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item please. madam clerk. item eight internal accounting report investment report and that expenditure report for the nine months ending march 31st, 2025. this is an information item. >> thank you. cynthia fong, deputy director for finance and administration. this will be a quick update on the first nine months of fiscal year 2425 as of march 31st 2025 we have assets totaling 273 point 8 million. liabilities totaling to 314 million. we've earned 141.5 million in revenues. we've incurred 117.4 million in expenditures. overall revenues are on targets and expenditures are under budget. in terms of our debt compliance as you may remember in november 2020 for the transportation authority entered into a three year revolving credit agreement with us bank for a total of $185 million as of march 31st.
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we have drawn down $46 million outstanding and have this amount outstanding in loans. we had used the funds to purchase alavés through the mgm . as for our investment compliance we have approximately 57% of our investable assets sitting in the city's treasury pool. these investments are in compliance with the california government code and are to adopt an investment policy. this provides sufficient funds to meet expenditure requirements for the next six months. in addition with our drawdowns from our current revolver. with that i'm happy to take any questions. thank you. thank you, ms. fong. i don't see any questions. no one's on the roster. so let's go to public comment on this item. is there anyone in the chamber who wishes to speak on item eight? there is not. operator is there any remote public comment? >> there is no remote public
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comment for this item. okay. public comment is now closed. thank you. let's go to the next item please. madam clerk. >> item nine introduction of new items this is an information item. >> i don't see anyone on the roster. no items for introduction. let's go to the next item please. >> item ten public comment. is there anyone in the chamber who wishes to speak on item ten? >> there is your two minutes begins now. >> thanks again to the chair alida dupree. for the record she and her team foltz representing skirt foltz. as i speak generally i look for the best public transportation that we can have.
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i don't have a car gave away my car years ago and i use many different modes. i think they should be complementary rather than competitive. i'm an unashamed user of autonomous vehicles. i have 38 trips in my account two of which were in los angeles. the rest are here. and so that's one of the things that i do. i most of you probably never met me. mostly don't even know who i am . well, now you do. i get around to different kinds of meetings. but i speak about this because it's important to me as one who uses public transportation and autonomous vehicles and electrically powered rideshares because they all help me to get around because i don't want to drive in san francisco. i have driven in san francisco.
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it's a very long time ago but but i have done so. i don't much remember about it. i drove to a little town called brisbane just south of here. not to be confused with the one and i'm anticipating the work with clipper. it's very important. i want us to have an all clipper based system here. we we should support that clipper to is going to be here. don't know when we'll find out from mtc to let us know. but i use clipper i don't i don't carry any money with me except if i go to the pinball hall of fame in las vegas then i carry money with me. >> so i thank you for the meeting. hopefully i'll be back some time later. >> thank you for your comment. operator is there any remote public comment? >> there is no remote public comment. >> okay.
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public comment is now closed. madam clerk let's go to the next item please. item 11 adjournment. >> we're adjourned. thank you
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time to do 113 on a
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. >> good afternoon everyone and welcome to the city hall flag raising celebration and for san francisco pride. my name is honey mahogany and i'm the director of the office of transgender initiatives here in san francisco. >> and on behalf of city hall
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and mayor leary, we are so thrilled to have all of you here today. all of these incredible important leaders, activists, community members, trailblazers who have joined us for this important day. i do want to apologize that we had so many people that not everyone was able to make it into the back for the flag raising ceremony. however, i do want to let you know that they're going to open up the mayor's office and the balcony so folks can feel free after this. so go ahead and take your pictures and i believe the mayor will also be available for pictures. so maybe maybe not. maybe. i'm sure he will be. with that i just want to say i have never been more proud to be a san franciscan in this time in this place. >> we are watching history happen. and here in san francisco we
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are no stranger to making history. this is the home of one of the first openly people to run for office jose julio saria. this is the home of the compton's cafeteria riots of 1966. this is the home of the first openly gay official to ever hold office harvey milk. this is the home of the daughters of blight is the home of the compton's transgender cultural district the home of the office of transgender initiatives and the home of one of the biggest prides in the entire world's. >> i know you all know what is happening across this country and truthfully across the globe. but here today in san francisco we remember that our resistance
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must be joyful. that we must celebrates with our chosen family, with our families, with our community members, with our leaders. what it is that makes san francisco so special. our diversity the fact that we are willing to fight for what is right and the fact that we will never back down. >> so with that i'm going to introduce our first speaker at this flag raising. please welcome the very honorable mayor daniel lurie. honey, thank you for kicking us off so proudly. happy pride, everybody. for generations generations. san francisco has been a beacon of hope for the lgbtq
