separated

with no idea to reunite them, we can stop this. We May not be able to stop it today, but we can stop it in

two years, so I do encourage everybody --

>> yeah, amen. Amen.

We have to stop it in two

years. We can't go on like this. [Applause] >> so my final question is you thinking a little bit about your future. We talked a little bit about this. I'm involved in a project right

now, having left nclr to reform the supreme court. Specifically, the strategy is

to, at the earliest opportunity, after we win in

November and run the table,

drop a proposal to the

President To expand the supreme court by four justices. Democracy is hanging by a

thread, aided and abetted by this court which is ridden with partisan interests. So I want to know if you would be one of those justices.

>> that's hilarious. [Applause]

>> me who has not practiced law

since 1991.

>> don't even get me started on kavanaugh.

>> that's such a dark place. Let's not go there.

>> let's talk about you being a supreme court justice.

And if it's not that --

>> can I talk about what I'm doing? >> yeah.

>> well, I thought after the election, I have the best job

in the world, and I started

during the inaugural parade.

it was really cold, and I

started on January 20, when I

waved good-bye to the obamas

when they left on January 20, 2017. The secret service told me

girl, you've got to get out of here.

You can't stay any longer. Even on the worst days, I wouldn't have traded that for anything in the world. So after that, as I was going through the multiple stages of grief. I thought, what do you want to do next?

I used to tease President

Obama, oh, my job is so much

better than your job.

I knew I'd never have a better job.

So I did some soul searching.

What are some jobs weighing on the issues that came before him?

What do I care about? It came down to I care enormously about gender equity.

I think it's outrageous that in this day and time that we are still not paid equally, that we

don't have a national pay leave policy, that work flexibility isn't built into every single

workplace, that there are still companies that haven't figured

out that you're leaving your

town on the sideline by figuring out a way to organize

so that families can thrive.

So one of my colleagues, tina

chin and I, formed a not-for-profit called the state of women.

We brought together

stakeholders from all over the country who were fighting the

good fight for gender equity. We had another summit last

summer, and we had more people

that showed up last year than showed up when we were still in the white house. And we're going to continue that and have another summit next year.

And in between that, we have

summits where we go around the country, trying to figure out what those best practices are. So I encourage you to go to the

you stated states of women to learn more.

The other issue, and I could

talk to you for hours about

this, voting. Mrs. Owe

bama and I started a nonprofit around voting. As I went through those stages of grief, I was struck by --

you know, you do all these what

ifs, what ifs, well, the one

what if that I really locked in on was the fact that 43% of eligible voters did not vote in the last election. 43%. And yeah, they are stuck with

the consequences as are the rest of us.

So what do we do, particularly trying to get young people to become lifelong voters?

So we're really working on that

again, and I encourage

everybody to get involved and encourage young people to do so.

I'm working with President

Obama on his platform. I joined the faculty of the

university of chicago law school. They're helping me do research in the area of criminal justice reform, which is another one of my passions. I am so troubled by the fact that the united states has

about 5% of the world population and 25% of the world's folks who are incarcerated. And so much can happen at the state level, and the federal government would be an important leader on that front, but we can do it without federal government, so I'm

working a lot on that around our country. [Applause] >> and I will say I'm particularly concerned about women that were incarcerated,

and I visited compton,

california several years ago, and I visited a program where all these young teenagers were coming before the juvenile court, and the judge noticed one thing they all had in common. No matter what crime they committed, they were all victims of commercial sexual

exploitation, and so that's a travesty.

So these lives are being thrown away because of something that happened to them. We have to change it, and we have to change it before they even get caught up in the system.

We have to reform our system with schools and suspensions. There's so much we can do. If people do get caught up in

the system, we have to make it fairer so that communities of color have a better

relationship with the police department. Make sure that sentences are not mandatory, that they're

tailored to fit the job, and when people come out, let's give them a job. Let's give them another chance, right? [Applause] >> I love that.

So still living a life of service.

>> and you know, I think President Obama had it right.

I'm at the stage of my life --

don't hate me for this -- where I wake up every single day and do what I want to do. Now it wasn't always like that,

and if you read my book, you'll see that there were days that

it wasn't like that at all.

Life is good, notwithstanding

the chaos that we're in, but I know the chaos will change in a couple years because of you. >> amazing.

Valerie jarrett, other than the birth of my granddaughter

earlier this year, this is the highlight of my year. Can we thank valerie jarrett? >> thank you so much. I hate it to end.

Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. What a beautiful room. Aren't they great?

You guys were great. [Applause] >> you can say you were in the room when it happened.

You were in the room when two of the world's most influential

woman talks about how clear we needed to be. We need to be at the head of

the table, we need to be on the extreme court, we need to be

the mayor, and my God, we need

to be running this country. So I want to thank you all so much for being a part of that discussion, and it's not even lunchtime yet.

You see how mayor breed gets down.

You all with me, sisters? Can you hear me? So you have your pink bags, but

I want you to hold on to your

phone and download be invincible at the app store.

Not now, but do that in the next ten seconds after I finish because we have a lot of workshops right on the second floor, okay? And we're going to begin this conversation with so many other women, so many institutions

that have come today to inspire us.

So just briefly, as we walk

out, and it is as -- as you

download your app, you can look at the information on speakers.

There's speakers on women's

health, civic and financial engagement. There's a couple of clothing retailers down there, so meet me, I'll be shopping.

We also have some really

interactive resource fairs down stairs. Please check the app.

A lot of hard working folks put together that app so we know exactly what we're supposed to

do, all the opportunities in this building today, so really take advantage of it.

And lastly, and almost more

importantly, at 11:45, lunch will be served. You can pick up your lunch outside of this room.

Say 11:45. 11:45. I have enjoyed being your morning emcee.

be invincible. Be invincible. Be invincible. Ladies, let's change the world together.

Have a wonderful afternoon.

>> thank you, wow, we're

starting on time, huh? Hey to everyone here in SoMa.

I am so excited to be here.

This project was approved in 2015.

I was on the board of supervisors with former supervisor jane kim.

There were a lot of delays.

But delays don't mean denials. This project is going to be done.

It is not only going to provide office space, it's going to

provide much needed housing in our city.

Over 800 units of housing with

245 unit of affordable housing

for seniors and families who are experiencing homelessness. This is the kind of project that should not be delayed.

This is the kind of project that we need in communities all over

san francisco.

Because we know, we have challenges with affordable housing.

And we know that sometimes even when we have the financial

resources to get the job done,

our bureaucracy sometimes gets in the way. We have to change that.

Because the people who need this housing the most, they're

counting on us to make better decisions. They're counting on us to get these projects done.

So I want to thank brookfield and the hertz corporation for sticking with this project to get the job done.

This project will provide $76 million in community benefits for the SoMa neighborhood. And let me just say -- [Applause] -- that one of the things I'm

most excited about, is that it will be providing art support.

As a former director of an arts

organization, our arts and our culture are critical to the success of our communities.

And it has to be at the center of all of these major projects that we produce.

So I'm also excited that SoMa filipino heritage district is

receiving the kind of support it

needs, to not only be a cultural district in this community, but

it will help to make sure that we provide the kinds of programs

and things so that people are reminded of the rich history and

culture of the filipino community and the SoMa community. So thank you so much for all of

the resources, all of the

support, all of the excitement.

This community-driven project,

that is going to really revitalize and change and shape this community and do so in a

way that provides mixed-use, that provides new opportunities

and that ensures success and safety for this community. Thank you, all, so much for being here and playing a major

part in sticking with this project.

And being very patient, rudy, as

we know it took a lot of patience to get this project done. No more delays. We're breaking ground and we're going to get it done. thank you, all, for everyone who played a role in this.

[Applause] >> thank you so much, mayor

london breed.

At this point, we'd like to welcome brookville properties

vice President Of development,

jason bonet.

>> well, this is a very exciting

day for all of us.

Over a decade in the making. We've reached this moment

because of the vision, and support. Because of the tremendous

leadership of mayors past and present.

Thank you to late mayor ed lee for his commitment for more housing to the city. Thank you, mayor london breed,

for being here today and for

your tireless efforts in this city.

Thank you to our great partners

hurst and to our team at

brookfield that is stewarding the project today. Mostly we're here because of the

dedication of neighbors, artists, nonprofit groups,

educators and so many others who

are deeply vested in the past,

present and future of SoMa.

It provides -- together we

create an economic, social and cultural formula to support positive growth.

This formula includes sustaining

the neighborhood's inclusivity, creativity and roots. It promotes culture and the arts.

It provides places of

serendipity for people to socialize and exchange ideas. Welcoming to all. All this makes 5m what it is today and it will be.

the next generation of mixed-use urban projects. Thank you to all of you who showed up today. Thank you for the good weather and I'll pass it back.

>> thank you, jason.

Hurst corporation extends more

than 130 years here in san francisco.

As owner of the project, that storied history continues. Please welcome the vice

President And general manager

stephen hurst.

>> Reporter:   thanks everybody. We're no stranger to the neighborhood.

As you heard, 130 years. My great-grandfather took possession of the san francisco examiner in 1887.

I moved up here after doing a stint at the L.A. Examiner and

magazine group in 1984 and

worked in this building 15 years

and held 9 different positions.

They told me the glass was bullet-proof, all I know you couldn't see in unless it was night.

At any rate, we're a longtime

member of this neighborhood. We love it.

We have a vested interest and we were in on the ground floor planning, along with the city

and brookfield going forward. They've both been great partners. We're very pleased to see it coming to fruition. And the mayor mentioned bureaucracy.

11 years is too long to move a project like this that benefits so many.

We can't wait to see the open space. It's going to be graen, it's

going to be beautiful and I'm sure people are going to enjoy it on a daily basis. With that, I say thank you very much for joining us.

Enjoy your day.

>> thank you, stephen.

The support and guidance of former district supervisor jane kim resulted in a project that

always puts the community first. Please welcome former district

supervisor jane kim. >> thank you so much.

It has really been a long journey to get to where we are today. I just want to acknowledge a number of people who made this project, not just possible, but the project that is sitting before you today.

A project that is going to

achieve 40% affordable and

middle income housing, including

very low-income housing. A project -- thank you for the applause. A project that is going to achieve open space and arts and

also much needed housing here in san francisco. But it took a lot of folks to get us here today. And first I want to acknowledge

all of the members of our community. Particularly here in south of market who get involved and engaged on every single new development here in our city, because this is our neighborhood. Like many of the folks I'm about

to acknowledge, I also live one block away from this development site, so it matters to me what

we get to be a part of when we build this community.

I want to acknowledge west bay filipino.

Podco. Tenderloin filipino community association. And the mint mall resident building and their leader stefani.

And of course, united players.

[Applause] The many years that we spent in putting this project together, I

still remember the first meeting

I had with hearse when they told

me the project would be coming

to me within a year or 14 months for approval. I smiled. About five years later we had

them come before the board of supervisors, but there was a

small group of folks that worked

to make this happen.

Now brookfield, jack and alexis

and karen johnson and April ng and many of our community leader who told us what they wanted to see. Ensuring that as we build more housing and grow this neighborhood, that those who

have lived here, can afford to

live in this development as well.

While 40% is not equal in every

development, it's important to

know that 40% part of 5m is for

formally erly -- formerly homeless.

It's important as we build, to include those struggling, but working to live in the city. I'm so proud of this project.

Thank you to everyone involved. Especially the ladies. They were involved in the negotiation room. Alexis, April, karen, in the office, it was a pleasure to see this through.

Thank you very much and

congratulations to brookfield hearst. >> thank you, former supervisor

kim. United players says it's takes a

hood to save a hood.

So organization has been active

and participatory in the

creation of the 5m program.

Please welcome united players executive director rudy corpus. [Applause]

>> thank you, jocelyn.

First of all, I want to say thank you, God, for giving me

this opportunity to be here to share with you guys.

And be up in here with the mayor, the arest of the you guys.

When I walked in earlier today,

several people asked me, what you doing here?

I said I live here. Right down the block.

Why shouldn't I be here?

So I say that because, in order

for us to stabilize our community where you have over

100 years of filipino history, you have to be a part of the decision-making that is

happening in your community.

So when you ask to take the hood

to build the hood, I am the hood. I've been here all my life.

I used to run up and down these alleys down here and make bad

choices, but I'm still here. Me and our organization and other organizations here like

west bay, the oldest filipino

organization on the west region, we been here.

But it's important for us to build relationships. To understand, to be a part of the solution and to be at the table with the people who are

here also.

That's what community is all

about, building relationships.

We all going to agree?

No, we're not, but we got to sit at the table to figure out what

is the best for our people that exist in this community right now. Otherwise, we're not going to have no filipino community.

You got a building right here, 90% of the people that live here is filipino.

We have so many good ideas, but you have to make sure you're sitting with the people that is currently living here to build

them bridges.

I'm into building bridges, not walls. If you want to come to a neighborhood where I'm at, come see me.

Because we're going to be here.

That's right, come see me. Matt is the district supervisor,

but I'm the godfather of this neighborhood. Believe that.

So I finally want to say this to

all my united players to did all the amazing work.

We have over 200 kids right now, mayor breed, in this community

that we're working with. Kids from all over the community.

They can't be because they have programming right now.

So I want to say. I was asked to come here to be a

part of this ground-breaking. We going to use this shovel right here.

This is symbolic shovel and I

share with you why.

Green door, other ones, right,

was also supported by the late

mayor ed lee and the current

mayor london breed and jane kim.

We melted them guns down for mothers who lost their kids to gun violence.

We put the gun parts in a furnace at 3,000 .

We melted it down and made 50 shovels.

This shovel right here for the commemoration of martin luther

king, had a 50th anniversary when he was assassinated in

April, they planted a cherry tree.

This is the shovel that was used. His great-great granddaughter

used this, to plant a tree for martin luther king.

Where him and his wife was buried. We use soil from a man who was

lynched because he looked at a white woman and they said, you can't look at white women. They use his remains because they burnt him.

And they threw him in the ground

of the river. The mothers who lost their kids

to gun violence, we melted it down and made this shovel. Then when I came back to san

francisco, we used this shovel when mayor ed lee died.

And we planted this tree. The mahogany tree by the

library.

So this symbolic shovel is being

used to plant things that are really special.

So now we breaking ground with this to plant this building

right here. So everybody is doing something

positive and productive and

constructive is with this right here. May the earth again be free.

in the bible it says, that swords would be turned into plow share.

This is one right here.

So you cannot touch nothing unless you using all the right

energy and the spirit of love

that came from M.L.K., martin luther king, Jr., mayor london breed.

This is made out of guns, you all. This is going to break ground for our community and our people. I'm always here to acknowledge

my filipino people and everybody from this community that has been here.

Because when I'm done finished

speaking and breaking ground, guess where I'm going? Walking right back to my neighborhood. Thank you.

>> thank you, rudy. Thank you to all our speakers.

As you can see, we have plenty to grow here.

And as we all together break

ground, it's a special momentous occasion. So before we move on with our program, we'd like to ask our

speakers to take a celebratory

photo down here by the trees. Because we have plenty of room to grow as a community together. But also wanted to share with

everyone as we celebrate

together, we have amazing artwork that is done and we have

bags, so please join us in the continuous making of art

together with the community.

And at this time I'd like to ask

the speakers to walk down.

>> Mayor Breed:   going to turn the dirt. Okay.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

[Cheers and applause]

[

]

>> good morning, everyone!

How are you all? So, welcome.

I'm with the hotel council and I

want to welcome you all to our first love our city. It's the second love our city event but it's the first one

that is a tourism and hospitality industry have helped organize.

So today we have over 700 people

here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [Applause]

I'm joined by our chair of our board, Mr. James lamb who is here with us today.

[Applause] And this event is hosted by the

hotel council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people

working on the event and I want to thank mayor breed and the city of san francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event.

So please give a big hand to them!

[Applause] We also couldn't have done it without our partnership with the public works department and larry stringer and darlene prom, I

fromand I want to thank all of them

fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, I'm going

to call off and make sure we

recognize the groups as well.

Each of our groups cbd. [Applause]

Our tenderloin cbd.

Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group.

And last but not least our soma groups.

[Applause]

We know that you all clean up all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses.

And it really is a 24/7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing.

We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our t-shirts so

thank you for working with us. [Applause]

>> a special thank you as we

look out on the hyatt region see

for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to work together and partner

with the city and our mayor has

announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer.

So I want to thank the mayor

from our hospitality and tourism industries for making sure she's doing everything that she is doing.

Let's give her a big round of

applause. [Applause] And last but not least our

partners at sf travel who have

come together to work with us on this event as well.

It's my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> thank you!

Good morning, everybody! Now, I will troy to be short because I would love for you all

to get out there and do what you

came here to do and clean up san francisco! Let me just start by saying thank you.

We know that we have a lot of challenges in san francisco. We have far too many people living on our streets.

We have far too many challenges

with housing and housing affordability. I know our small businesses are struggling.

The city is finally making the kinds of investments that I hope

will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and I grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up.

She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should I look, it's our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and

put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like I don't want to do this but then, as you get older, it's just a part of who you are.

I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where I used to work at the african american culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that I've made and also the example that I've set

for other young people to be better stewards of san francisco. So what you all are out there

are doing is not just picking up

trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for san francisco. You are taking care of the city.

You all are showing how much you love san francisco and other

people when they see you doing

what you are doing, they're less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can.

It does make a difference.

So I want to thank all of you and all the community business districts and the people who are out there every single day.

I especially want to thank the

department of public works and

the many thousands of employees

because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep

san francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city.

I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of san francisco

today for this amazing event.

Have a wonderful time out there! >> thank you so much, mayor.

I'd like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. >> thank you, thank you.

How is everybody doing this morning!

Make some noise if you love our city! [Applause] >> make noise if you are ready

to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today! Who would have thought we could

call this a cold day in san francisco. We're glad the temperature came down a little bit but it's still

a beautiful day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and we're going to do some cleaning up. I'm the supervisor of district 6 and I want to give a special

shout out to the different

communities and CBDs of district 6.

The tenderloin where I live,

soma, union square, everyone who

is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday.

I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are

representing the hotels in our city.

This is a city that is still a world-class destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that they're going to have an

incredible experience and they're going to see clean and safe streets and they're going to see the people of san francisco care about our community. That's what you are demonstrating today.

I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, there's things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are

demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Let's get out there today. I'm going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and I just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun.

Let's love our city. [Applause] >> thank you supervisor haney.

Next I'd like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board

of sf travel with us, Mr. Peter gamez. [Applause] >> wow! Good morning, everyone.

This is a great day for us. As many of you know I'm the board chair and this is one of

the issues we've all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality

and tourism industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for san francisco.

I want to thank firstly our

awesome mayor breed, I'm also a native san francisco an and I completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our

neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and

keeping us safe and we're very thankful. We're proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of san francisco and many of our community partners to do tour

part to keep san francisco

clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love

and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make san francisco the most wonderful

destination in the world.

Thank you. >> last I'd like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group we've been partnering with on this. [Applause] All right!

Are we ready to go to work! All right!

Let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep

our city clean.

Love our city everyday, right! Everyday! The public works department and many city agencies do this

everyday but I can tell you,

your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it

needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people

clean up and make our city the

most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco!

I'll be really short.

Today we have over 45 different sites.

Some people are going to be

painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when

you leave here is, when you are

out there, please, be safe. safety is a high priority. We've been having these events for over 20 years and we have

not had a single incident. How do you be safe?

All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do.

If you see something that you are in doubt of whether it's

glass or needle or something in

your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. It's a nice day. Again, I'm very appreciative for everyone coming up. Let's have fun!

Love our city everyday! [Applause]

>> thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, we're going to do a group picture. Stay where you are.

No one move. Just stay still for a minute and

we'll take a group photo.

.

>> I love that I was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal

because the tenant will -- for

the longest, I was applying for B.M.R. Rental, but I would be

in the lottery and never be

like 307 or 310. I pretty much had kind of given

up on that, and had to leave

san francisco.

I found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three

years ago, and I originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate

expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. I told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and I told her hey, you've got

to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. She said no, I want you to go with me.

And then, the very next day

that I went to the session, I

notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, B.M.I.

I was like wow, this could potentially work.

Housing purchases through the B.M.R. Program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they

are all lotteries, and for this

one, I did win the lottery. There were three people that

applied, and they pulled my number first.

I won, despite the luck I'd had with the program in the last couple years. Things are finally breaking my way.

When I first saw the unit, even though I knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, I could see what this place could be. It's slowly beginning to feel like home. I can definitely -- you know, once I got it painted and

slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized

unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small.

This unit in terms of adaptive,

in terms of having a murphy

bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as I can. It's slowly becoming home for me.

It is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis

that exists here in the bay area.

It will slowly become home, and

I am appreciative that it is a

bright spot in an otherwise job.

>> my name is heather I'm an

society engineer start as an

interim about the knowing that

and after completed my certificates I received my professional engineering

licenses and became a an social

engineer I work on a chain of

multi engineering we work on a plan through conduct and take ownership and are involved from

the beginning to the he said end I take a lot of pride.

>> where you, you planning on uss this. >> at the top.

>> at the top of interference.

>> it's regarding I've been given more challenging projects

working as a designer on smaller

projects to tuvenl managing

project I'm a huge go property

of getting revolved in jerry, it

is a field that month women

don't know about the more

educated they'll apply for

college I love the professionals

and the projects I work with its

very.

>> hi my name is jason jones a

xaefrp and communication capture at the san francisco water department I hnlt a high volume of calls and radio

communications I enjoy coming to

work I still find it challenging

I still learn everyday and I'm

going to have the level of

activity if zero to 60 in a

matter of minutes I take bride

pride in handling the emergencies.

>> have are you available the

work order is 2817827 that's one

of the great things of sfpuc

they offer work shops to help

you get ahead you have to care

about the job and go above and

beyond to find out as much as

you can the three puc I so no

glass ceiling the opportunities

are end we will never be anything >> okay. I needed that. [Laughter]

How many of you needed this day? [Cheers]

[Applause] Yeah.

All of us together pretty much saying you're not going to take our country away from us. Nor are you going to take our future away from us. And we're going to take it back. [Applause]

I'm so excited that I get to be your emcee for this afternoon. You're about to hear from a

couple of super powerful, amazing women. And to introduce them is a

powerful woman in her own right.

A san francisco native, a health

care expert, entrepreneur for 24

years, an awardee of the 30

working mothers of the year.

Janet lang is kaiser kaiser permanente

President And a major bad ass in

her own right.

Please welcome janet lang. [Applause] . >> thank you so much.

Thank you. thank you. Thank you. Oh! Kaiser permanente is in the house today.

Hello! [Cheers and applause] Good afternoon, everyone. You know, I was so excited to be joining you today. And I was coming to the

conference and I saw the theme

was to be invincible.

I took a minute to take a look at the dictionary to say what are some of the other ideas and

themes behind the word "invincible." and what stood out for me was indestructible, unbeatable, and absolutely too powerful to overcome. >> all right! Yeah! That's right. [Applause] >> those are fighting words. So I asked myself, so what

exactly are we fighting for? So I have four principles that I

think that we're fighting for.

The first is that we're fighting

for recognition, that there is economic value in the role that

women play in raising families. [Applause] That's right. That's right. The second is that we're fighting for equal pay for equal work. It's very simple.

[Applause]

The third is that being a woman

does not limit our opportunity or our voice.

And then, lastly -- lastly, we

must be in a society where women

are free from oppression and physical violence.

[Applause] So at kaiser permanente I want

you to know that leaders like

myself and our workforce of over

79,000 believe in these four tenets strongly. We understand that women are decision makers for the health

care for their family, you're mothers and you're sisters, you're wifes and partners and daughters. You make these choices for your

family and we listen to you.

You have a very important voice.

The second is that we employ, I

said earlier 79,000 people here in northern california, 70% of those employees are women. Very proud to say that.

[Applause]

But I also want you to know that

women have opportunity at kaiser to become executives. So we have eight -- we're a national organization. And there are eight presidents.

And the presidents run

everything that happens in our organization. We produce the money, we take care of our members, we provide your care.

And we manage a workforce of over 200,000.

Of the eight presidents at

kaiser permanente, five are women. Five women presidents.

[Cheers and applause] And in most companies of our

size, with over 200,000 employees, fortune 100 companies, you will see the

executive ranks have about on

average 15% women. And at kaiser permanente we have 47%.

47% of our vice presidents, our executives, our presidents are all women. And so there you have it.

Kaiser permanente represents being -- fighting for all of the things that you're here today to talk about.

We believe in women being indestructible, unbeatable and

too powerful to overcome.

And so I have the pleasure now of introducing two women who embody that. And I'm going to talk a little bit about them.

You know them so there's not a lot to say. They're going to come out together.

Of course, is our very own mayor london breed, who is the 45th mayor of the city of san francisco.

[Cheers and applause]

And -- and the first african-american woman mayor in our city.

So she has a lot of firsts

behind her name.

We know her as a native san

franciscan as well, raised by her grandmother in the western addition of the public housing.

And she has fought for many of

our city's most challenging

issues that our community and our citizens face. Safe, clean neighborhoods. Affordable housing. Particularly her leadership recently around homelessness and

she fights for equitable education opportunities and for services for vulnerable people

in our communities.

The second woman that I'm introducing, of course, is our

speaker of the U.S. Representatives house is nancy pelosi. [Cheers and applause]

31 years.

31 years, not just elected, one of the first women to be elected, but also speaker of the

house for over 16 years.

She served three terms now,

which is a pretty big deal, given all of the changes that happened over three decades. And I personally want to thank her. She's known for many, many things.

Many initiatives, investments in

college aid, clean energy, helping veterans and small business. But I personally want to thank her for her leadership of the affordable care act.

[Applause]

You know, 5 million more people

in the state of california have health insurance and access to care because of her.

So she's made a difference in

our country that will last -- she leaves a legacy in our country under her leadership.

So please join me in welcoming these two wonderful, wonderful women to the stage.

[Applause]

R-e-s-p-e-c-t- find out what it means to me

just a little bit

r-e-s-p-e-c-t- oh, a little respect

oh, yes just a little bit

>> hello, ladies. [Applause] Are you having a good time

today?

[Cheers] Now we have our special guest here joining us.

Our leader, our speaker, the

woman who basically is the only

woman with courage in this

country right now. speaker nancy pelosi!

[Applause] So, speaker, thank you so much for being here.

We so appreciate your time.

And we just want to have a

conversation because we want to know who is nancy pelosi. And I think that you've been out there, we see you out there fighting the good fight, standing up to donald trump.

Doing what you do best to try and really move our country in the right direction.

But we also know that you have a

long history in the world of politics. During a time where it was

difficult for women to even get engaged.

Your dad served as mayor of baltimore, your brother served as mayor of baltimore.

You raising five kids ran for

office and became a congresswoman for san francisco.

[Applause]

So tell us about -- tell us

about those early years and how challenging it was at that time for women, because you were

breaking barriers even back then. >> thank you very much, Madam Mayor. First, I want to congratulate you on the great job that you are doing as mayor of san francisco.

[Cheers and applause]

I'm so very, very proud of you.

And now it appears your

re-election is quite obvious.

As you gain even more standing

in our city and I know our city

is your focus. You're a national example of

whether it's public education or

affordable housing or issues

that relate to gun safety, the

list goes on. They're stories you can tell from personal experience. And I want everyone in this room

to know that personal stories

are the power -- are the power.

I remember when I first met the

May, he was is -- she was a staffer at city hall.

My daughter christina said she

was also an officer of the california democratic party. Christine is here with a ruth

bader ginsburg scarf on today. [Applause] And then you were involved in

emerge and I know suzie beal is very much a part of this. You took all the steps.

And now to be the mayor of this great city, to bring your experience and your values.

So I hope in the course of our conversation, as I share my

story, you'll share another generation's story, your own. And I'm sure you're doing it in the course of this very important meet. It's wonderful. Wonderful to be in san francisco on any given day, but to be here

with all of these women, these invincible women.

We have our bracelet. It's quite an honor. I have to just tell you, though,

it is a curious time in our country.

And the time for women to be

invincible has never been more

important, even though this year

we -- will congress we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote. [Applause]

That's a good thing.

As we do so, we have over 100

women in the house of representatives.

91 of them are democrats. 106, 91 are democrats.

But they represent the beauty,

the diversity of america. And when women first got the

right to vote, we still had much more work to do to make sure

extended to women of color and

people of color across our country. So again I thank you for the

opportunity to share some thoughts on that subject. When women got the right to

vote, the headline said "women

given the right to vote." no, women fought, women were

starved, women starved themselves, marched, advocated

for decades before the right to vote came.

And now we have to do some of

the same things to. In the course of our revolution,

when times were dark, thomas

payne said the times have found us.

We believe the times have found us now again to save our democracy. To save our democracy. [Applause]

And the role of women in all of

that is very, very important. So know your power. It's fabulous to see the

strength of it all here. But understand how necessary that is.

So I thank you for your leadership, your involvement,

your courage to be invincible. >> thank you. [Applause] Now 100 years May seem like a long time.

But it wasn't that long ago in

our history when we basically

took the right to vote and we're

celebrating that 100-year anniversary, but we're still in

the midst of a lot of inequities that women face in this country.

I know you have been a leader around equal pay. So tell us a little bit about

your work and what you're doing

to help address the inequalities and the pay gap for women and men.

>> well, I appreciate you asking that, because one of our top items on our agenda, when we came in as the new majority in

congress, was to pass the fair

pass act, equal pay for equal work.

And it's still stunning to me to

see people voting against that. And mitch Mcconnell in the

senate is saying I'm the grim reaper, it's not going to see a vote in the senate.

But I say to him, this May be -- you May think it's dead, but it's alive and well in the public.

So I appeal to you, because no good thing happens with the

outside mobilization. We can maneuver to pass the bill in the house, to get it through

the senate and the President, to

sign it is absolutely essential, for us to have the outside mobilization. Know your power. Weigh in. I mean, who would vote against such a thing? The republican members of congress. I know this isn't a partisan -- [Laughter]

But it was amazing to see. And tied to that, which we're going to bring up in a couple of

weeks, is raising the minimum wage to fight for $15. $15 an hour. [Applause]

That affects women in the workplace as well. But when you think of the fact that women are not paid for the

same amount of work as men, and

what it means not only to the well being of their families,

but what it means to their pensions and their retirement

and the rest, it's so very, very unfair. We can correct it, we passed the

bill, rosa was the author of it.

And now we just have to get it past the senate.

Lincoln said public sentiment is everything. With it you can accomplish

anything with it. In order for the public sentiment to weigh in, the public needs to know.

So tell a friend, call in, especially into -- some of you are not from california. Call home.

Tell those people -- call the republican senators.

So bring up -- to bring up the bill. It's a threshold we must cross. We must cross. >> and that, along with a number of challenges that you've been dealing with for decades in the house of representatives, you

work with a number of presidents

and, of course, we had a great time working with President

Obama and we truly Miss Him now more than ever.

And I just -- I just wanted to

understand because we watch you on the news. And we -- in my mind, I don't

know about you, but I'm like how is nancy pelosi sitting there

with a straight face, when -- [Laughter] When some of those things are being said.

I just wonder, well, what is

going on in her head.

And you, classy as always, try to hold him accountable. Madam Speaker, what is going on in your head? [Laughter] With all of that?

>> well, thank you for bringing up President Obama and valerie jarrett, whom you had this morning was so -- [Applause] So spectacular. So spectacular. I love her. And she's really a powerful

force in our country.

I have to just say this about the occupant of the white house.

[Laughter]

[Applause]

It's really important to recognize that, again I'm just stating a fact, this isn't political or partisan. That the republicans in congress, house and senate by

and large agree with him on almost every subject.

I'm not associating them with his behavior.

But I am associating them with

his policy.

So before he even became President, they were where they

were on being an anti-women's

right to choose, lgbtq rights,

the climate change, gun safety, fair immigration, fairness in our economy, diminishing the

disparity in income between our

haves and have notes in our country. They've been on the wrong side of both of those issues for a long time.

So his coming in just -- he's

their guy from a policy standpoint.

So when we had our election '18, as I said to the candidates, something similar to what I'll

say to now. Don't even mention his name, just talk about you.

I say this to the women here, as

you aspire to perhaps run for office, supporting those who do,

as we sit here with this magself

success -- magnificent success

story with our mayor london breed. Here's the thing. What is your -- I keep saying to the members. We have to distinguish our why. Why are we here?

What is our vision for the country.

What do we know about the subjects that we can make a difference in the legislation.

How do we intend to do this. Are we strategic in our

thinking?

And show your sincerity, your connection to your constituents

in terms of their fears and hopes and apprehensions and

aspirations.

Don't talk about him.

But the fact is that when you present where you are on the

issues, you will make a very strong distinction between the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress.

And the republicans in congress

are very much aligned with the President Of the united states on these issues. That's really sad news that I have to convey to you. So when people say how come

they're not speaking out? well, he's their guy. He's their guy.

But they also have taken an oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the united states.

And we're hoping that will weigh

in on their decisions, as we go forward.

So when you say when you're sitting there, he's the President Of the united states.

I respect the office that he holds. I think I respect it more than he respects it. But, anyway, I respect the

office that he holds. [Laughter]

And we have to try to find common ground.

Our founders went back and said

we are -- you know, the times have found us.

They also gave us guidance in

this respect.They couldn't imagine how many we would be, how different we would be. They always knew we strived to be one. So for the good of the people,

we have to always try to find

common ground.

Stand our ground.

Stand -- that would be thomas jefferson.

Stand our ground like a rock.

So you try to say, well, infrastructure, building a green

infrastructure for the future. Green, infrastructure for the future. Lowering the cost of prescription drugs, he says he wants to do those things. Let's try to find common ground on that.

But at the same time we must mobilize outside. We would never have passed the affordable care act or save the

affordable care act without the

outside mobilization. I thank for her kind words.

But it was the outside that made that happen.

Again know your power. Be invincible.

Weigh in on these things,

because the public is -- it is the people's country. We the people and for the people. And most importantly for the

children.

So that's what I think when I'm sitting there, among other things. [Laughter] >> yeah. [Applause]

>> well, speaking of knowing your power, it happens to be the

name of the book that you wrote "know your power." and part of knowing your power, of course, is knowing who you

are and what you stand for.

And I know that this had to come from somewhere.

And so tell us -- because as I

said earlier, you know, you have

been doing this incredible work since -- at a time when there

weren't a lot of women who were actively engaged in the political world.

And not until recently are we seeing incredible organizations

that are coming like emerge and emily's list and other organizations that are helping to support and encouraging and

pushing women to run for office. But you didn't have organizations like that.

You stepped out on face and really got actively engaged. And you also did it while raising five kids. i mean, I'm still trying to understand how that's even possible. So tell us a little bit about how you discovered, you know, your voice and your power and

what motivated you in the early years to really step out and to do this type of work. >> well, I appreciate what

you're saying. But the fact I was raised in a political family, as was mentioned. I was raised in a political family. We were taught that public service is a noble calling.

And that we all had a

responsibility to -- for the community. It wasn't about politics so much as about civic engagement and

politics as part of that.

And so I never had any intention whatsoever of running for public office. None whatsoever.

But I did feel responsible to make some contributions.

So I volunteered and one thing led to another. But I'll just tell you this

story about how I went from kitchen to congress. One of the paths through it. [Laughter]

So I'm at home, with five kids, running around, little kids. All of this.

I get a call from the then mayor joseph alioto. He says, nancy, what are you

doing, making a big pot of pasta. [Laughter] No, Mr. Mayor, I'm reading "the new york times."

[Laughter] He used to come in the afternoon

in those days before all of the technology. And my kids are playing there. And this is after school.

And he said, well, I'm calling

for ask you to serve on the library commission.

[Cheers] So I say to him, and he said because I know you love the library, kids and you

all hang out there and everything. We go there all the time, help with the books, this or that. This is -- this is almost 40

years ago.

So I said, no, Mr. Mayor, don't give me that appointment. I love the library. I'll doing that.

I don't need to be recognized as the library commissioner.

And this man, not known as a

feminist, but nonetheless said

to me, nancy, you're doing the

work, get the official recognition for it.

And that was one of the best

messages that I had. [Applause]

He said -- and, of course, no man would have ever said that.

Don't appoint me, I'll just carry the books around. [Laughter]

So I say that to the mayor,

because her path was commissioners as well. So many of you here.

But that official recognition, lo and behold I had a vote on the commission. People cared what I thought. We were putting meetings out in the neighborhood.

You know, we were doing things differently. And it was empowering. It was empowering.

But it was my first official

involvement was to be a library commissioner in san francisco.

But that -- that message -- it was so clear.

As a woman, you especially should receive the official recognition for the work that you're doing.

