>> for those of you don't know me, i'm janet and tilts a pleasure to be here today for the irish flag raising the irish are optimists and irish flag

raising i saw the sunshine slow the rain clouds that's what day i today is all about the irish helped shape san francisco and including buildings and engineering and science and medication and education, government and public service. my father thomas yes, ma'am graduated in 1949 and immigrants found opportunity and warm welcome in san francisco and found the love of his life my motel whose family where in the county and my siblings and i were raised with great pride in the irish heritage and (microphone feedback) welcome to introduce to i your mayor of 0 san francisco mayor london breed

(clapping.) all right. good afternoon everyone who is so great to be here with each and every one of you to celebrate the flag raising that represents are your bond and continued work and growth what did you irish community here in san francisco this this year's theme is unit sf i appreciate leaning the united society and all the work they have done and continue to do to make sure we are building bridges we are working together and we're doing everything we can to move san francisco forward. it is so great to be here. with the lord mayor of clark mayor ma carbohydrate thank you. obeys here to celebrate this occasion and thank you to our council generally been a great addition to san francisco we

appreciate and value our work relationships in the centuries of what it means san francisco has been celebrating st. patrick's day for one hundred and 73 years celebrated with the history and vacation dwelling the relationships bringing us toyota this this year this is anymore special lord mayor celebrating 40 years of the sister relationship between san francisco and cork (clapping.) it is no wonder that so many of our learned are joining us i want to take a moment to recognize them thank you to the chief marianne for being here and corresponding this event (clapping.) thank you to the members of board of supervisors i ask you all to stand supervisor safai,

supervisor dorsey and others. thank you very much. >> (clapping) and also want to thank our assembly member matt apprenticeship any for being here as well (clapping.) and finally, recognize that the public safety over there our paul our police chief bill scott and fire chief jeanine nicole son and i know a beloved member of the irish community is here the former parade kathleen banning (clapping.) shout out to the residents bigger john who is joining us as well (clapping.) and the co-chair the sister committee

for being here. (clapping.) and finally, i know that i served as grand marshal a while ago i feel like every single year i'm passing the torture i want to thank the folks for coming to san francisco 1979 developing his company more importantly continuing to be a course of inspiration and making sure that you are supporting you're one hundred and 40 people being sf as well as the cooperer field and treasure island thank you for your work and congratulations (clapping.) i want to also recognize the family of michael administering joining us and let you you know, his memory is recognized during

this time as a here member and grand marshal we appreciate your work and commitment to the public service during the grand marshal dinner i met his son with the san francisco pd thank you for being here today (clapping.) so much xiechltd so much rich history and amazing people lipped unit 19is part of the theme this year so as we celebrate it is about bringing communities together. it is about recommending our challenging times but also recognizing that san francisco and our irish community represents row silence coming up with the stronger and better than that than ever before so many of you with our stories of row silence and your stories

around coming to san francisco before crocker or other places we know at that time was not easy but today we're here with over 67 thousand people of irish decent has the prior chief joan talked about public service and police officers and firefighters and people who have established their own businesses and construction companies engineering and many people who helped to lead and would build the city and county of san francisco guy we recognition and recognize the history and in order to move our city forward and i want to ask the lord mayor of crocker as well as the council general to come down to accept that official

proclamation. that cement we'll officially proclaim that irish-american friendship today in the city and county of san francisco (clapping.) oh, wait a minute what i'm a news lerlt and change it is now officially irish-american heritage month in san francisco (clapping.) to celebrate the most we're going to light city hall up in green make sure i come back to get our pictures and in is 16 the day we host one of the biggest st. patrick's day in the united states light city hall up in green make sure you join us

and have a wonderful time thank you all so much. >> (clapping) all right. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor london breed and now like to ask council general from ireland to come up this is the month (clapping.) thank you, thank you joanne the state of an the overview of happy st. patrick's day we're celebrating on this we have setting of this great home it is

great thourn. thank you. >> today you read the irish side over flag over city hall we celebrate the connections to this great city to a home of a wonderful mix of the people's where there is unit and comfort and diversity and heritage poisoning success and failure and resiliency a city that is long home for the irish a community helped to shape and forge many relationships in this city thank you, mayor london breed i was reminded i remain jealous this year for the lord mayor and i don't think none jealous for any jacket but mayor, i witnessed the work for the people across the city and little irish and thank you for making in day special for st.