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community. a place where people have come to live freely, love who they want to love, build families and live without apology. our lgbt q plus community has shaped this city in ways that touch every corner. from small business owners who bring life to our neighborhoods the families that call san francisco their home to the public servants who drive change. you make san francisco stronger. when we raise this flag we are celebrating everyone here today and the activists who came before us. we are uplifting the voices of those who continue to fight for dignity and equality. and we're showing every person no matter who they are or how they identify. looking up at this building that they belong here. remember we remember those who
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made history and spoke loudly like harvey milk. and we remember the everyday residents our lgbtq plus seniors who blazed the trail our trans neighborhood neighbors who demand safety and our young people who deserve to dream big and grow up in a city that protects them and at a time when lgbtq plus rights are under attack across the country san francisco we are sending a different message. you are welcome here. you are seen here. you are safe here. >> when transit firm when trans
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affirming health care is being attacked we support lion martin's primary and mental health care for our lgbtq plus immigrant community who find refuge in our city. we are committed to funding immigrant legal services and remain committed and remain committed to organizations like the lgbtq plus asylum project and provide our when our trans community is under attack and they seek safety in our city, we support them through organizations like tags coalition and g. i g jp when our lgbt youth are scared for their safety, we support them through amazing organizations like lyric which empower and uplift our young people.
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when the federal government turns their back on funding for hiv and aids services, we have time and time again backfill those cuts and will continue to do so. >> as the pride flag rises over city hall, let it remind us of how far we've come and how much further we will go when we show up for each other, fight for each other and care for each other. i want to thank the members of the counselor corps who have joined us. we were proud to stand alongside representatives from 15 different countries united in a powerful show of solidarity for love, equality and inclusion. your presence sends a meaningful message and we are deeply grateful for your
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ongoing partnership and support to all of the elected officials that stand with us today. i don't need to call on you but i'm going to continue. let us all continue using our platforms to champion equality and protect the rights of our lgbt q plus community. to everyone here representing our city. thank you for being part of san francisco's heart. thank you for your courage, your joy and your unshakable pride. let's keep raising the flag and raising each other every single day. happy pride everyone and let's go san francisco. i am proud to now turn the
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microphone over to a friend and our incredible lieutenant governor lenny kounalakis. well, good morning, everyone. thank you, honey. mahogany for those beautiful and inspiring words and for your leadership. and mr. mayor, thank you for welcoming us all again to city hall san francisco city hall the greatest city hall in the greatest city in the entire world. i'm lenny kounalakis, the 50th lieutenant governor and the first woman elected to the position. and it is a great honor to join leaders and members of the lgbtq plus community to celebrate pride month and to remember that california has the large and most engaged lgbtq community in the country.
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>> because california celebrates pride every single day. this is the state that saw harvey milk come out and step forward to lead as the first openly gay man elected to office in the united states of america. this is the state where then mayor gavin newsom literally rewrote the marriage licenses such that any two people seeking the bonds of matrimony and the blessing of marriage are entitled to do so. this is the state that last year passed proposition and three to enshrine marriage rights into the california constitution for ever. i've been watching the
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marriages behind us and back in 2000. my husband and i were married here in city hall under this great dome and years later i drove past city hall every day bringing my little boys to school, watching the couples lining up to get married. and i was able to teach my little boys from their first memories that love is love is love is love. we have come a long way but we also know that for the lgbtq plus community and your allies the fight for civil rights is one that every generation must continue to wage. just over ten years ago as the united states ambassador to hungary, i insisted on marching
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in the budapest pride parade. i became the first u.s. ambassador to do so. >> and two of my successors carried on the tradition. but last year under the heavy hand viktor orban, the parade was canceled and outlawed. people ask me to talk about the similar authorities between hungary and the united states. they asked me all the time. but i think it's more important to talk about the differences. this is the united states of america and we are not going back. this is the state of california and the city of san francisco and we will always recognize that because of our diversity, because we celebrate everything that makes us human. we are the fourth largest economy in the world and the greatest democracy that has ever existed.