So then one thing and another, I've become chair of the california democratic party, this or that. Burton, the congressman from

this area, takes ill, she encourages and insists that I run for congress. There it is.

And there's some steps in between. [Laughter]

But then I go to congress. And I really didn't want to go. I mean, I've never thought about running for office.

I was basically a very shy person. Still am in certain respects.

People don't believe that. But anyway.

So I go to my daughter

alexandra, who was the youngest, she was 16, about to go into

senior year.

It's around January, February

and so she would be going in September.

I say, alexandra -- four of them were already in college, because the five were born almost to the day six years. That's why I like to talk to my colleagues about a woman's right to choose.

[Laughter] When you have a five babies in six years, you come talk to me about it. [Laughter] [Applause] Can you believe these men standing in line to prohibit a woman's right to choose. Come on! Come on!

Don't get me started. >> go ahead. Get started! [Laughter]

>> I go to alexandra, mommy has

been invited to run for congress.

It will be better when you're in college.

But I love my life. And so if you want me to stay here with you, I'll be gone like three nights a week.

I mean, I have to even win yet. I don't even know if I'm going to win.

But I have to decide whether to run. Any answer is okay.

If you want me to stay with you, that's fine. She says, mother, get a life.

[Laughter]

I had never heard -- we're talking over 30 years ago, I never heard the expression

before "get a life." [Laughter] What teenage girl wouldn't want her mother gone three nights a week. [Laughter]

So there I went. Another life. And then when I got there, never intended to run for leadership. But then people came to me and said, run for leadership.

And when my name was put out there that I'd run for

leadership, the men said, who

said she could run. Poor babies. [Laughter] [Applause]

Poor babies.

so I believe this was like around 2000. Why don't you just make a list of all of the things that the

women want and we'll do them for them. Oh! Double poor babies. [Laughter]

[Please stand by]

>> -- encouraging women, pro-choice women to run, so now, we have this.

And I say to the members our

diversity is our strength. This caucus is over 60% women, people of color, lgbtq.

It's so beautifully dive

>> our diversity is our strength strength. Our unity is our power and it's

that powerun that I bring to the

table with of the united states.

Cheer cheer.

[Cheers and applause] >> one of the biggest challenges

we're facing is the threat to our reproductive health and what's happening all over the country.Y.

Ital feels like we're going backwards, especially with the

laws thatur are getting passed in

placespe like georgia and a number

of other states, in utah. It'sas devastating and we know

ultimately, the changes to these

policies will mostly impact poor

women and women of colour and it has had a devastating impact on the morale of just, I think,

women in general, because here

we are trying to push for equity

and make sure that we have an seat attr the table and a number of othere issues. Now we have to go back and fight a battle that we fought and won in the 1970s. It's like we're going back to the dark ages here. I just wanted to know your thoughts about what's going on

with this and your -- just

where do we go from here and how

do we push this thing back? >> you've said it exactly right.

Of course, you put it in a frame

of pay equity. I always like to be hopeful and my hope springs from the fact

that so many people understand

this s threat and are willing to

stande up and advocate against

this threat to a woman's right to choose. This is a moment because not only are they passing these

bills which are so harmful, but

they are going into other

relatede fields like stem cell research. All

things that relate at the

moment of conception where life begins.

Without going into it, for 25

years, my first 25 25 years in congress, it was so unbelievable that people are like, I don't believe that and ifle I believed that I would never vote republican. They don't believe in birth control. They don't believe in family

planning.

Noww

they have reproductive health initiatives for women all over the drive.

So until they defund planned parenthood, which is not exactly what they did, but the effect

was to defund planned

parenthood, people got all arouse and lost that fight. Now we have to again make sure, they lose that fight.

so women have p to speak up in

theirr community, respectfully.

If their faith-based.

Most of my family not pro-choice. I don't ask and they don't tell

and I don't think they're cray

about my exuberant because this is fundamental. Believe what you want to believe and live your life but don't decide politicians will exact

thatc on somebody else.

[Cheers and applause] Ent to decide the timing and size of

her family, if she even wants

to have one, then they have to pay a price at the polls for thinking that way, for thinking that way. [Applause] >> but this is fundamental.

It's fundamental. And again, women of color pay a

price, as you mentioned, and >> this is the budget and finance committee.

We are reconvening and I am

going to recess until 4:00 today

right back here in this room. Thank you very much.

Statues -- one of the most

visits statues in the capitol,

rosa parks, sitting -- that's the way the community wanted

her -- her statue. It's fabulous.

But then, when we did rosa

parks -- by then, when we did

rosa parks, President Bush was President.

When we did sojourner truth,

barack obama was President, and

we had a new emancipation in the wing of the building. And our speaker was michelle obama.

And she gets up, talking about sojourner truth, and talking

about how she was an amazing

mom, and suffragette.

And she says, I can see how

happy sojourner truth would be

to see a woman standing there

as speaker of the house, but I can't imagine what she would be thinking as me, michelle obama,

the first lady of america. [Applause]

>> we've come a long way, but

we have much more to do, much

more to do.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   yes.

And I just want to touch on so

many of the amazing accomplishments that you've had throughout your career. We know you've spent a lot of

your time getting democrats elected to congress, and we appreciate that, and it's one

of the reasons we have the majority in the house of representatives because of your

hard work and a lot of national policies around pay equity.

But you also take care of your home. We also appreciate the support that you provided for the

hunters point shipyard, and the

accountability, and the issues

that we've experienced this. Thank you for your neighborhood preference and that you fought

side by side to make sure that people have access to the affordable housing in their neighborhoods. A lot of the work that we've been able to do, that we get

funding from the feds, and the

california electrification, the support that you've given as you deal with the bigger challenges of the country, it means so much to have you in

this leadership position. What really stands out to you

as something -- a moment in

time or a situation or policy or something that you were just

so proud of, and maybe share -- share that with us today.

>> well, I'm so -- as I say to

my colleagues in the congress, all the honors you bestay upon

me as leader, now speaker of the congress now twice is wonderful, but nothing is more important to me than stepping

on to the floor of the house as

a representative of the people of san francisco. That is the most -- [Applause] >> and we have a beautiful agenda here that in most cases would be a model to the

country, so it makes me -- it easier for me to get resources

for what we need to have done

here, and also helps to be speaker of the house.

But I will say that the --

most -- let me just say about

san francisco, you know, they always -- san francisco values.

They spent -- they had 137,000

ads, the republicans, against

me in the election of 2018 as a

san francisco values person,

137,000 ads, san francisco liberal. Yes, proud to be. However, it didn't work.

We won 40 seats in the most gerrymandered voter suppression you can be.

I said, you know what we are? We are the people of

St. Francis, the patron saint of peace.

Bring us hope, light, faith. You will share in our san francisco values. But the most proud thing in addition to representing san francisco every minute of every day is the passage of the affordable care act.

And when there was a time when people thought it was never going to pass, the press said

to me, what are you going to do? Why don't you give up and make it smaller or something?

I said no, this is our moment.

It's social security, medicaid, medicare, this is the moment of our generation, and we're going to pass the bill.

And I said it looks impossible. There's so many barriers to it.

And I said if we see a barrier

too high for us, we'll go push open the gate.

And if that doesn't work, we'll

climb the fence, and if that

doesn't work, we'll pole vault

in, and if that doesn't work, we'll push our way in. And after it happened, the press said well, which one did you do?

And I said actually, we pushed open the gate because we not

only had the votes of the house democrat

democrats to do that, but we had the outside mobilization, and I come back to you. It was the people who cared whether it was for all of the

things, preexisting benefits, being a woman no longer being a preexisting condition,

protecting a woman's right to choose, all of those things, so a child staying on your policy,

the list goes on, but everybody was there pushing open that gate with us. It would not have happened without the outside mobilization. I tell you that because it is

true for everything that we do,

and I always say particular

thank God for the nuns as

opposed to the bishops, to the

nuns who were so helpful to us, another element of women power. So I say to women, know your power. The best advice I ever got

running your office is be yourself.

Don't let anyone diminish who you are and what you bring to the table. And they'll try to do that, but

you don't let them do it. You know why? Because you're invincible. Thank you.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, speaker nancy pelosi. [

]

[Applause] >> the most powerful woman in san francisco, and the most powerful woman in the country, yeah.

Right here. [Applause]

>> you know, in my 22 years of

running the national center for

lesbian rights, when I first started at nclr, the idea of same sex couples having the right to marry was ridiculous

even to me, and yet early on,

we had champions like nancy

pelosi, who again and again

understood the importance of

our relationships being treated with dignity. It wasn't just about marriage, it was about employment, it was about our place in civic life. And over and over again, when I would contact speaker pelosi's office or as a congress woman,

her office, or we would be in

meetings with her, she would do that thing you always need

allies to do, she would deploy

her privilege in power to do what we needed. She would risk her political capital to say this issue

matters to me. Lgbtq people matter and need to be treated equally under the law, and she did that again and again and again, and she's done it on the range of so many issues.

And that's how you -- that's

the difference between a

situational ally or an ally when it's convenient or throw

down, and that's the difference.

We are so lucky to have nancy pelosi as our own. [Applause] >> I'm so excited to introduce our next individual who will

introduce our next speaker, and

the woman I'm about to

introduce is one of my very favorite longtime friends and colleagues. You don't stay in a position for two decades if you don't have a posse around you of people who protect you and support you and are your kitchen cabinet that you can

rely on, and serina kahn has

always been that for me. When I first met serina -- you can clap, sure. [Applause]

>> when I first met serina, she was the new executive director

as what was then the

international gay and lesbian rights coalition.

After that, she moved to

philanthropy, truly making her

mark at the ford institution and many others, and she's currently the Chairman Of the women's foundation in california. In every role, she has brought

along others, in every role,

she has elevated the role of young leaders. In every role, she has been

that honored partner,

confidante that I know you can trust.

So please welcome my friend, serina kahn. [Applause] [

]

>> wow, thank you for that.

Kate kendall is one of my she-roes. Hello, san francisco. [Applause] >> how are you feeling after this incredible day?

Let me hear you. [Cheers and Applause]

>> you have to be feeling invincible after that conversation between our mayor

and our speaker, nancy pelosi. Now that is some leadership.

We are so fortunate to have

women like that who are advocating on our behalf.

I am serina kahn, I am the C.E.O. Of the women's foundation of california, and I

am so honored to be here with

mayor breed and the summit organizers today because the

women's summit was founded

right here in san francisco in 1979.

Our founders broke new ground

in 1979 by creating one of the first foundations in the country led by and for women and girls.

They imagined a new feminist fill

philanthropy to distribute

resources to transform our communities. I stand before you as a proud lesbian, as an immigrant, as a

woman of color from a pakistan

muslim family, we recognize all

cisgender and transgender women

and girls in all minorities.

We believe that those problems

that are closest to our

communities are closest to the solutions of our communities. We are living in times of crisis, and we need community-led solutions.

Our golden state is a tale of two states, just like san francisco is a tale of two cities. We have incredible wealth in california and here in san

francisco, and yet, california

has the highest poverty rates

in the nation despite being the

fifth largest economy in the world.

A single woman in san francisco

especially in california's 58

counties spends more on child care than she's bringing home every month.

Not only is she going into debt every month, but she doesn't

have money for basic necessities, like food, clothing, transportation.

That's why over the past four

decades, the women's summit of

california is committed to community-led solutions. Through our institute, we've trained more than 500 community

leaders from across the state who use their lived

experiences, their powerfully unpolicy

unapologetic voices to pass 35

bills into law. I know you've heard about the

workers rights bill in california.

That happened through our

fellows in the california policy institute, domestic

workers who need help themselves, came up with the

policy idea and worked with legislators themselves.

We are fundamentally transforming the halls of power in our state, and they are each connected to thousands of people, which means that we

have the power to activate

millions of people across california for progressive

policy change, and that's a

good thing because california is providing hope to the rest

of the country in these dark times. [Applause] >> we're so -- we're so fortunate to have strong

leadership in our city and our

state, leaders who are responsive to community-led solutions. We applaud mayor breed who just

this week announced, along with

sheriff vickie hennesey, that victim will stop charging people in our city jails for

phone calls. [Applause]

>> and stop marking up items in the jail store. [Applause]

>> that will put $1.7 million

back in the pockets of families of incarcerated people and it

will make it easier for them to stay in touch with their incarcerated loved ones. And again, this change happened

because of the advocacy of the

incredible, the invincible young women of the young women's freedom center, along

with so many others.

And the young women's freedom

center is an organization that started right here in san francisco, and they got their

very first grant in 1994 from

the women's foundation of california, and I couldn't be prouder of that. [Applause]

>> so community-based leadership led by women and girls is our hope for a better future. So today, I want you to be the first to know about another

ground breaking initiative. Our bay area young women's

initiative is a partnership between the women's foundation

of california and alliance for

girls, and together, we support

girl-led research,

communities-driven -- community-driven research where

the girls learn to do research,

listen to community voices, and

form policies to solve problems

in their communities and the solutions that they see.

It forces young women of color to identify barriers and solutions so that they can reach their full potential. And I want to sign up about our updates so you will hear about our next big announcement that's coming soon that I can't

tell you about now. But please, please stay tuned because we're going to take this work across the state.

So now I'm so excited to introduce our next guest, and

let me tell you why, because I love pop culture. It's how I relax.

I go home, I watch netflix. And how many people do you

know -- our next guest -- how many people do you know that

can say they were so good at

their job that it inspired a

hit T.V. Show produced by

shonda rimes starring kerry washington. Well, our next guest can.

She's worked at the U.S.

Attorney's office and the white

house, and she's the inspiration for character

olivia pope on "scandal."

it's my pleasure to invite judy

smith to join me in this

conversation, so please well come judy smith. [Applause] [

] >> what a treat. >> this is great.

Look at -- I need to put my

glasses on so I can see all

these wonderful women. [Applause] >> oh, this is so amazing. >> amazing. >> oh, my God.

>> we're so happy to have you here. >> thank you. >> so for so many reasons, not just "scandal," your career has been incredible. You're the founder and

President Of your own strategic advisory firm. >> yes.

>> and you have offices in

D.C., L.A., new york, communications, crisis management, media savvy, legal and political strategies, and you're working with clients on a wide array of issues.

You're a former federal prosecutor.

You served in the white house as deputy press secretary to the senior bush, president george herbert walker bush. So tell us about your career path.

How did you get her today? Is this what you wanted to be when you were ten years old,

saying, when I grow up, I want to be. >> yes.

Well, I've all planned this out

since I was four -- no, no idea whatsoever. I would probably say two things about it. The thing that when I look back

on it and think about it, it is

all for me about taking risks,

and people always say this, but it's true.

It's about stepping out of your comfort zone. When I do things, whether it

was the white house or the U.S.

Attorney's office, those were

all things that came based on the work. There would be no reason why a

poor girl from northeast washington, D.C., who had no political contacts, parents had no money, that I would end up working in the white house or

in the U.S. Attorney's office.

And it was just really sort of

based on -- you know, based on the work, which I think is important.

The other thing I would say, as well, is that people always say to find your passion, and I sort of hate that sometimes

because, like, how do you

really do that, right? How do you actually do that? And I was talking to a friend

of mine. I've known her since I was four. Her name is michelle, but I

call her beanhead, because i

can do that, and she calls me pocahontas.

And we've been friends for decades.

Your question was how did we

get into this.

She called me up one day, and

she wanted me to go out for

drinks, and I said I can't.

I'm writing this book and I've

got to tell them how I got through crisis.

And she said look, is that all

that's strong between us and a

glass -- standing between us

and a glass of red wine? And I said yes.

And she says you've been doing this since you were five years old.

And she reminded me, there was

a playground down the street,

and it was going to close, and it was going to close because there wasn't any money.

And we said, how do we find the money? Where are the money people? Really true. So I organized the neighborhood -- we were about, like, 12 then, and we saved our

lunch money, and we took our

lunch money, and we made, like, little protest signs, and we

snuck on the bus, and we got on

the bus, and we said we're the money people. We didn't know, and there was a security guard.

And he said, you mean city council?

And I said, do they give people money? And they said yes.

So it was literally 12 little

scrawny little girls, we need

money, we need money for our playgrounds. And somebody came down, and

there was also like a camera

crew, and beanhead pushed me right up there, and I said we

need money for our playground.

And if not, we're going to become bad people and we might get into trouble. And let me just say, we got

money for that playground. [Applause] >> so you're a problem solver, and you know what to ask for when you want it? >> yes.

And beanhead said, you've been

doing it since you were little, it's in your blood.

>> so what advice do you have for us, for those of you that

have problems in our homes, in our communities?

You're strategizing all the

time, so give some advice for those of us that might find it difficult. >> these are tips for both personal problems and work problems. I think the first thing is you want to look problems, like, dead in the eye.

By that, I mean, most of the

things that we think are problems or unpleasant, they're going to go away. They're not, right? They're still going to be there.

I think that's one. I think the other thing that's important is when you're dealing with a truth, you want to stand in your truth.

So sometimes when we have problems or issues, we try to

view them in a way that's not

actually accurate, right, sometimes from a point of view. So I think you should really look at the problem and really what are the root causes of the

problem, right, so they won't

come back, you won't face this issue again. Because you see behind any

issue or problem, there's always something standing behind it.

You've just got to pull the

curtain back a little bit. >> have there ever been things you can't fix?

>> oh, there's lots of things I can't fix.

My kid's still on the payroll. I can't fix that.

You know, I'm trying hard -- no, there are some things you can't fix.

Some things are unfixable.

Sometimes, people come and want to rehabilitate their brain and

then their reputation, and

sometimes, it it's -- it's too far

down the line where you can't shape the narrative. It's sad, but it happens. >> I feel like we should be drinking red wine and eating popcorn. >> we should. You guys are so unprepared,

there's no wine, there's no popcorn.

>> so tell us about your

favorite type of wine and give

us a few metaphors and descriptors about it.

>> well, let's see.

I don't think I have a favorite

brand, but just two days ago, I had a very nice light rose. It's a little sweet, and that's nice. Popcorn is always nice. I'll tell you a little story about that. Usually, when the show comes on, I'm on the road because i travel.

And I'm just so excited, I get to see the show at the exact time, right? So I got home, and I put my

jammies on -- not what olivia

would wear, a ripped-off top, and a bottom that didn't match.

And I sat down, and I said oh,

heck, I forgot the popcorn and

the wine, and that's true. I like that, as well.

So I'm sitting down on the sofa with my popcorn and wine, and

I'm, you know, cutting on the

T.V., ready to watch it.

And when I cut it on, olivia is sitting on her sofa with popcorn and wine.

It was just one of those, like,

crazy moments, do you know what I mean?

What are the odds of this?

She was looking fabulous, I was looking like heck. >> so art does imitate reality. >> it does, it does.

Except for sex with the President, let's be very clear about that. I don't want anybody to be

confused about that one.

>> so tell us, how did the show happen?

We just don't hear that many stories like yours where you

inspired a T.V. Show because of your success. >> well, I wasn't really trying to -- to pitch a show. I'll tell you the things for me that were really important about the show that were -- was one, as I said, I have kids, right?

And so it was important to me

that the woman who was going to

be inspired by my work look like me.

That was nonnegotiatable

from -- nonnegotiable from me. [Applause]

>> and the first one, was a

lead on television was the first time in 35 years. Really, you guys are clapping for me, you should be clapping

for yourselves, and I tell you that, and it goes back to what we are all talking about here

at the conference, is that people underestimate the power

that each and every one of us

have in ourselves.

The show sent a message to the people that produce television

and films that okay, a show that is -- that stars an african american woman can be successful and can make money. So without all of you watching it and supporting it, there would have never been that change, and it would have never been that door opened, so thank you, all of you, honestly. Without you, it wouldn't have happened, wouldn't have happened.

[Applause] >> and what -- and you know --

a vision and image to provide for the next generation. >> yeah, and it was important that that person be a strong woman but also somebody who is

good at what she does and

unapologetic about it. Oftentimes, when we feel that we are good at what we do, we

feel like we have to hide it

or -- do you know what I mean? >> yeah. >> or don't show it. Why not?

>> well, many years ago, I

guess five or six years ago, I

was living in new york for the

ford foundation, working for a strong, successful, african american woman. And I think it was -- "scandal" had just started.

And I told my boss, you remind

me of olivia pope. And she said, go on.

>> that's great. That's great. >> so what's next for you? >> what's next? I don't know.

I mean, I'm not a big -- when I

say this, just sort of planner, basically.

We are expanding internationally, so excited

about that, but I want to find

a way to provide advice and to help more people, so that's what I'm trying to figure out. Any suggestions, let me know, guys.

>> and do you have a secret

ambition of another career?

>> it's unrealistic.

It's unrealistic. I often say that I wish I could

sing, but if any of you lived with me and at home, you know that that would not be possible.

The only reason why is that

there's something very special

about music, and it can be very universal and bring people

together in an amazing way, but I know that that's not a real possibility. >> yeah. So in the world that we all

live in, there's often competing voices, there's a lot of noise.

It might be hard to get heard in a room.

We still have gender inequity, so what advice can you give us on how to push forward and get our views listened to? >> sure. you know, one of the things

that I've tried over the years

that's been successful in terms of giving advice and counsel,

when you're in a room and you want to speak about your point

of view or opinion, I never start with "I feel that" you should do this and here's the reason why, I always start off with facts. It's not because I feel it,

it's because I know it, right?

And here are the reasons why -- yeah.

[Applause]

>> and so I always start if I'm

going to be rendering advice, particularly if it's going to

be starting with you is to

point that out in a -- in a

factual context, and oftentimes, when I'm talking to, you know, C.E.O.S and giving advice -- and there's nothing wrong with it -- people care about what the bottom line it, and how is it going to

affect the bottom line? Is that kind of magically

usually pushes the -- pushes it up are little bit.

>> well, judy, thank you for being here. It's been so nice to be in conversation with you.

>> thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, guys. Have a good conference. [ ]

[Applause]

>> I think somebody should -- I think there should be some sort

of a play list for the summit, don't you think?

That is some pretty good stuff up here. well, it's about to get better. It's about to get better. This is an artist, and before

you be down to the red wine reception, there's going to be red wine, judy.

There's no need about that defamatory talk. But first, I've been looking

forward to this moment all day long. Ledeci is an artist that's been totally killing it, totally killing it. And what you need to know is

you're seeing here before she really, really blows up.

But she is going to be in the

pantheon of prince and stevie wonder and gladys knight.

And I've learned that you can clean

-- I've been listening to her, and I've learned that you can

clean the house to her, you can

read to her, you can have sex to her, you can drink to her.

She is the full service performer. So I want you to give it up for her. You're going to have a wonderful time, and she's going to be in rotation on your favorite play list. Please welcome ledeci. [

]

["come together"]

>> is it too early?

It's never too early. Here's a song my dad used to sing to me. [

]

>> when I decided to really get

out there, I'm originally from new orleans, louisiana, but I

was raised in oakland,

california, east bay. [Applause]

>> 96 and holly, to be exact.

And everywhere I went, I was met with resistance to

appreciate me and my -- my presence. Said I wasn't pretty enough or

good enough to make it in this

industry, and here I am, ten albums later, 12 grammy nominations.

I'm an author, an actress, all

these wonderful things, but it

took a woman, one woman, when I

was ready to give up, I wrote this next song when I was ready to give up. My mother.

It took my mother saying -- I

said mama, I think I'm ready to

get out of this business, be a teacher.

And she said you can do this.

And this song is still a song that resonates with me. It was three things that I

learned by sleeping on the floor.

One, I said lord, if you get me through this, what do you want me to express?

He said the first thing, you must leap out in faith and trust and know that I will

provide for you if you have faith.

The second thing was you must

love yourself by any means necessary. And the best thing about being

a woman is we have a walk. Even when we feel a certain

kind of way, we've got a walk.

That's the glory about getting a little walk.

You can put a little heel on to get you up a little bit. You might even be feeling like

this, but that heel will get

you right on up a little bit.

and you can hold on to that

walk no matter how you feel. You can take a breath and walk right into a door, you don't know what's going to happen, but you know you belong. So that's the lift that one woman told me. You must love yourself by any means necessary. And the last thing was be careful of who and what you allow in your personal circle. Some people, you can love them from afar. Far, far away. Might even be your family, far, far away. Because you have to hold on to your strength, that super power that we have. You know how magnificent we are?

We do so many things at one

time, it's unbelievable. But the one thing we must never forget is to take care of ourselves first. Don't put you last, put you

first, so that you can go back

in there and conquer the world.

That's me moving my cape back so I can see everything.

So here's a song called "all

right." yes?

All right. [ ]

["all right"] [Applause] >> give it up for this band

I've never played with from the bay area.

Aren't they awesome? [Applause]

>> I mean, I've played with you 100,000. Here's a song I wrote for ladies.

it's called "pieces of me."

[

]

["pieces of me"]

>> thank you for having me. [Applause] >> thank you so much. God bless you all, ladies. I love you. [Applause]

>> it starts with us. We have to be together, no matter what.

Thank you so much.

God bless you, take care. [Applause]

>> all right.

Give it up for ledeci.

Give it up for ledeci one last time.

She can hear you back stage. [Applause] >> there you go. The mayor told me that she

would pack into a crowded cafe and listen to ledeci years ago, so here she is back on the mayor's stage. So I got a promise from the mayor back stage that she wants

to see you back here volunteers.

>> my name is mark a proud grand

date I didn't all over san francisco residents are adopt

rains to keep our sewer system

healthy I'm adopted a grain

draining I thought of a simple

illusion to a big problem it will help out the neighborhood and be responsible for the places we live I want or

apparent to the web site and [ ] Homelessness in san francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesn't just affect neighbors without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members all coming

together. [

] >> the product homeless connect community day of service began

about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them.

What we do is we host and

expo-style event, and we were the very force organization to

do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the

globe host their own. There's over 120 service

providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from

hygiene kits provided by the

basics, 5% -- to prescription glasses and reading glasses,

hearing tests, pet sitting,

showers, medical services, flu

shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so

unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> I am with the hearing and speech center of northern

california, and we provide a

variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the speech center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing

aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use

it for any other services that they need. >> san francisco has phenomenal social services to support

people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same

space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to

sign up for medi-cal, what you need identification, you don't

have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a D.M.V., you go across the hall to the D.M.V. To get your I.D.

Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming

to cs for follow-up service. >> for a participant to qualify for services, all they need to

do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not

yet experiencing it, that today's event can ensure they stay house.

Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for

medi-cal or learning about D.M.V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today.

>> I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment

participate each day. On a typical day of service, we

have anywhere between 40500

volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags,

maps, and all the information

they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services

that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. They come here, and these are

the people that help you get into navigation centers, help

you get into short-term shelter,

and talk about housing-1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our

services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service.

We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe , we have

folks who help with the check in, getting people when they

arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need

to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together

hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, I think of them as

the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they

are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the

event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You don't have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in March, we don't yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us

on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very

easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how

they can help, and defence like

this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [

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>> good morning, everyone, thank

you for coming to city hall. Being here today.

My name is naomi kelly, the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco.

And I want to welcome you all to the tall building safety strategy summit.

I'm very pleased with the

turnout this morning, so I really can't thank you enough for spending your morning with us today, this is very important what we are doing and talking

about the resilience of our buildings in the downtown san francisco neighborhood. As you know, there are much --

our skyline has changed and we see many more tall buildings

there, and many of the tall

buildings are not just office buildings but residential

buildings and talking about the resilience of the city. Happy to be with you all here today. A great opportunity for city

officials, staff, experts, stakeholders, to engage in recommendations set forth by the tall building safety strategy

which was originally released last October.

I want to thank tom, the director of building inspections. Tom is right here.

[Applause]

>> mary ellen carroll, director of the department of emergency management is right here.

[Applause]

I'm not sure, I don't see her in

the crowd but May be, kathy

howe, the assistant general manager of infrastructure for the san francisco public utilities commission. But the four of us really

started working on the

resilience of our tall buildings well, a few years ago.

A couple years ago, and have

spent a lot of time with the

applied technology council,

office of resilience and capital

planning, brian strong, and to

really make sure that we think

about these buildings in a different way than we have in the past.

You all have a copy of the tall building safety strategy.

It's the first of its kind in the nation.

And it brings us together today.

During the summit you will hear

from many people who care deeply about making sure our tall buildings and infrastructure is strong.

But we also want to focus on an open public discourse.

We want to focus on engaging you

on how we should prioritize the 16 recommendations that were in this strategy. And we need to think about the next big earthquake.

I say this all the time in almost every public speech but I

can't say it enough to remind us why we are here today that the

U.S. Geological survey estimates

san francisco will have a 72% of an earthquake of a 6.7 magnitude in the next 30 years. So, we need to think about this

on a regular basis and keep this in the forefront of our minds. Thankfully we have a community

of renouned experts to make sure the highly complex structures

are well equipped and resilience for the safety of our residents, workers and visitors. again, thank you all for joining us here today and now I would

like to invite a member of the

applied technology council, greg

deerline, professor at stanford,

and who has been our guiding

expert on structural engineering

to help us understand these tall buildings in san francisco.

Greg.

>> okay.

Thank you, naomi, for the nice introduction. Yes, so it's really a pleasure to be here today and report on

behalf of the team and the applied technology council that

put together the tall building strategy in a more detailed report available online and your folder. Many of the members on the team are with us here today and will

be participating in the later panel discussions. Thinking about the plan itself,

and really has history back in the work that san francisco did, the community action plan for

seismic safety initiated some

years ago of pioneering effort,

to bring together professional, emergency managers, working with the city and the communities in

the city to think about the

vulnerability and infrastructure and so on. So this tall building project

follows on that, recognizing

that some of the action plan is

looking at the existing, and

whether retrofits are required

and recognizing that tall buildings and other special structures are unique, ways that

you would inspect or think about a 3, 4-story wood frame structure is different than a modern or older high rise building.

one of the genesis and motivation for the project. One of the first things to get a

handle on the tall buildings in the city. San francisco is proactive with S.F. Data, inventory of buildings, we added on to that, looking specifically at tall buildings and focussing above those 240 foot tall.

Nothing magic about the 240 number, it's a trigger in the building code for certain requirements, but any building of that size or close to it could be important to look at.

So, this was partly, this

inventory online, you know,

categorizes some of the details, occupancy and so forth of the tall buildings. And so some of the things that

we looked at there, for example, occupancies in the tall buildings, recognizing that

about half the tall buildings,

office occupancy, the other half

are either residential or mixed

use occupancy, and the balance

is changing over time.

Basically the tall buildings are primarily steel construction

built in the 1960s through the

1980s, on the other hand, proliferation and residential

construction is more reinforced concrete, often sheer wall system, so thinks about the occupancy of the building.

Also think about the structural systems, important for earthquake engineers to advise on the expected performance of

some of the older buildings, so understanding the buildings reinforced concrete or structural steel or the frame or

the brace systems, and this required work of going into the

san francisco D.B.I. Looking at

old drawings to pull out the information and bring it forth

in the database.

Now that we have the database,

the landscape of the buildings and when they were built. This graphic is showing the

1960s up through the present,

when different types of

buildings were the constructed.

Steel frames, and red are various types of buildings.

And think about some events that have happened. 1971 san fernando earthquake,

one that was a big, raised awareness of the hazard for

concrete construction, nonductile concrete construction.

Building codes changed subsequently, and buildings built before that were a concern. And many concrete buildings on the landscape, about 3,000 in san francisco, built before that, genuine hazard, only a few

of them are in the tall building

inventory, but that does not

minimize at all the hazard that

the nonductile concrete has to

people in city that in habit them.

Another, the 1994 northridge earthquake. Vulnerability in the welded

column connections due to a host

of issues on detail, and toughness and so forth, raising performance of the steel buildings built before that time.

And then the third thing that

evolved is in the 2000s, modern performance-based engineering

methods came on board, using advanced methods of analysis that allows earthquakes,

structural and geo technical engineers to predict the performance of high buildings, and higher levels of performance. Inventory is sort of a backdrop to looking at some of the

issues, so out of that inventory, three cohorts of

buildings that rise up.

One as I mentioned, nonductile concrete buildings, 12 out of

the 156 in the tall building inventory, but again keep in

mind many, many nonductile

concrete below 240 that are hazardous. Steel moment frame buildings, 86

on the landscape before the northridge earthquake, 65 at the

moment resisting frames, raising some questions about what their performance might be in future earthquakes.

And finally, the last cohort is

looking at the proliferation of tall residential buildings.

About 24 largely reinforced concrete. And we raise these just to sort of think about what issues that

can occur in each of the buildings, depending on occupancy, when they were built,

type of construction and so forth.

And in thinking about why do we focus on tall buildings, obviously these are important structures, large occupancy, but

it's not just the effect on the people in the building, whether

the safety of them first and foremost, but if there is damage

and people are displaced from an office building versus a residential structure.

But also how damage can affect

its neighbors, in terms of

debris after an earthquake, how

it can effect emergency evacuation routes and impede

buildings around it.

If there is a cordon, whether it would restrict access not just to the tall building but buildings in the facility.

So we delved into as part of the study. So, out of the study, 16 recommendations. Won't review these all, but kind of four major categories.

First is looking at what could

be done for new buildings, and

one of the recommendations and

several of these form the basis of discussion were brought in

the mayor's directive, what are some of the important ones to tackle.

One of the first ones is looking at the performance and design

requirements for tall building foundations, one I think not a topic of the panel discussions

but already D.B.I. Is working to develop the recommendations that

were recommended in this report. One that we will talk about

today I think it's a topic somewhat of the first discussion

is to think, tall buildings be designed to higher performance

levels than other buildings. Especially thinking about when the residential occupancy and so forth. So, some recommendation on that,

I have a couple of slides to

show on that, to kind of queue up that discussion. Oops, back for a second.

A host of issues on existing building, what could be done

before earthquakes to existing buildings, retrofit, and insurance and that forth. Third category, think about what could we anticipate happening after an earthquake, and in

terms of evaluation of buildings and in particular, inspection of tall buildings. A lot of the rules and requirements we had for inspecting buildings are

sidewalk surveys, walking by a 2

or 3-story building you get a perspective on the performance, but can't do it in the tall building.

Third session, focus on some of these, thinking what can we do

to facilitate inspection of tall buildings after an earthquake,

san francisco has the building occupancy resumption program,

can that be updated and perhaps

made a requirement for tall

buildings to facilitate quick recovery. And also safety assessment

combined with the different agencies could come into the

city to inspect buildings. That will be a topic of discussion this afternoon or later this morning.

And finally, the last group is

looking more broadly at seismic

risk, and one of those a topic of discussion today is a recommendation to develop a recovery plan for down san

francisco that has a lot of tall

buildings but intermixed with other buildings and also infrastructure that supports those systems.

So to think about anticipating

after an earthquake what's associated with recovery and

take measures ahead of time to hasten, to expedite things after an earthquake occurs, to bring things back to normal.

I would like to briefly talk

about one recommendation, enhancing the performance of new tall buildings.

We ask the questions what is the expected seismic performance of new tall buildings. Building codes keep the buildings safe but might be damage that requires repair and it could displace people out of the buildings, and can and

should the performance be improved.

So, a question being raised.

Partly to inform that, we did a

study to look at two buildings,

40-story concrete sheer wall residential building and 40-story modern brace building,

buckling restrained braces. What we found, these buildings designed per code, subjected them to a design level earthquake, one that might have a ground shaking probability of

exceeding 10% in 50 years, the basis of the spur program,

looking at that level of ground shaking, and the building

performance in terms of the

damage was in line with

expectations, recovery time, 5

to 6 months and the steel office

building, a little less, 3 to 4 months. But if you think about the resilience of the city apart from the cost of things, it's the time to recovery that's critical.

So, really, discussing these issues that if those are

recovery times and talking to

engineering professional, they generally agree it's reasonable for what is to expect. Some disagreement, will the buildings be able to be

occupied, a bigger question, and

that's a question that changes over time depending on societal

values and stuff on, you know, the safety and the performance of buildings, particularly on

tall ones, a whole host of fire and egress issues that are different than low rise buildings. So, part of the study, on the

slide on the left, looking at, for those buildings that 5 to 6 months down time, if you will, you know, what part is associated with actually doing the repairs, and here you see on the order of a month or so.

But what stretches it out to the 4, 5 months or so-called impeding factors.

So, the time to, you know, do

inspections of the building, and if there is repair while getting engineers on board to design the repairs, getting permits for the repairs, contractors, financing and so forth. And one of the recommendations is to look at ways to even if the buildings, we don't go for higher performance of the

building per se, what can we do

to facilitate through programs,

reducing the impeding factor, and the ultimate goal, might not be able to read all the numbers

but in the report, being able to

reduce those functional recovery times, not changing anything in

the building but impeding factors, beyond that is the

question of enforcing higher performance standards beyond the

basic california building code

forgiven that san francisco has

a lot of tall buildings in close proximity that serve important functions both for office and for residential. So a quick kind of run through that, appreciate your attention,

I think we will move on now to probably the first panel discussion. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> ok.

Our next panel is a discussion

on strengthening building performance.

I will be your, the facilitator for this paneling.

With us, my first guest is john

hooper, who is with the applied technology council, who has been another gentleman who has been

right with us from the very beginning, thinking about

everything on tall buildings.

We have angus Mccarthy, the President Of the building inspection commission.

We have mary ellen carroll, the director of the department of

emergency management, and joel

coppel, with the planning commission. Ok.

So, I'm going to ask a very important question and we are just going to go straight down the line, and let's just get straight to it. What do you think is the most

important task we can do to

strengthen building performance? >> now I'm on. Two areas we could do.

I can't do just one. The first one is we could

improve the repair time numbers

that he showed on the screen earlier, changing how we design tall building, affect that by reducing drips and things like that, one piece.

But I think the larger effort could be on those impeding

factors to reduce that time, where the majority of the down time comes from. Improving the program and things

of that nature will facilitate quicker recovery times and

getting back in the building.

>> so for me, I think because we at D.M. Are responsible for the safety assessment program and

the coordination and resourcing

for that, my recommendation

would be to expand borp as much

as we can, we'll learn more

about that, in the panel later on.

To be able to accelerate reentry

and assessment of your

buildings, I am a huge advocate for it.

>> on behalf of the planning

department staff, director, and

President Melgar, thank everyone for showing up today and let you know that we are extremely concerned with public safety,

the safety of our buildings, all

over the city especially

downtown, and our commission is

deeply committed to maintaining the integrity of our built environment.

>> obviously I echo the

statements made here, I just want to point out we have

commissioner clinch here for serious academic questions you May have, he sits on our engineer and commissioner walker who sits at the tenants. So, thank you for coming here this morning and seeing everybody here this morning.

I sit on the builder seat, so we

have a very lot of round table discussions, particularly in the building community.

With escalating costs and as you

know, builders, developers, we

complain a lot how are we going

to build these things and so on.

But one thing as somebody who

was in the 1989 earthquake, remembers it very clearly, the aftermath and the damage that

was done, so, educating the new development community on how

important it is to come up with really strong policies and how

we build our tall buildings is probably the most important thing we can do over the next

couple of years. >> excellent.

And so we saw a presentation by

professor deerline. Is there anything that really

stands out that we should focus on immediately and then maybe in

the long-term, and I'll just let

anyone jump out. >> the building stock of tall buildings and the new building design, separate buckets for me. How do we look at the ones that professor deerline mentioned

about the cohorts of buildings from the early 1970s to the

1980s to what we do today, and I

can they should be looked at and recommendations are included for

both, and it's hard to decipher, because we can improve the new

buildings incrementally, a small percentage of what we see in the community, but the existing buildings are out there, and vulnerable buildings were mentioned that should have a look see and see if we can't

improve their performance as well. >> and so today's, and having everyone here today is very important.

Existing buildings, a lot we

don't know about, and so maybe angus with building inspection

and planning, joel, think about what would we have to do to try and, from a city standpoint with new buildings it's easy, we can

just set new regulations and

build them according to those building codes. but walk through some of the

process of what we have to go

through with existing buildings.

>> well, I think a lot has

happened, the department, D.P.I.

Is very committed to safety,

that's our primary concern, and

1982 and 1983, back to 2008 was introduced, I think that kind of sent out a strong message, we

have been on this quite a while.

Lately, s80 and for those geo

tech, geo tech people in the audience is a big ask of the development community, but we

are asking for two forms of geo

tech analysis on buildings and so on. So, we are moving as fast as we can. It's kind of on a monthly basis, we seem to come up with new policy and procedures that would

be good, obviously it takes time

to implement them, but the department of building inspection is doing everything

it can to keep on top of changes and involvement on a regular basis, particularly when it comes to tall buildings. >> as far as planning is concerned, we have a pipeline of upcoming tall buildings. Recently approving tall buildings and whether it's a

commercial or residential or

hotel use we take that into consideration just because there might be different safety requirements, not just as the structure of the building need

to be built directly, but also the, the systems within the

building need to notify people

if there is an accident and

coming from -- we always work hand-in-hand with the fire department for our life safety

inspections with extra signage, egress routes and emergency lighting to make sure the buildings are safe to be in habited and safe to stand.

>> and mary ellen, in thinking about this from your head of the department of emergency management, kind of think about, we, if we have this earthquake, what happens with our down time,

down time if the building does

not get back up online in a time period, and how does that affect our recovery? >> I think one of my favorite recommendations in the report,

even though one of the most daunting, is the downtown

recovery report, or study.

That we need to do. And what I think about is our downtown has grown and

diversified so much recently,

it's not just financial and commercial.

We have residential, we have

more hotels, and so it's so critical that we look at all of these issues about the performance and then what we are going to do both kind of in the

immediate aftermath and then how

we recover. Some buildings May perform well,

but are not going to be accessible because buildings

around them have not performed well.

And so I think that the -- the other thing is that we have the time frame for potentially getting buildings back online,

but I think we need to look a

little bit deeper into the, whether those are real or not

depending on debris removal that

we have to do, lifelines restoration, there's a lot of

sort of competing and interdependent factors that go into our recovery. So, this is incredibly important

and I'm not the engineer or the

technical person, but we all need to work together to make

sure that our assessments and

our planning are interdependent,

that we are looking at the enter dependensies, and we are doing just that. >> thank you.

And while I'm asking questions

up here, I would ask you to start writing questions to pass

forward so you can ask the panel as soon as we finish here with

our conversation.

And there's a gentleman in the

back, bill barnes, and they will

pass out cards if you are interested in asking questions of this panel. Other areas that we have been talking about, we have been

talking a lot about, especially in downtown san francisco, is

the geo technical. We have a lot of structural engineers and I think we have that down. We realized in the last couple

years the geo tech, the

foundation, we live in a city

that has different types of

soils, just within a few block radius.

I know angus you talked about

the administrative and the

sheets, but maybe talk more

about what it means and how we think it through going forward

and the different processes as a city. >> that was one of the recommendations that professor deerline showed.

The process for improving how we

do foundation and geo technical

engineering is underway.

Taken that under their wing, and

the first draft is available and

scrutinized by the full geo technical community, to help

raise the bar, if you will, of

how geo technical engineering is

done, to make sure we are well

founded in the geo technical

area here, it can vary greatly on the same city block. And hopefully that will be done

and the future of foundation and

geo technical engineering will

be improved by that effort. >> any other thoughts about that?

>> just to conclude, the department is doing very, very

good work in that area, and I

see my son there, interned here, and ever a job to go after in

college is geo technical if you move to san francisco.

The biggest challenge I see, we

don't have a bigger pool of geo technical.

It's a real challenge, as somebody who built the first building in south america in the

late 1980s, I learned about the

geo technical and the soft, to create a foundation that's going to work in very difficult. And here we are with the tall buildings again and asking the same from the community.

I think they are very, very huge

part of us getting this whole

thing right, and we need more geo technical engineers, no question about it. The development world, we have a very small pool to go to, and that's something I think is another part of this equation I would love to see more increase in those professional, thank you. >> I wanted to just take a second to thank mayor breed and

the leadership she's been providing.

We have been recently hearing

presentations, there are climate change issues to make the buildings more energy efficient downtown, but at least having

the discussions on a public level to help us gain knowledge

and know more for the future. >> excellent.

So, some of the questions I've

gotten from the audience and we can talk about is where is the

U.S. Geological survey in this

conversation, and what is being

done about the continued

areas -- mission bay, embarcadero.

U.S. Geological survey, I know

the office of resilience and capital planning has regular conversations with them, and part of our conversation, not

just here on tall buildings, but in the earthquake safety implementation program, and we

are very much involved in our retrofit conversations and

our -- we are working with them

on a regular basis.

As for like our continued areas

of liquifaction, downtown is now growing and people now consider

mission bay downtown, and so I just, even watching the warriors games, the last game in oakland and moving to downtown san

francisco, I'm like that's not downtown, that's mission bay. But they now said over and over the last couple of weeks. So, we have had conversations, I know mary ellen was the first one to bring this up. I don't know if you want to have thoughts how we take this work.

Do we focus right now, scale it

around, scale it to other neighborhoods, what are your

thoughts around this?

>> liquifaction or in general. >> both.

>> we have done a lot of great

work in planning around our response. The immediate response.

But really looking at a recovery

discussion and I'm so happy to

say that we are just on the

precipice of kicking that off. Also because that discussion

goes well beyond the city. We have, and that's why you are all here.

We are only 30,000 strong, and

we have really got to get

everybody involved in this conversation.

We want to understand what you need to know from us, what your assumptions and expectations are.

It will -- it will fire us and

force us to really dig into, more into some of these discussions. For me, I think the issue of lifelines, and looking at lori johnson and other people here

who have done a lot of work on this, really our ability to get

in, back into the city and to

work is so critical, and so moving through the steps of

response and recovery, putting these in some sort of order, because as I mentioned before, you can't do building

assessments if you can't get

through the streets necessarily, although drones are an option. There are some options.

But you can't house hundreds of engineers, geo technical, civil or structural if you don't have

a place for them to stay and power and water.

So, so I think this discussion, it's global and we have to look

at each section of our city, both as a whole, but separately also. So, those are the things that I'm thinking about, and really looking forward to that I think

we are going to make a lot of

progress in this recovery plan on.

>> recently this question came

in and we talked about it, there was a recent "new york times"

article about the use of base isolator, which san francisco

city hall is on base isolators.

And japan uses them a lot more, and the "new york times"

articles that california is not using them as much and should san francisco be looking into that approach, too. I like to think, since san francisco city hall is on base

eye isolators we are thinking

about it here in the city of st. Francis.

Any thoughts from the panel?

>> a nice job painting what the issues are, and most engineers

on a project will offer that as

an option to the owners. It's not all always taken mainly because of the challenge and the

cost associated with them, and

so that's the impediment here on the west coast that's different

than we see in japan, uses it a lot more. Tall building inventory, isolators are not as effective because of the nature of how those buildings perform naturally. It's a better fit for buildings like this that are, you know,

robust and strong and stiff, and so that's a better play for that.

But certainly we could do more, especially for those buildings that want to be essential

facility basis, like hospitals

and emergency operations centers, etc., where they are

best implemented and get the performance we really need out of those structures. >> I have some good questions here about even if the tall buildings survive, and goes to

the interdependency issues, and pointing to lori johnson who did

the study, what about the streets. What about the infrastructure around the streets.

What about even if my office is

open, will I have daycare, what

is all the recovery issues, and

so we have a lot of thoughts about that. Mary ellen, you want to jump in, angus, all of you, I think a

good one to think about how we

are all interdependent upon each

other, our streets, our roads, the economic recovery, I can't get to work if the train system is down, I can't get to work if

I have no place to send my kids and family.

So --

>> from the beginning, one of the things I think about especially downtown, getting people out of dodge, right? So if it happens during the week and we have hundreds and thousands of visitors and people

that work here who need to get

across the day or on a plane and to their family, their homes,

that's sort of the initial, and

that's a huge lift right there.

Again, the conversation has to

be multidisciplinary.

This tall building study I think

is so unique and innovative, it's really diving into the

complex technical issues that is pushing these other questions.

and again, we have a number of

different initiatives, we have

our emergency response initiative that responses and plans that the department of

public -- D.M. Is responsible for.

Like a 400-page debris removal plan but then we have life lines and now this, and the connection

that I feel that has been

missing has been to the broader community, to our residents, to

our businesses, to really bring

you all into this discussion.

We are all going to be affected.

We want to keep, we want you to stay in san francisco or if you have to leave, we want to bring

you back as quickly as possible and the late mayor ed lee rings

in my head all the time.

A year and a half -- shortly before he passed away we were in

a meeting and said this is my legacy, and it is, it's all of ours to come together and we are finally there.

At such a good time.

So, the beginning of discussions and the real work that's going to bring us together to find the solutions we need. >> and thank you for mentioning the late mayor ed lee.

This is all, this culmination of the work product he started when he was mayor and he truly cared

about life lines council, restoration timelines, recovery effort. The tall building strategy.

He asked that we do this, and so thank you for mentioning the

late mayor ed lee. Ok. Next topic.

What about buildings like 181

fremont that went above code.

Why can't we ask all buildings to go above code? What are the barriers and what are the costs?

I know that gets very technical quickly, but at a high level,

and I know there is a lot of

technical people in the audience

to answer that in detail, but this panel's thoughts.

>> there are requirements in the san francisco building code and

in the administrative bulletin

83 that caused those things to happen.

So, hats off to D.B.I. Again for that.

Any building over 240 foot height limit that you want to take a code exception to, something outside the building

code, mainly make it taller, then the code might allow,

requires us to do more sophisticated analysis or sophisticated design, and with that comes a peer review panel that helps oversee what we do to

make sure the engineer is doing it as best they can. That includes people like

professor deerline and other academics to help make sure we are getting it right.

It's a natural cause of doing

that process that makes, I would argue, safer than the code prescriptive design, that does not have the layer of goodness, if you will.

There is a cost to that, though, like you mentioned.

Cost is not exorbitant, I don't think, so the question, how many buildings? What buildings are important to

take on this additional level of

design and oversight and review? That's a discussion that should be had by the city and the

developers and the owners, etc., to see if that cost would be

worth it.

>> as a builder and developer,

my projects have never met that criteria.

And at the end of the process they are happy.

The two I did talk to, they can

now go to the world and say I have one of the finest buildings

this side of america, and I

think that's a huge thing for people in the world of selling

product and buildings and see it

now in the advertisements, and they go out of the way to talk about the structural issues and

how the building was built, and

some of them say -- it's interesting.

So I think the developing world

is embracing the extra work peer reviews and so on, and are using

that to tell the world that they are, you know, moving into one

of the most solid buildings

built that can be done in this day. So -- >> when it comes to codes, you have to remember that codes are the bare minimum. We are always going to encourage people to overbuild things. We can't make them, but being in

this city, this is the city to overbuild something for longevity, and you know, if we are not going to ding you if you

don't overbuild it but encourage you to.

>> I want to add one thing, not really on the agenda so I'm

going off a little bit.

But we are going to talk about

the council on friday, but dealing with climate change

issues. We are talking about seismic here, but actually, truly believe that climate is going to

be just, you can guarantee that that's coming, actually has already arrived, and so that's

another area that I think as a city we need to be looking forward to making sure that our

buildings are habitable for a different kind of climate than we are used to.

>> thank you for that, especially since we had a very hot, hot, hot week last week, and we are struggling looking for cooling centers and air-conditioning and places for folks who live in san francisco who don't have air-conditioning

and where to go. Here is a good question.

Why is borp not known among the architectural and engineering

firms and building owners?

What can we do to get borp in

the state safety assessment

program more publicity, get more folks certified as inspectors,

get our buildings -- this is all

part of recovery.

>> right now borp is a voluntary program and people opt in, and

the owners are deciding we want

to recover faster, have their

engineer be accessible after a

major event to get the building back online. One of the initiatives is require that for buildings of a

certain height or criteria, and that would publicize it. Engineers know about it, the architects less so, and a

handful of owner types do but it's out there, and certainly

they know about it, and we need

to get the word out and maybe make it required for certain

buildings and set the criteria

what the buildings are.

>> I second everything said there. For me, learning about borp, only the last year and a half

that I got educated. I did not know et existed.

And my reaction, if I own one of

these buildings, these tall buildings, why would I not have this?

And so I'm -- I'm total I >> test test test test test test test test test test testn test test

test test test. Brainer.

I know might be added cost, but the overall result that you get from it after a crisis I think is just, you can't put a number on that.

I'm totally in favor of that.

>> S.A.P., safety assessment panel today, and it will make

you want to look into borp, I think. >> ok. Thank you. All right.

You know, a lot more on like

lifelines and the most important

life lines. Getting a lot of questions like

what are we doing to harden and strengthen our infrastructure around buildings, a lot of that is public.

We have a ten-year capitol plan

we are looking at like our water, wastewater, streets.

But also I think we learned a

lot about this, looking at

christchurch, new zealand, the

shattering of glass after an earthquake and how are we thinking of that, too. >> I'll talk about it on the tall building side.

All the tall buildings that have

been designed since about the

mid 2000s, the gladding design

is enhanced for the code for a standard building. We thought about that, and so

the cladding, including the grass

glass, we hope is more

resilient, so put that into the tall bls, so we are doing better because of that.

And did not need the lessons from christchurch, that was thought about almost 15 years

ago, so we are doing better because of the rules in place

since about mid 2000s.

>> again, really happy we are having this discussion today.

I think boma is doing a good job leading the way, setting themselves up to succeed if and when something like this does happen, I see a lot of building owners and managers here today

and a lot of the buildings are existing and older historic

buildings, and I just want to,

you know, make sure that they

have time to implement these processes, whether it be windows

or whatnot, the owners will need

time to fix their buildings and

make them more healthy for the future. >> all right. So, there was a lot more

questions that came in, I could

not read the handwriting or very

technical, a lot on a lot of

D.B.I. Codes and whatnot, I want

to point out the D.B.I. Team

here today, if you have more

questions, they are all sitting down, at this table right here. [Laughter]

Please come over and ask us questions, but I have a very important one, the reason why we are here today, and would like everyone to talk about this.

What we don't want to do is, you

see a lot of recommendations and

16 recommendations that our best educated, highly educated learn ed thoughts, with you don't want to do it without the input from

the stakeholders, and so one of the questions I thought would be

great we end on, how would you help to inform the planning department, department of

building inspections, board of supervisors, to implement policies based on facts and data. There's a fear of some new policies that only serve

short-term political agenda,

that's not what we want to do today and that's why we are here

to have these conversations.

So, from, you got the building inspection, the planning department, emergency management and applied technology council,

and academic experts.

So, please, would you respond?

>> again, I want to thank our department. We have a robust department that's constantly working, doing

a lot of the legwork for us, addressing these very issues. We see just the tip of the iceberg on thursdays when we

hear these items as a commission, but I'm very confident that staff is working with all different departments

throughout the city and the

mayor's office to ensure that we

are looking at improving the

healthiest buildings we can.

>> that's all with a very loaded question.

As a builder/developer again, I keep wearing that hat, we are all trying to do the right thing and to the departments, particularly in D.B.I., we get a lot of great ideas but honestly,

a lot of bad ideas, too.

And we entertain the bad with

the good, and we try and do our best to process.

The only time the consequences are something we talk about in the commission, particularly when we have so much from planning and what they are

asking and how it works with our code here.

And we are always asking ourself, so the best answer I can give, everything is really hashed over.

So, if policy, or, is changed

and if the code changes, we like to believe it's for the better, and we have vetted it as best we can.

We also always put language in there, if something is not working, we can go back and revisit it and clean it up, and

we do a lot of that as well.

So, we do our best, we perfect

know, we love input and the biggest problem we have

sometimes with some of these policies and procedures, we

don't get enough even though the

staff do an amazing job, it's hard to get people's attention on everything, and the consequences of some of the decisions we made. But we can always reverse if we have to. Thank you.

>> I would just say that I agree that any decisions we should

have should be data driven.

We still have a lot more of

discovery to do around what data

inputs we need, and again, these kind of forums, this type of report is just the beginning for

us to start digging in deeper and I think again, many of the initiatives that we are already,

we have already begun, our life

lines council, this process, and

then through the emergency management and expanding that is

the direction we need to go in.

>> being part of the applied technology team, working with

these departments, interactive

and involved the whole team was. So I see good things ahead because of the interaction and the buy-in for the report and the recommendations to date, I

cannot see it going forward in

the right way down the road.

>> I just want to thank the panel members for taking the time out to be here today. Thank you.

[Applause]

So, this panel changes out, we have another panel session, and then we'll take a break.

So, keeping you riveted on this stuff. We want to talk about the downtown recovery plan and framework, mary ellen carroll

will be back up again to give an introduction.

She's going to get her next note. But we do want to say we have brought >> we have brought experts to be

on this panel and ryan strong is

coming to the stage, bash graph,

shawn mclyn and laurie johnson.

>> all gh >> while our panel get satellitessed hear. I'm the director of the department of emergency management. Here if san francisco, one of

the reasons why we're here, our philosophy, really, is that we

want recovery and we believe

that recovery will be most successful when we as a city and

when I say we as a city, that's

were, are in the driver's seat.

And so, I really applaud all of

you for joining us here to help us go

in the right direction.

Last year, the mayor asked the

administrator and I to establish the

city --

>> so we are reconvening the

budget and finance committee and

I would like to recess again, so sorry, apologies to everyone spent their whole day here.

But we're crunching some numbers and we are very, very close.

So I would like to reconvene

until 5:30 and we'll see you back then. Thank you very much.

Unrecovery, and clear as mud, planning for the rebuilding of new orleans.

Dr. Johnson is a visiting

project scientist at the pacific

earthquake engineering research

center at U.C. Berkeley and

chairs the national community

for hazard reduction.

Sean mcglin, the city manager of

santa rosa, thank you from san francisco.

And county seat of sonoma county.

Around 175,000 resident and budget of 324 million, a general fund of 148 million.

In October 2017, a series of

wildfires caused devastation throughout the north bay.

The tubbs fire spread through

santa rosa and more than 2800 structures were burned, economic

loss of 1.2 billion.

And as city manager, sean has firsthand knowledge of the time

and resources it takes to

recover from such a catastrophic disaster.

lucky to have you here to learn from you.

My friend barb graph, the director of the seattle office

of emergency management, responsible for the city's all hazard community wide emergency management program.

Since 2005, the city, seattle

emergency ops center has a

response to 16 major exercises,

50 incidents, eight of resulted in a presidential declaration.

So they are beating us right now on that. On disasters.

Barb and her team also developed the seattle disaster recovery plan, which provides the framework for how the city

recovers and rebuilds from disasters, and so we are happy to have you here to learn about that process.

And finally my colleague, brian

strong is responsible for the ten-year capital plan, it's

capital budget and the

implementation resilient S.F. Plan, thank you, including the earthquake safety and emergency

response bond program, the

nation's first sea level guidelines, and the first

building by building has the seismic assessments.

So, brian is going to be here to facilitate and kick us off.

[Applause] >> thank you, everyone.

Thanks so much for being here.

We really appreciate it.

And I'm excited to be facilitating this panel, and again, I think if there are questions and so forth that pop up, you want to write things

down on cards, you are welcome to.

But I just wanted to sort of start things off with a little

bit of, let me see if this

works, ok, it does. All right.

A little bit of background here,

let me see, that looks like -- where are we with the

presentation here.

Framework -- there we go.

All right. So, I think there was some questions already in the first panel about recovery and what do

we do about all the different

aspects, interdependency, the communities and those folks,

this diagram here which was sort

of put together, I think May

have come out of fema but I

think lori has as well, shows

what recovery looks like. We have the different cycles around immediate response, then the midterm and the long-term response and mary ellen and I have had lots of discussions

about when does, how do you coordinate your response with your recovery.

Reality is this longish one, the

long low oval that comes over is the recovery process, and this

comes from our, not only our

experience, you know, with the

2006 earthquake and the 1989

earthquake, but a lot of the

other hazards around the world.

Recovery, if you want it to be

effective, needs to start immediately. The response effective, and

recovery immediately, and as you

begin to recover, you address

the response, you'll see the recovery activities pick up more and more but can be there for as

long as 5, 10, you know, still

seeing recovery activities in new orleans after katrina now

10, 15 years later. so, that's part of the

trajectory there, one thing to

keep in mind is that we know the early decisions you make in your response or in recovery have a

big impact on the decision later

on and I think sean can talk to some of those impacts for what

they faced in santa rosa. The other thing is the decisions you make in the community, and I

want to emphasize we have talked about building owners, also lots

of people that live in the

downtowns, as professor deerline mentioned.

These are residential places and next to residential communities

like chinatown here, or if we

talk about mission bay, or soma,

central soma, a lot of residents living, and what are the impacts on them and how you incorporate

community input and feedback into the process.

And then we also know what's

critical is the speedier you address the recovery, implement the changes, the faster you are able to get back to normalcy, that economics are able to recover and so forth.

And some of the examples, you know, in northern california,

always criticized a little bit,

took us after the loma krieta,

it took time to replace the freeway, it took us some time to

think about and make the decisions. Whereas in los angeles when they had the northridge earthquake and the freeway went down, they made that decision almost immediately. I think with in a couple days that they were going to replace

it as is, and that freeway was reconstructed extremely quickly.

Again, those are different approaches.

Worked well to have it constructed quickly. I think in san francisco it was really important for us to take

our time and make sure we got it right. Not to say one way is better

than the other way, but those

are the implications that you have.

Just wanted to, again, we do

have some folks from fema here as well.

I know forest landing is in the audience. Somewhere around here, so, oh,

there he is, right here in the middle with the knee brace. Easy to find. You May have to come to him.

And fema has been doing a lot of

work in this area, they put

together the national disaster recovery framework, it's a

guiding document for jurisdictions across the country. Describes roles and responsibilities and

coordination, and it's organized

around recovery support function. We have been looking at these

recovery support functions and barb from seattle will talk more

about these and about their plan, but that's really what we built upon.

We really look to seattle, a lot of discussion, couldn't we just

take seattle's plan, and

wherever it says seattle, cross it out and write san francisco. That was not appropriate, we are

mot going there, naomi, but

something that we were thinking about.

Seattle has a lot of rules and regulations, and we are a city

with a lot of commissions, we

have a lot of different for the, and planning commission here,

the idea of creating a framework where a decision making can

happen separate from the regular decision making is something that we would, it would take a

lot of time, potentially a charter amendment, that's something that we in san

francisco would need to think

about a lot, we want to get going on this. This is the outline for recovery task force, nothing is in place yet, but this is what we are talking about for san francisco

and the idea that the top -- you

have the community, you have the community members, the city

manager, city administrator in our case, head of emergency management are making a lot of the early decisions and then the recovery support functions, we have elected officials, and then we have a lot of the folks here today in the community organizations, business organizations, private sector,

and then the support functions are laid out in the bottom around these different areas

that need to be coordinated for

us to have an effective

response, and that includes community, coordination and

capacity, economic recovery, one

of the things we note is we are expecting probably 14,

$15 billion in damage just from

a 7.0 earthquake.

And would happen closer to san

francisco, economic impacts are significant.

Health and social services, and

housing, we are a housing

shortage now, how do we manage the losing of more housing. infrastructure, talked about it with lifelines. Cultural resources, we know the

cultural resources like the schools are so important to keep people in san francisco, for them to come back and some of the building and land use

decisions we need to make.

Mary ellen mentioned climate

change and do we want to

continue to build, subject to

sea level rise and so forth.

Finally the last part of this

that we are emphasizing out of of the report was take a look at san francisco downtown.

We know it's unique, we know it's different than other parts of the city. We know it plays a critical economic role, not only in the

city but in the region and the country, quite frankly, and how

can we, how can we do some more work to take this recovery framework and test it out in downtown. So we are going to leverage a lot of the existing work we have. We are looking at some of the recommendations out of this report.

We have our life lines analysis work, we have the ten-year capital plan, looking forward,

and how can we put some of that information, the economic

analysis we have together to formulate a recovery plan for downtown that we can actually

use, we think, as the basis for looking at recovery across the

entire city, and then I should

also mention, you know, probably

come up in the S.A.P. Borp conversation as well, how do we test these things to make sure we are ready when the event happens. So, having said that, I can get

to our panel to sort of fill in

a lot of the gaps that I covered.

And one person I wanted to start

with was barb graph from seattle and have her talk about their plan and the challenges they

face and how they overcame them. And barb, your plan is pretty thick. There's a lot of really good information in it. I know it must have taken some time to put together.

>> thanks, brian, appreciate it.

So, san francisco has a 72%

chance of a major earthquake in 30 years, right?

Ours is 86% chance in 50 years, so I think mary ellen and I

ought to start a betting pool and whoever wins, pays the

mitigation of the other city.

How does that work for you? We started our recovery planning

work about 4, 5 years ago, and

this was a double phase multi-year effort, and mary

ellen mentioned in her comments earlier in the first panel, and

we spend so much of our time and

energy and resource trying to

refine and improve our response we never get around to doing recovery planning so I complained a lot about that to the city council who believed me, it helped a lot that christchurch, new zealand happens to be a sister city of seattle and one of the best investments we ever made was to

send two of our city council members to christchurch and they

came back and said so, how is that for you?

And funding started to show up, and council was interested in

briefings and we made our way along.

It was also relatively the same

time period that the federal government was coming out with

its national recovery framework,

so we decided since a big share of assistance needs to flow

through the partnership that is the federal government, this big government, the county and city, we would like to mimic what it was that the federal government had put in place. I think they put some really good time and energy and planning into that.

But we did recognize a couple things that happened at the

local level that does not happen

at the federal lost so we amended just a little bit.

Brian talked about the recovery

function as being major categories of infrastructure and

housing, etc. Seattle added education to the recovery

support function three, because

unless you get the schools

reopened, it's a major domino to getting people back to work, and just a sense of normalcy again, as well as a place of safety for

the kids in your community.

We also added a recovery support function seven, there are six at the federal level, and that has to do with buildings and land use planning. Again, something that does not happen at the federal level dictated at the local level, very important to us, especially

because we wanted to take advantage of any opportunity

that we get to improve things.

When we put our recovery plan together, we imagined what if

this is a relatively simple, straightforward recovery process.

Which really mimicked what we

experienced in 2001 with another earthquake.

For the most part, we just

needed to repair, restore, re-everything. We did not do much reinvention, but recognized the fact because of the three different types of earthquakes that we faced,

including possibly the biggest

this country will ever see, with

the abduction zone, used the

recovery framework that takes advantage of the opportunity to just change mary things that

there will never be the emotion

or the resource to do until that time period.

So we kicked this off with about four different dozen types of agencies, neighborhood groups,

the urban league, boma, downtown chamber, etc., and looked back

to the past to inspire us about the future.

So, seattle like san francisco

had a big fire in the late

1800s, burned through the timber downtown, and built back one reinforced masonry, but nothing

is going to burn down there.

The other thing that the city founding fathers did at the time, which is really

interesting for the time, only about 45,000 people lived in seattle at the time, they built

back the water system to serve a million people.

It was an opportunity -- there's no way in the world any one would have funded that in that time period unless what they had

just gone through was painful enough to make the lesson deep.

We engaged in a series of different community conversations and once we put people in that mind frame, the

thing I gave them, if you had

the opportunity to move I-5, it's never going to happen unless after the biggest possible earthquake.

About but is the port of seattle

in the right place, or a half mile or a quarter mile way away.

So, how can we repair, restore, reopen quickly but also reinvent

if need be, and had a series of community conversations just like today, which I'm thrilled

to be a part of, where we asked people to debate and discuss with one another, also made sure

people did not pay attention to only those areas where they were the obvious subject matter expert, and wound up getting some of the best ideas from people who noodled around the

idea in what we called the

gallery walk, an exercise you

will be participating later today.

That's what we did with the recovery framework.

Great recovery framework has not been used yet, but we learn from every single disaster.

In the creation of this, we

learned from hurricanes irene and katrina from superstorm sandy, from the earthquakes in

new zealand, chile and japan, and we will continue to learn and refine because framework is

never actually done.

>> thanks, barb, I know we are excited for sean to be able to come here from santa rosa, because of the devastating fires that happened there, and one of the strongest memories I have

was getting up there, sean, and meeting you and learning, I think you sat down with us and

said well, apparently I'm the recovery manager. I have authority.

And I think you had to wait for the city attorney to weigh in on

that, like we do with a lots of

the decisions here, but tell us a little about that, and your experiences and share.

>> so, the number I'm going to

start with is 3,000, because it becomes the essential part of our question and recovery process.

You heard it was -- it's over 2800, it was 3,000 residencies destroyed. We already had as most people in

the bay area have, a housing crisis.

We had a vacancy rate of 2%.

So if you have 3,000 homeowners

or landlords displaced in one catastrophic event, and it was a

lunar landscape you encountered

out there in those neighborhoods, you've got a major problem. We tried to lean into that

conversation as quickly as we could, and that became our touch stone, how are we going to solve

this issue, and if you are

dealing with a lunar landscape you've got to clear the debris first and foremost. But we also started to ask

questions about how we were structured, that's the reference

brian is talking to.

I had the great opportunity to actually work with lori during

those initial months of the recovery process and we also

asked the question as it relates

to how do we fit into the

disaster recovery framework.

What we lost in that fire was

planned developments,

single-family homes for the most part. there was some other damages,

there was a manufactured home

park, but most of our losses

were single-family homes.

The question is, what kind of

visioning exercise are you going to go through.

Very quickly we understood the visioning exercise was about

getting people, in that part of the community, about getting

people back in their homes as quickly as we possibly could. Providing the pathway. We started to understand most of those folks were insured. Whether they are insured enough

is a slightly different conversation, and we partnered

with our friends at policy

holders united to try to help

those folks understand the gap in their insurance.

But our visioning exercise was pointing toward our downtown core.

And these are questions you are

constantly asking, how you fit

into the recovery framework, how

you adapt to it.

You want to do a visioning

exercise but you want to do the right one.

We had 3,000 single homeowners,

most, remember, only 1% have

developed a property from scratch. They have no experience.

They bought into a planned community.

And we had to start visioning to understand that.

So we restructured in a way to

meet our need, which is what brian said, we added work load,

or correctly, I added work load

to existing staff.

The county went out to hire

staff to do additional work.

I knew if I was competing against the county to hire staff and environment where there isn't housing, there is already diminished resources, that was not going to meet our needs immediately.

So, we took the consultant route. We went out and we actually

hired firms to help us in this process. And one of the early decisions council made was to help advance

and make a bet on those

single-family home recovery by

investing in a firm to stand up

in months after the fires, stand

up an office that was solely

dedicated, completely staffed by consultants, we managed the contract, helping those folks in recovery.

I will tell you those first two

months were tough because only thing that was happening is

people were coming in to get advice. They were not starting the permitting process, banking on

permits to fund this, but that was a really important part of

this conversation.

Creating space for these folks

to have a conversation and

actually understand what their options are, and how to move forward. At the same time, we are meeting with the developer community and

saying how do we clear the pathway for this, and we are going through at the time, the

largest single debris mission in

the history of the state of california. We knew we couldn't move until

we got the debris issue solved

and thanks from our colleagues

at fema and the incredible work

of the army corps, six months later almost 90% done with debris removal and really into the permitting process.

So, remember that 3,000 number,

right now two-thirds of those

properties are in the permitting process.

Over 400 are reconstructed.

We are able by focusings on

downtown to get a grant from the metropolitan transportation

commission to ask the visioning questions around downtown. We are probably not going to go

up, you know, 25 stories, but we

are looking at between 15 and 20 in the downtown area, they really change the footprint, that's how we will meet the long-term housing need.

But again, it's asking those

specific questions about your circumstance, your structure, your economic environment to try

to find the solutions that best fit your community.

Right now -- it's a challenge for all of us.

It's especially challenging for

mid size and smaller cities. Capacity issues exist, experience levels exist, and I'm

working with the institute of local government to try to

develop some guide posts or cheat sheets to help think about these issues. Love my friends at fema, but they are not subject matter experts in management. And that's often the biggest gap

that I find when we run into

these issues is they can help

you on recovery, but they are

going to turn around and ask you

the essential questions, what would we do if you weren't here and I think what they are

saying, what's your management approach to this problem and you have to think through those things, because as was said earlier, those decisions you make early on are going to impact recovery and they are

going to impact how you go about things.

So, we had a commitment to rebuild. Now we are facing issues where

we are going to have to update

ordinances to allow construction. Some neighbors are complaining the streetlights are not back in. But that was the choice. We will help you rebuild first and our infrastructure second.

We still have the community conversations and the first, the

first six months we had over 150 public meetings. We are now at a space where we are trying to build resiliency

with neighborhoods.

Partnered with your team down

here in the neighborhood and power network to begin the process. Every saturday we are having a meeting with a neighborhood, asset mapping around resilience, and then we are trying to get

them enrolled in our alert and warning systems.

The thing I'll leave you with

is, you know, we just completed

our after action report on

response two months ago.

And I will tell you, that's a choice, right?

You have choices about what you are going to address. We got a little lucky because

the county did theirs first, which gave us breathing space. By not having to tackle some of those things early on, it actually gave us something to

report about all the successes we achieved instead of just

having a laundry list of deficiencies, and, but that's not the usual course of action. Some people go right for the

after action, but that's why I'm trying to say those decisions and where your focus point is

going to be are the critical

parts on the recovery train and understanding your community, understanding the economic, and having the benefit of having some advice from people like

lori really helps, too. >> all right. Thank you, sean. [Applause]

>> really tremendous stories there.