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so that's in a place like the last one. it is now my great honor to call to the podium a champion for lgbt q plus rights for housing for equity. and a literally towering member of the california state legislature someone i consider a great friend and a true leader. senator scott wiener thank you . thank you, madam lieutenant governor and thank you for your allies ship which you've been extraordinary and thank you, mr. mayor, for all that you do. so as we honor pride month, i'm always proud to be a san franciscan and i am particularly proud now with everything happening in the country the the frankly the poison that has been injected into this country that's harming so many communities
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and it just it warms my heart knowing the beauty of san francisco and the spirit of this city, a city that embraces everyone and that we are all about not leaving anyone behind, not dividing people, not pitting people against other people which is what's happening in this country and not demonizing people. that's what san francisco is about and it makes me even more proud of this city than i usually during these difficult times. it is very easy to get down about what's happening in the country and i don't want to ignore that. today is about festivity but we we also need to acknowledge what's happening that we are now this country is being run by a group of psychopaths and i don't say that lightly. it's like they get joy.
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they derive joy out of hurting people whether it's just unleashing their masked secret police to sweep people off of the streets and deport them. and i want to just say because sometimes the news cycle passes us by and people forget that there are still hundreds of venezuelans sitting in a gulag in el salvador including andre romero hernandez, a gay man who came to this country seeking asylum and was rewarded by being sent to a gulag in el salvador. they're trying to take a wrecking ball to health care access to throw tens of millions of americans off of medicare and medicaid and the affordable care act which will have a profound negative impact on people living with hiv and hiv prevention. and of course we just saw this week in what can only be described as a vile petty move
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. is this the stripping of harvey milk's name off of a naval vessel? and i want to first of all say thank you to the lgbt q veterans who worked for years and years and years to make that the naming of that ship a reality. they poured their lives into that and it was such a proud moment four years ago when that ship was rolled out with harvey's name on the side harvey a brave naval veteran who was kicked out of the military because he was gay and went on to change the world and it's just what a petty despicable move to remove his name. but it's just it just i think fortifies our determination to fight for our community, to fight for our future, to fight for the veterans that they are harming with all the cuts at the va. and i, i know that we're going to fight and we're going to win. you know, when i think back to when i first came of age as a
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gay man in 1987 which is a very dark time for our community and in san francisco in particular but elsewhere we were seeing a mass die off of gay men and of trans people and others and we had a federal government that not only didn't care but was actively trying to undermine our community and they did not care if people died and this community we pulled together this we were all there for each other in san francisco and throughout the country to say if they're not going to be for us, if they're going to harm us, we're going to support each other and have each other's backs. and that's what this is about. that's what pride is about this year we have to have each other's backs and that means within our community it means having our immigrant neighbors backs as they are under attack, having the backs of all the women who are being denied access to reproductive health care. we need to be there for each other and happy pride everyone
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. and now and now i have the honor of bringing out the longest serving lgbtq the elected official in san francisco maybe in the history of san francisco i think in the history of san francisco an amazing leader who does so much good for our for our city and for our community. >> our treasurer jose cisneros . thank you, scott. thank you for enforcing the old age part of that introduction. it's really sweet of you. very lovely. i am honored to be here with all of you. i have been in office over 20 years and i am proud to be a long standing elected official in this city in this country. and for everyone to recognize sorry but i'm here because of all of you. but i want to talk to you from
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one minute about one of the most probably the very best day i spent in this gorgeous building. i can't tell you enough how wonderful it is to be able to come here every day. i wish all of you could come here every day with us. it's a fantastic place. and because of a lot of people right here amongst us, a lot of great things happen here. but on one day back in 2004 i know you've all heard about it. our mayor gavin newsom decided as elinor you mentioned to start marrying everybody everybody we could get married. and i took the chance to volunteer and become one of the people performing weddings on that first weekend. and i'll tell you, it was incredible. for those of you that were here, you probably remember there were thousands yes. thousands of people in this building even more lined up outside even in the pouring rain. and they were waiting for a chance to come in and be
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married. and i got to marry three couples one day when i was here that day. one of the couples that i got a chance to marry and people came from everywhere on absolutely short notice. a couple i married was here from north carolina. their family and friends were listening to our ceremony on the cell phone that they were who we were holding up while they while they got married and we performed the ceremony. and the cell phone blew up at the end of it with all the friends and family screaming and congratulations for this beautiful couple. that was my best memory of a day here in city hall. i wish you all have your best memories of when things great happen here in city hall. but what i'm most proud of is that they also happen here in city hall for not only every community but for the community. and i know that a lot to all of you. all of you make our city wonderful. all of you make this building a treasure. and all of you our treasures yourselves. so i want to thank you.