Passing it on to lori, I think

lori and by the way, she won't plug her book but I will, it's

up here, and shooting to the top

of the "new york times" best seller after today. But lori and the book, she looks

at disasters all over the world,

we know we can learn a lot from

japan and some other countries,

one of the things I noticed the emphasis on process over thinking about recovery as a process as opposed to accomplishment. I guess that's something I would

want you to touch upon, too. You know, do we ever know when we -- is recovery ever done

after a big event?

Pass it to you. >> interesting.

Interesting place to start. At the end.

What eventually happens is kind of where new orleans is now,

where the landscape looks like

it did in terms of activity,

like it did before the disaster hit. So, always still going to have

the problem areas, the areas with blight or the areas that

need some regeneration or redevelopment attention, and that's kind of where you get to

with recovery in most cases, the easiest stuff gets done first

and the harder takes longer, and some becomes part of normal

planning processes again.

But in that immediate aftermath,

you know, what is -- I'll first share a few things that are

theory about disaster recovery. The first thing is a disaster

basically creates a simultaneous loss of capital stock and services.

And so what that does is it really changes urban development activities frshgs that moment in

time, everything is sort of compressed.

You have to make a bunch of

decisions, do a bunch of plans for different systems.

You'll interconnected, you need

lots of money, it's not coming at the right time, so we called it time compression, disasters from the standpoint of urban development and normal you are bant development and management, the place of disaster becomes different from the normal place in that special way.

And so really the challenge for disaster recovery management is

to figure out how to manage that time compression, and we feel

there are four levers for doing that.

The first is, obviously, money.

And when that money comes, how it comes, how it gets used and purpose is really important. The second is information. Because what really is happening

is just a tremendous amount of

uncertainty that all of that simultaneous decision making,

planning and acting requires, and so the more information that

you can provide is kind of like

another fuel for the process.

And the third is basically collaboration. Recovery is very different from

response in that you response

can be command and control,

traditional approach to taking action. People are willing to suspend

governance and allow for the

control, but for long-term recovery in a catastrophic event, you have stakeholders,

and all sorts of actors like

being a symphony duct tore, --

director, how to play the very

diverse orchestra, and the same way with the stakeholders.

So now put it in the context of downtown san francisco.

We are going to have a good amount of money because these

are fairly well insured buildings, at least the new ones, but also lots of places

where there isn't money, or the money is coming from the federal government or, in terms of reimbursement for utilities and

things like that, and it's going to take time.

The second is information, and that really is going to be

informed by the kinds of plans

and thinking we do now and the

A.C.T. Study has raised some

amazing points for the city to consider in putting together

some of the requirements or repair standards for different building building types, for building about issues, like

whether or not we would have to cordon off a part of the downtown.

I love greg's and the study, it

shows one tall building and has the huge area around it.

That's what happens in christchurch, new zealand, is really, and I think there's an important story there, so I'm going to digress a little bit to

tell the christchurch story and

come back to my comments about planning. The cordon went up in christchurch after the second major earthquake, and part of the reason the cordon went up is because some of the buildings

that were heavily damaged and injured people in the second

earthquake had been inspected through the safety assessment program after the first

earthquake and deemed to be ok

and occupyable.

So that was a traumatic risk management decision, that then played out with 185 lives lost

in the downtown area, so the cordon went up in large part

because of the uncertainty that

was created in that moment of not expecting to have such a large aftershock. Not expecting buildings that had

been inspected to be unsafe and have collapsed. And the fear these things would happen again and not knowing if

it would happen like in the next ten minutes or when.

So imagine, if we don't take

those steps, now, to begin to

think about resilience and retrofitting and the work that

we are doing in san francisco, imagine the uncertainty around

certain kinds of buildings that we are going to have after an event, and if we are surprised by that.

The fear that is going to be

induced to protect public safety.

So the cordon in the central

business district lasted over

two years, and it was

essentially the size of downtown oakland. So if you can imagine all of

downtown oakland from lake merit

to 980, and 880, to I don't

know, broadway, I guess 580 almost, that was the initial

size of the cordon. And it was eventually shrunk over time so the whole area,

people were allowed access, but

what that did was it created tremendous uncertainty for building owners. People had insurance and had money, they didn't really know

when the cordon was going to be lifted, they didn't know what the repair standards were going

to be for the recovery, and they, many people with insurance

companies began to have those conversations around should they wait, should they hold that money and wait, did the insurance companies want to hold the money and pay you once you

finally got your repair standards.

So a lot of buildings made

decisions to tear their

buildings down, they felt the standards would be costly, a lot

of uncertainty in terms of timing and they could do other things as developers for two years, and many of the buildings

were older and no longer attractive in terms of the market.

These were not class a buildings for rental anymore.

And so this was an opportunity

which these kinds of situations

create, barb's point, the damage will in part inform the

opportunity for transformation. So, without having thought all

that through, a lot of the decisions started to happen of

people tearing down buildings.

So, a lot of buildings were torn down and repairable as well, and we don't have good data on that,

and looking at jack and greg and others, but christchurch in

terms of study, could we have

done a better job understanding

what buildings that were torn down that could have been repaired. So do we want a large massive

urban redevelopment project or

want to actually replace largely like for like.

That goes back to barb's point,

or your point about the

freeways, in northridge, replaced like for like, and in san francisco we changed any kind of change in disaster

essentially as the exponential

amount of time if it's not well

thought through and planned, it

requires information to do that kind of decision making, and then you'll get challenged again and again like you did with the central freeway and flip back and forth in some cases on your decision. So, with that I want to kind of close with what I think is important about planning, which

is written by the first people who studied lots of disasters around the world and said when

disasters strike, there is already a plan for reconstruction in the mind of every affected resident.

Plan of the predisaster city. This is the first recovery plan and all previous plans or new

plans made following the disaster will undoubtedly

compete for many residents with

that first plan, over times intensely. So I commend the city for undertaking this effort, because it's really important to get this stuff right.

I also want to caution for everyone, though, the kind of

stuff that barb is talking about

and the national disaster recovery framework outlines, operational plan, set the rules

of engagement but won't be a physical plan, per se. It's not a plan that will decide right now what's going to get

torn down, what's going to stay.

But hopely will allow us to set

up the rules of engagement, how

will we actually make those

decisions, how will we transform

from the amazing recovery, I mean, response structure that

the city has, by the way, took one step after hurricane katrina and expanded the response plan

to be a response and restoration plan, so it's getting us a little further down the line in

terms of carrying us over, but the awkward transition happens between the response structure

and a recovery structure.

So that needs to be thought through, the framework will

allow us to do, and the tougher decisions. And in terms of downtown, besides the cordon, major issues it's not just about businesses,

it's about people living down there, and also about very old infrastructure and I think we have to look at the earthquake,

or a major event that has a lot

of ground failure conditions

potentially with it as being not

just an opportunity to transform infrastructure, but essentially a requirement. We are not going to put back that really old horrible stuff that we have that's undercapacity for the needs of today's financial districts.

So, that is a big part of what we have to be thinking about now. >> thank you. Yeah, no, thank you, lori, that's great.

[Applause]

>> a lot of food for thought there, for sure. And I think instead of touching

on what you ended with there, which is in many ways talking

about some of these equity

issues and addressing planning

and a question about that as

well, what are we doing in these

plans to include residents and

local nonprofits, community organizations, those types of

people, many who are not even in our downtown but are coming from various parts, it could be in

the bay area, we know it's a

regional issue, and also coming from other parts of san francisco that really depend on

downtown for their livelihood. For their jobs. I would like to get some comments on that, and especially, barb, I know we

looked at seattle's plan and the

number of community engagements,

partners in the plan, four pages worth of community organizations.

How do you bring community into the process, I think as far as

developing the plans, but also in the implementation

afterwards?

>> first I should say our

recovery framework and as lori

mentioned it's a framework, we can't detail until we know what

the damage is and what has survived.

So it's on the web page under plans, you can find it and

improve it by sending me your suggestions once you have read

the pages, as a matter of fact.

We teach over 250 personal preparedness programs to more than 10,000 people every single year, and before we started our

recovery planning, we asked the

public outreach staff to start asking the question everywhere they taught, whether talking to

big business or the smallest

neighborhood or the non-profit.

So, once the earthquake is over,

what do you imagine your

personal role is going to be in recovering? And people usually start with their own personal story, everything starts with stories. But then it became a matter of

so how do you get the food bank back open again. How much glass do you expect there to be in the streets on your way to your high rise

office, etc. So we started planting the seed early with

everyone we talked to. And then the invitation list who we wanted involved in the community conversations, every

single person that accepted the invitation, we want great, will

you, and we had dozens and dozens of them, give us three other names of people we May not

have thought to invite, helped us expand beyond the people we

already knew and we had a pretty good network.

The other thing about our

particular framework in terms of structure is that if you walk

outside city hall right now and

let your eyes scan the distance,

recovery is not all about

publicly owned buildings. It's, critical public buildings,

but 75%, 85% of your recovery as

we learned from santa rosa is

about restoring homes and

businesses and other types of infrastructure. So we have agreed for the recovery support functions,

those are going to be co-chaired

by a member of city government and someone chosen from the

community and appointed by the mayor.

Response is how do you use the resources you own and do the

most people for the most, etc.,

but about rebuilding and reenvisioning community so we need to keep people engaged. And the other thing, the power of story.

We invited the christchurch

mayor to our community, public open forum shortly after their second earthquake and let him

tell his stories, very engaging person. Majored in theater. I think he majored theater

because he went into politics. He did a fabulous job of telling the story of what it was like to

make tough policy decisions, get people involved, prioritize

need, etc. And two years ago we

brought back the current mayor of christchurch to say now these many years later, what else are you thinking of and what are you dealing with. People tell their stories, people get it.

When they read a document, they might understand.

they scratch the surface. Personal story makes all the

difference. >> yeah, great.

And sean May talk about the community input after the event

as well. And I know you --

>> ongoing conversation that we are having with the community,

we as I said, we are starting

these resiliency exercises in the neighborhood but a long way

to go, there's 1,000 -- if you listen carefully, there's 1,000 properties that have not begun the permitting process.

And we have to better understand

why, what their challenges are,

and a lot of them are caught in

the -- the, they have insurance but are caught in the cost of rebuilding in the particular type of environment that we have

in the bay area. And we are trying to manage through that and better

understand how to help them to fill the gap.

That is a complicated

conversation as lori was saying. Timing on when funding flows,

what criteria is attached to that funding. We did a cal home program that we kind of knew was not going to

be successful, we had to do it so we could demonstrate to the state and the federal government

that the criteria that you've

attached to our rebuilding

efforts is not going to work in this particular environment.

But you have to have the proof to do that, and then conversations with homeowners

who are in a great deal of pain

about why this process inflicts it on themselves in this particular way.

and so we are continuing to have that, we are going through some

of the same efforts about how we

build our own recovery framework, like fires is one of

our disasters, it's a whole

series of things we all know in this area.

We are changing how we have that conversation with community

members and again, it's about,

lori says, it's about empowering those folks to have a say and

how do they get to shape the future of their community and the future decisions you are going to have, and that's one of the most difficult things that I

find as I go and visit other

communities in recovery, is letting go of that power and that decision making. It's a really, really tough

thing for subject matter experts to do.

And I will say we learned, we had a critical event that happened a month after our fire

where we started to experience

water contamination, and our

team wanted to solve that issue ourselves, and only when we were able to invite the community in

and really listen to their potential solutions that it

turned from a second disaster and actually into a real community building opportunity for us.

I -- I can't say enough, that

really changed how we were able to approach problems working with the community because we were, we are running towards a

cliff if we kept on our pathway without that community involvement and input.

>> yeah, and I should say, I

know daniel holmes, he was around here probably taking pictures for me, a great partner in san francisco and thinking about our neighborhood

empowerment network and has worked with various communities

around the bay area and around

the country, and so forth.

And thinking about also our alert programs, and the

importance this they've, too, in identifying the different roles

that those organizations play and I think the difference

between again a residential neighborhood and a downtown neighborhood and how are your commercial property owners, you know, working with the residents

that May be right across the street, or May be in the same building as a matter of fact,

and do you have floor champions

as opposed to block champions and those types of things. Lori, you want to add anything about the issue of bringing community in?

>> I would add that I was at a

meeting yesterday sponsored by enterprise community, national

non-profit housing developer and

many other things, simple way to

describe them.

And they had a number of residents from sonoma county who

were there, who are still very traumatized by what happened to

them, not just because of the fires and what happened, but because of the recovery and the

response and the way in which

they were treated.

And I think this really kind of goes to the flaws in our

national recovery policy, to so speak. I like to say, we have an

in-depth -- we passed the disaster recovery reform act,

but in terms of the premise of

our policy, I like to equate it

to the really the first law

passed back in the 1970s, sort

of written with the idea that everybody has insurance and we

live in suburban florida, and a hurricane is going to hit. And we are going to build back sort of like santa rosa, build

back essentially what we had. So, it does not really

accommodate renters very well.

It does not really accommodate

complex, what I call land tenure arrangements which we have in downtown.

So, condominiums, cooperatives, commercial, you know, structures

that have residential uses and

hotels and businesses all in

one, mixed use activities, and

just the density of -- of urban existence, you know. It really provides the small

amounts that sort of, for

individual assistance, like filling your deductible on your insurance policy and then

provides for public assistance assuming that local governments

also have some form of

insurance. And so when you don't have insurance, then you basically have a big gap and so then there

is, you know, what santa rosa is

still going through, which is lobbying congress and the state

and others for forms of assistance. And those take time.

Like we have seen, with this one, and so you know, people do

get traumatized and one of the

ways very simply, traumatized by what I call the second disaster, I call recovery and the way we treat people and the simplest way to say that, I think our

policy really is focussed on

assets, and not on people and well-being.

And, and until we begin to kind

of think more in that context,

and I love the term well-being, which is really a very developed term in new zealand, they

tracked it, they tracked dimensions of well-being, psycho social health, access to jobs, your family life, all sorts of things in the recovery. I won't say their policy was really that different, but at least they were tracking it.

So instead of just counting buildings, we really need to count lives and lives restored

and that's a different framework

than what we have right now. >> I would just like to follow up on what lori said.

That is, you know, I'm spending

way too much time in D.C. And

sacramento and often fema can

cover their ears, it's actually

the state is talking to fema and

they actually are not talking to us. So that's one of the biggest

gaps in the system, it's not

geared to solving individuals. So I'll give you an concrete example.

Literally in D.C. Arguing for

extension of benefits as the

benefits expire for renters, and

we all know renters are much

more vulnerable population.

Fema extended the benefits for

three months for homeowners.

One month for renters. That is one of the issues that

you are wrestling through, and I want to heighten that

conversation I had earlier about

setting up the secondary planning department which was

just focussed on it.

Literally, those two months, for

those homeowners, was coming in and having a therapy session with staff. That's literally what's going on in those first two months. No one is pulling a permit. They are going through therapy because there is no support mechanism and that's one of the

things, as lori points out, we

are still wrestling with, the

anxiety, the fear, and the real inability to address individuals, and that's what we have tried to do in our organization is always ask that

question of putting ourselves in

the place of those individuals going through that process. You don't know how many times I

have heard why are we arguing,

literally, about ten households.

That's the conversations, unfortunately, you end up in

these situations because while

it's geared toward the local, it's your responsibility and

there's a real gap in how the system meets local need and addresses individuals, and

especially the most vulnerable individuals who are our

residents. >> right. Great, this has been a great conversation. I think we could continue to have this for another hour or so, but we need to wrap it up. I wanted to recognize, you know, we also have a number of private companies here, sales force, apple is here, representatives

and so forth, and I hope we are

thinking about your employees,

you know, as well and I know you are doing work around how you address their psychological well-being of them as well as

the people in the neighborhoods. barb, I don't know if you want

to throw, have the last word on

advice for us, or for people in

the private sector in these areas. >> just that planning never stops.

We would be very honored for you to take whatever concepts you can.

We took concepts from others as well.

Like I said, we studied sandy

and katrina and the earthquakes

in new zealand, chile and japan.

Also hired subject matter experts. So one of our subcontractors was

Dr. Gavin smith, who in katrina was the mississippi governor's

recovery czar, so learned it through personal experience and executive director of a close to resilience center. So, learning as much as you possibly can and then what you

commit to the page is not sacred.

We have made mistakes and bad assumptions and we always need

to amend them and it's a

framework is not a contract. It was your best thoughts on that particular day.

So, forgive yourselves and get better every day. >> all right. With that, I want to conclude this panel and a quick word before you give your applause,

in your packets, if you have not

opened up your binders, your

envelope there, there are six or, I think eight different sort

of areas.

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To kick things off I will bring up the woman behind this initiative.

I am proud to call her my friend.

I have known her since early on in her career when she was

working one of her first jobs. Look at her now.

She is working hard every day as mayor to make sure every young person in san francisco can

achieve their wildest dreams. Please put your hands together

for the 45th mayor of the city

and county of san francisco, the

honorable london breed, ladies and gentlemen. [Applause.]

>> Mayor Breed:   thank you. I love those boots, girl.

Thank you so much for being here today.

I have to tell you I am so

excited about this program, and I am excited about the future of san francisco because of all of

you who are participating in this program.

Some of you might know you grew up in san francisco, born and raised in public housing in the

city under the most challenging of circumstances with a lot of

the violence and crime and

frustration and hopelessness. I still can't believe after living over 20 years of my life in the kinds of conditions that

I am working hard to change every single day that I am

standing here as your mayor.

Had it not been for an

opportunity, had it not been for my first internship at age 14

working through the mayor's youth employment and training

program at the family school

where I learned some simple basic skills.

Now, I know technology has you more advanced than what I was back then.

We actually typed letters on a typewriter.

I learned how to speed up my typing, answer the phone.

I got to tell you this is how I answered the phone the first day. Hello.

Who are you looking for?

They were like, no, london, you need to answer like this.

Hello, this is london breed, how May I help you. Thank you for calling the family school. >> okay.

So I had to write it down and repeat it or and over.

It was stuck in my head.

Basic skills what it is like to

work in an office environment

and to change my attitude and improve my customer service skills. This organization because of my work in the summer only had enough money to pay for me to

work during the summer and

because I basically worked hard

and stuck with it, they kept me see in this internship year around and paid for me to be there directly. That was really how I was able

to make money in order to afford

the basic things -- the basic

things people take for granted to buy school clothes and help

my grandmother with bills and

allow me to focus on school and

go on to higher education.

I ended up going to uc davis and graduating. I got my masters from the university of san francisco. Let me tell you why this program

is so important because the neighborhood you grew up in, not

everyone had a chance to

participate in the mayor's youth employment and training program. There wasn't enough funding to

make sure everyone got a slot,

and so, sadly, I have been to

far more funerals than I can

count because of gun violence in my community. Sadly, I still have friends and

family members behind bars and many suffering from addiction and other challenges.

When I think about even my own

family losing my sister to a

drug overdose and having my brother still locked up in jail,

I think what if?

What if an opportunity was

available to them, too? Why wasn't there an opportunity available to them?

I don't want to operate in what ifs.

I want to operate in a way that prevents something that happened to my community, something that

happened to my family from ever happening to any other young person in the first place.

That is why I started opportunities for all.

Because I wanted to make sure

that kids in san francisco no matter what part of the city you

live in, no matter who your

family is, no matter what school

you go to, money should never be

a barrier to your ability to succeed in life. That is what this program is about.

I want to make sure that when we

have all of these incredible opportunities in san francisco

to work in so many different industries, when people are

looking for folks to about, they are looking right here in san francisco. When people are looking to make

sure we are investing dollars in preparing you all for the work

force, they are preparing and spending their money on all of you to make sure that you are successful.

I want you to have amazing

lives, amazing careers, and I want you to be able to afford in the city you might have been

born and raised in. [Applause.]

This is about creating a new

normal, breaking the cycle

sometimes of poverty that has existed in too many of our neighborhoods. This is my dream.

When I have the opportunity to basically be mayor and run this

city, this was the first thing I thought about.

I am so excited to be here today.

We launched the program in October, we are doing it this summer.

We have 3700 participants so far. As I said, no one is turned away.

I will speak to some of the companies here.

we need you to accept more students, to work with us to make sure kids have more opportunities. When we have someone with an

interest in working in a particular field, we have a

place for them to go to learn about that particular field.

That is what this program is about.

I want to thank the major

sponsor of this program, alaska

airlines and at and t for making a significant investment along with so many other people. The department of children,

youth and families, of course,

through my budget we committed $8 million to this program.

I am dedicated to making this work and providing you with all

of the opportunities possible. I also want to thank a couple of

city agencies that basically answered the call.

I want to start with the department of public works.

They have hundreds of internship opportunities available as well as the san francisco police department.

Thank you, chief, for being here and the opportunitying you provide to our young people and the san francisco airport. When I think about the san

francisco airport, they are taking on 200 young people.

There are so many layers,

administrative, human resources, security, luggage.

There are all of these different

things that happen in the

airport, and I am just so

excited about what you all are

going to discover this summer.

I used to listen to kmdl.

I remember when renel got

engaged to tommy moon and the

first african-american woman announcer in baseball.

What is the baseball thing called again? The hall of fame.

You were in the hall of fame? Never mind. She is here. She is making moves.

I want you all to be prepared to make moves.

When you show up late and you

are criticized, take it in and

learn from it. When you have one trying to

teach you to do something

better, be open minded.

Put aside your sometimes I am not saying all of you.

I know I had a really bad attitude.

I had to basically get an attitude adjustment to keep my job. The people working with you,

they want to support you.

They want be to grow and succeed. Please show them respect and

appreciate and work hard taking in every minute of the opportunity.

Advance, grow and do whatever your heart's desire.

Have a good time this summer.

When you are at work roll up your sleeves and get the job done.

We are counting on you all to be

the next generation of you folk

to take over the city.

One of you can be a

a mayor.

I will not be here forever. Thank you for your support.

>> keep that applause going for

our wonderful mayor, london breed. [Applause.] >> the kid referenced something known as a typewriter.

It is similar to the keep board

on your laptops and phones.

If you want to know what a typewriter is, google that on your phone.

Thank you, mayor breed for your leadership. I know you inspire the young people here with us today.

I know they see possibilities in themselves that they May not

have seen before as they watch

you run this great city.

Thank you for sharing your experiences today. Now to entertainment.

How does that sound everybody?

Applause:  .

We can't have a kickoff without performances. Please enjoy the first performance and welcome to local youth.

It is the spoken word performance.

We have a poem from tj lynch.

Come on up, tj. >> okay.

I will give you background. I read an article and it broke my heart. I felt like I should share it with everybody. I never thought this could happen to me.

One minute I imagine singing and dancing.

Next I feel burning pay. May 17, 2010. That is the day the police took

me away from my family, friends, dreams.

They weren't in the right house.

The man who murdered the 17-year

old boy lived a level above me. May 16, 2010.

That was the day the police took me.

May 16, 2010 is the day everything changed.

That is the day they should

haved me in mysoline.

I am 7 years old. May 16 is the day I died.

I was murdered by the officer. He faced a penalty.

They didn't see me as a child and just saw my skin.

I had my whole life ahead. It makes me angry.

Following my death my daddy was introduced to 30 years in prison.

Not only is my mommy mourning me. My dadty's life, too.

It was his gun that o kens killed the boy with.

Is it the justice my mommy gets

why a man kills her black

daughter and takes husband to the pen.

How can a man murder a 7

year-old girl and be dismissed

of manslaughter and first-degree

murder and second-degree murder

in a world with a supposed fair

justice system. Mize

my daddy is guilty of murder in the second degree.

If they had proof to accuse it

sounds contradictory to me the black man and the white man is free.

What hurts the offer is still on the ped.

After this my mommy piece by

piece he couldn't give my mother

apology.

>> thank you for that powerful presentation and reminder what

we are dealing within the inner

city communities every day and how much more work we have to do.

Thank you, baby girl with your cute little self.

The backpack is bigger than she is.

You know, as mayor breed said

none of this is possible without support of partners and

companies creating opportunity ies for young people.

Now we will hear from huge supporters of opportunities for

all.

Leading off please welcome to

executive vice President Of

communications, stacy slaughter.

[Applause.]

>> thank you for all coming to

the park today. We are delighted to have you here today. The giants were tied last I heard.

I am not sure what happened.

Thank you, mayor breed for your leadership on this issue.

We all feel that it is an important initiative for kids in our community.

When I was thinking about today's event I was thinking

about my own teenage years and

my first summer job.

A lot of the things I learned

are things I take with me today. I grew out in sacramento.

There weren't a lot of female

role models the road to college was the exception.

Most folks didn't go to college. I wasn't sure what I was going to do after high school.

I was 16, I got a job at a ice cream restaurant that just opened.

I learned a lot of lessons in

that first job, similar to what mayor breed learned.

One of the molt mottos was if

you have time to lean you have time to clean.

If you weren't scooping ice

cream or helping a customer you

were restocking hot fudge and whip cream. You learned this strong work

ethic of making yourself indispensable and contributing in whatever fashion possible.

I use that motto with my teenage sons.

One of the things that was helpful to me in life.

The manager of the store was a

woman who was a great mentor and

opened my eyes to different things in the world.

One of the things she discovered was the ability to write and communicate well.

In addition to your ice cream duties we make you the official pr manager of the store.

We have you in charge of the

special events, ads in the local weekly reader, maybe write press

releases and so I took that

opportunity and ran with it.

I realized, sheried

she saw it in me.

I graduated from berkeley many years ago.

Then it launched a 30 year

career in communications and pr. I went to work in the mayor's office as the press secretary in

the early 1990s.

23 years ago I got a job in communication was the san francisco giants. Here I am today.

You never know where you will find inspiration.

It could be your first summer job.

It sounds like the opportunities

in the city are more exciting

than the ice scream store in -- ice cream store.

You never know who is your role model.

It could be right here in the

events division or helping us build mission rock and housing and opportunities. I wish you all the best. Thank you for being part of it

and thanks for all of the

partners for making this happen. [Applause.]

>> thank you, stacy.

A couple things. Now I want some ice cream. Thanks for that. If you have time to lean you have time to clean.

I will use that on the husband, let me just say that.

Thank you for that, stacy slaughter.

Now a shout out to or sponsor

alaska airlines, top sponsor for opportunities for all.

Please welcome bay area vice

President Anna bell chang. >> thank you.

It is perfect at the giants stadium we look around and

realize practice makes perfect.

It takes training and a lot of years of experience.

That is exactly what opportunities for all is.

It is about developing your experience, perfecting professionalism.

How to take a phone call, be a

good employee, become a good boss one day.

Here we realize it takes that

grit and that perseverance and teamwork.

It is a perfect setting for us.

I am vice President Of the bay area for alaska airlines.

We are honored to be the first

corporate sponsor of the opportunities for all program.

I want you to help me pick a number.

When someone goes and takes unpaid internship for the

summer, how much do you think

they give up in wages if they

don't take a paid summer job? 3,000?

Do you think it is higher? $5,000?

How many think it is around $5,000?

How many think it is more than that? That's right.

It is $6,800 is the estimated

amount of money you give up by tag an unpaid internship during the summer.

That is incredible for those

looking for ways to build professional experience. Opportunities for all the making

that happen by allowing you to

take on a paid internship and making sure you get the invaluable.

No amount of money can cover the experience you are going to develop.

We want to say that is

incredibly important. At alaska airlines we have been giving in communities for a very long time.

In the bay area we have

thousands of employees from ramp

agents to mechanics to pilots to customer service.

I want to shout sought to the

team taking on more than 200 interns. These are great paying union

jobs at the airport. People don't know about it.

It is based on family connections and experience.

We want to make sure that people can learn about these opportunities and what I will

share is even at alaska airlines

the highest level officers started at alaska airlines on

the ramp, helping people guilty around the planes to move safely.

It is extraordinary the opportunities from the very first job.

I have a plaque, mayor to present.

We shared the opportunities for all programming in our inflight magazine in February.

That is 33,000 flights had a

chance to learn about mayor london breed's opportunities for all program.

We are super-excited and totally

thrilled.

[Applause.]

>> thank you.

Give a round for the generosity

of alaska airlines.

While we talk generosity it is at&t.

This woman is a long time friend.

We were radio broadcasting

colleagues for many, many years.

Back in day we performed in the oakland ballet celebrity

all-star performance of the

nutcracker and we were nag magnificent as toy soldiers.

I am delighted to introduce her.

My own girl director of external

affairs, cammy black stone. >> we still got it.

Welcome everyone. I want to thank mayor london breed.

There goes my notes.

For this incredible idea and program.

It is so important.

At a and and t we -- at&t we will connect diverse opportunities. Here in san francisco we are

riding the waves of economic

prosperity but not everyone in

san francisco is able to participate.

We hope that with believe and with opportunities for all,

these initiatives the maze or put forward that we can level

that playing field. People like you, you young

people can make that connection to get training and work experience and everything you need to find your path to economic success. We wish you all the best.

We want to thank the mayor and

we are excited to see how it unfolds for all of us in san francisco. Thank you. [Applause.]

>> let's get a hip, hip for at&t.

>> this would not be possible

without our nonprofit organizations.

Three had boots on the ground in

the community reaching out, conducting sign-ups for young

people including the jamestown

community center.

A round of applause please for

myrna melgar, executive director. >> thank you so much.

I am the executive director of

the jamestown community center,

one of the oldest youth development communities in san francisco.

I want to thank mayor breed for

her vision. It is an incredible investment

in our youth and August and acknowledgment.

I am an immigrant. Mize parents didn't speak

english and didn't have connections. I am here today

because I had mentors of people

who helped me graduate, apply to college, get the first job and

that is so important for

immigrant youth and youth of color whose parents don't have a lot of social capital. They don't have people to

connect them with jobs, paid internships.

When your family can hardly buy

groceries, how can you take an unpaid internship for two or

three months during the summer. At jamestown we were lucky to be

included in this amazing opportunity and we ran with it.

We have a program designed buys

our director where we had girls at hilltop high school for girls who are pregnant while in high school.

They designed and sewed the

costumes for the 3 00 costumes.

They put it together.

Then they saw all of the youth

from the community all the of

black and brown kids being

celebrated on television with a community clapping after them.

What an enormous wonderful gift.

Thank you, mayor for that. Yesterdayir had the great

pleasure of doing the training for 50 high school youth working in our programs.

We had them go through training

and lesson planning.

We had them vision what it would

be like to be a little kid going to pacific heights in the skin

we are in and that is a teaching moment.

We want them to own this city. This is their city.

We are included socially and economically.

It seems the elder peers are now

going through a path to an

educational career.

We have a partnership with the

san francisco unified school

district to train or staff to

become teachers while mentoring the opportunity for all kids.

There is a path for them.

they see themselves in the older

kids who are becoming teachers

of color, bilingual teachers in the school district. That wouldn't have happened if

it weren't for opportunities for all.

Thank you, mayor breed, for the opportunities and great difference that this project is

making on the lives of our community.

Thank you so much. [Applause.]

>> thank you for sharing your

story and God bless you in jamestown.

We have a lot of young people

excited to start internships and

some have begun, is that right? Or maybe not.

You are excited, yes, that is

the point I am trying to make.

One of these young people is

nicholas lay from california state sacramento who worked

every summer with our very only san francisco public works.

Come up to say a few words, young man. [Applause.] >> thank you.

I am nicholas lay.

Born and raised in san francisco.

Currently a senior at sacramento state university.

I am pa community.

Please join me in welcoming Miss

Ryan nicole.

[Applause.]

>> thank you for being here.

Before my song I want to say a

couple words. Shout out to mayor london breed.

You are doing a great job.

I am from oakland.

I hope it affects our leadership as well.

i will say this.

Opportunities for all is a

beautiful program with, I think,

wonderful language. We see know and london breed

understands if you solve for equity, then you solve for everybody.

If you solve for women and

people of color, then everybody wins, everybody comes up.

I want to acknowledge the women

of leadership mu have taken the stage this morning and afternoon.

I am going to do this song right now.

This song I wrote initially for women of color but today it is for all of us.

The song is for everybody who

needs to be seen, everybody who feels like they May be invisible.

Today is the start of a new

program, a new era of justice.

I want them to feel it in the chest but not blowout the ears. I am going to move.

This is for your colored folks.

Never thought your rainbow

was enough

trying to make it through the

life it is tough you will make it.

You are the paint that makes this life all it is

I have a yellow brick road, move

see shoes, I see you on the news

it is giving me the blues

it is what you do, where we go

and how we get there and who

will foot the bill and if anyone

would make it you surely will have

have the will we see you shine

it is only so you are a superstar.

You wanted to put your slippers

on make your way back home

nerve thought your rainbow was enough. You will make it.

You are what makes this life all

it was. Never thought your rainbow was enough it is tough.

You are going to make it just because

you are what makes this what it is

the woman on the screen the

beauty reach out 360 degrees of lovely

the girls shoes inside she is all clean

just the wrong shape or wrong shade. Never think about the wrong place

the perfect chemistry

never thought your rainbow was enough it is tough

you have make it just because.

Never thought your rainbow was

enough, going to make it through

this life, you are going to make it just because

if you were color folk, shine your light

black, blue or grey, brown, white

you are color folk, shine your light

black, blue, grey, yellow or white

you are life this is why if you have an

opportunity to world wins

if we win we are doing good for everything

make sure you go out and seize this opportunity because

it is the beginning of your new thing

>> I want you to say that I am

what I am.

Descendent of man, the head not

the tail, I am that I am.

Heaven sent you, man.

In head not the tail. Descendent of man.

You guys your opportunity begins

with you believing you can do it and believing you are deserving

of these opportunities.

Congratulations to you all.

[Applause.]

>> that was fantastic.

Thank you for sharing your artistry with us.

Thank you, ryan nicole.

Our next performer grew up in

new orleans.

It was moving to break the

cycle of violence after his best friend was murdered.

He was a middle schoolteacher

before he traded the classroom

for a microphone and stage.

We are happy to have him with us today.

Please welcome our next

performer, this is d-1. [Applause.]

>> thank you all very much.

Let me tell you all something.

I am so excited I can't wipe this smile off my face. Everybody looks so young.

Where are the students?

Can you make some noise.

I can't tell the students from adults.

They all look late teens, early 20s. Listen, life is not something

that comes with a script. When I was in third grade, I wanted to be the President Of the united states.

By the time I was in seventh

grade, I wanted to be a lawyer. In high school I wanted to play in the nba.

in college I started out as engineering major because my mamma said they make a lot of money.

When I graduated college I realized I wanted to be a business major.

When I first graduated I game a middle schoolteacher.

Now, I am a rapper and public speaker. Life has no script. It is not always what you do in life. It is about why you do what you are doing.

As long as you chase passion and do stuff because you truly care

and love it, you will be all right.

I can't teleses you how to

become a millionaire. My best friend got murdered. That is real life. It is not about what you do.

It is about why you are doing it. Do you love it?

How are you doing it. If you are committing to be excellent in whatever you do in life, you will be okay.

I want you all to know that.

For the first song it is three is up.

This is my month to in the rap game. I am not like everybody else or fit in.

I don't care about fitting in.

Look what I have got on right now.

I am here to stand out.

Everybody say be real, be righteous, be relevant.

When you see three is up you

know what they represent.

Real, righteous and relevant.

All true stories in my songs.

San francisco, let's go.

so your three is up

so your three is up, in the

middle, your three is up everybody come on, when you

see is three is up, you know

what they represent, real, righteous, relevant

>> what did you say?

>> real, righteous and relevant

>> I can't hear you. Let's go.

Real, righteous and relevant.

>> I made myself a target, from

those who flip burgers, I have a purpose God gave me this.

It is mustard I flourish

it tastes so good, I want some greatness

I could have been rich

I am trying to bring my

mother glory

I can't co-sign that

every time I come around

everybody has mean mugs >> smile. You know how long it has been

since I seen love?

They are trying to make the best

what they have got

everybody let's go, when you

see that three is up you know what they represent.

What is that

be real, righteous, relevant >> when you see three is up you

know what they represent. Everybody.

Be real, righteous and relevant

>> see what I was taught in sixth grade.

So far more year offtrack.

I was going through things my own. We lost touch

four years later I ran into

my guy >> teardrops under his eyes

I took my hands to wipe them away.

He said no, big brother, they

are here to stay

note we got what the youngsters now have

when you see that three is

up, you know what they

represent. Let's go.

Be real, righteous, relevant

>> you see three is up, you know

what they represent

>> snow

cut that off.

>> when you see three is up you

know what they represent.

What?

>> real, righteous, relevant.

>> if what you say?

>> real, righteous, relevant. >> amen.

You all like that?

Applause:  . >> it is a true story.

All I can tell you is what I have gone so. I am excited.

I remember being a high school student.

When you think about the key to

happiness in live, you see this

right here?

That is not it.

That is not it.

Now the high school looks at me like I am crazy. If you are an adult you know

that is not the only key to happiness in life.

Raise your hand and make some noise. Don't be a sleeve to a piece of paper per.

Everyone has a paper and mission. Make sure you do something you love.

When you love to do it, it is

not going to feel like work.

If it doesn't feel like work you will be great at it. They will say they got it paid

up nice.

Next thing you know money takes care of itself. I am a rapper. I am not supposed to be in san francisco speaking to the youth

and adults how to connect with the purpose in life.

The key is I am walking in my purpose, and other people doing their jobs we have a way to come together. That is going to happen with you.

This summer when you do the internships.

Connect and build relationships and change your life. My name is d1.

The reason I go so hard we don't

want to let you down. Students, we don't want to let you down.

For the adults I am speaking on baffs of the students.

A lot of people talk about our generation is bad.

We are here to make you all proud and we don't want to let you down. Everybody say I don't want to

let you down.

Say it. On beat.

5, 6, 7, eight.

>> I see don't want to let you down.

I don't want to let you down.

Say it.

Let's go.

Turn it up if you could.

Three, two, one.

I don't want to let you down

I was given time, silenced with the rhymes if you know me, you know I have been trying.

I promise I am worth it

it ain't easy working on my shoe shoes.

I don't want to let you down

you for forgive me.

I want to make you proud to call me your child.

I want you to purify my heart. Let's go.

I used to hang my head low.

Remember nights in the cold?

I had to get it on my own.

This is nothing that my heart can't take.

I don't want to let you down

I have been sleeping less, marathons. I need the rest.

We will not deal with stress.

It is my best struggling.

This type of pain most people can't relate to it.

Going off the deep end.

I won't complain as long as I am breathing.

Try to set an example, we need

more heroes

people are famous all around me.

I pray you hear me when I say

I don't want to let you down

I used to hang my head low

remember nights in the cold?

I had to go get it on my own

it is nothing that my heart

can't take

if I told everybody if you

have a dream put your hands up.

All my students, if you have got

a dream keep your hands up.

I don't want to let you down

I used to hang my head low

I don't want to let you down

remember nights with the coal

I had to get it on my own

my heart is going to break

everybody say it loud in the

crowd from the left to the right

every day and every night from beginning to the end.

keep it real don't pretend.

God always got your back

>> thank you heir much. This passion is real.

I might not have known you before today. I love you.

Thank you for the companies

youtalizing your time --

utilizing your time for the next generation.

I am d-1.

Applause:  .

>> thank you for your energy and passion and words of inspiration.

He needs to come out of his shell.

He is so very shy.

You are superintelligent. Thank you for sharings your gifts today. Thank

thank you for sharing your dreams as a child.

I wish you were President Right now.

That is d-1, you all.

As we close I would like to

introduce the woman putting this together behind the scenes from

engaging with youth and

employers to creating programming and organizing these events.

Please give a warm welcome to

the san francisco human rights

commission executive director

cheryl davis. [Applause.] >> I see not everybody has sunglasses and baseball caps. I am not going to talk a long time.

There is something I feel compelled to say.

I will ask tj to come back up here.

If I am going to be honest when we talk about this and think

about young people with opportunities and platforms and

spaces and places and how we

allow folks to have voicings and have access.

What I said to t y before she got up to speak.

I was like we going to keep it positive and upbeat, right?

Maybe that was positive and

upbeat to tj, I don't know.

Ultimately, tj had the platform and space and place.

It was within her rights to say

what it is she felt compelled to say.

As we develop this work, if we are going to be true about

giving youth a place to speak up

and to speak out it means sometimes they May say things we don't think is the right time and moment.

For me the struggle is we come

in as adults to create priorities and prioritize youth voice and give them a platform and space and place to do

things, learn things, grow and be themselves.

Sometimes when we do it we go wait, wait, wait. What happened here?

You did what maybe you wanted to

but maybe made me see uncomfortable. That is not what this is meant to be.

The mayor created opportunities

for everybody regardless where they live or go to school or what they look like or what their thoughts are.

We are asking you all here today

to celebrate the fact that we actually are giving place and

space for people to be themselves. We are not asking them to change who they are.

we are giving them a platform and place to grow in a positive setting.

I gave her a hard time when she got off the stage. This is what this is all about.

I want us to all remind ourselves.

When young people come to your place of employment they May not

show up the way you think they should. Opportunities for all is about we are giving people the space

and the place to grow and to

learn and to become successful, however they do fine success,

not how we define it. We want to be able to have young

people benefit from the booming

economy, to make money to live in the city.

It is not just about the money lost.

It is about the social networking and experience lost. We thank you for making the commitment to be here financially or with space and

time and resources. I want to challenge you all to put

yourselves on the spot and to challenge your way of thinking

to actually embrace our young people for who they are and celebrate them and be the best

they can be.

Thank you all.

[Applause.] >> I want to thank you for

joining us today. Shout out to employers and partners.

Thank you for your support. We see hope you young people are

fired up and ready for orientation.

I want to wish you all the best.

You are off to a great start.

Let me hear you say opportunities for all.

>> after every giants game here,

travel home safely and good

afternoon from oracle park.

You need to exit to my right, your left.

There is food and beverage. Thank you all so much once again.

>> all right.

It is pride month in san francisco.

Good morning, mayor.

>> here we go.

[Applause.]

>> welcome to san francisco.

Everybody is welcome.

Happy tried everybody.

Ever happy pride everyone.

>> thank you for joining us to

quick off pride month 2019.

My name is clair farley, senior adviser for mayor breed and

director of the office of transinitiatives.

I am so honored to be the mistress of ceremonies. There will be cocktails later. I know it is early.

You know, I think that today we

ask to really honor those whose

stories often don't make the headlines, those brave folks in the community who do the work every day.

We are excited to honor those folks today.

I hope you join us in

celebrating them. Pride started as a riot. Knowing the history can only

give us hope and remind us of our strength and power for change.

Even when the federal

administration attempts to strip

away our rights, we know that san francisco will fight back. In san francisco we will never

give up from the streets to city hall.

From harvey milk to the trans women of color. Today our community has achieved so much.

We have made incredible strides

thanks to the generations every assistance before us.

This work would not be possible

with all of you and without our

allies and leadership here in

city hall who have joined us on

the front lines for lbgt equality.

It is my honor to welcome our

mayor, mayor london breed.

[Cheers and applause.]

>> Mayor Breed:   thank you to everyone toeveryone who is joining us.

No one celebrated pride like the

city and county of san francisco. Celebrate we must to make sure

that our voices are heard and the federal government knows

that no matter who you are and

who you love, we will not be

erased, not in america, not in san francisco, not today.

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge some of the leadership we have in san francisco, people who are making a difference.

Thank you so much to our state senator scott weiner for being here, who you will hear from shortly.

As well as our treasure who is

with us today.

Your fierce supervisor rafael mandelman.

Community college board member

alex randolph.

and supervisor safai and another

member of the community college

board, tom.

And thank you supervisor matt haney for joining us as well.

I want to take this opportunity

to acknowledge the first lbgt

fire chief jeanine nicholson.

And thank you supervisor walton

for being here as well.

And our police department, our chief is here, bill scott. I am so excited.

Have you guys seen the new flag, new vehicles of the san

francisco police department? Amazing. Thank you, chief so much.

There is a freedom band that you will be the official band of the

city and county of san

francisco, lgbt freed domband. You will hear from them shortly.

No one celebrates pride like san francisco. Thank you for joining us to

raise the flag in our city.

I know there are challenges throughout the bay area of raising this flag. In san francisco it is not a question.

It is an important part of what makes our city so special.

I want to thank all of you every year for coming for the flag raising.

I want to acknowledge the man

behind making the celebration

great, commissioner tom horn,

thank you so much for your

amazing support for this event.

I want to say a special acknowledgment and for the

parade which I cannot wait to participate in. It is a lot of hard work.

We all have fun and a good time.

I know that you and the

committee work hard to make sure it looks effortless.

Thank you so much for being here today. [Applause.]

Along with celebrating pride

this month, it also is a time to

reflect on our lgbt community's

long history of activism and

resilience from the aids which ravaged our city to the war against the transcommunity that

is playing out throughout this country. Since san francisco's first

pride parade in 1970, we have

overcome so many challenges

thanks to the courage of the

amazing community leaders who stood up.

Today san francisco is a beacon

of hope for the lbgt community.

This year's pride parade theme

generations every assistance,

just as generations have resisted before we in san

francisco will continue to

resist.

Despite the federal government's

continued attacks on the lbgt

community we will not back down until we achieve full equality.

We will stand with our

transgender people who continue

to bravely serve our country,

and in san francisco our

businesses, hour healthcare services, our work force and housing will always be open to all.

In san francisco, we are expanding gender identity

options on all city forms and

applications that ask for demographic information, and we

are including education on our

lgbt identities for city

employees as part of harassment

prevention and implicit bias training.

Last week I was proud to announce a new $3 million

investment in our budget for

transand lbg in san francisco.

It includes $2 million for

flexible housing to keep our transcommunity housed.

We know that transgender people

are 18 times more likely to not be able to have housing and to be homeless in san francisco.

We are going to make the

investment to support the lbgt

youth by providing them with housing, employment and case management services. I want to thank all members of

the board of supervisors and

others who advocate for this

much needed investment. [Applause.]

We will be funding training and internship programs for transjob seekers and community members exiting the criminal justice system.

We are committed to continuing

to backfill the federal H.I.V.

As getting to zero in the effort

that state senator scott weiner

fought for and now supervisor

mandelman continues to fight for on the board now. This will help with efforts like

the win senator wiener is doing

to increase access for everyone in california.

Thank you, senator wiener. [Applause.] Together we can make sure that

no one is left behind, and this

city doesn't just celebrate our lbgt community, we make

investments and put deeds behind

those words which is why we are

the best city in the world, and

what is so amazing so many of

you play such a critical role in that success.

I want to take this opportunity

before I acknowledge the work of two incredible individuals here today.

I can't move on with this

program without acknowledging

donna sachet for being here

today. [Applause.]

She and charlotte shuttle

shultz are the

only two that dress better than me.

Thank you for all you do to make

us look and feel good.

I forgot you were there.

Vicky, thank you so much. [Applause.]

So I have two awards to give.

First of all, I want to ask

george to come up to accept this on behalf of sf pride.

As I said, I know that it looks

like it is easy, but it is not

easy because we know the stress

in getting permits anchorednating with city

departments and getting everyone to follow the rules and stay

where they are to stay and not

lag behind in the parades,

festivities, events, programs, the fund-raising.

I didn't mention the fact they

have to fundraise to pay for

these incredible activities that make san francisco look good to

the rest of the world. Thousands of people come from

all over to celebrate pride in san francisco.

June is a fun and energetic and

incredible month for us. Because of sf pride and this committee, the work they do

means so much to our city. On behalf of the city and county of san francisco, I would like

to declare which day am I declaring? [Laughing.]

Today June 3rd as sf pride day in the city and county of san francisco.

Thank you so much.

[Cheers and applause.]

I have one more special award.

I also get the honor of presenting the annual teddy

worthington award to a legendary film maker and writer.

This award recognizes

individuals who have contributed a longstanding large body of

work in the lbgt community. Share

cheryl is a central part of the

queer new way of young film makers.

Watermelon woman has won critical acclaim.

Her project was one of the top must see film innist films.

Today she is continuing the body

of work with award-winning sear rears.

-- series. She will give me the ending. It is amazing.

It is my honor to also declare today as cheryl d un yee day for your amazing contribution and

the work you have done to not

only advocate for the lgbt community but the work you have done to shine a light on people

of color who are often times disenfranchised to tell our

stories and how we should be represented in film. It is beautiful to watch and see and those people love you out

there just as much as we do.

Cheryl, come on up.

[Cheers and applause.]

First of all, congratulations to

all of the grand marshalls for

this year's pride parade.

Can you all please stand or wave

your hand so we can see you.

Thank you.

And last but not least, cheryl, do you want to say a few words?

Say "hello" to the folks.

>> hi everyone I am proud to be

the grand marshall awarded with the award. I have been working for so long to bring the margins to the center. I have been working really long

to make what is invisible visible.

In this day of independent media

and television and the browning

and blacking of images, I am

making the invisible and visible

invincible and thank you.

>> thank you so much.

With that, I will turn it back over, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the city, enjoy pride month in the city.

Let's have an amazing time.

Make sure you don't forget to go

to our restaurants and spend all of your money, too. Thank you so much.

>> thank you, mayor breed.

Now it is my honor to introduce

you to someone who has done so much work in san francisco and

now leading the way across california.

Our state senator scott weiner. [Cheers and applause.] >> thank you, and I want to thank the mayor for being an extraordinary ally to our community.

Thank you, mayor breed, for everything you do.

This city is in amazing hands under your leadership. Thank you.

This is my 23rd san francisco pride. My 29th overall pride since I

came out as a gay man a long, long time ago. Time flies.

I am optimistic for our

community in many ways. This community that been through

so much in terms of the hate

crimes and the worst of the hiv aids crisis and housing crisis and all of the other weighs in

which our community that struggled over the years in san francisco and elsewhere.

We are so resilient and the

community comes back and comes

back and gets stronger and stronger.

I am so proud to be part of our lbgt community, particularly in

san francisco. That doesn't mean we don't center challenges. I think pride is the right time

of the year for us to recommit

to celebrate and recommit to the

fight. Of course, we know what

this guy is doing in washington,

D.C. In the white house to undermine and harm our community

including our children, attacking children.

It is something that it is hard to fathom that you have a President Of the united states

who would attack lbgt children. Apart from what he is doing and

we are fighting back hard to make sure california goes in the

other direction, we have our own

challenges here as an lbgt community in san francisco and california.

We are continuing to criminalize the lbgt community.

We are continuing to see obscene

rates of homelessness in our

community, particularly our

youth and 40% of homeless youth are lgbt.

We continue to not be supportive

enough of our transgender

community in terms of what our transkids have to experience in

terms of what trans-people experience in the criminal

justice system or in the lack of employment or access to healthcare right here in california.

We are not doing enough to

support our lbgt seniors.

Too many are going to the closet

when they enter long-term care. We have challenges. The good thing is in san francisco we are leading the way

in confronting those challenges, whether it is the great work in

the jails to treat lbgt inmates

with the dignity they deserve or

the groundbreaking work we have

done with seniors and homeless youth.

We are taking that statewide. This shouldn't depends on where you live. I want to close.

In terms of H.I.V., there is a narrative we have defeated H.I.V. We haven't.

We have so much more work to do

in california.

We have dunk am -- done amazing

work to reduce infection rates.

We need to end H.I.V. Let's recommit and have an amazing month.

This community deserves it.

Thank you. [Applause.] >> thank you so much. Next we have our champion here

on the board of supervisors, the

only out gay member of the board

of supervisors big

responsibility, and he is doing

it with charm and grace.

Please welcome rafael mandelman,

our supervisor. [Applause.]

>> thank you, for all of the

amazing work that you do.

Every time we get the queers and

friends together, this is a

beautiful and wonderful group.

Happy tried 2019 everybody --

happy pride 2019 ever body.

Thank you for bringing us here today, mayor.

You have been a champion. Senator wean your

wiener it is great to have you back and thank you for your leadership.

This is a very big pride. Folks know it

it is the 49th anniversary of our san francisco pride parade but 50th

anniversary of stone wall. [Cheers and applause.]

>> now in san francisco we know

the modern civil rights movement

began in 1966 with the compton

cafeteria riots, but I think we can still acknowledge that stone

wall is a big deal.

Now, Madam Mayor, we both grew up in san francisco.

You and I both know so many

communities are under stress in

san francisco with our overheated real estate market and displacement across the city. On friday you brought us out to

the sunnydale housing project to focus energy and attention and

light on a community that for

far too long our city has shamefully ignored.

At that event you announced your budget, which is your statement

of values.

I want to thank you for your

commitment around the housing needses all of our communities

in the city and particularly the lbgq community.

We talked about the extraordinary $3 million

investment for the first time in transcommunity housing needs. that is a big, big deal.

I want to point out and celebrate the 79 new units

opening at open house this

summer right now. [Applause.]

I know many folks in this room

worked on that adding to 40

units opened two years ago.

It is partially due to the work

of this mayor when she was on

the board of supervisors that there are queer people going in those units. Thank you for that and all of

your work to ensure our generations every assistance

will be able to age and remain in san francisco. I know we are just getting started.

Those open house units are the first. I am excited.

With that we have such a

fantastic group of community grand marshalls that I have the

honor to introduce to you today.

I will start with api equality northern california. [Applause.] >> where are you? Very good.

Api equality northern california

builds queer and transgender

fire to trans form the community

livelihoods from scarcity to

abundance through their movement

building they envision a world

where all queer islanders can be affirmed in bodies and

communities as their full authentic selfs.

Api equality northern california.

One more round of applause for them. [Applause.]

>> for our extremely queer

district two catherine stephanie

who has joined us. [Applause.]

>> our second amazing community grand

grand marshall is Ms. Billy cooper.

She is a 60-year-old who has

worked for years in H.I.V. Positive community engagement.

She has traveled and spoken for both communities.

She is a 30 plus year survivor living with H.I.V. Who works

with her recovery family because

she has been clean and sober for

15 years.

Ms. Billy cooper.

[Applause.]

>> vince.

He is a gay pacific islander,

aid aids survivor who has

dedicated more than 30 years to

aids active ism and he currently

runs the program for long-term

survivors at the aids foundation

and co-chairs the aging work group of the long-term care council.

He was executive director of

regional networks and founded the pacific island aids action

group and served as united

nations delegate.

Applause:  . Is vera here?

She is amazing.

She has been encouraging people

to experiment by attending public events.

By creating costumes utilizing recycled materials they help

discover unique visions in free workshops.

They have marched in the san francisco pride parade since 1995.

Entertaining the ftca and

bookmobile. Vera sphere. [Applause.]

>> last, but not least by any

means, Ms. Donna persona.

The open house video with donna

is absolutely amazing.

Donna is an activist for transgender rights.

She served on the boards of trans-March and day of

remembrance and on the main

streets after the compton's compton's cafeteria.

She raised the first transgender

flag at city hall with mayor breed.

The play recreates the

transgender history and

including sf weeklys best of

2018, donna persona. [Cheers and applause.]

>> this is such a great group of grand marshalls for 2019.

I am excited to watch you celebrate this month and be honored.

With that happy pride again. [Applause.]

>> thank you so much.

You are doing such amazing work.

It is my honor to bring up our

last speaker.

The executive director of sf pride has done amazing work with pride.

We are sad that he will be leaving pride this year.

He has done so much amazing work.

Please join me in welcoming george and thanking him for his

incredible service.

[Applause.]

>> thank you, clair, mayor

breed, supervisor mandelman.

I have many of our team joining us.

As mayor breed mentioned, there is a lot of work to do to put this event on. These are just some of the

people that help make it work.

I would introduce you buy name but I only have three minutes to

do my talking points. I have more board members.

We have board members and staff here today.

We are excited to be here to kickoff pride month with all of you.

We are really grateful for the excellent relationship that we have with the city and many of the agencies that we have to

work with to pull this event off.

It is true I am leaving after

this year's event.

I will be working with rec and park.

I intend to volunteer for pride when I can and do as much work

for the city as I can.

The global pride movement has

proven to be an effective and enduring agent for change.

It is the modern movement san

francisco has been the leader in

the space as supervisor

mandelman mentioned we had o our own rising.

This is part of a trilogy, generations every assistance.

Last year was generations of strength. As we were putting together the

plan we fixated on the word generations and that that meant

and the generations of people whose shoulders we stand on and who came before us to make it

what it is today.

Next year our theme is generations of hope.

You can see how that plays out

to the 50th anniversary.

Every year we celebrate individuals and organizations,

local heroes who have done so

much to give back and build the lbgq community. In addition to the grand

marshalls that supervisor mandelman pointed out we have award des here.

I want to acknowledge them. China silk. Is china here?

She is one of our award des, she

is a san francisco native and

member of the imperial court.

She had grand dutches 27 and empress 39.

She is a prolific fundraiser and

fierce community advocated. Is sampson mccormick here?

He is an award-winning

entertainer, one of the most

celebrated voices in comedy for

two decades. He is hilarious.

He has headlines such venues as

the historic howard theater,

kennedy center, san francisco

punchline, harvard unit and the

first lbgq comic to perform at

the smithsonian.

I am not sure if there is a

representative from lion martin.

They set standards for community-based health service,

and the organization is named

after phyllis lion and del martin.

It was founded in 1979 as a

volunteer clinic providing

healthcare to women, lesbians

and in a safe and compassionate environment.

Another award de would be nia collective.

They are in the house. They received this year's 10 years of service award.

For more than 30 years they have

been providing a safe space for

lesbians of african descent to

teach and learn without judgment. They share information through annual gatherings and partnerships with other

community organizations. Nia collective. [Applause.]

>> I don't believe he is here

today, but our board selected

bob haas for the freedom award.

He helped to establish levy as a

corporate -- levi by

establishing support groups and sponsoring volunteer activities.

They have provided 70 $70 million

to hiv/aids non-profits around the board. They were >> they have provided $75 million around the globe and

levi offers benefits toh same-sex couples.

[Cheers and applause] >> I believe that ken henderson

is here from the richmond aid

foundation. Hi, ken.

The recipient of this years'

community award, they are

raising funds for aids services and programmes for homeless

youth if the bay area through quality entertainmentc programmes. Founded by two mother who lost

their owna sons to aids, barbara

richmond and peggy ermit honours

their son's memory

ies.

[Cheers and applause]Ng

>> and finally crystal veronica.

I'm not sure if crystal is here.

Crystal is another of our

awardees, a proud queer chicano

feminist and a recipient of thisth

year's award.

Her photography focuses on lgbtq folk and person of colour and

drivener by a strong desire to document folks making decisions

about what love looks like and

not compromise ing their societal standards. Crystall veronica.

[Cheers and applause]

I want to acknowledge teddy.

Thank you for being here. Having walked in your panel

annual sat in your chair, I have

immense respect for you.

>> we are reconvening the budget of the finance committee.

I would like to recess this meeting until 8:00.

Thank you very much. .

Our city is an emblem of

strength and beacon of home for lbgq people around the world.

In a couple weeks we will have

280 contingents marching down

market street and hundreds of

thousands on civic center, 20 stages planned.

People are working tirelessly around the clock to make this event successful and safe.

Thanks to the mayor and city for

all of the support we get. I am standing up here today with

our new board President, jack

lane bishop. [Applause.]

As well as many board members. Caroline wisingger is one of our

board members.

I would like to introduce her to you.

>> I want to thank everyone for coming out. I wrote some great remarks for this event. Last night >> last night I found out a couple of o our young comrades

were victims of horrific hate crimes atti the end of the democratic convention and it

reminded mee about those two

words in our thing, generations of resistance. You know,ti I work with high

school students and they asked

me what is the importance of raising the pride flag.

I told you I'm one of the folks fog to different municipalitiesif

to fight with city councils to raise the flags.

It reminds me when we fights as

amunicipality, we're rejusticing against institution.

Then we have to remember the

history of our resistance.

This would5 have been the 89th

89th anniversary of supervisor milt. We remember those that are still affected by violence in our community and that we as a municipality have to continue to protect them. So thank you to the mayor and the city of san francisco for

continuing this traditionci but I urge you to go into the community outside of the city of san francisco. They need your voices right now so they can have something like this in their cities. Thank you veryha much.

[Cheers and applause] >> what an event. Thank youan to the pride team and board and thank you all. Put so

so as we close, I

close, I want to thank everything to making this event

happen. And also, I

want to thank the

amazing team behind the scenes

working tirelessly, anthony in

protocol and myan team at the office of trans-initiative, thank you andat I would like to take a moment to recognise all

department heads and allies who came out today and city employees, if you could raise

your hand if you're with us. Thank you. [Cheers and applause]

>> and all of the folks who

received support from the city. Those folk who are here that

have lgbt programmes that work

everyday tirelessly, let's

recognise them.

Tout

we have to continue to love each other, support each other, not

just in June. 360, right, everyday of the year.

So with that, it's my honour to introduce san francisco's official band of san francisco,

the gay and let's

lesbian freedom band. Please enjoy cocktails and have a great day. Thank you. >> we need one for the mayor. [

]

Welcome to the 2019 immigrant leadership awards.

We're celebrating the

22nd anniversary and recognizing unsung immigrant advocates

champions and supporters.

So, I don't think I need to say

that it's a divisive time here

in the united states and

globally when civil rights, are

at risk, when anti immigrant

sentiment and rhetoric have translated into hatred and talk

of border walls and trust in the

federal government and america's international reputation are at an all-time low.

We must continue to see the light.

to remember our core values and continue to work together for

more just and equitable world. So tonight is about affirming

our commitment to immigrant communities and recognizing the important role that our immigrants and communities of color play in contributing to

the success and vibrant see of this city and nation.

So we're celebrating a city, country and world, for all the people. Not just some. Now I'd like to acknowledge

members of the councilor course.

Present tonight are columbian

andre garafo and Ms. Luna gafaro.

And from guatemala, sylvia May

and irish council general robert

odrisco, from japan, too and

general kamono and the mexican

council general, Ms. Arnault and

wilma gondoy and julio huerta and I'm sorry if I'm butchering your names. From the

is

underserved, adam. Under served.

There you are. >> good afternoon. I have a letter I would like to read how.

Friends, welcome to the 2012 immigrant leadership awards. The san francisco office of

civic engagement is committed to

advocating for justice, immigrant integration and immigration rights.

At a time when the unwarranted scapegoating of immigrants has become the norm, we celebrate the city of san francisco for staying in solidarity with immigrant families.

today we recognize and honor the accomplishments of the immigrant

community from know your rights

training through large scale naturalization clinics

advocating for san francisco's

sanctuary city policy and

ensuring access to pro bono low

cost immigrants services, the community has been a beacon of light and pillar of hope.

I extend my congratulations to

all tonight's honorees. Thank you for all you do for

strengthening our country.

Warmest wishes for a wonderful celebration. Sincerely, senator harris.

Thank you so much.

[Applause] >> thank you, adam.

In addition to nba finals month, this is also immigrant heritage

month and so mayor london breed who was not able to join us

tonight has declared this officially immigrant heritage month in san francisco.

We will have a copy of this on our website and if you would

like a copy of it, see staff.

That feels great. So it's my pleasure next to introduce the chair and the vice-chair at the immigrant rights commission.

Strong, inclusive and strategic describes the leadership team of

the immigrant rights commission.

I'd like to introduce chair

celine canaly and mario pots.

[Applause] >> I'm going to throw the translate or into a hoop because they won't know what it means.

It means good evening and welcome in gaelic. We're delighted to have you all

here this evening.

I know it's very hot and we hope that the heat in the room will

inspire and ignite all of us to continue on the paths that we

have chosen to take care of our immigrant communities. This is a very special night. The san francisco immigrant

rights commission is one of the

oldest and few such commissions in the nation.

For over 22 years, we have partnered with the city and the community to ensure the

well-being and inclusion of immigrants. From language rights to inclusion and qualities of life for our immigrant communities, we have worked hard to ensure that immigrants are recognized for their many contributions and are treated with the dignity and

respect that we wish for all americans. We live in what we still believe

to be the land of liberty where

freedom reigns and democracy rules.

We must have faith that we, the people, of the city and county of san francisco, and of the

united states of america, can continue to build upon the

success of our immigrant brothers and sisters to ensure

equal rights, comprehensive

immigration reform and fair and humane policies for all. Our dem ok rat see is at risk that's why it's important to support immigrants and all

communities who live in fear of discrimination, persecution and

violation of their human and religious rights. At immigrant rights commission,

we pledge to continue doing our

work with honesty, integrity and competence.

And in supporting us in that

work, before I introduce the

commissioners to you, I would

like to recognize director ponds, and all of the staff at

the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. They support each and every one

of us in our daily work. They stand up for all immigrants within this city and they make sure that we are cared for, we

are supported, and we are always

to the forefront of the mind of the city.

[Applause] Present

present this evening are our fellow commissioners and I would like to introduce them and I

would like you to stand and raise your hand so people know who you are.

The event co chairs for this wonderful event have done an

amazing job of putting it

together, choosing our amazing honorees.

[Applause]

[Applause]

[Applause] Welcome.

[Applause]

Commissioner jesse ruiz navarro

and commissioner alishia wang. Thank you. [Applause]

And I would also like to recognize commissioners michelle wong who are not able to join us this evening.

[Applause]

>> can you also join me in giving our great chair anna plows

anapplause for all her leadership please. I'm excited.

This is a day that we get to

celebrate our immigrant communities. and san francisco will always be a sanctuary city and it will

always be a city that will

celebrate our immigrant communities.

Let's give a round of applause

for this great city we live in and the values we represent.

I'd like to recognize some

former commissioners. Commissioner toyia moses. Thank you for all your years of

leadership in san francisco. I believe melva.

She's a former commissioner also, I would like to recognize her. Thank you. Gave us many years of service.

Three years ago, the commission decided it was time to recognize the many community leaders advocates, champions and supporters of immigrants and

honor their powerful contributions. The late mayor, ed lee launched

the immigrant leadership award in 2017. The commission is pleased this

area to honor 10 individuals or groups who make this world a

much better place.

All of our honorees tonight have contributed in different ways to

support immigrants and many are unsung heroes. We proudly salute them tonight for their dedication and fear

lessness in fighting for immigrant rights.

And again, we want to welcome you and thank you for being with

us this evening to celebrate our immigrant communities. Thank you.

[Applause] >> thank you.

I also wanted to recognize commissioner cal.

and also our former san francisco chief-of-staff under

how many mayors, steve?

Five? Steve in the back.

We're going to move along to the awards because I know we are

standing between you and that delicious reception.

Our first award speaking of food, goes to our corporate

leader rainbow grocery. Rainbow grocery is being recognized for support and value

of workers rights and fair trade

practices and policies and sustainable food. Good food. Since 1975, rainbow has supported local communities through employment and livable

wages and donations to non

profits and community outreach programs. And receiving the award for

rainbow is lesley layba and the rainbow gang.

[Applause] >> good evening, everyone. Thank you commissioners.

It's such a great honor for us to receive this award.

It is particularly meaningful

for us as those of us standing

up here represent a collective

of over 230 workers who own

rainbow grocery collectively. We have done so in the mission district of san francisco for

the past 44 years.

[Applause]

For the 44 years we've been

dedicated to our mission statement of having multi lingual workplace and maintaining a space of inclusivity where all people

feel safe, and so this award means a great deal to us. Being situated in the mission

district of san francisco means

that we have enjoyed the

generous support of an

incredibly diverse and amazing neighborhood of people who have

made what we do possible.

And we take that very seriously.

We also have an incredibly

diverse membership within our own collective. People who have come as

immigrants from all over the

world and we have, for example,

25% of our members who speak

spanish as a native language.

So this is an amazing chance for

us to feel honored and we

appreciate very much the work that everyone here does. Thank you very much to the commissioners for this award and also for the work you do on behalf of immigrants.

[Applause] >> honorees. When you come on the stage after you speak, you will receive your

award and certificate from our wonderful commissioners and then

you can exit stage right. Is that right? Stage right. Ok.

Next award is our industry

leader and this is going to leo sosa. He is an immigrant from guantanamo and he launched throw youth technology programs before

starting his own non-profit dove mission, which aims to train

young adults age 16-24 for careers in tech. He has also worked in many neighborhoods throughout the city helping to connect low

income families to broadband, distributing computers and building computer labs in

affordable housing communities.

please welcome leo sosa.

>> hello.

I like the sound of that. Now we're ready.

I would like to thank my parents.

I arrived to this country of May

10 in 1985 not knowing how to speak english, not knowing about the culture, not knowing what was going to happen to me.

I can tell you today it's a very special day.

I want to thank the san francisco immigrants right commission for nominating me for this wonderful award.

This award is not about me, it's about thousands of young people that I have trained for careers

in the tech industry since 2003.

60% of those people are immigrants.

I just left the computer lab

inside valencia gardens and I asked the cohort how many of them are immigrants.

Out of 18, six say they are and the rest of them say their

parents are immigrants. Imagine what we're doing in san francisco to connect these people in tech. Again, there would be no admission without organization like

the missioneconomic development agency,

mission house and development corporation, the san francisco house and development

corporation, and mercy housing.

Those are the pillars that made me who I am today. Without their support, they'll

be no youth technology programs

that I launched, no programs, no computers, there will be no subsidized employment dollars for young people. There will be no scholarships

and there will be no jobs in tech.

So with those non profits, I started building this model that we're going to clothes diversity

in the tech industry but most importantly, we're going to connect high school, middle school, elementary and young adults to career pathways that they're going to provide them to

stay in san francisco, financial capability opportunities and at

the end of the day, they'll be the next immigrant leaders in san francisco.

So thank you very much for being here tonight and lastly, I want

to thank my wife, my family, and everyone that has believed in

the work that wore doing in san

francisco in affordable housing communities.

[Applause]

[Applause] >> moving right along.

Next we have three grassroots community organizations in advocates that we'd like to honor.

First one is vanessa moses.

A powerful black bay area leader

and the executive director of just cause. She has a long track record of buildings and leadership of

working class communities and in 2017, vanessa's leadership lead

to the formation of bay rising a regional alliance of community

that organizations working to

address inequality and vanessa

was a co creator of bay

resistance, a rapid response

network of over 50 organizations. Unfortunately, vanessa is ill tonight but accepting the award

for her is gloria.

>>[Speaking spanish] >> good evening, my comrade here

and I are representing the work

of cal sahouta.

Present! Present!

Present! [Voice of interpreter] Thank you

very much for this recognition. It means a lot. We would like for the immigrant community to be here as well. The community we work for and the community that works for us

on the daily with a lot of

effort.

[Applause] [Voice of interpreter] I would like to say it's the immigrant community across the world that

is the main economy for the

world and it is because of us that we would like to have

happiness, peace and love.

[Applause]

[Applause]

>> our third grassroots leader

is kind in need of defense. Not the health bar but the organization so kind works to

ensure that no refugee or immigrant child faces

immigration court alone through

direct legal representation of

children and they recruit and train pro bono attorneys and advocate for policies that

protect the rights of unaccompanied children. Kind is a member of the san francisco immigrant legal defense collaborative and it's attorneys participate in the rapid response networks and volunteer as attorneys of the

day in immigration court.

We are so fortunate to be able

to honor kind.

[Applause] >> hi, everyone.

My name is katie and I'm a managing attorney for kind san francisco and fresno offices.

Thank you so much to the san francisco immigrant rights commission for this honor today.

I'm joined by our amazing, incredible team here in san francisco. We are a large team. We have lots of important work

to do and we're so honored to be recognized today. Kind represents unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in immigration court

proceedings.

Our clients are part of abandonment in their country and

they're in court alone. Including children as young as two-years-old but we represent here in san francisco.

I was in court today along with my other attorneys and being surrounded by young people, by

children in court without

attorneys -- it was overwhelming. But kind with support from the city, from all of the partners here, we're a proud member of

the san francisco immigrant rights, immigrant legal defence

and with support from that collaborative from the mayor's

office, the city of san francisco, from observe

c C.A.A. We

create a model and example for

other cities, for other places

across the country, the work we're doing here in san francisco.

I want to thank our staff here today.

[Applause] I want to thank our friends and family who are here and most

important, I want to thank our clients.

they're brave, resilient and

examples of all of us and we're

so proud to work with them.

[Applause]

>> congratulations to our grassroots leader.

Ok, if you guys are checking

your nba scoreboard on espn,

make sure your phone is on

silent. Ok, thank you.

We'll let you know in a minute.

Our next honoree is a san

francisco native and mother of

four and she's the head of the committee. She has been involved in community organizing for years.

Not only does she chair the

committee but she formed this

organization to support yemini american communities in the bay area during periods of social unrest.

Her advocacy and organizing efforts challenge harmful, national security and foreign policies that impact the americans and their families

here and back in yemen. Please, welcome gihan.

[Applause]

>> a

good evening, everyone.

Thank you to the san francisco immigrant rights commission and to the office of civic

engagement and immigrant affairs. To the city of san francisco and

its leadership for this recognition. I am truly honored. As a san francisco native, I am proud of how my city has been at

the forefront of protecting immigrant communities.

Especially during this harsh,

anti immigrant islamophobic

political climate. the yemen community has been so brave.

So brave in resilience and these

times even while still impacted

by the war in yemen.

Even still separated due to the muslim ban.