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you make my job easier. you make our place more successful. and i'm proud of everything you do. thank you for supporting me and everybody in this building to make our work successful and important for everybody in the country and around the world. it's now my honor to introduce my good friend the president of the board of supervisors and one of the best around rafael man gelman. >> longest serving elected official jose cisneros. we love you so much. i am rafael mandel then and i do love this event so very much. mr. mayor, thank you for opening up your balcony and and bringing us all together to your team that did so much work to do. i mean astounding to really
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open the doors of city hall for this event and invite so many folks to come. you know, just a couple of months ago we were on this balcony for the first time recognizing lesbian visibility week and thank you for that and thank you for your the work your team did on that really let's give it up for the lesbians. yeah i want to thank my colleagues for for showing up my board of supervisors colleagues matt dorsey was here matt dorsey very very gay and and joellen garcia also very very gay from district super from district four. thank you all for being here. bilal mahmood very straight but very ally thank you. thank you bilal for being here.
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i want to thank. i did see former supervisors leslie katz, trailblazer jeff sheehy and if i've left out any supervisors or former supervisors someone should shout out and embarrass me. we're not going to do that. all right. i want to thank assemblyman matt haney for being here a tremendous ally and i don't know that everybody knows this but the person who brought honey mahogany into city hall that true claim to fame and we have some great elected officials luis the more from the college board thank you for being here janice lee from the bart board again this is a really dangerous game and i'm probably screwing it up. >> one of the reasons i love this event so much is seeing the incredible talent in the kid in san francisco's community are amazing artists
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serge and others. i'm not going to name everybody. there's great artists here i just named one are amazing non-pro profit leaders. we have open house here. we have so many others. hey vinny, we have marcy edelman who's like california's leading thinker on aging and i mean okay super dangerous. i am going to stop but from all the different sectors and then our city employees and our department heads this is just a beautiful beat. our commissioners a beautiful celebration and i'm so glad that we get to do it again and it is in part tom horn i don't remember if you've been thanked yet but tom horn and the bob ross foundation and you always step up for us. you are the best. we love you so much. penny colter thank you for what you do for these events. it's so wonderful to have this . others have spoken about what a miserable time this is
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nationally and the daily offenses to our to our senses, to our minds to see what is happening to a country that we love and to see the way in which this administration, you know, trolls and bullies to distract from the real harms they're actually doing. senator wiener, earlier today we were he had organized a press conference because of course you've all heard of the renaming of of the of the u.s.s. harvey milk and it's horrible and we're offended and upset about it but it's a little bit you focus on that and you might forget that the this administrate ation is defunding the veterans administration not just for but for everybody taking away food and health care and housing from vets of all sexual orientations and gender identities and so i love that we get to come together and i
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love that the theme of pride this year is joy is resistance because no one knows how to deal with a schoolyard bullies better than the. it's just true a lot of us experienced it and you know and i think we learned how to be sassy have fun but resist at the same time. i think that is why it is trans folks and drag queens that led the way in so many of these uprisings that started our movement back in the back in the 60s give it up for the trans folks and the drag queens and so thank you san francisco pride and thank you suzanne ford we are a difficult
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community to try to organize a giant party for and yet suzanne ford manages to do it each year come what may the challenges and each year the challenges are different and there are always awful and overwhelming and yet you manage to get it done and we're so grateful to you and to the pride committee. >> susan and ford come on up. yeah. oh, let's go. please. please now. oh, okay. okay. thank you. that said let's this is my fourth year up here and it does not get old now i promised my wife i was going to stand up straight this year.
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my name is suzanne ford. my pronouns are she her and yes it's true i am the first transgender executive director of the most icon honest organization in the world mayor lurie lieutenant governor mary lori staff i would like to thank you all all of the elected officials that are here city department heads, city employees, straight allies that are here. thank you so much. what an honor to be standing up here. and also i want to just say something really quickly. i've got to two men two fabulous gay men that always stand by me and they always take my phone call. state senator wiener and and supervisor madeline and thank you to our community. i see all of you all the time i
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take your phone calls, i take your complaints. i'm there when we do something well and i'm there when we drop the ball. but i can tell you that includes all of our community every group we see you at san francisco pride we are trying to be radically inclusive. i have two people up here with me today because well first of all we'd have more board of directors and staff people here but there they are all in washington d.c. world pride and we all had to stay here and work. i would like to introduce our treasurer adele hanson con and our newest board member jack beck. okay. one other job before i get to my message we need to congratulate and i can see you
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out there. i see you too. we need to congratulate our grand marshals. there are a bunch of them here today. keenan arun, janelle butler, jesse ruiz, dr. tyler mia tita ida our lifetime achievement winner s.f. community health i see las she's not here today but i'm really excited to tell you that our celebrity grand marshal this year will be harper steele and she'll be here on wednesday of pride week . you know, honey talked about being so proud to be from here and honey has a different perspective because only grew up in san francisco and i think she grew up expecting people to get better and to do better. and i have a little different perspective. i grew up in owensboro, kentucky and i knew that if
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someday i could get to this city that i had a chance to be me and i will tell you that i want that for everyone in our country. but now that i'm in san francisco i get to bring my full self to my job every day i get to be suzanne ford who i always longed to be and thank you. the world will be watching the last weekend in june to see that if here in san francisco we still hold the same values and san francisco pride we take that responsibility and we plan on showing on june 29th that you can be who you are and you can love who you love in this city for sure. >> now i'm not going to give it any oxygen but we all know what
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we are facing. young people in this country are being denied health care. trans people are afraid. our senior citizen people know that they need vital health care and that that's being threatened. that is why we the board, the staff and the members of s.f. pride have chosen the theme this year joy is resistance and the reason we chose that because we are going to do two things on pride sunday. number one we are going to protest and we are going to say that in this city and this state we are not going to take this oppression. >> the resistance contingent was formed in 2017. i was in that original resistance contingent by the
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board in response to the first election of somebody we know in washington dc and we will continue that tradition and we will march and we will demand aid especially trans rights. but the second part of that is joy and we are not going to let anyone in this country take away our joy. we are going to be together on pride sunday as one community and i think this is the challenge this year in my job in our organization we are usually at the center of controversy. we have to say hard things to powerful people in this city. but this year on pride sunday i call for all of you lay down your differences on pride sunday if you are an lgbtq community member, if you are an
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ally, if you are a citizen of this city i expect to see you on market street. thank you suzanne. and on behalf of a grateful city, i want to present this proclamation to you as we kick off pride month. by the way, everyone told me last year pace yourself. well let's go hard. let's have fun. this is a month of action and most importantly a month of joy. this is lgbtq plus pride month in san francisco.
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>> all right. we are just wrapping up. before we do, i want to do the dangerous thing of naming a couple more people who are here just acknowledging that we also have labor in the house today with us. kim taveuni and bianca polo vino. i also want to acknowledge that we have the one and only want to do more with us in the house today. we have the sisters of perpetual indulgence with us with us here today and of course we also have our emperor and empress with us here today. >> so thank you for being here . this is what san francisco is and looks like happy pride. a couple of quick announcements. just want to remind you that you are welcome to be here for the reception. the mayor's office will also be open for pictures for those who
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would like to take pictures with the flag on the mayor's exterior balcony. and last but certainly not least, please enjoy this closing music from the san francisco gay freedom band. watch out
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>> so the march started in 2004, there was a lot of action going on at the time against transgender people. so an email thread went around and everybody decided to meet here at the loweris park and
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really send out the message to the community that we're here and just because the legislation does not validify who we are, we are still here and we deserve to be loved and empowered. >> so for me trans march is a safe place where i will not be quiet and i can be unapologetic against my trans siblings to be in the community and say okay, you can bring yourself to the safe places. we're normal human beings and we can exist.
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>> this is one of the largest trans marches that happens in the world and this space is ours. we can at least have one day where we are seen and not over shadowed by the greater pride, hostilities everywhere. trans march means so much to me. but it means so much more for me and my community. >> we really felt it was important to have a special day just for transgender people where we can have our voices lifted up and specifically seen.
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>> after coming, i feel so proud of this place and also this whole movement. this joy is strong. so maybe trans march that is a lot of joy. >> my partner is transgender and you know ,z we've been together for 25 years. and i learned a lot about trans generaleder and her what it means to be transgender. to give people pride of who they are they are beautiful and an important part of society and they should have equal rights.
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>> for me being here is an act of celebrating myself and feeling okay in my own skin. >>ed we have a lot of momentum here at trans mart, we have a lot of community for support from our sponsor to our tal ept, everybody is happy to support this event because we all want to be together and after two years of not being able to be together this year, people were especially excited. [applause]
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. >> looking for something fun and totally free in the heart of san francisco. union square just leveled up. every day brings something new for the kids and adults like music spoken animals, foosball battles to board games and even a little arcade style basketball and juggling to keep things moving. need a break? step into the cozy activity center for coloring and crafts or treat yourself at the participating pastry shop serving up mouthwatering dessert. whether you're bringing the kids catching a vibe or just passing through you, union square is buzzing with free fun every single day.