To my community, I am inspired by your strength.

And will not stop being an advocate for our causes. To our allies, I thank you for your solidarity.

Our struggles are bound and our

liberation is bound. I would not be here today without my family.

Shout out to my family.

And my team are also chairs of

the alliance committee here.

[Applause]

And my organizational bffs on

the ground still fighting the

good fight. Is san francisco will stand up and fight back. Thank you.

[Applause]

[Applause] >> all right. Next stop, I'm not going to read you the score yet.

We have our public-private

non-profit collaboration and our

honoree this year is the latino cultural district.

It began in 1999 as a grassroots organization formed by community

members in the mission district.

It's council members represent

merchants, residents, landlords,

service non profits, arts,

organizations and the mayor

established a latino cultural districts.

The mission is to preserve

enhance and advocate for latino,

continuity, and. >> I first just want to thank the immigrants rights commission for this great award. We all do and folks from the

commission district are also

honored to receive this award.

We became a cultural district in

2014 but we have an active since 1999. As you know, the mission

district has been impacted greatly by gentrification displacement in the last 10 to

eight years and we've our work is great and we realize we can't do this alone and there's a lot of us involved in the neighborhood with our allies and our neighbors and our merchants and our non profits and artist are all involved in this great battle to preserve our

community, our culture, our business. Everything that creates our community, everything that makes

us viable and sustainable is that we're trying to preserve. So, we can't do this alone and

so we have all of you, at the

city, to really help us preserve our community.

We can't do it alone. Thank you.

[Applause]

[Applause] >> our next award is special. It's the vera hail champion of

justice award named for our late I.R.C. Commissioner who, as all

of you know, a very fierce advocate for immigrants and the underserved.

She never let us forget for a second who we served and challenges us always to never

stop fighting for the rights of others. The san francisco public defender immigration defence

unit was established on May 23rd, 2017 by our late

brother, the late public

defender jeff hadachi to ensure

that detained immigrants facing deportation and immigration

court have accessed to council.

The unit has handled more than

240 cases and helped stop the

deportation of around 75% of its clients. Pretty good success rate.

It is now among the largest and

the best known publicly funded detained removal defence providers in california. Accepting the award is deputy

public defender jennifer freedman, who many of you know

from her outstanding work in new

york state and francisco, our

long time colleague and champion.

[Applause] >> good afternoon, thank you.

I want to thank the immigration rights office and immigrant

affairs for this recognize and all of us in the immigration

defense unit at the public defenders office. Through the generous support of the city of san francisco, we, the public defenders immigration unit, represent detained immigrants facing deportation

right here in san francisco. There arality attorneys and five support staff. This work has never been more important and never been harder.

This unit was designed by our

fear less leader to fight back.

We believe fiercely that every

immigrant deserves zealous representation, even those with criminal convictions.

Everyday, we're bringing our public defenders' spirit and determination to the table to

bat many on behalf of our immigrant neighbors. we represent the entire san francisco community, all of us.

When we show up to court and

demand our clients' rights. Together we are fighting back.

We will not allow this administration to deprive our

clients of their faraday in fair day in court. Thank you for making this possible. We would not be here without all of your support.

[Applause]

>> each year the commission recognizes an emerging youth

leader and this year we are honoring karla laurel, west bay filipino multi service center.

Karla is a second generation filipino-american and bay area native.

She began working at west bay a decade ago as a volunteer helping to launch the first culturally sensitive college prep program for filipino youth

in south of market and expanded

west based services to immigrant

families from other countries.

As executive director, now remember, 10 years ago she was a volunteer, 10 years later she's executive director.

Not bad, huh. Karla supports west bay's

mission to enhance the quality

of life, of underserved youth,

seniors and their families. >> good evening, everyone. Thank you to the san francisco

office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs.

The executive director, clerk, the immigrant rights commission

and it's chairs for this amazing honor. First and foremost I want to thank God for this amazing honor. i would also like to thank all of those who have made a

difference in west bay for the past 50 years that we've been in service.

To all of the board members,

past executive directors, our

community partners who are here as well. And all those that have dedicated themselves to the work

who have supported me and west bay.

Thank you for being here today.

I stand here simply as a face to

an organization who have had the

privilege of working with such a

vibrant community, a filipino immigrant families.

We have now gren to support vietnamese, latino and recent immigrant families as well. It was brought to my attention a little while ago that I am the

first filipino to get this award.

[Applause]

And as the director of an organization that started before

I was here, and is rooted in 100-year history of filipinos in

san francisco, and representing the largest immigrant community

here in san francisco, I'm humbled and proud.

Filipinos have been here in san francisco and especially in the

south of market neighborhood and

so this award is for them.

For the families that work multiple jobs, don't have their children here because they couldn't take all of them here because I've had the immigration

laws work and the mothers and fathers who are made parking lot attendants, drivers, securities

at the mall and working two, three, four too many jobs and all while putting their kids through college and hoping to achieve this same american dream that we all want.

And also, to the recent immigrant, young adults and youth, who are working to support their families as well

while paying their way through college. To all the filipinos in the south of market neighborhood who would never get this recognition

or acknowledgment.

Although I maybe the first filipino to receive award the won't be the last and it doesn't mean there are heroes and leaders that have been here and continue to be here whose names you May never know. I am here sim plow

simply to represent

them and let everyone know we're here. We've been here.

You've been here and you matter. I would like to acknowledge and recognize a particular young

lady, who I met with she was a youth. When I began my journey working with this immigrant community. She came to the U.S. From the philippines as a young child and

has been a part of the west base since she was in the fourth grade. She never let her circumstances growing up in a dangerous

neighborhood or any label define her potential. She's our program coordinator for our middle school youth and a college graduate from san francisco state university. Yes!

Where she works her butt off. [Applause] To get on the honor roll and be a working student as one of our

staff so she's graduating with

zero student loans. Yes! So although I'm honored to get

this award I wanted to dedicate

to my wonderful, amazing staff, my inspiration. Thank you so much.

[Applause]

[Applause]

>> karla is self less and a great leader. It gives me great pleasure to introduce our volunteers of the

year, not just one but you get four.

All members of the same family. And there's just the most fun family ever. The wang family.

So amy wang is the volunteer coordinator for the san francisco pathways to

citizenship initiative. She has coordinated hundreds of

volunteers including her own

parents, andy wang and anne lee chen and her sister abby wang and if they have a dog, I'm sure

the dog is going to be volunteering too.

The wang family is supported the

pathways initiative's mission to

promote citizenship in san francisco and has volunteered at

nearly every single naturalization workshop since it

started in 2013.

Amy is just an amazing person.

Her family is awesome.

Amy works at the bay area iiba. International institute of bay area, a non-profit organization that provides immigration legal

services to low income immigrant communities. If you have family members that want to volunteer, please see

amy after the program.

[Applause]

>> thank you, very much to the immigrant rights commission for this honor. We really appreciate it.

As was mentioned earlier, since 2013, the san francisco pathways

to citizenship initiative has

helped thousands of immigrants inside san francisco and outside of san francisco in their

journey to become U.S. Citizens. If you are interested in joining

us at the next naturalization workshop, please give me a holler or you can reach out to us and we can get you set up. I hope to see you all at the next workshop.

[Applause]

[Applause]

>> also I'd like to recognize in

the house is our former irc

commissioner, russ gerbin.

The final award is a very, very

special award to many of us. This award is special recognition to the friends of the crystal city pilgrimage.

The friends of crystal city

pilgrimage is a group of 60

japanese-american and

japanese-peruvian immigrants. Including survivors of the camp

in texas who traveled to texas

this year to speak out against immigration detention of our

border children and families and protested women and children at

the south texas family center in dilly the largest immigration detention center in the country today.

They carry 25,000 hand voted

cranes to the prison in sol tar tee.

We're honored these core courageous americans are here tonight and

allowing us to honor in turn of

recognizing them. please welcome the friends of

the christian city pilgrimage.

[Applause] >> thank you so much for

honoring us with this award. It's beautiful to be here with

all of you and I'd like to say

one thing, strength in numbers.

[Applause]

I also would like to say in japanese, good evening.

>> my name is nancy and I was honored to be part of the crystal city pilgrimage this year and I'd like to ask you all a question.

Why is the fight against jailing

children and separation of

families a fight for japanese americans too? And I think all of us here, this is part of the committee,

believe that because our people,

during world war ii, 120,000 why

taken from our homes without due

process and incarcerated and concentration camps across the country.

Most of us were citizens. One-third were children.

And among our pilgrims, seven were incarcerated and crystal city and it was the first time

for many of them to go back to that site.

So, after we paid homage to our ancestors and survivors, we got

on a bus, wore age 24-88. We were from california, new

york, colorado, texas and

washington and we got on a bus

and drove 40 miles to another prison.

We went to the dill' we we took

frames and the ones here are from san quinton and what we did

was we hung them on the fence to

show our solidarity and behalf of the survivors of the camps

and the tens of thousands and migrants who are in detention

and we will not forget you and we will come back and there's another pilgrimage being planned for November of this year and

next year some of us are going

to take 125,000 origami cranes

to washington D.C. To keep the

message going. [Applause] Because we're in san francisco,

I just wanted to introduce you

to these people, they met in detention under the age of four. They came back to san francisco.

They've gone to school together, been cub scouts together and

they went back to the pilgrimage

and back to the fence to protest the incarceration of women and children.

[Applause]

>> I just want to say that it

was 77 years ago that there was wartime was surreal, discrimination, which resulted in injustice.

And now, 77 years later, there's hiss ter why,

ter a and discrimination in the white house. It's discrimination we must stop that. Don't let history repeat itself. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> thank you. My name is kazumo.

I am a japanese peruvian.

My family was kidnapped in March of 1944.

We were imprisoned at the camp. We were stripped of our civil

rights, our human rights. Without due process.

No representation. The same thing is happening at our borders today and our

message is on our t-shirt.

Stop repeating history. stop repeating history.

I wanted to say thank you to the

san francisco immigrants.

On behalf of the japanese

families and japanese american

families and thank you for our honor and also again recognizing

us and recognizing our slogan. Thank you.

[Applause] Thank you. >> I was born in the

concentration camp in utah and I

was almost five-years-old when I

was finally released from crystal city.

My family had been incarcerated

for five years and our whole

effort is to end the

discrimination and the

imprisonment of asylum seekers especially in south texas where we were.

And we're going back in November

to do the same thing again but

this time with a larger crowd. 300 people.

So, we are committed.

[Applause]

>>

[Applause] >> what an amazing group of leaders. Would you please join me in congratulating everyone again. [Applause]

Thank you. >> I know I said I wasn't going

to give you the score but it's tied.

And it's still in the first quarter. So, send your positive energy to

our golden state warriors.

Thank you to the many people and organizations that make

tonight's program possible.

Amy chan and gillman loy, henry him.

Check out the exhibit in the middle of the room.

Our artist, christian and christian is creating incompetenter

interactive art.

Ray mar foods international, our catering.

The office of mayor london n. Breed. Martha cohen, the san francisco

board of supervisors, city

administrator, sfgovtv and most

of all to our wonderful event coordinators who are shy every year they do this and they hide

in the back of the room so melissa chan, jamie richardson and elaine ashore.

Please come up and receive an award. Thank you.

[Applause] Hurry up, because you are standing up between everybody and their reception.

Come on, melissa. I'm calling them up because every single event that we do, every single year, they do the work and then they hide in the back and they never receive their thank you. Since we're thanking everybody

for their wonderful, important work we're thanking the three of you for yours. Ok.

[Applause] >> thank you.

And also, to our wonderful

staff, our interpreters, the entire staff.

Raise your hands if you are staff. And all those guys in the yellow

and blackjack et cetera. Black jackets. They are our community embassadors and they make our streets safe for all of us.

thank you to them. Score is still tied, everyone. Please enjoy the reception and

thank you very, very much.

[Applause]

And it started with this man right here today.

[Applause] Today we reclaim our space here in the tender loin and raise

the rainbow flag. And my deepest appreciation to deborah walker. Without her support and leadership, this would have never happened.

[Applause]

And finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing

the needs of H.I.V.-positive,

the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true

queen of san francisco, our mayor, london breed.

[Applause] >> thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. It's great to hear.

When I think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that

existed in our country for so many years, I definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this

country and how so many people,

the african american community and the discrimination in

housing, the lgbt community and discrimination as it relates to

housing and that just shows us

that we have work to do. Because when we come together, when we come together for a common purpose, we can

accomplish anything. And it also tells us that names make a difference.

i mean, the rainbow flag apartments and the iconic

rainbow flag and what it has meant to our lgbt community. When you come to san francisco,

and you see this iconic flag

that gilbert baker created in 1978, you know you can be safe. You know there is a place for you. And I'm just so proud of san francisco.

In fact, last week when we raised the rainbow flag at city

hall, it was my first raising of the rainbow flag for lgbt pride month in san francisco as

mayor and I have been to those

flag raisings many years before. Itself was so special. Because there were so many people who had pride in the city and so many people who

were there who were not lgbt.

So many folks from various communities celebrating what we

know is important in our city.

Is to bring people together. To provide opportunities and to make sure in the process, as we

deal with many of the city challenges, we don't leave anyone behind. I want to thank bill jones for being here today and thank you

so much for, you know, just creating a safe space for people. What you did, you May have thought I'm providing an opportunity. Your opportunity has led to not

only thousands of people being housed, but other organizations that have changed and shaped

the lives of so many people in the lgbt community and it will

for generations to come. You started a movement with the rainbow flag apartments and now

today the gilbert baker rainbow

flag apartments. How amazing is that to do that in san francisco? And now that we're just talking about housing and housing affordability and opportunities, I'm really proud

that in this past budget, one of the first things we were

able to do in listening to the blgts community and people who came to my office to meet with

me, to talk about many of the disparities that existed around housing with our lgbt

community, we were able to add

to our budget an additional $3 million to help with subsidies and support. $2 million --

[Applause] -- $2 million specifically for

trans people in san francisco

because we know that they are

18% more likely to experience homelessness, more than anyone else in the homeless population. [Sirens]

We have to be deliberate in how we invest our resources and how we continue to provide opportunities for people to come together.

[Sirens] Because that is what's --

[Sirens] Having an emergency is all about. [Laughter]

But the fact is, when we think about pride, yes we can think about our incredible lgbt community. We can think about inclusiveness.

But having pride in our city so critical to the success of our

city.

It's about bringing people from

all walks of life together, to celebrate, celebrate an opportunity to make us feel like we belong and we hear and you will hear us and we will be loud and we will be proud. Thank you all so much for being here today.

[Applause]

And with that, I'm going to do what mayors do best.

I'm going to declare it somebody's day. [Laughter]

We know that just a few years

ago, unfortunately, we lost gilbert baker and we also know that his legacy and the work

that he has done in creating

this incredible symbol will not only live on in san francisco, it lives on throughout the world.

It will live on in the gilbert baker rainbow flag apartments

and it will also live on in his estate, established in his memory to do the kinds of

amazing things that will continue to advance the rites and love and support of the lgbt community.

So with that, I'd like to present this proclamation -- oh, to you. Come on up. [Laughter] >> hi. Thank you so much. >> introduce yourself. >> I'm charlie beal, the manager of the gilbert baker estate. >> and so on behalf of the city

and county of san francisco,

today we are going to declare it gilbert baker estate day in san francisco.

[Applause] Thank you for your work to continue his legacy. >> thank you.

[Applause] Thank you so much for being here today. Congratulationss to the residents who were so fortunate enough to be here and a little secret -- a couple of years --

probably about 15 years ago, during the pride celebration, I had a really great time during a party on the rooftop. [Laughter] And I remember going back the next year and there was no party! >> uh-huh.

>> Reporter:   I don't know what happened, but I hope what this

means is a chance to celebrate pride, san francisco-style at

the gilbert baker rainbow flag apartments in the heart of san francisco! Have a wonderful time, everyone. Thank you.

[Applause] >> thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, brian. Thank you everybody coming here today. Again, my name is charlie beal. I'm the manager of the gilbert baker estate.

I really am just one of his

best friends who, when he died unexpectedly a little over two years ago, we tried to pick up

the pieces and had no idea in a way what we were getting ourselves in for. But we found out a lot of things about gilbert. We found out that he had a memoir hidden away on his hard drive.

It's now published. And available just this past week. in that book, he writes a lot

about san francisco. And I learned so much about him from san francisco. I came here with him many times. I came here -- I was here, the art director in the movie "milk" and we were looking at

research and all thesen n banners from the old pictures

in the 1970s and I sent pictures to gilbert and I said do you know anything about those and he said, girlfriend, I made those banners. Well, come out here and make them again because we have to make them again for the movie. My husband vincent here is also very active in the estate. We came out and made the flag

for when we rise and I've held

the end of the banner in more marches for gilbert baker than

I can count don my -- than I

can count on my fingers and toes. The heart of the rainbow flag is here. I'm from new york and new york,

you know, stonewall is our heartbeat of the gay movement there, but here it is the rainbow flag. The one thing he wrote about in the book that always gets me

choked up because he talks

about that time he was out

walking with cleave and artie and harvey milk was saying we need a new symbol and he was walking in this area over here and he looked up at the american flag and he thought about the power of the american

flags and what he had seen in the bicentennial two years

before. And then a while after that,

after thinking we need a flag

to begin with, he and cleave were out dancing and looked at the diversity of the crowd and he describes in the book about

how, in san francisco, you just

have everybody of every race,

creed, color, type, sexuality,

gender and he saw that and the swirling colored lights and he

just saw a rainbow and that is how that experience -- that is the genesis of that symbol that we see around the world.

And at that moment, he writes very passionately that the drag queens and the young transpeople at stonewall would finally have a symbol of their own.

So, he felt like he had

fulfilled a purpose and a cause in doing that. It still lives on. We're lucky here in san francisco. We see rainbow flags up and down the street. I just came from new york. Stonewall 50. They can't stop putting rainbows up in new york. They're everywhere.

My God. It is pretty incredible. We can never forget that if you tried to unfurl a rainbow flag in the middle of red square right now, you'd get arrested. I'm happy that in taiwan, you can get married. But there are so many countries around the world where you can't even love another person openly.

And when they do try to proclaim their visibility the

way they do it is by hoisting one of these. And when you are in a country and visiting overseas and not quite sure if you really belong

and suddenly you see a cafe with the rainbow flag, you know you've found a safe space. Brian, I thank you so much for doing this, for creating safe

spaces for people with H.I.V., for dedicating to this to gilbert. It means so much to me and so much to the estate. I'd like to thank you and san francisco. Thank you so much.

[Applause] >> our next speaker embodies what it means to be an ally.

I'm more of a co-conspirator.

I'm like somebody who's down

there fighting hard next to you.

And learning how to be an ally takes poo em who embody it and

show you the way. And our next speaker I think that is really who he is as a person. And so we're really lucky to

have him as our supervisor.

In distribution six. Please welcome matt haney.

[Applause] >> thank you, brian. Thank you, mayor breed.

Isn't this a wonderful day? This is an extraordinary thing

to be celebrating the gilbert

baker rainbow apartments here on larkin street in the tender loin. I want to give a special thank you to you, brian. I can tell you that during the

budget process, there was

nobody who works harder than

brian basinger and the q foundation to make sure that everybody who is lgbt have a safe and secure place to call home. Thank you, brian. give it up for brian and he leadership.

I'm also very excited that we have this flag here in the

tender loin.

The tender loin is among, along

with lower pope, the oldest lgbt neighborhood, not just here in san francisco, but across the country.

It is a neighborhood where compton's cafeteria riots, the first ever documented

collective uprising of lgbt people in the country took

place in 1966 and it is a neighborhood where the compton's transgender cultural

district, the nation's firsts officially recognized cultural -- transgender neighborhood is

here today. It's a place that, for so many years, during some of the worst

times in san francisco when the

so-called public decency laws prevented them from being

themselves. But tenderloin was an area they were provided respite from prosecution and harassment. The raising of this flag and

the rededication of these apartments for gilbert baker, the man responsible for

creating this beautiful symbol,

reaffirms the importance and contributions ofpt community, to the tenderloin, to the city of san francisco and to the

world. The gilbert baker rainbow flag apartments is one of the most important gateways to the tender loin.

And from city hall to the comptons district, we envision

a place where transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, H.I.V.-positive and every stripe of the rainbow lives in

a liberated life, free from oppression, free from fear of violence and secure in knowing they're receiving equitable access to shelter, housing, jobs and services that we know that they deserve. One of most shameful things I recently saw is that the trump administration is now saying that this flag cannot be displayed on embassies around

the world and when they pushed back, when they resort to the worst of it.

When they try to deny people's identity and humanity, that is when we have to celebrate this flag and what it represents, even more. [Applause]

Thank you all for being here. Thank you veritas. Thank you to mayor breed. To the q foundation. And thank you to everyone who

made this possible.

>> there is a small group of us who are survivors who have been through it all, from the depths

of the aids epidemic, homelessness, all kinds of

struggles. And I was thinking about it a couple of week ago.

I said, you know, how many

people have really risen from

that experience and gone on to

do wonderful things and to make meaningful contributions to society. Really I was looking at who are

my peers in that experience. And one of them is up next for

us who is a long-time friend

and ally of ours from the

office of congresswoman nancy pelosi, please welcome gary Mccoy.

[Applause] >> thank you, brian.

This is very exciting for me personally to be out here today. I also have friends that lived

here that were -- their housing was alsos subsidized and H.I.V. Positive and really meant the

life to them. On behalf of the congresswoman

and speaker of the house nancy pelosi, have a letter I'd like the read from her. Friends, we proudly gather today with city officials, community leaders and the q found diagnosis dedicate this

historic building as the gilbert baker rainbow flag

apartments. Referencing the importance to san francisco and the lgbt communities. It is my regret that I could not be with you today.

Just a few blocks from here,

gilbert baker created the now iconic rainbow flag by hand and it was outside of this building

where the flag proudly flew. It is my privilege to represent

san francisco with its large lgbt community. We're a city that thrives because of its diversity and

take great pride in the innumerable contributions that

the lgbtq community make to our great city and country.

By hanging the rainbow flag

once again, we affirm our connection to the acceptance of the lgbtq community. We honor gilbert's memory and

legacy by dedicating this

building in his name. When gilbert created the rainbow flag, he generously chose not to trademark it because he recognized its

symbolism and knew it should be accessible to everyone to show their pry. This month, millions of lgbtq americans March through the streets with pride, celebrating the beautiful diversity and

best regards, nancy pelosi.

[Applause]

>> our next speaker is a person of considerable distinction.

In 1969, he was the first single adult in america to adopt a child.

The fact that he did that as a

gay man is really profound.

He was also or tainted by mayor gavin newsome and has the distinction of marrying the most number of couples during

the summer of love at city hall. He is the original owner of the rainbow flag apartments.

He was the one who put up the

name rainbow flag, who put up

the flag itself and also as I said before, he was the one

that gave us a chance.

He said yes whenever other land lord that we approached in six

monthses said no. He then said that's a security come of $3900. [Laughter]

I did not rob a 7-eleven, but I

got really creative.

And that single act of

generosity, that single act of

saying "yes" changed our lives.

And hopefully --

[Applause]

That we have dedicated the last

15 years to paying that back.

[Voice breaking] >> phil jones. [Cheering]

[Honking] >> it's nice to be home again.

[Laughter] I know you guys are so hot. can you get in the shade, at least?

I feel so sorry for you. Yeah.

I got -- I would like the give you a little history of it.

This whole block was owned by

hastings law school. And they wanted to tear down the buildings and build an extension of the law school. The city said no, we need the housing.

So, they sold this apartment to

me and two others on Mcallister

side to somebody else.

I know how you feel. [Laughter] It is an emotional thing.

So the first thing I did, I painted the building and put in new carpets and everything and the tenants were worried sick that I was going to raise their rent. And then I did something

absolutely horrible. [Rustling noise]

[Applause]

I did this. [Cheering]

[Applause]

And -- so then the tenants wrote in this little neighborhood paper. Perhaps the greatest indication of the change overtaking the

west block in the wake of the change of landlords is that the apartment building at 324 street is now called the

rainbow flag apartments.

It's a pretty silly name for a building with lousy wiring -- [Laughter]

I love that. The flag that you see here didn't always just fly from the

fire escape. I erected a 50-foot flagpole for one reason.

That building wasn't built yet. City hall were putting roller

skates under it so in case of an earthquake it could roll

back and forth.

The museum was -- the library -- it was a library, right. And so they were changing that and they were building a new library.

So I was in this construction and was bound and determined that that flag would fly higher than anything else.

And we got it up. Four stories and 50 feet and I knew it would be photographed and I wanted us to be a part of what was happening at the civic center. So, that's how that happened. [Applause] Just one more thing.

The flag didn't have an ending when I took it down. Oh, I sold the building to an arab.

The first thing he did, took off the letters.

And I took down the flag.

So I gave the flag to the university of pacific.

They had a gay-lesbian alliance

there.

And the flag disappeared.

They found it later in a

latrine covered with urine.

Well that just -- when that

word got out, hundreds and

hundreds of students in pacific

had a rally and thousands of

people in stockton came down to protest what had happened to

that flag.

So it now hangs in the rainbow

resource and study room. Which I donated to university

pacific. I copied the one that is in the

library here. So, anyway, I feel vindicated. I feel absolutely wonderful about this. Thank you so much.

[Applause] >> next up is one of my personal heroes.

One of the national leaders for

lesbian-gay-transgender and one

of the architects of marriage equality, kate kendall. >> good afternoon. I'm going to stay the obvious.

Is this not the best of san francisco right here?

[Applause]

I mean -- when I came to san

francisco in 1994 from utah, I

fell like I had arrived in oz.

And to see -- to hear different languages spoken on muni, to

walk down the street and see a

diversity of the beautiful humanity of this city just

meant so much to me and I know we've had some challenges recently in recent years. People have given a knock to san francisco. It's not the same place it used to be. The mayor talked about the challenges. But you know what?

This is who san francisco is.

This is who san francisco is.

And I want to really do a shout-out to brian basinger. So brian --

[Applause]

Brian, at huge personal sacrifice, that very few of us

-- and I mean us -- would have

ever made has made the leaves

and the futures of thousands of

people richer with dignity and depth in a way they could have never imagined. I adore you. i love you. Thank you for everything you've done.

[Applause] And then finally, I just want

us to move forward as I see ken will be up here in a second and deborah walker and so many people that I know here. We're in a perilous moment. We all get that. We were in a toxic moment. We're in a dangerous moment.

We're in a moment where so many

communities are terrified. But you know what?

This is an example of the muscle memory we have of how we

get through a moment like this. San francisco has been through

this before many, many times. We know how to traverse this and the way we traverse this is

by locking arms and saying no way, mother [Beep] You're not getting through them without coming through us. And that -- >> whew!

>> that is what this moment demands and what typifies brian's leadership. I'm so happy you're all here. Happy to look arms with you.

Thank you so much. [Applause] >> so, the history of the

closet did not let any light in.

There was no light to illuminate our history.

So much of it went unwritten. Unrecorded, unacknowledged and

unknown. Our elders are our historians. They're the ones that keep the

flame alive, that tell us how it was back in the day and

teach us how to navigate the world with grace, dignity and a little bit of fearness.

fierceness. We are so lucky to have one of

our own to come and tell the tales and my dear colleague and

friend, ken jones.

[Applause] >> thank you so much for inviting me here this afternoon

to talk about the rainbow flag

and to let you know that your

dues are due.

All protest movements rely on symbols, boycotts, strikes,

sit-ins and flags.

This is an everyday complacency

and forces us to think.

Today that flag embraces us and

covers us.

It keeps our fragile coalition together and moving forward and you know what?

As a movement, we're old enough, mature enough and wise

enough to know that that

rainbow flag is our symbol, our

hope and our future that speaks volumes.

It says that fragile coalitions are possible. That we can stay together and

work together. That we can make this a better place not only for those who are witnessed now, but for all those who will walk these paths

in the future.

That rainbow flag represents our membership and belonging in

the community of lesbians,

gays, bisexual, transgender, intersex queer, questioning, two spirited and our allies.

So look at your neighbor and tell 'em your dues are due.

One of the more importantless -- important lessons I've

learned on this journey is legislation, proclamations and executive orders, they cannot

and they do not change people's

hearts.

We change people's hearts not through any herculean interventions, no we change

people's hearts when we are present, when we are authentic

and when we are transparent and

those are your dues -- to be present, authentic and transparent. You see, I'm getting old and I'm getting tired and I'm

getting weary. Of trusting the system for the

change that is not happening. The change that is not coming. The change that is not on the

way.

No doubt about it, your dues

are due until our 8 and 10-year-olds stop taking their

lives because they can't deal

with the bullying. Our dues are due. Until our transgender people of

color can walk up and down any streets in this nation, unharmed.

Your dues are due. Until all lgbtq folks are no

longer attacked on the streets of san francisco, your dues are due.

[Applause]

Your dues are due until we

cross that finish line.

Arm in arm together under our

rainbow flag. Your dues are due. Thank you.

[Applause] >> so, our event today happens to coincide with the big meeting at the board of

supervisors. So, rafael mandelman, has anyone seen him? He is not here. Ok. There is a good chance he was

going to get stuck at the board of supervisors.

So I'm sure -- yay! Good job.

[Laughter] So many of you know me.

Some of you have read about me. I have a reputation. That I've earned and I'm proud of. [Laughter] >> some of it's true! >> and most of it's true.

[Laughter]

So I've wanted this day to

happen for over 10 years and almost everybody at city hall knows about it because it is all I talk about. For 10 years. I'm going to get that flag back one day. I'm getting that name back one

day. And so credit needs to go where credit is due. And, you know, really want to thank the workers of veritas

who helped put this together. You know, especially danielle washington. >> whew!

[Applause]

>> there was a true spirit of

joy in this.

That you could see it in people's faces and the wae they

showed up to support this. It was genuine and, if I was the boss, I'd give them all a big pat on the back.

And here to do that is the new owner of this building.

[Applause] >> thank you, brian. Really appreciate this.

I'm so honored and humbled to be here today representing the veritas team and all of our

partners as well, too. it's really touching to meet

bill, the original owner of this building I thought it was a great opportunity to rekindle and look at what he was able to

do with that photo of draping the rainbow flag across this building. We had no idea that this building was where the rainbow

flag was part of its home as well, too.

If you look up, you'll see that that flag is raised up high and proud for everyone to see. You'll see this flag right here as well, too. And we feel so proud and privileged to be stewards of this building for all. Moving forward as well. We have a plaque there as well, too. And there is a little bit of old and new here.

So, while we're respecting and

harkening the old, what we're renaming and recristening this building as rainbow flag apartment, we have a Q.R. Code

to learn a little bit about the history of what happened here as well. [Applause] So, it is really a real privilege. Thank you, guys, for having uss

here and really on behalf of

the veritas team, it is such an honor to re-raise the flag. Such an honor to recristen this

building as one of the homes of

the rainbow flag which, to us, symbolizes diversity and inclusion for all.

Again, on behalf of all of our team members as well as partners, proud to raise our hand and raise a flag.

So, thank you.

>> now I'm taking off my brian basinger executive director of

the q foundation hat and

putting on my faint ruby slippers moniker.

No dedication would be complete without the blessing and

invocation of the sisters of perpetual indulgence. [Cheering]

This is your moment, ladies. >> we're so -- we're so proud

that brian is one of our saints. And we honor the work that he

has done for sisters and

everybody else in the community. He is a great force to be reckoned with.

And now we're going to channel

the fierce energy of one of our

sisters, sister chanel, number 2001, gilbert baker.

[Applause]

To keep the demons at bay and make this a sacred space. May the saints and the sinners who have gone before hear our

petition. >> May the hungry be fed and the homeless housed.

[Applause] >> May the outcast find a chosen family and the misfit find a fit.

[Applause] >> May we honor those among us on their own path, taking the

road less traveled. [Applause]

>> May we correct and admonish

our peers with represent and

love and May we receive correction with dignity and openness.

>> May the divine in me see the

divine in you, not the holy divine the actress.

[Laughter] >> May we be known for radical

inclusion of the other and may we call bullshit on the

exclusive, the clique, the no blacks, no asians among us. [Applause] [Cheering]

To the she, to the he and to the they, as it was in the

beginning and it is now and will be forever, all men, all women and all the others!

[Applause] >> that concludes our ceremony

today.

Everyone is invited down to the auditorium at 5:30 just down

here at the main library.

Where gilbert baker's posthumous memoirs, his

tell-all with all the dirt and all the dish is going to be for sale. [Laughter] Thank you, everybody!

[Applause]

Supporters of the eagle plaza.

[Cheers and applause]

This morning, I was honored, my

business partner, mike leon.

On this historic day.

I want to take the warmest

welcome possible to the

honorable mayor london breed,

supervisor haney, supervisor mandelman.

The greatest community, members

of the leather and lgbt cultural district and the friends of

eagle plaza.

We're all here today after a long road. Great accomplishments.

Eagle plaza started as an idea.

Six years ago my business

partner and I met, built and

have a conversation about

breaking ground for construct, where we floated idea of the construction of the plaza. Between the san francisco eagle

bar and the construction. a plaza unique to the world that

will honor the leather and lgbt communities, serve as a focal

part for them to have events. And now this idea is about to come true.

It's fitting this was elected for the first public plaza

dedicated to the leather community. It's been the home for this

community for decades.

A special thanks to supervisor

haney and mandelman for introducing and pushing forward

the legislation to permit the construction of eagle plaza.

[Cheers and applause]

Without their efforts, eagle

plaza would still remain as an idea.

I would like to thank all of those who contributed financially to eagle plaza and

to my eagle family for their support. And, of course, the most special

thanks to mayor breed, who

removed road blocks, constantly

moved the project forward to

where we're here today at the ground-breaking of eagle plaza.

I would like you to extend the warmest welcome to our mayor, london breed.

[Cheers and applause] >>

>> Mayor Breed:   thank you so much. I am so excited to be here today. We're going to have one of the most beautiful plazas in san francisco. I remember when it first became

mayor and I knew that this idea

had started over six years ago when state senator scott wiener was on the board of supervisors

and I know a lot of the work he

did helped to get us to this place. But I was really frustrated over

the two years of bureaucracy.

We already had the support.

We already had the plan. And the city bureaucracy

continued to delay this project.

So two years delay was just really unacceptable. So when I first became mayor, I

made this one of my first directives and we got the

approvals done in three months. So I'm really proud -- [Applause] -- that we were able to work together to accomplish that goal.

In addition to that, because

this was such an amazing

community-driven project,

$200,000 from the community college grant was made possible

to help fund this project.

The work from build inc. And I

want to thank lauren seguin for being here, as well as the folks from the park alliance and the

friends of eagle plaza, you all

came together to make this incredible project possible.

And I also would like to say a special thank you to senator

scott wiener who put $100,000 in

the state budget so we can have

the additional support that we need.

But here's the good news.

We know that there is still a

$50,000 funding gap and so that we can focus on the work and not on the resources needed to get

the work done, I work with supervisor mandelman to come up

with the $50,000 that we need to get this project done.

[Cheers and applause]

>> Mayor Breed:   so to the folks

of the leather and the lgbt community and this cultural district that was made possible for the purposes of celebration coming together.

And in the spirit of pride month

here in san francisco that celebrates inclusiveness and love and all great things we are

here in our great city, I would

like to say congratulations and

thank you all for your hard work.

I know when this plaza is completed, it's going to be used

by so many people, to hang out, drink coffee, read, and celebrate and all the great things we do that make san francisco such a unique and special place for people to visit and live here. Thank you, all, so much.

[Applause]

>> now I'd like to present a

very special award that the san

francisco eagle bar to a very special person.

This is called the leather feather.

And it's given in recognition of

someone who not only has supported the leather community

in a special way, but performed extraordinary service in doing so.

So for making eagle plaza a

reality, eagle bar is honored to

present the leather feather to

the san francisco mayor london breed.

>> Mayor Breed:   thank you. >> thank you so much.

>> Mayor Breed:   thank you.

[Applause]

>> I want to have you guys now

with bob, the chair of the leather and lgbt cultural district.

[Applause]

>> I am proud to be here for

this historic event and the leather district is delighted to

have the eagle plaza in our district.

And we look forward to its use as a gathering point in the district.

I have the honor of introducing

rafael mandelman, the district supervisor and native san franciscan.

He supported the leather

community even before he ran for

supervisor and can be seen in local venues periodically.

[Laughter] Now he's reaching out beyond his district's boundaries

to take real action to help make

spaces like the eagle plaza come into being.

His actions to make spaces for

leather communities will keep this neighborhood's historic vibrant which will help

perpetuate the city as a city for tolerance and acceptance.

With that, I present to you rafael mandelman.