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and of course you're steps away from some of the best shopping in the city. whether you're bringing the kids, catching a vibe or just passing through union square is buzzing with free fun every single day. don't miss out. come see what's happening this summer . hello fellow san franciscans. i'm police chief bill scott. the future of policing in san francisco has arrived. over the last year the sfpd has been building our real time investigation center or what we're calling the arctic. this new nerve center allows officers to use technology to fight crime in real time. >> and the results are stunning . over the last several officers can simultaneous safely use our growing network of automated license plate readers drones,
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public safety cameras and other technologies to fight crime faster and more efficiently. >> hey, they're running. the other ones are running just they're running on still running westbound on geary right in front of louis vuitton staff and the are to communicate directly with our officers in the field delivering crucial information like we're suspects and moving around the city. >> it's going back and forth or getting up to 20s. >> this allows our officers to precisely identify and arrest suspects while mitigating potential risks to officers and the public. >> my job will do that with the arctic. >> our officers can safely take on suspects and avoid police chases whenever possible. these tools have assisted our officers in driving down crime to lows not seen in decades in san francisco. in fact the arctic has assisted in over 500 arrests and many other operations in the last year alone. additionally, the arctic has
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been valuable in helping locate missing persons and assisting people in crisis. >> do you want to come back over here and talk to me? you're not in trouble, right? okay. what's got you up on the roof? >> we've had these tools for less than a year and the results are remarkable. the future of policing has truly arrived in san francisco . we're excited to partner with mayor daniel lurie to continue expanding this technology in san francisco to continue to make the city safe it wasn't until 1975 when the san francisco police department accepteded its first all status female officer. you can look back as we know. this is a moment reflecting on
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how far we have come. >> and we're here toav recognize the trailblazer who made it possible for women to serve in law enforcement. >> we have the 126 127 and a whole lot of l classes in between. so we have 50 years represented herere. so 50 5 years ago a courageous group of women joined the isfsf pd breaking barriers proving that women belongedg in every role and police work theirol resilience and determination paved the way for future generations of womenat in this apartment. >> it is ameme true honor and hr to be here and to take that photo with you allit across the way. that was a special moment for me today. we celebrate 50 yearss 50 years of women on patrol in the san francisco police department. in 1975,e 28 of you joined the
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126 recruit class and these 28 women became the first to serve alongside their male counterparts fhear. there are so many firsts in this room. osthe first women to work patro. the first sergeant who i met. their first woman lieutenant. the first captain. ethe first deputy chief. >> the first chief ofhi police. and they aree. not like us. nobody is like san francisco women of this pd have played a huge role in my career as a prosecutor. it takes grit and it takes a certain mindsetse of us women to decide that we have the w abiliy to penetrate that glass ceiling. my women of that pd makee job easier when we are out there trying to serve the people. so thank you win
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♪♪ ♪♪ i'm shawn quigley the founder of paxton gate that's where we are here on ra11sia street. >> it started more of a quirky gardening store. we leaned in this quirky side over the years and started with insects and learned how to hydrate them and symmetrical or natural poses. which then went into small taxidermy. i saw interest in the oddity side and purposely expanded that to more of a natural side oddity store. this is interesting mechanical parts in the beetle. african porcupine is cool. they look at their eyes.
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i grew up on what many call a farm but it was in the to us. we raised animals it a garden i was involved with plant. had a rock collection. collection goes from your basic house plants to an air plant. avoid this term people happening they survive on air alone they do need water. i went to school for business here and finishing up at sf state. and this idea fell in my lap and masterfuled my interests and i learned a lot over the years. i like to view it as like a museum experience. rather hahn sales people they might be like dossants they are not hard selling you but more conveying informing or knowledge about the products. teeth, that's the giant shark that would get up to 60 feet
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long. we are launching class we did them before the pandemic. a bunch of hand's on learn to do things classes that we are getting around to relaunching. this is our insect spreading kit. inside is a striped needles, forceps, instructions and the other tools you need to take up the hopy of spreading insects. had is a prize to many people is 80% of the stuff we get is from vendors or merchants. people think do you tremendous finding these. i don't get to do this. that is a still born kitten that had one eye. the most common question is, is it real.
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almost everything is. we have replicas like the sabre tooth tigers and things that would be present low expensive to procure and sell or illegal we'll do replicas we have, lot of real stuff. ♪♪ 2025 into session. the time is now 9:30 a.m. i will now call the roll please respond with here are present board member herrera here and board member baudry here carmen