[Applause]

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   good morning, everybody. This is such a wonderful morning and as I look out at this crowd of gorgeous people who are doing

amazing things in our city for

so many causes and communities. I see race bannon.

Race always deserves a round of applause.

[Applause] San francisco is a city that

does not forget its history. We build on our history.

We celebrate our history and make new things happen next to

old things and that is part of

the magic of the city.

And I'm so pleased that this plaza is -- as the mayor said, it took a little longer than

would have been ideal, but it is

now finally happening.

I want to say just a few --

maybe a year ago, or a couple of

years ago, we were worried about

whether there even would be an eagle, right?

More than a few years ago, but the community came together and city hall responded and now not only is the eagle still here, it's still a place to enjoy on

sunday afternoons and all the

time.

And thank you so much, lex and mike, but now we have not only

the eagle, but this amazing plaza coming here.

So thank you, all, for coming out. Thank you all for coming out. But have a very, very happy pride.

[Applause]

>> thank you, supervisor mandelman.

I now have the proud honor of introducing district 6

supervisor matt haney.

I met matt when he reached out

to the leather and lgbt district when running for office.

He expressed support for our community then and is following through with his action.

It's these spaces that form a

community and those spaces for the leather and lgbtq communities are under constant threat in this neighborhood. Matt haney is not only talking

about preserving the culture

here, he's sponsoring legislation to preserve the

spaces that make SoMa a destination for people across the country and around the world.

The fact that he is here today

showing support for the eagle plaza is one sign of his commitment to the communities. With that, I present to you supervisor haney.

>> Supervisor Haney:   thank you, bob. Well, I want to say this one more time.

This is going to be the world's first public plaza dedicated to the leather community. Isn't that incredible? World first.

And not only is it the world's first public plaza dedicated to

the leather community, it is in

the world's first cultural

district dedicated to the lgbtq community.

Give it up for that as well. Bob, tremendous leadership.

I want to thank all of you who

worked hard to make this happen.

Sf parks alliance, mayor breed,

supervisor mandelman, senator wiener. This is an extraordinary effort that made this happen. Far too often the things that

make this city wonderful, the things that built this culture,

created our identity, the institutions, the businesses,

are the ones that are constantly under attack.

And sadly that's been the case here in western SoMa as well for the leather community. And with what we're doing today,

the city is finally saying, not

only are we going to preserve those institutions and that culture, we're going to celebrate it, have a permanent home for it in our city and

we're going to do it in western SoMa.

There is no west SoMa without

the leather community. I'm excited about the future of this plaza for a number of reasons. Also because we need more open

space in this part of the city.

SoMa and west SoMa has some of the least amount of open space,

parks, places for people to

relax, to bring their dogs, hang out.

And I know this can be an extraordinary open space. I May not have been to many

leather events, but I have been here for the beer bust a couple of weeks ago.

And this is a community that

knows how to come together to have a good time.

I want to give a shoutout to a

group of people. I want to shout out to the construction workers behind us, who are actually going to build this thing. For all of their hard work, we're going to put on hard hats, but they do the work every day.

Thank you so much. Tau thank you all for being here.

We'll champion the leather

district, the eagle and the plaza.

Thank you, all, for being here. >> good morning, everyone.

My name is victor, I'm the

communications director for senator scott wiener.

This is a project he has spent a

lot of energy working with lex

and mike for the last six years to make this happen. He was very proud to get in the budget $100,000 to help make this a reality.

[Applause] I want to thank mayor london breed as well for her continued

support of the plaza, as well as

supervisor mandelman and haney.

the leather community has always

played an important role in the lgbtq community.

At the height of the H.I.V. Epidemic, the community stepped

up to raise funds for H.I.V.

Care, research and care for the entire community and continues

to do that to this day. This plaza will serve to commemorate that and to continue

to allow that work to happen.

I want to thank you all for being here today and all of you that helped make this happen today. Thank you so much.

[Applause]

I'd like to bring up lauren from

build inc. >> thanks.

I don't know where to start.

I mean, so many aspects of this are important.

People think of us as developers, but really we're

urban place-makers and this exemplifies the work that is important to us, every project we do. The neighborhood makes its place and has influence on what we can do there.

So this is amazing. For my partners, on behalf of my partners, our whole build group, the team at the office, this is

the work that is meaningful,

rewarding and just makes it all worth while.

So thanks to mayor breed, to

supervisor mandelman, haney, lex

and the whole community to help make this happen. It takes a village and this is our village. Thank you.

Let's dig dirt and make it happen! [Applause] we have shovels right here.

Let's go dig.

>> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Turn that dirt! Woo hoo!

[Applause]

Love that. That's a great shot.

Thank you.

A. Gilda [

]

>> come on. Let's say it for a little bit. Are we excited? Are we excited?

Doesn't this room look amazing?

>> The Hon. London Breed:   we're

all here today for so many reasons.

Look to your left, look to your right and realize we are here today as family, as a strong community.

Are we invincible?

Are we invincible?

My name is latifa, and I cannot

wait to go.

I cannot wait to be a part of this amazing day, this amazing experience, and to me, to many

of you all, this is not about

networking. This is about an opportunity for women to understand that we are not alone, and we can correct collective solutions --

create collective solutions to

so many of the ills we face. In this room, there are folks from every sector. Folks in finance and medicine,

and I believe before we leave today, there will be new

coalitions developed, there

will be no partnerships

developed, and new sisterships created.

Am I right? are we invincible? [Applause] >> I have no doubt that the collective strength in this room can heal the ills in san francisco but the world.

We're here today to create new answers, to build on new possibilities, and to have a lot of fun.

Are we ready to have a lot of

fun? So I don't know if you know, but I've been to events that mayor london breed has done, even when we were growing up in

the fillmore, so get ready. To kick off this morning, I

have a special treat for you. You know, when young women get

together, not only do they

express their collective

brilliance, but they bring

electricity to the room.

Say it with me.

Girl brigade.

Girl brigade is an amazing

performance group working to

develop and empower girls in san francisco.

Take it away, sisters. [Performance] [

]

>> we are girls, growing into women, your daughters, your

daughters on this earth. In the cities, in the villages, in the towns, we are here.

We are here in the scent of a

flower, in the living rainbow of light, on every blade of

grass and every ray of the sun. On every grain of the sand and

every drop of rain, and in the

heat of the morning sun.

We are girls, growing into

women, vast as the ocean and plains. Growing into women, growing

into articulate, wide-eyed,

true time wonderful women. [

]

[Applause] >> wow, girl brigade, you provided us with so much more of a performance.

The drum reminds us who we are.

Culture, performance, lineage, they brought that to the center.

And reminds us of who we are

coming to the four corners of earth means who we are.

It's living the promise of our heritage.

Give it up one more time for girl brigade. [Applause] >> so I have this very difficult job.

In two minutes, I have to introduce someone who requires

no introduction, and yet, I was

given this intensively difficult task.

Mayor london breed. [Applause] >> so I have a lot of cards here where I'm supposed to go

down and talk about her amazing accomplishments.

I'm going to tell you a few.

I should not use the cards, right?

I should just tell you about

this woman because she's my friend.

But every women in the crowd is

like, but she's my friend, too. She's a daughter of san francisco.

Come on, give it up. [Applause]

>> why it's so timely that she brought us all here today, it's like many young girls from all

over the city who get on a muni

bus -- when I was little, i

used to see london getting on a muni bus.

We were both young women living in the fillmore.

She showed us it's not about love of man, it's about love of

community service.

When london breed run

an for her

district, every single day, she

made sure the children in those hauls had everything they

needed, and can I say, she has

brought that vigor to city hall.

Over the years, you would see

her around the community, at

baby showers, at graduations,

making sure her community had opportunities to thrive and

opportunities to stay together.

She has taken that love to city hall. What's important about today and what's going to be important about us living in

that same inspiration is that

we have a mayor of this city that we love. She is a daughter of the city

but she is a promise of what is possible, of what's possible. I can go on and on, but this woman, to me, I am inspired by her. I love her, and she is everything that we need as our

city's commander-in-chief.

London breed.

[Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   good morning, ladies, and good morning, men.

I know it's a few of you here today. Thank you all so much for joining us.

You know, when I became mayor

of san francisco, I knew it was

going to be a challenging job. I knew that we have pressing issues that we face in the city

around homelessness, affordability, around

transportation, and making sure that we continue to grow and provide opportunities in this

city, especially to the next generation.

I knew those challenges were

ahead, but I also knew there'd be days like this.

I knew there'd be days like this where we can come together, women from all over san francisco, from the richmond to the sunset to the

bayview to the fillmore to the

lakeview and every place in between for the sole purpose of

talking about how we as women,

together, can be invincible.

Today, it's about finding our strength.

It's about putting forward our

best selves.

It's about also, in the process, lifting one another up. You know, I was so fortunate to live in a community where yes,

I had a tough community that raised me, and Miss Brown was invincible because Miss Brown didn't play. She made you do your homework, she made you clean your house, she made you come in at a certain time. As a kid, I don't think, I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it. You don't realize that she's

doing it because she cares,

because she loves you, and because she wants the very best

for you. People in our community who told us what to do, they wanted

the very best in us.

And part of what I'm so fortunate about is I really understand and appreciate the value of what that means for the next generation. You know, I'm really excited to be the second woman mayor of

san francisco and the first african-american woman to serve in this capacity. [Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   but I'll tell you, it's not just about being in this position as

a woman, it's also about the opportunity of opening the doors for other women to lead this city, as well.

Since I've taken office, I've been able to appoint some incredible women to elected office, including the board of supervisors, school, and community college board.

And of the 105 commissioners

that I appointed to serve on commissions throughout san

francisco, over 50% of those

folks are women.

[Applause]

And let me and.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   and

let me tell you, like the

fierce leader of our country,

nancy pelosi, will be here

today, and valerie jarrett, who

influenced one of obama, she was

sometimes influencing barack.

Today is about inspiration,

today is about putting forth our best selves.

Today is about mentoring, and

today is about reaching our best selves.

For kaiser permanente, I just want to say thank you for the incredible sponsorship.

I also want to thank our

incredible sponsor, susie

tompkins-buell and the buell

family trust for this summit.

Thank you to uber and -- I'm trying to remember all of them.

There are a lot of them. Thank you to the california women's foundation for your work on this summit and for putting it together, as well.

So many amazing people, so many

incredible sponsors, you'll see

them downstairs in the resource fair.

The golden state warriors, I know it was hard for us last

night, but don't worry. When they move to san francisco, they'll be here, and they'll win another finals. [Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   and

let me say, today is about

networking, today is about coming together, but we all have to remember is we still have challenges in this country. And part of what we're

challenged today is to take our knowledge, to take what we learned, to take this excitement and spread this all

over the city and all over the

board rooms,

positions as C.E.O.S of fortune 500 companies.

So the goal here is to sink in

all this advanced knowledge and

think about ways that we can

put our best selves forward, but also, we always have to remember to reach back and pull up one another. That's what today is all about, because I'll tell you, had it

not been for some of the most incredible incredible women in my community, the amazing mentors who looked out for me, I don't know where I'd be.

I'll just tell you a quick story.

My first job at age 14 was working as a place called the family school.

Now, I showed up the first day.

Maybe I wasn't necessarily dressed like I am in my mayoral

attire like I am today.

I wasn't dressed appropriately. When I answered the phone, I

didn't answer the phone

appropriately -- hello, hello -- like I did at a business. And the woman that worked with

me, she explained what the appropriate attire was, she explained to me the proper way

to answer the phone -- hello. Thank you for calling the family school.

This is london breed, how May I help you?

How to type the basic things.

But I had an attitude -- yes, london breed had a little bit of an attitude. But she didn't see it as not wanting to help someone, she

saw it as an opportunity to help.

She saw it as an opportunity to grow.

She saw it as an opportunity to

develop me into an amazing office assistant because she

wanted to lighten her workload. [Laughter].

>> The Hon. London Breed:   but

she also wanted to make sure that when I went to the next job opportunity, that I would

do well.

She wanted to inspire me, but she wanted me to go to college.

And that girl with an attitude

ended up working for the family school throughout the entire

time that I was in the high school.

They kept me there not only

during the school year, but

year-round, it kept me in an amazing environment where I

could get letters for college

and they helped nurture me into the woman that I am today.

I am so excited about this women's summit because this is an opportunity for us to nurture one another. This is an opportunity for us to be inspired and come together.

This is an opportunity to show

the world that we are invincible.

So ladies, have a wonderful time today.

Roll up your sleeves, and enjoy what we have to offer. At the end of this event, you

don't want to go anywhere because you are going to see an

amazing performance from an

incredible singer, one of my

favorites, ledicee.

Thank you. [Applause] [ ] >> mayor breed suffers no fools. Am I right? My grandmother used to say that.

I don't know what it means, but

it means she is no joke.

That she is running a $13

billion city wearing a pink suit. [Applause]

>> and five-inch heels, and

that is what our future looks like. I would like to bring to the

stage -- and if you haven't settled into your chairs, settle in, okay? Because some of the baddest

sisters in the united states

are about to enter stage right, okay?

So youngsters and elders alike, get out your notepads. The power of this next hour is unpropelled. Mayor breed puts on a good show. She puts on a good party. To introduce our next panel is someone we must all watch, we

must all take note.

Beverly anderson is the executive vice President Of cards and retail at wells fargo, and she is one of today's best sponsors.

Let me tell you about beverly

anderson -- let me just say that again. Executive vice President Of

cards and retail sales at one of the world's largest

financial institutions.

I need some applause -- [Applause]

>> -- because we're all about

breaking glass ceilings today.

She sits on the wells fargo

management committee and on the

board of the wells fargo foundation. Black enterprise has named this

sister one of the most powerful women in corporate america.

Not like the region, okay? In corporate america.

To breaking glass ceilings to

suffering no fools to providing opportunities for women like

us, for changing the nation,

please help me in welcoming

beverly anderson. [Applause] >> good morning. I was back stage, going who is she talking about?

We need somebody else to come up here. Good morning. Oh, my gosh, and thank you for

coming here.

And how about mayor london breed? She's fantastic. She's amazing.

And latifah, such energy at 8:00 in the morning.

She's amazing.

I'm beverly anderson, you heard that, head of card and retail services at wells fargo. And I have the distinct pleasure of introducing valerie jarrett and kate kendall, who are going to have a dialogue whom I know will motivate and inspire you.

But first, let me say that I am

awe struck by all the men and

women that are here who are

leaders in your own right.

So I want you to give a hand for the way you raise your families, the value you bring

to your communities, the way

you live life to the fullest, so thank you for all that you do. [Applause] >> now I know if you're anything like me, you've been

in places before where you've thought how did I get here?

How did I take this turn in my career?

What's next for me?

Am I confident? Am I courageous enough to go down a new path? Do I stay? Do I pivot?

I promise you're going to get

answers to this question today. I'm particularly pleased to

introduce this next guest because it resonates in my own life. I grew up in paducah, kentucky before finding my way to harvard and then into banking.

My life has been full of zigs

and zags and reboot. It's taken to your knowledge to

listen to my -- courage to

listen to my own voice, and

replanning when life didn't go the way that I planned it.

And it's clear in valerie's

book, "listening to my own voice,."

if and you haven't gotten it, you need to.

It is amazing.

In valerie jarrett's roles as

an advisor to the obama white

house, and now as an advisor to

the obama foundation, let me

tell you about her voice.

She was born in iran, and then,

she moved to chicago, where she

was bullied because she didn't

speak like other kids, she didn't look like other kids.

She retreated into her own world.

She moved from chicago, going to harvard.

Her family tree literally reads

like the who's who of black american history.

This leads me to the second

part of valerie's story,

resiliency. This was thought out in the ten-year plan that she had. Go to college, go to graduate school, get a great husband, and have a fantastic family.

Has anyone here had a ten-year plan go exactly the way you've planned it?

Well, I love the way valerie

talks about navigating the zigs

and zags of life. She advanced in corporate law

firms, making partner, but she

acknowledged she never had joy.

Her passions came in life by swerving.

She went into local chicago

politics, and larger missions, oh, such as serving the

President Of the united states. Hermann

her mantra is adventure is a

swerve, not a straight line.

Through figuring out how to have it all, she realized you

can't have perfection, and she

also realized that help is a necessity.

She learned that freedom can sometimes come when you let go

of the plan.

Valerie truly found her voice

during these wonderful swerves.

Her journey let me to the final insight about her story, and that is her platform. In a recent interview with trevor noah, valerie was asked, who is she advising now? And her answer was very

confidently, I'm advising myself, and there are a few key

things that I care about, and

let's look at them. Gender equity.

She once told President Obama that the women in the white house weren't heard, so doing

what he would do, he invited

them to dinner, told him he valued them, and they all became much stronger in the white house. Gun violence. She has been a strong advocate

and supporters of the young survivors, particularly those

survivors in parkland, florida.

And civic engagement. Valerie is a firm believer that

we must do all we can to strengthen our nation,

particularly now. Otherwise, we and our children will live with the consequences

of our apathy.

Voting is still one such right

that too many people take for

granted. Did you know that 46% of people

did not vote in the last election? Valerie knows there's still

plenty of work to be done.

So I got to know her through

her book, through her

background, and through her work. Kate kendall led the national

center for lesbian rights for 22 years and is currently the campaign manager of taking back our court.

Kate's story is equally incredible, having built the nclr into one of the most

important and powerful national voices in conversations around

equality while raising three

children and being an engaged partner.

So it is only fitting at this

amazing women's event where we're all going to be invincible in a city known for making history and driving

transformation that the invincible valerie jarrett

tells us her story and imparts

her wisdom so that all of us

feel empowered to find our voices.

So without further adieu, I

welcome valerie jarrett and kate kendall. Thank you. [Applause] [

] >> wow. Good morning.

There's a lot of you out there.

thank you. [Inaudible]

>> here comes somebody. Mine's working -- okay. There we go. There's always a plan b. >> all right. So good morning.

How's everybody doing? [Applause]

>> I am -- I'm so happy to be here, to be in this conversation with valerie jarrett, who I have admired for a very, very long time, who was really one of the guiding lights for President Obama.

I mean, he had his own moral center for sure, but it's also really important to have key leadership and trusted advisors

who can always show you true

north, and that is what you did with him for both of his terms, so thank you for that. >> it was my honor.

Thank you, kate. [Applause] >> so you mention in your book,

one of your chapters is pink me moments, which you can imagine

there might be many working in

the white house with the obamas.

This is one of my pinch mes, to

be here with you. [Applause] >> so I want to begin with -- I

was stalking you last night on

twitter -- and don't worry, you won't even know I'm there.

And I noticed a tweet from you that I just want to get a little bit of a read about

where we are right now in this moment because this has been

a -- a troubling week for

democracy in this country, and

you tweeted a statement by the federal elections commission

ellen weintraub expressing her

dismay and distress, and the fact that she would not allow

her office to endorse or abet a

foreign power providing opposition information to a candidate in an election, which donald trump said he would accept.

I'm just wondering about that, what do you think about this

moment and what do we all need

to do to ensure that our elections are fair and free from corruption?

>> well, I have to say, I have conflicting feelings about

social media. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it. In a lot of ways, it's brought us together to communicate, and

people that don't have their

own huge megaphone can use it.

But often, it is so mean and nasty.

My daughter keeps telling me,

don't read the comments, but I read the comments.

I say that with caution because I don't want all the mean

people on twitter to following

me on instagram.

I try to stay positive and not get frustrated with the way

people behave.

But I have been frustrated by the lack of people to speaking and do what's right.

When you see something as basic

as interference in our

elections, which there is clear evidence happened last night,

attempt after attempt to infiltrate and influence our

elections, that's not what a democracy is about.

Just as an example, if some foreign government wants to

give you information, don't you wonder why? Don't you assume they're trying

to influence the outcome? And if you truly believe in the democracy of our country, don't

you want to be selected by the american people, not someone else?

And that is so basic, and that's why I'm getting worked up. I think yesterday at the new

york times, they had a great event, focusing on gender equity, and I made a point of saying thank goodness for the press.

I said how do you feel because you've come under personal

attack, and she said I'm fine.

But it's not fine when you and

your families are put as risk

because of irresponsible behavior. My book is called finding my

voice, but the power of each of

us individually and the awesome

energy of all of us

collectively, using our

invoices to be engaged and

minimally vote, let's start by

not being disenfranchised by ourselves. And then, we have to put pressure on our own secretaries of state. That is who's really responsible.

Yes, we have to have the federal government investigate and the D.O.J. Trying to find out who is influence it from abroad, but we also need our own secretaries of state stepping up to the plate and doing everything they can to

ensure it's not happening, that

there's no meddling in the election itself.

We tried in the obama administration, to sound the alarm when we heard the russians were trying to

influence the election, and we

said let's have a bipartisan

hearing to do what we can.

And there was a deafening silence by the republican party. Now how much confidence do you

have in yourself is by getting people not to vote, and the people targeted inevitably were young people and people of color, so it's up to all of us

to watch what's happening and

be vigilant about ensuring that it's fair, by putting pressure on the officials that can have an impact. And then, we have to look at how we're using social media

and are we regulating it appropriately. And I know one thing, that it's being used as a force for bad

and evil, and the question is

how do you stop that from happening while not I had nvading our right to privacy and

freedom of speech, and

hopefully, we can figure it out. >> yeah. I've been listening to the

mueller report on audible.

I feel everybody should, it's a

duty of citizens.

It makes it chillingly clear

that on every single platform,

in every single day, the election was interfered with.

I want to get back to the boom. K.

The book was a tremendous read,

it was riveting, and it was not only about your time in the

obama white house, which was

amazing, but you began your

book at a time, 79th floor of the sears tower, questioning your life. Then you end your book with

your acknowledgements and a

question your daughter, laura, asked you, what would you tell your 30-year-old self? So there are a lot of times between when that happened on the 79th floor of the sears

tower, and the end of the book, but what would you tell that

young valerie jarrett or young women who are facing a decision

point? >> I have so much to say to you, because I look back to

that person and she's almost not recognizable to you.

Let me do the 30-year-old valerie jarrett, when I came out of college, and I thought I needed plan. I will say I drifted through college.

At first I majored in premed.

My dad was a doctor, until my boyfriend invited me to the

anatomy class the same semester

I took organic chemistry.

Then, I thought I could go to

business school, but there was

this great party before the gmats.

And I never made it to the gmats.

I had an older sister here in san francisco, and she said go

to law school. It'll buy you some time.

And I thought okay.

But I thought I needed a plan for the next 20 years of my life. I'm going to go to school, I'm going to figure out what my passion is in the practice of law, I'm going to fall in love,

I'm going to get married, have a baby by the time I'm 30, thinking about that biological clock ticking away -- fortunately, it takes later --

and I'm going to live happily ever after. So for the 2e7b years right

after that, 21 to 31, I did that.

I got out of school, I went to

a law firm, and I went to an even better firm.

I married figuratively the boy next door in that our mothers

grew up in the same apartment building, our grandmothers were friends, our dads were friends. I had a crush on him since he

was eight and I was 12.

Totally unrequitted. He was an altar boy.

I used to go to church with my

grandmother frankly just to see him, hoping he would pay

attention to me, and he did not

pay attention to me until I was

19 and he was 25.

And I was at a friend's

wedding, and he looked me, and

I thought I'm going to marry you.

What could go wrong? Oh, my gosh, so much went wrong.

But I did have my daughter just

shy of my 29th birthday. Best thing I ever did.

And wouldn't you know, my

little daughter who's now 33, is having a baby. Best month of my life. So I begin the book, sitting in this fancy office.

I was the first lawyer in my family. My parents were very proud of me. I was leading a life that many people thought would be that perfect life, and I was miserable. I was miserable in my marriage,

I was miserable filling out time sheets, and I couldn't even figure out what I'd done, and I didn't care so much about the clients, to tell you the truth. I know I'm hitting a chord with some of you. You know that feeling.

And I felt, well, what am I going to do? I was not meant to be this miserable.

And so one of my best friends worked for the city of chicago,

in the law department.

And I know there's many of you

here in public service. One of the reasons I like to support events sponsored by

mayors is I spent the next nine years working for three mayors of chicago.

And I'll never forget, one of

my friends said why don't you consider a life of public service. You'll feel better about

yourself and I'll have a life mission. And I did. I have to say, at the same time that I'm struggling in this marriage, I'm trying to be the

perfect wife, the perfect

mother, the perfect lawyer, my perfect self. And I thought the way to do

that was to be perfect everything. The this is the thing. I thought -- I also thought if

I were just smarter, if I were better organized, more efficient, if I slept fewer hours, then maybe this wouldn't all be so hard. and what I didn't realize, I was number one, making it hard on myself, and number two,

particularly in the law firm, the deck was stacked against me. I was trying to compete on a completely uneven playing field, and I had no life

outside of work. I was nine months pregnant

trying to close a real estate deal, and I would say I'm going

to the vending machine, or I'm

going to check my voice mail. But those of you know when

you're nine months pregnant,

what do you do?

You go to the rest room. But it wasn't something that I

felt I could say to the men in

the room. And that swerve was when the adventure began.

So swerve ladies, swerve. >> swerve. [Applause]

>> you were born in your iran,

and your early childhood there

sounds ideal. I'm very concerned with where we are headed, and I think it's about the feelings and thoughts that people have about the

middle east and iran specifically. [Inaudible]

>> -- and being at war?

>> well, first, my childhood -- so you're wondering, what in the world was she doing being born in iran.

My father was in a position, and as he was coming out of

serving in the army, he was

looking at serving at an

academic institution.

He wanted to do research at a large teaching hospital.

And he couldn't find a job equivalent to his white counterparts when leaving the army.

So my mom and him said let's look at opportunities outside the -- of the united states.

He was offered a job in shiraz, iran. Of course his parents told him don't go. You don't know the language,

you don't know anything about the government, and of course,

it was before the days of cell phones.

My parents were just like, look, there are no opportunities here, so they took this leap of faith, and

they went to iran.

And I was the second baby born in the hospital. They practiced on some other baby first. They're not sure whatever happened to that baby, but I

came second. We lived there until I was five. But my father did some research in iran that caught the attention of folks at the university college of london,

and so they went there for a fellowship. And from there, the dean of the university of chicago heard my father give a paper, and he offered him a job at the university of chicago, my

father's dream job, and that's where he spent the rest of his career.

And he used to stay to me

sometimes the short he was distance of where you want -- shortest distance of where you

were to go is the longest.

Now, the relationship was very different with the united

states than we have today.

The shah was very interested in improving health care, technology, so physicians were

being recruited from all over

the world to develop hospitals

all over iran, so that's what

took my father there.

So the people of iran are good and wonderful and decent people. I think in terms of what we do with iran, what we tried to do with other world leaders,

including france, germany,

russia, iran, the E.U., is

enter into a deal that prohibited them from developing

nuclear weapons, and that that would be good for the middle east, and it would be good for the united states. And the current administration walked away from that deal.

So now, who knows who's going to happen? It's totally destablizing to the miding dle east, and we should be worried.

But you have to say to yourself, in this current environment, why would you ever start a war if there was a

diplomatic alternative?

But we had one, and so I don't know what the current administration is doing to us,

but we are in a less stable position as a result of pulling out of that deal. >> yeah, we are in a less

stable position because of this administration. I was struck by the tone of

your parents and really came to love them. When your father passes later

in the book, it was emotional for me having lost my mother

many years ago in 2003. It is one of those losses that

you never get over, and it is a

very unenviable club to be in.

But you spoke about the love that you have for your parents and they have for you. And they were clearly your

number one champions. What are some of the gifts that

they most gave you -- your

mother is still alive. >> yeah.

>> and tell us sort of where she is and where are you in your relationship with your parents? >> I'll talk about my mother.

If I talk about my dad, I'll cry.

My mother is 90, almost 91.

She's still working -- yeah,

who does that? [Applause]

>> 52 years ago, she started a

graduate school in early childhood education. She also still drives. That's not funny. I'm like mom, use lyft.

I'm on the board of lyft. You can use lyft any time. I'm still working on that.

But she and my dad, they just

loved me unconditionally.

They set hi expectations but --

high expectations but then gave me the tools to succeed. They said you're black. Don't expect anything to be easy. Life is going to be hard, but you'll have us as a safety net

as long as you're working hard. Now my mother did crazy things. When I was going to stanford,

she calculated what every single class cost and gave it

to me on a piece of paper and

said, if you're ever tempted to

cut class, this is what it costs us. Where my father thought the

world would be my oyster.

Even though my dad grew up

under jim crow, and my mother

in chicago, I realized much later in life when -- this is a

good story about my parents.

It sums them up.

Interestingly, after President Obama won in 2008, he and the

first lady went on 60 minutes

the weekend after the election.

You can tell from the interview how much in love they were, how

much respect they had for one another, and the love for our country.

And that's the same thing I

picked up from them so many years earlier. My dad was ill at the time, and we watched the interview from his hospital room.

All through the campaign, they were convinced that there was

no way that a black man would win a presidency in their lifetime. They used to say, don't you think you should get back to

your day job and not traveling

so much? When he lost new hampshire, my

mom was like, don't you think

you should go back to work?

I'm like no, if he doesn't win,

michelle is going to shut this down.

At the end, she asked me, what

made you believe that he could win win?

And I said mom and dad, you raised me to believe that if you had a goal, and you stuck

to that goal, and you worked hard, and you believed it, anything was possible.

and my mom said, well, I never believed that.

And then, my dad said, well, me either. And I shared that story because it was the first time that I

was shocked, quite shocked,

because this was the way that they raised me. I realized for the first time

my parents raised me aspirationally.

Not shackled to the floor, but

free to explore in my own reality. You try to raise your children not in the world you know but

in the world as you know it will be, and so that sums up barbara and jimmy bowman quite well. [Applause] >> there's so much about your time at the white house that is

riveting and also funny.

I laughed out loud when your --

you had to sort of eat what

President Obama ate, and the

meetings, they just all had it

prepared and brought it all up. President Obama, he's ripped,

and it's because he doesn't eat.

And you said he's eating his

ump UMPTEENth salad, and I he looked

down, and he said this salad is

sad, and everybody was like okay.

We're not going to eat salad

anymore. Our current administration, it

would just be enough to make me

lose my mind for many of us,

and yet, your equilibrium

through the time that you served kpud

served exudes from the book. How did you do it? >> I'll tell you another story because this is really a big piece of it. So first of all, when I worked in local government -- another

pitch for local government, I

had a chance to really experience what service is all about. And because your constituents are proximate to you, you're right there -- you can't go to

the grocery store, or they flip

notes under your door at hope.

She said so-and-so stopped me about this development. I really liked that, but you

learn that it's 24-7, and that you're always on, and that you are there in service of people

who need you. And that experience really

helped shape my attitude in the white house.

And one of my complaints about washington is people forgot why they were there, and they

needed reminders, and they were

willing to put their short-term political interests ahead of

you, the american people.

And part of how I kept myself grounded was I had story about

the earlier people. But the story is this.

Maybe about March of 2008, we were in texas during the primary season.

We thought the primary would be over a lot earlier, but it's still going.

And it's early one morning,

about 7:30 and President Obama,

he's not a morning person. I am.

I was happy to start in the

morning because this is the best it's going to get all day.

But I had to learn to tamp it

down because he isn't.

a guy in the elevator said

excuse me, senator obama, he said sir, I have something I want to give you.

And he pulls from his pocket a patch from his military uniform.

And so senator obama realizes

what it is, and he said of course, I couldn't possibly accept that. And they go back and forth with

the gentleman insisting, back and forth, back and forth. Finally, the gentleman says

sir, I've carried this patch with me every day for 40 years. It's given me the courage to serve in the military, and I've had some ups and downs in my life, and right here, I want you to have it.

And I burst into tears. I don't cry these pretty tears. You know how you can't catch your breath sometimes, and it's

a very small elevator, and I'm

just trying to shrink. So later in the day, I said to then-senator obama, I said,

what did you do with that patch?

And this was long before people

started handing newborn babies

ten-deep over to him in a rope line.

And when they started doing

that, I thought, he'll take

care of the baby if it gets to him, but some of them never got to him.

You're handing your baby to a stranger. And I said, well here did you put it? He said, in my pocket.

I said no, I meant, how did it

make you feel that he's separating from this?

sorry to the men in the room, but you know, too. >> there's a reason that I'm a lesbian. >> all right. That's the best line of the entire day.

But to your point, he comes back at me, and he said, I put it in my pocket.

And so he reaches in his

pocket, and he pulls out about

ten or 12 different trinkets

out of his pocket, and he told me the name of the people that

gave it to him, if he knew it.

And fast forward, I get to the white house. And I thought, what am I going

to do to keep myself grounded? I there were some people that I met that stuck with me. There were others, but for some

reason, that act of generosity, that belief that if I give this to you, it will help you, and even though I'm separating from my dear, dear possession, it's for the greater good. And so I thought how about if

every single day, when I get to

the white house, I think about him as I'm coming in through the gates of the white house, and it will remind me of why I'm there.

So for four years, every single day, did I that.

To me, it's -- I did that.

To me, it's about what our campaign was about.

It's about inclusion, people

knowing they can make a difference, collectively and individually. A reporter heard the story, and she called me just before the term, before we went on vacation, and she said, I want

to do a story on that guy.

and I said no.

What if he was an axe murderer?

Well, don't you know, she found

him, and she sent me an e-mail.

His name is earl smith, and he's head of security at a hotel in austin, texas. I was on vacation with the obamas, and I was on the treadmill, and I got off and

wrote him an e-mail. Mr. Smith, I don't know if you remember me, but I was the

woman that burst into tears on the elevator, and I just wanted you to know that you are the one that inspired me.

And he wrote me back, and said

I remember you, and there's not

a day that I don't regret

giving that to him every single day. So Mr. Smith came to the inauguration, and the day after, I brought him into the oval office, and he and I were

joking in the outer oval, and

he was just as delicious as I

had fantasized him to be. He was a wonderful man,

laughing good sense of humor.

As he entered into the oval

office, he saluted President

Obama, and of course President

Obama saluted him, and of

course I burst into tears again. And at the last inauguration, I invited him to sit with Mrs.

Obama in the box.

I say this all because it was never about us, it was about you.

And what worries me now is it's starting to feel like it's about us.

We have to keep focused on you, and that's to me, what

leadership is all about.

It's an unselfish act for the

greater good. [Applause]

>> thank you. [Applause]

>> and we're saying the carnage

to communities when love of personal whatever overcomes love of country.

Just hearing that makes me so nostalgic.

I'm entering into the five stages of grief after the election all over again. >> I'm

sorry.

>> I called a colleague this week and told him I was going

to be interviewing you, and I told him, what should I know?

You could tell -- everybody I talked to about you couldn't

stop talking about you.

I'm like I have got other

things to do, but they just went on and on about you. So what he said was you were the conscience of the white house.

I can't imagine a higher compliment, especially when

you're surrounded by barack obama and michelle obama who already have a pretty strong sense of true north. So -- and I don't want to take anything away from the President's leadership, and I

want to speak specifically about lgbtq issues. Brian and ellie and everyone else I've talked to said again

and again that you made the white house's centering around

will be bank account issues and

what the -- lgbtq issues and centering, that you were more

than an ally, that you were the tip of the spear. You ready ran interference to

make sure the white house was in the right place. And I guess I want to ask, where does that come from? We all -- I guess it's more important than ever that

particularly white people be

the fiercest bad-ass allies for black people in this country than we've ever been before because our future, not just people of color, but our future depends on that.

But that's in the midst of seeing tremendous peril and damage.

In the midst of the obama white house, you continued on point

to the white house being in the

right place when it didn't really require that you do that.

So where's that come from?

>> well, I think all roads lead

back to barbara and jimmy bowman and how I was raised.

I know what it's like to be an outsider.

Here I am, with a british accent, I come from a country that nobody's heard of. I used to get bullied in school.

I know what it's like to be a woman surrounded by men, and I

know what it's like to be

an african-american woman and everybody else is not.

And I believe we're supposed to

be our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper.

And I grew up in a time where

all kinds of people who fought the good fight against

injustice, and that's how

change happens in our country.

The mentioned the moral spear,

and brian is the whole. Brian was just true blue and determined but also took a lot

of incoming heat.

and I think one of my favorite

stories, when the white house

was rainbow lit, one of our

interns was doing research, and

she brought me an idea.

She said how about if we light the house in a rainbow after the marriage equalities decision comes down from the

supreme court?

And I'm like that is a damn

good idea, girl. And it was the most requested

photograph of President Obama's entire eight years in office. And one of the most extraordinary days of my life. And I spent the entire evening on the north lawn of the white house watching the sun go down

with so many people who had worked on this for so very long.

So I say this to say I had a lot of good company, and that's what it takes.

Change takes people who feel their responsibility is to fight for the greater good.

And if everybody is be treated equal, our country is not as good as our country should be.

I encourage you to read the speech that President Obama

gave in the rose garden after the equality decision.

That speech was written in like

an hour, because it was the day

we were going off to charleston for reverend pinkney and the

others killed in shoot -- the shooting.

I called the President And he

picked up the phone abruptly,

and said what? I'm, like, so I said all right, well, President Obama, the

marriage equality decision came out today, 5-4.

And there's a long pause. who won?

Oh, shoot, I buried the lead.

He said oh, what a great day.

He comes down, and called the plaintiff and congratulate him

and write a speech, and the

rose garden usually, the unwritten rule is if you didn't

work on the issue, you're actually supposed not to go out

in the rose garden, you're

supposed to be busy.

The rose garden is just people

who were directly involved in it. That day, the kr colonnade was

packed with young staffers.

He said that day sometimes these moments come like a thunder bolt until you realize what led up to it.

I think in our current climate, we expect things to happen like that. I'm disappointed as many of you are in the last couple of

years, but our democracy takes

hard work, and it does zig and zag. By the time the supreme court ruled, it was 37 states and the

district of columbia, and now,

love means love for everybody,

and I'm so proud that happens under our watch, but don't forget the decades of work that helped people get to that point.

>> absolutely. [Applause]

>> I remember that day so well. Nclr had been involved in one

of the cases that went to the supreme court, and I stayed in san francisco. Much of my team was in D.C., but I thought I want to be home, I want to be here when it

happens, and I was doing at 10:00 A.M. What everybody else

was doing, refreshing the blog.

And it was really early for us, 7:00. It was the summer, so the kids were asleep. And it refreshed, and it says it's the marriage case.

And I remember I could feel the blood just drain from my head,

and then, it said, opinion my

kennedy, and that's when I knew we'd won.

And so I screamed, the dog

starts barking, and the kids

wake up. It was an extraordinary day.

I remember when I clicked on

somebody on social media and saw that picture fortunate of the white

house, I burst into tears.

But that juxtaposition, it

feels -- when we won the doma ruling, and the doma rules was struck down. That was the same day that the

court eviscerated voting rights. When we won marriage in california, we won marriage in

california, and then, it was taken away by 3r07 prop 8, the very same election day that obama won his first term.

I feel like you've been on that wild swing and yet sort of found a way to thread it and

create a narrative where we're all in it together. >> that's the hope. And you're right. There were lots of swings in one day. The emotion was often raw. The day that -- the day that

don't ask, don't tell was

repealed by congress was the same day that they didn't vote on the dream act and move it forward.

And my team had worked on both issues, and so everybody was crying. Some people were crying because they were upset that the dream act fell through, and some people were crying because they were relieved about the repeal

of don't ask, don't tell.

I remember, I went up to -- cecelia munoz oversaw many of

these issues in my offices.

So I went down to the oval office to check on President Obama who's been working the

phone on both issues, and I

said gosh, everybody's upstairs crying. And don't you know, he walks into cecelia's office, and he

said look, I appreciate how

upset everybody is, but for those of you disappointed in the result, realize how long it took us to pass don't ask, don't tell. We've got to keep up the good work. And I say that to those of you

that are as devastated by

what's happening at the border

of these countries, separated

with no idea to reunite them, we can stop this. We May not be able to stop it today, but we can stop it in

two years, so I do encourage everybody --

>> yeah, amen. Amen.

We have to stop it in two

years. We can't go on like this. [Applause] >> so my final question is you thinking a little bit about your future. We talked a little bit about this. I'm involved in a project right

now, having left nclr to reform

the supreme court. Specifically, the strategy is

to, at the earliest opportunity, after we win in

November and run the table,

drop a proposal to the

President To expand the supreme court by four justices. Democracy is hanging by a

thread, aided and abetted by this court which is ridden with partisan interests. So I want to know if you would be one of those justices.

>> that's hilarious. [Applause]

>> me who has not practiced law

since 1991.

>> don't even get me started on kavanaugh.

>> that's such a dark place. Let's not go there.

>> let's talk about you being a supreme court justice.

And if it's not that --

>> can I talk about what I'm doing? >> yeah.

>> well, I thought after the election, I have the best job

in the world, and I started

during the inaugural parade.

It was really cold, and I

started on January 20, when I

waved good-bye to the obamas

when they left on January 20, 2017. The secret service told me

girl, you've got to get out of here.

You can't stay any longer. Even on the worst days, I wouldn't have traded that for anything in the world. So after that, as I was going through the multiple stages of grief. i thought, what do you want to do next?

I used to tease President

Obama, oh, my job is so much

better than your job.

I knew I'd never have a better job.

So I did some soul searching.

What are some jobs weighing on the issues that came before him?

What do I care about? It came down to I care enormously about gender equity.

I think it's outrageous that in this day and time that we are still not paid equally, that we

don't have a national pay leave policy, that work flexibility isn't built into every single

workplace, that there are still companies that haven't figured

out that you're leaving your

town on the sideline by figuring out a way to organize

so that families can thrive.

So one of my colleagues, tina

chin and I, formed a not-for-profit called the state of women.

We brought together

stakeholders from all over the country who were fighting the

good fight for gender equity. We had another summit last

summer, and we had more people

that showed up last year than showed up when we were still in the white house. And we're going to continue that and have another summit next year.

And in between that, we have

summits where we go around the country, trying to figure out what those best practices are. So I encourage you to go to the

you stated states of women to learn more.

The other issue, and I could

talk to you for hours about

this, voting. Mrs. Owe

bama and I started a nonprofit around voting. As I went through those stages of grief, I was struck by --

you know, you do all these what

ifs, what ifs, well, the one

what if that I really locked in on was the fact that 43% of eligible voters did not vote in the last election. 43%. And yeah, they are stuck with

the consequences as are the rest of us.

So what do we do, particularly trying to get young people to become lifelong voters?

So we're really working on that

again, and I encourage

everybody to get involved and encourage young people to do so.

I'm working with President

Obama on his platform. I joined the faculty of the

university of chicago law school. They're helping me do research in the area of criminal justice reform, which is another one of my passions. I am so troubled by the fact that the united states has

about 5% of the world population and 25% of the world's folks who are incarcerated. And so much can happen at the state level, and the federal government would be an important leader on that front, but we can do it without federal government, so I'm

working a lot on that around our country. [Applause] >> and I will say I'm particularly concerned about women that were incarcerated,

and I visited compton,

california several years ago, and I visited a program where all these young teenagers were coming before the juvenile court, and the judge noticed one thing they all had in common. No matter what crime they committed, they were all victims of commercial sexual

exploitation, and so that's a travesty.

So these lives are being thrown away because of something that happened to them. We have to change it, and we have to change it before they even get caught up in the system.

We have to reform our system with schools and suspensions. There's so much we can do. If people do get caught up in

the system, we have to make it fairer so that communities of color have a better

relationship with the police department. Make sure that sentences are not mandatory, that they're

tailored to fit the job, and when people come out, let's give them a job. Let's give them another chance, right? [Applause] >> I love that.

So still living a life of service.

>> and you know, I think President Obama had it right.

I'm at the stage of my life --

don't hate me for this -- where I wake up every single day and do what I want to do. Now it wasn't always like that,

and if you read my book, you'll see that there were days that

it wasn't like that at all.

Life is good, notwithstanding

the chaos that we're in, but I know the chaos will change in a couple years because of you. >> amazing.

Valerie jarrett, other than the birth of my granddaughter

earlier this year, this is the highlight of my year. Can we thank valerie jarrett? >> thank you so much. I hate it to end.

Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. What a beautiful room. Aren't they great?

You guys were great. [Applause] >> you can say you were in the room when it happened.

You were in the room when two of the world's most influential

woman talks about how clear we needed to be. We need to be at the head of

the table, we need to be on the extreme court, we need to be

the mayor, and my God, we need

to be running this country. So I want to thank you all so much for being a part of that discussion, and it's not even lunchtime yet.

You see how mayor breed gets down.

You all with me, sisters? Can you hear me? So you have your pink bags, but

I want you to hold on to your

phone and download be invincible at the app store.

Not now, but do that in the next ten seconds after I finish because we have a lot of workshops right on the second floor, okay? and we're going to begin this conversation with so many other women, so many institutions

that have come today to inspire us.

So just briefly, as we walk

out, and it is as -- as you

download your app, you can look at the information on speakers.

There's speakers on women's

health, civic and financial engagement. There's a couple of clothing retailers down there, so meet me, I'll be shopping.

We also have some really

interactive resource fairs down stairs. Please check the app.

A lot of hard working folks put together that app so we know exactly what we're supposed to

do, all the opportunities in this building today, so really take advantage of it.

And lastly, and almost more

importantly, at 11:45, lunch will be served. You can pick up your lunch outside of this room.

Say 11:45. 11:45. I have enjoyed being your morning emcee.

Be invincible. Be invincible. Be invincible. Ladies, let's change the world together.

Have a wonderful afternoon. We will never be anything >> okay. I needed that. [Laughter]

How many of you needed this day? [Cheers]

[Applause] Yeah.

all of us together pretty much saying you're not going to take our country away from us. Nor are you going to take our future away from us. And we're going to take it back. [Applause]

I'm so excited that I get to be your emcee for this afternoon. You're about to hear from a

couple of super powerful, amazing women. And to introduce them is a

powerful woman in her own right.

A san francisco native, a health

care expert, entrepreneur for 24

years, an awardee of the 30

working mothers of the year.

Janet lang is kaiser kaiser permanente

President And a major bad ass in

her own right. Please welcome janet lang.

[Applause] . >> thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh! Kaiser permanente is in the house today.

Hello! [Cheers and applause] Good afternoon, everyone. You know, I was so excited to be joining you today. And I was coming to the

conference and I saw the theme was to be invincible.

I took a minute to take a look at the dictionary to say what are some of the other ideas and

themes behind the word "invincible."

and what stood out for me was

indestructible, unbeatable, and absolutely too powerful to overcome. >> all right! Yeah! that's right. [Applause] >> those are fighting words.

So I asked myself, so what

exactly are we fighting for? So I have four principles that I

think that we're fighting for.

The first is that we're fighting

for recognition, that there is economic value in the role that

women play in raising families. [Applause] That's right. That's right. The second is that we're fighting for equal pay for equal work. It's very simple.

[Applause]

The third is that being a woman

does not limit our opportunity or our voice.

And then, lastly -- lastly, we

must be in a society where women

are free from oppression and physical violence.

[Applause] So at kaiser permanente I want

you to know that leaders like

myself and our workforce of over

79,000 believe in these four tenets strongly. We understand that women are decision makers for the health

care for their family, you're mothers and you're sisters, you're wifes and partners and daughters. You make these choices for your

family and we listen to you.

You have a very important voice.

The second is that we employ, I

said earlier 79,000 people here in northern california, 70% of those employees are women. Very proud to say that.

[Applause]

But I also want you to know that

women have opportunity at kaiser to become executives. so we have eight -- we're a national organization. And there are eight presidents.

And the presidents run

everything that happens in our organization. We produce the money, we take care of our members, we provide your care.

And we manage a workforce of over 200,000.

Of the eight presidents at

kaiser permanente, five are women. Five women presidents.

[Cheers and applause] And in most companies of our

size, with over 200,000 employees, fortune 100 companies, you will see the

executive ranks have about on

average 15% women. And at kaiser permanente we have 47%.

47% of our vice presidents, our executives, our presidents are all women. And so there you have it.

Kaiser permanente represents being -- fighting for all of the things that you're here today to talk about.

We believe in women being indestructible, unbeatable and

too powerful to overcome.

And so I have the pleasure now of introducing two women who embody that. And I'm going to talk a little bit about them.

You know them so there's not a lot to say. They're going to come out together.

Of course, is our very own mayor london breed, who is the 45th mayor of the city of san francisco.

[Cheers and applause]

And -- and the first african-american woman mayor in our city.

So she has a lot of firsts

behind her name.

We know her as a native san

franciscan as well, raised by her grandmother in the western addition of the public housing.

And she has fought for many of

our city's most challenging

issues that our community and our citizens face. Safe, clean neighborhoods. Affordable housing. Particularly her leadership recently around homelessness and

she fights for equitable education opportunities and for services for vulnerable people

in our communities.

The second woman that I'm introducing, of course, is our

speaker of the U.S. Representatives house is nancy pelosi. [Cheers and applause]

31 years.

31 years, not just elected, one of the first women to be elected, but also speaker of the

house for over 16 years.

She served three terms now,

which is a pretty big deal, given all of the changes that happened over three decades. And I personally want to thank her. She's known for many, many things.

Many initiatives, investments in

college aid, clean energy, helping veterans and small business. But I personally want to thank her for her leadership of the affordable care act.

[Applause]

You know, 5 million more people

in the state of california have health insurance and access to care because of her.

So she's made a difference in

our country that will last -- she leaves a legacy in our country under her leadership.

So please join me in welcoming these two wonderful, wonderful women to the stage.

[Applause]

R-e-s-p-e-c-t- find out what it means to me

just a little bit

r-e-s-p-e-c-t- oh, a little respect

oh, yes just a little bit

>> hello, ladies. [Applause] Are you having a good time

today?

[Cheers] Now we have our special guest here joining us.

Our leader, our speaker, the

woman who basically is the only

woman with courage in this

country right now. Speaker nancy pelosi!

[Applause] So, speaker, thank you so much for being here.

We so appreciate your time.

And we just want to have a

conversation because we want to know who is nancy pelosi. And I think that you've been out there, we see you out there fighting the good fight, standing up to donald trump.

Doing what you do best to try and really move our country in the right direction.

But we also know that you have a

long history in the world of politics. During a time where it was

difficult for women to even get engaged.

Your dad served as mayor of baltimore, your brother served as mayor of baltimore.

you raising five kids ran for

office and became a congresswoman for san francisco.

[Applause]

So tell us about -- tell us

about those early years and how challenging it was at that time for women, because you were

breaking barriers even back then. >> thank you very much, Madam Mayor. First, I want to congratulate you on the great job that you are doing as mayor of san francisco.

[Cheers and applause]

I'm so very, very proud of you.

And now it appears your

re-election is quite obvious.

As you gain even more standing

in our city and I know our city

is your focus. You're a national example of

whether it's public education or

affordable housing or issues

that relate to gun safety, the

list goes on. They're stories you can tell from personal experience. And I want everyone in this room

to know that personal stories

are the power -- are the power.

I remember when I first met the

May, he was is -- she was a staffer at city hall.

My daughter christina said she

was also an officer of the california democratic party. Christine is here with a ruth

bader ginsburg scarf on today. [Applause] And then you were involved in

emerge and I know suzie beal is very much a part of this. You took all the steps.

And now to be the mayor of this great city, to bring your experience and your values.

So I hope in the course of our conversation, as I share my

story, you'll share another generation's story, your own. And I'm sure you're doing it in the course of this very important meet. It's wonderful. Wonderful to be in san francisco on any given day, but to be here

with all of these women, these invincible women.

We have our bracelet. It's quite an honor. I have to just tell you, though,

it is a curious time in our country.

And the time for women to be

invincible has never been more

important, even though this year

we -- will congress we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote. [Applause]

That's a good thing.

As we do so, we have over 100

women in the house of representatives.

91 of them are democrats. 106, 91 are democrats.

But they represent the beauty,

the diversity of america. And when women first got the

right to vote, we still had much more work to do to make sure

extended to women of color and

people of color across our country. So again I thank you for the

opportunity to share some thoughts on that subject. When women got the right to

vote, the headline said "women

given the right to vote." no, women fought, women were

starved, women starved themselves, marched, advocated

for decades before the right to vote came.

And now we have to do some of

the same things to. In the course of our revolution,

when times were dark, thomas

payne said the times have found us.

We believe the times have found us now again to save our democracy. To save our democracy. [Applause]

And the role of women in all of

that is very, very important. So know your power. It's fabulous to see the

strength of it all here. But understand how necessary that is.

So I thank you for your leadership, your involvement,

your courage to be invincible. >> thank you. [Applause] Now 100 years May seem like a long time.

But it wasn't that long ago in

our history when we basically

took the right to vote and we're

celebrating that 100-year anniversary, but we're still in

the midst of a lot of inequities that women face in this country.

I know you have been a leader around equal pay. So tell us a little bit about

your work and what you're doing

to help address the inequalities and the pay gap for women and men.

>> well, I appreciate you asking that, because one of our top items on our agenda, when we came in as the new majority in

congress, was to pass the fair

pass act, equal pay for equal work.

And it's still stunning to me to

see people voting against that. And mitch Mcconnell in the

senate is saying I'm the grim reaper, it's not going to see a vote in the senate.

But I say to him, this May be -- you May think it's dead, but it's alive and well in the public.

So I appeal to you, because no good thing happens with the

outside mobilization. We can maneuver to pass the bill in the house, to get it through

the senate and the President, to

sign it is absolutely essential, for us to have the outside mobilization. Know your power. Weigh in. I mean, who would vote against such a thing? The republican members of congress. I know this isn't a partisan -- [Laughter]

But it was amazing to see. And tied to that, which we're going to bring up in a couple of

weeks, is raising the minimum wage to fight for $15. $15 an hour. [Applause]

That affects women in the workplace as well. But when you think of the fact that women are not paid for the

same amount of work as men, and

what it means not only to the well being of their families,

but what it means to their pensions and their retirement

and the rest, it's so very, very unfair. We can correct it, we passed the

bill, rosa was the author of it.

And now we just have to get it past the senate.

Lincoln said public sentiment is everything. With it you can accomplish

anything with it. In order for the public sentiment to weigh in, the public needs to know.

So tell a friend, call in, especially into -- some of you are not from california. Call home.

Tell those people -- call the republican senators.

So bring up -- to bring up the bill. It's a threshold we must cross. We must cross. >> and that, along with a number of challenges that you've been dealing with for decades in the house of representatives, you

work with a number of presidents

and, of course, we had a great time working with President

Obama and we truly Miss Him now more than ever.

And I just -- I just wanted to

understand because we watch you on the news. And we -- in my mind, I don't

know about you, but I'm like how is nancy pelosi sitting there

with a straight face, when -- [Laughter] When some of those things are being said.

I just wonder, well, what is

going on in her head.

And you, classy as always, try to hold him accountable. Madam Speaker, what is going on in your head? [Laughter] With all of that?

>> well, thank you for bringing up President Obama and valerie jarrett, whom you had this morning was so -- [Applause] So spectacular. So spectacular. I love her. And she's really a powerful

force in our country.

I have to just say this about the occupant of the white house.

[Laughter]

[Applause]

It's really important to recognize that, again I'm just stating a fact, this isn't political or partisan. That the republicans in congress, house and senate by

and large agree with him on almost every subject.

I'm not associating them with his behavior.

But I am associating them with

his policy.

So before he even became President, they were where they

were on being an anti-women's

right to choose, lgbtq rights,

the climate change, gun safety, fair immigration, fairness in our economy, diminishing the

disparity in income between our

haves and have notes in our country. They've been on the wrong side of both of those issues for a long time.

So his coming in just -- he's

their guy from a policy standpoint.

So when we had our election '18, as I said to the candidates, something similar to what I'll

say to now. Don't even mention his name, just talk about you.

I say this to the women here, as

you aspire to perhaps run for office, supporting those who do,

as we sit here with this magself

success -- magnificent success

story with our mayor london breed. Here's the thing. What is your -- I keep saying to the members. We have to distinguish our why. Why are we here?

What is our vision for the country.

what do we know about the subjects that we can make a difference in the legislation.

How do we intend to do this. Are we strategic in our

thinking?

And show your sincerity, your connection to your constituents

in terms of their fears and hopes and apprehensions and

aspirations.

Don't talk about him.

But the fact is that when you present where you are on the

issues, you will make a very strong distinction between the republicans in congress and the democrats in congress.

And the republicans in congress

are very much aligned with the President Of the united states on these issues. That's really sad news that I have to convey to you. So when people say how come

they're not speaking out? Well, he's their guy. He's their guy.

But they also have taken an oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the united states.

And we're hoping that will weigh

in on their decisions, as we go forward.

So when you say when you're sitting there, he's the President Of the united states.

I respect the office that he holds. I think I respect it more than he respects it. But, anyway, I respect the

office that he holds. [Laughter]

And we have to try to find common ground.

Our founders went back and said

we are -- you know, the times have found us.

they also gave us guidance in

this respect.They couldn't imagine how many we would be, how different we would be. They always knew we strived to be one. So for the good of the people,

we have to always try to find

common ground.

Stand our ground.

Stand -- that would be thomas jefferson.

Stand our ground like a rock.

So you try to say, well, infrastructure, building a green

infrastructure for the future. Green, infrastructure for the future. Lowering the cost of prescription drugs, he says he wants to do those things. Let's try to find common ground on that.

But at the same time we must mobilize outside. We would never have passed the affordable care act or save the

affordable care act without the

outside mobilization. I thank for her kind words.

But it was the outside that made that happen.

Again know your power. Be invincible.

Weigh in on these things,

because the public is -- it is the people's country. We the people and for the people. And most importantly for the

children.

So that's what I think when I'm sitting there, among other things. [Laughter] >> yeah. [Applause]

>> well, speaking of knowing your power, it happens to be the

name of the book that you wrote "know your power." and part of knowing your power, of course, is knowing who you

are and what you stand for.

And I know that this had to come from somewhere.

And so tell us -- because as I

said earlier, you know, you have

been doing this incredible work since -- at a time when there

weren't a lot of women who were actively engaged in the political world.

And not until recently are we seeing incredible organizations

that are coming like emerge and emily's list and other organizations that are helping to support and encouraging and

pushing women to run for office. But you didn't have organizations like that.

You stepped out on face and really got actively engaged. And you also did it while raising five kids. I mean, I'm still trying to understand how that's even possible. So tell us a little bit about how you discovered, you know, your voice and your power and

what motivated you in the early years to really step out and to do this type of work. >> well, I appreciate what

you're saying. But the fact I was raised in a political family, as was mentioned. I was raised in a political family. We were taught that public service is a noble calling.

And that we all had a

responsibility to -- for the community. It wasn't about politics so much as about civic engagement and

politics as part of that.

and so I never had any intention whatsoever of running for public office. None whatsoever.

But I did feel responsible to make some contributions.

So I volunteered and one thing led to another. But I'll just tell you this

story about how I went from kitchen to congress. One of the paths through it. [Laughter]

So I'm at home, with five kids, running around, little kids. All of this.

I get a call from the then mayor joseph alioto. He says, nancy, what are you

doing, making a big pot of pasta. [Laughter] No, Mr. Mayor, I'm reading "the new york times."

[Laughter] He used to come in the afternoon

in those days before all of the technology. And my kids are playing there. And this is after school.

And he said, well, I'm calling

for ask you to serve on the library commission.

[Cheers] So I say to him, and he said because I know you love the library, kids and you

all hang out there and everything. We go there all the time, help with the books, this or that. This is -- this is almost 40

years ago.

So I said, no, Mr. Mayor, don't give me that appointment. I love the library. I'll doing that.

I don't need to be recognized as the library commissioner.

And this man, not known as a

feminist, but nonetheless said

to me, nancy, you're doing the

work, get the official recognition for it.

And that was one of the best

messages that I had. [Applause]

He said -- and, of course, no man would have ever said that.

Don't appoint me, I'll just carry the books around. [Laughter]

So I say that to the mayor,

because her path was commissioners as well. So many of you here.

But that official recognition, lo and behold I had a vote on the commission. People cared what I thought. We were putting meetings out in the neighborhood.

You know, we were doing things differently. And it was empowering. It was empowering.

But it was my first official

involvement was to be a library commissioner in san francisco.

But that -- that message -- it was so clear.

As a woman, you especially should receive the official recognition for the work that you're doing.

So then one thing and another, I've become chair of the california democratic party, this or that. Burton, the congressman from

this area, takes ill, she encourages and insists that I run for congress. There it is.

And there's some steps in between. [Laughter]

But then I go to congress. And I really didn't want to go. I mean, I've never thought about running for office.

i was basically a very shy person. Still am in certain respects.

People don't believe that. But anyway.

So I go to my daughter

alexandra, who was the youngest, she was 16, about to go into

senior year.

It's around January, February

and so she would be going in September.

I say, alexandra -- four of them were already in college, because the five were born almost to the day six years. That's why I like to talk to my colleagues about a woman's right to choose.

[Laughter] When you have a five babies in six years, you come talk to me about it. [Laughter] [Applause] Can you believe these men standing in line to prohibit a woman's right to choose. Come on! Come on!

Don't get me started. >> go ahead. Get started! [Laughter]

>> I go to alexandra, mommy has

been invited to run for congress.

It will be better when you're in college.

But I love my life. And so if you want me to stay here with you, I'll be gone like three nights a week.

I mean, I have to even win yet. I don't even know if I'm going to win.

But I have to decide whether to run. Any answer is okay.

If you want me to stay with you, that's fine. She says, mother, get a life.

[Laughter]

I had never heard -- we're talking over 30 years ago, I never heard the expression

before "get a life." [Laughter] What teenage girl wouldn't want her mother gone three nights a week. [Laughter]

So there I went. Another life. And then when I got there, never intended to run for leadership. But then people came to me and said, run for leadership.

And when my name was put out there that I'd run for

leadership, the men said, who

said she could run. Poor babies. [Laughter] [Applause]

Poor babies.

So I believe this was like around 2000. Why don't you just make a list of all of the things that the

women want and we'll do them for them. Oh! Double poor babies. [Laughter]

[Please stand by]

>> -- encouraging women, pro-choice women to run, so now, we have this.

And I say to the members our

diversity is our strength. This caucus is over 60% women, people of color, lgbtq. It's so beautifully diverse,

over 60%, and I say our diversity is our strength, our unity is our power.

And it's that power that I

bring to the table with the

President Of the united states.

[Applause]

>> The Hon. London Breed:   so one of the biggest challenges

that we're facing as women with

our reproductive health, and

what's happening with the country, it feels like we're

going backwards with laws that are being passed in georgia and

a number of other states like utah. It is devastating. We know ultimately the changes to these policies will mostly impact poor women and women of color, and it has just really

had a devastating impact on the

morale of just I think women in

general because we are here, trying to push for pay equity, trying to make sure that, you know, we have a seat at the table and a number of other issues, and now, we've got to go back and fight a battle that

we fought and won in the 1970's. It's like we're going back to

the dark ages here.

And I just wanted to know your thoughts on this, and where do we go from here, and how do we

continue to push this thing back?

>> you put it in the exact same frame. This is all about respect, whether we're talking about

respect in the workplace,

respect for equal rights, a

woman's right to choose.

My hope springs from the fact

that so many people understand this threat and are willing to

standup and advocate against

this threat to a woman's right

to choose. This is a moment because not

only are they passing these

bills which are so harmful, but

they are all going into other

related seals. Embryonic stem cell research,

all things that they think is

at the moment of conception or whatever, life begins. Without going into that, let me just say this to you because this -- for 25 years, my first 25 years in the congress, I tried to convey this, but it was so unbelievable that people

were like, oh, I don't really believe that. If I believed that, I'd never vote republican. They don't believe in birth control, they don't believe in family planning. They don't believe in any of that.

So understand, that's very strange to be telling you that.

If you think that their whole

goal was to reduce the number of abortions in our country,

you think they would love family planning.

But what is their bete noir in all of this? It's planned parenthood because they're so effective in giving

people choices to make their

own choices and have reproductive health initiatives for people all over the country.

So until they were defunding planned parenthood, which is technically not exactly what they did, but the effect was to defund planned parenthood. Then, people got all aroused about it, and they lost that fight.

And now, we have to again make

sure they lose that fight.

So women have to speak up in

their faith.

I was raised in baltimore, maryland.

Most of my family is not prochoice.

I don't ask them, and they don't tell me. I don't think they're crazy

about my exuberance on this. Believe what you want, live

your life, but don't believe that politicians are going to

exact that on somebody else. [Applause] >> and when -- and when we talk about the hyde amendment, when we talk about saying that no

funds can be used, that's the wrong thing to do because it's

a penalty that diminishes the

rights of poorer women, but that's a fight we have to fight.

We have to win the white house to make that fight, but understand, the hyde amendment has to go. It has to go. [Applause]

>> so again, know your power, advocate for this. Outside mobilization will make

all the difference in the world

in every state. And if people squlust just decide that they think that a woman doesn't have the good judgment to decide the timing and size of

her family, if she even wants

to have one, then they have to pay a price at the polls for thinking that way, for thinking that way. [Applause] >> but this is fundamental.

It's fundamental. And again, women of color pay a

price, as you mentioned, and that's same as the hyde amendment.

That's the same as equal pay for equal work thing, same as minimum wage.

I do want to tell a story about

sojourner truth, and the suffrage.

Since you had valerie here, I

decided to tell the story. When we took

we decided we needed to have

more diversity in the capital,

so we had rosa parks in the statues -- one of the most

visits statues in the capitol,

rosa parks, sitting -- that's the way the community wanted

her -- her statue. It's fabulous.

But then, when we did rosa

parks -- by then, when we did

rosa parks, President Bush was President.

When we did sojourner truth,

barack obama was President, and

we had a new emancipation in the wing of the building. And our speaker was michelle obama.

And she gets up, talking about sojourner truth, and talking

about how she was an amazing

mom, and suffragette.

And she says, I can see how

happy sojourner truth would be

to see a woman standing there

as speaker of the house, but I can't imagine what she would be thinking as me, michelle obama,

the first lady of america. [Applause]

>> we've come a long way, but

we have much more to do, much

more to do.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   yes.

And I just want to touch on so

many of the amazing accomplishments that you've had throughout your career. We know you've spent a lot of

your time getting democrats elected to congress, and we appreciate that, and it's one

of the reasons we have the majority in the house of representatives because of your

hard work and a lot of national policies around pay equity.

But you also take care of your home. We also appreciate the support that you provided for the

hunters point shipyard, and the

accountability, and the issues

that we've experienced this. Thank you for your neighborhood preference and that you fought

side by side to make sure that people have access to the affordable housing in their neighborhoods. A lot of the work that we've been able to do, that we get

funding from the feds, and the

california electrification, the support that you've given as you deal with the bigger challenges of the country, it means so much to have you in

this leadership position. What really stands out to you

as something -- a moment in

time or a situation or policy or something that you were just

so proud of, and maybe share -- share that with us today.

>> well, I'm so -- as I say to

my colleagues in the congress, all the honors you bestay upon

me as leader, now speaker of the congress now twice is wonderful, but nothing is more important to me than stepping

on to the floor of the house as

a representative of the people of san francisco. That is the most -- [Applause] >> and we have a beautiful agenda here that in most cases would be a model to the

country, so it makes me -- it easier for me to get resources

for what we need to have done

here, and also helps to be speaker of the house.

But I will say that the --

most -- let me just say about

san francisco, you know, they always -- san francisco values.

They spent -- they had 137,000

ads, the republicans, against

me in the election of 2018 as a

san francisco values person,

137,000 ads, san francisco liberal. Yes, proud to be. However, it didn't work.

We won 40 seats in the most gerrymandered voter suppression you can be.

I said, you know what we are? We are the people of

St. Francis, the patron saint of peace.

Bring us hope, light, faith. You will share in our san francisco values. But the most proud thing in addition to representing san francisco every minute of every day is the passage of the affordable care act.

And when there was a time when people thought it was never going to pass, the press said

to me, what are you going to do? Why don't you give up and make it smaller or something?

I said no, this is our moment.

It's social security, medicaid, medicare, this is the moment of our generation, and we're going to pass the bill.

And I said it looks impossible. There's so many barriers to it.

And I said if we see a barrier

too high for us, we'll go push open the gate.

And if that doesn't work, we'll

climb the fence, and if that

doesn't work, we'll pole vault

in, and if that doesn't work, we'll push our way in. And after it happened, the press said well, which one did you do?

And I said actually, we pushed open the gate because we not

only had the votes of the house democrat

democrats to do that, but we had the outside mobilization, and I come back to you. It was the people who cared whether it was for all of the

things, preexisting benefits, being a woman no longer being a preexisting condition,

protecting a woman's right to choose, all of those things, so a child staying on your policy,

the list goes on, but everybody was there pushing open that gate with us. It would not have happened without the outside mobilization. I tell you that because it is

true for everything that we do,

and I always say particular

thank God for the nuns as

opposed to the bishops, to the

nuns who were so helpful to us, another element of women power. So I say to women, know your power. The best advice I ever got

running your office is be yourself. Don't let anyone diminish who you are and what you bring to the table. And they'll try to do that, but you don't let them do it. You know why?

Because you're invincible. Thank you.

>> The Hon. London Breed:   thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, speaker

nancy pelosi. [

]

[Applause] >> the most powerful woman in san francisco, and the most powerful woman in the country, yeah.

Right here. [Applause]

>> you know, in my 22 years of

running the national center for

lesbian rights, when I first started at nclr, the idea of same sex couples having the right to marry was ridiculous

even to me, and yet early on,

we had champions like nancy

pelosi, who again and again

understood the importance of

our relationships being treated with dignity. It wasn't just about marriage, it was about employment, it was about our place in civic life. And over and over again, when I would contact speaker pelosi's office or as a congress woman,

her office, or we would be in

meetings with her, she would do that thing you always need

allies to do, she would deploy

her privilege in power to do what we needed. She would risk her political capital to say this issue

matters to me. Lgbtq people matter and need to be treated equally under the law, and she did that again and again and again, and she's done it on the range of so many issues.

And that's how you -- that's

the difference between a

situational ally or an ally when it's convenient or throw

down, and that's the difference.

We are so lucky to have nancy pelosi as our own. [Applause] >> I'm so excited to introduce our next individual who will

introduce our next speaker, and

the woman I'm about to

introduce is one of my very favorite longtime friends and colleagues. You don't stay in a position for two decades if you don't have a posse around you of people who protect you and support you and are your kitchen cabinet that you can

rely on, and serina kahn has

always been that for me. When I first met serina -- you can clap, sure. [Applause]

>> when I first met serina, she was the new executive director

as what was then the

international gay and lesbian rights coalition.

After that, she moved to

philanthropy, truly making her

mark at the ford institution and many others, and she's currently the Chairman Of the women's foundation in california. In every role, she has brought

along others, in every role,

she has elevated the role of young leaders. In every role, she has been

that honored partner,

confidante that I know you can trust.

So please welcome my friend, serina kahn. [Applause] [

]

>> wow, thank you for that.

Kate kendall is one of my she-roes. Hello, san francisco. [Applause] >> how are you feeling after this incredible day?

Let me hear you. [Cheers and Applause]

>> you have to be feeling invincible after that conversation between our mayor

and our speaker, nancy pelosi. Now that is some leadership.

We are so fortunate to have

women like that who are advocating on our behalf.

I am serina kahn, I am the C.E.O. Of the women's foundation of california, and I

am so honored to be here with

mayor breed and the summit organizers today because the

women's summit was founded

right here in san francisco in 1979.

Our founders broke new ground

in 1979 by creating one of the first foundations in the country led by and for women and girls.

They imagined a new feminist fill

philanthropy to distribute

resources to transform our communities. I stand before you as a proud lesbian, as an immigrant, as a

woman of color from a pakistan

muslim family, we recognize all

cisgender and transgender women

and girls in all minorities.

We believe that those problems

that are closest to our

communities are closest to the solutions of our communities. We are living in times of crisis, and we need community-led solutions.

Our golden state is a tale of two states, just like san francisco is a tale of two cities. We have incredible wealth in california and here in san

francisco, and yet, california

has the highest poverty rates

in the nation despite being the

fifth largest economy in the world.

A single woman in san francisco

especially in california's 58

counties spends more on child care than she's bringing home every month.

Not only is she going into debt every month, but she doesn't

have money for basic necessities, like food, clothing, transportation.

That's why over the past four

decades, the women's summit of

california is committed to community-led solutions. Through our institute, we've trained more than 500 community

leaders from across the state who use their lived

experiences, their powerfully unpolicy

unapologetic voices to pass 35

bills into law. I know you've heard about the

workers rights bill in california.

That happened through our

fellows in the california policy institute, domestic

workers who need help themselves, came up with the

policy idea and worked with legislators themselves.

We are fundamentally transforming the halls of power in our state, and they are each connected to thousands of people, which means that we

have the power to activate

millions of people across california for progressive

policy change, and that's a

good thing because california is providing hope to the rest

of the country in these dark

times. [Applause] >> we're so -- we're so fortunate to have strong leadership in our city and our

state, leaders who are responsive to community-led solutions. We applaud mayor breed who just

this week announced, along with

sheriff vickie hennesey, that victim will stop charging people in our city jails for

phone calls. [Applause]

>> and stop marking up items in the jail store. [Applause]

>> that will put $1.7 million