patrick's day for us in the irish community. and want to thank you to the team miriam and everyone involved in city hall thank you to the supervisors we had a great day not board yesterday thank you, commissioner chambers for the presentations in city hall that will continue and to liam and the board of directors of the united irish society thank you for your work to marry that the st. patrick's day celebrated and the entire irish for the relationships with that country and city and at the as phone call o for the support for my family and i offer decades almost after a year and a half and looking forward to as the

mayor referenced to under united 70 sf sophomore the grand marshal tom very well-deserved tom and you're good people made a tremendous quack in the city and region thank you for that and also to the family of honoree grand marshal murphy thank you for being here a wonderful honor to be the honorees grand marshal and other big year forever irish and this region 40 years of the history relationship i'm deliberated that underlines the relationship and significant progress and culture center on 2025 and progress with the common america and have the championship the biggest championship in the united states this year and in the city and in august and you

might see me there as well this is a year the hundred anniversary of diplomatic relationships with the united states a very special relationship and talk about on that over the coming days and weeks st. patrick's day we promote ireland and relationships we just conducted a decade of that marked the political body island of ireland some dark and some light by this year our theme is looking at the ireland in the future and in the world he threw the lens of our youth that is the theme the irish government theme across the united states and this year but more importantly let's joy ourselves today and joy

ourselves for the next few week thank you, thank you (clapping). >> now like to perfect segue our first performance is by cal tick voices enjoy. >> (music).

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(clapping.) thank you cal tick voices a round of applause (clapping.)

and next gives me great pleasure speaking with marty joe owner since 1963 the year before i was born murphy school of dance led by mary joe murphy. >> (music).

>> (clapping) thank you to the murphy school dancers another round of applause the mayor asked if i would do the steps maybe after an irish coffee i'll to ask the lord mayor, i had the pleasure to meet last time and mary please join me at the podium welcome. >> dear mayor london breed dear members of board of supervisors and members of london breed and exclusive members of city hall i brought

jan as your honored guests thank you, so, so much for hosting this very, very important encouragement event and my dear friends i have if i may unfortunately, raise ireland's flag to recognize this day this is a bold much meaning reflection recommending the celebration of irish culture to the identity and particular events and journeys of irish people across kirnts of time and event rfkdz on the resilience and ambition and attitudes and mechanisms a deep sense of pride with an emotional pride and sense of hope for not giving up in the face of challenge. my

dear friends ultimately so many to learn from such stories that's the first message and not judge the irish stories but the other stories across the world not just in san francisco i didn't across the world as well and my dear friends my second message has before you get us on an important journey and democracy i talked about with mayor london breed with threatened of democracy our prirn or partnership is a light of opportunities and for me those opportunities are together more in a devoted world more before and the restoring is one of the bridging poem to the and has inspired and mature benefits of projects and over the last 40

years and also like to thank the san francisco crocker committee for their hard work with your executives and for hard work and volunteerism and so my second message is that we purview past years since dianne feinstein and the lord mayor john signed agreements and joan in crocker and send him our best wishes and always remember dianne feinstein and for her work and for international democracy but still much to do we need to continue our journal today and many roads and my third message my dear friends to ask the festivities in preparation for the anniversary a song has been

stuck in my head but the lyrics to the beautiful scenery and bringing san francisco indeed a song for several years on the chart in ireland since 1984 so this is dedicated to you and i have no doubt other mayors so the people in the audience who are from ireland if you know this walking. were falcons build their nests and they fly they know the call of firemen in any breasts and against the sky where twisted rock they run down

to the sea and living on the western shore for the sunset ask for anymore he stood by there is a lot to see and sank. >> song for ireland and talking along the day try to make you stay. and joe how have news and singing songs to past the night away and watch the silver dancing in the sun and living on your western shore for the sunset ask for more i stood by your atlantic sea and sank a song for ireland and i sink a

song for ireland (clapping.) thank you so much. >> (clapping) (laughter). >> to conclude dear mayor london breed and my friends let's reflective on the learning for the racing of the flag and continue to renew our journal together in the relationships and let's remain true friends as is lyrics sank thank you for the opportunity to address you in that beautiful, beautiful palace (clapping.) thank you, mayor. mccarthy if you tire you can go to the

entertainment industry and [off mic.] >> beautiful, beautiful. >> charming before i call up the next speaker someone i want to introduce when a who has met joan someone i know since i was a little girl and my family and father and wonderful public sovereignty this is deputy chief former president please stand dermot (clapping) thank you. >> thanks for what you've done for the city i love this city big city and small town i went to high school with his drought terry require we're getting close towards of end i'd like to make sure we introduce liam

frost did a great job of the irish society (clapping.) ethic, of course, i get to follow the talented sirens and all the speakers i'm the president of units irish society of san francisco and demeanor met was my procedures i want to say wow. one hundred and 73 years for the irish have been celebrating and it was brought to our attention no longer the same day but sfaipd for the month of mark and this can only happen from when one hundred and 74 years ago like our tom and you decided to get to the and celebrate the irish heritage and could angle last this many years

have mayors will i london breed that welcome us with the irish flag raising and doing everything we can to celebrate our parade so mayor london breed and her staff foster and others helped to organize this and then the council general smith and jennifer is the advice council all those people make piano last one hundred and 73 years and i'd like to um, supervisor supervisor stefani for putting on the reception and continue the staff with joe and others organizing and any ask chris to council u come up and give little mayor a token of our appreciation for having us a

vase in ireland (clapping) [off mic.] >> there we go. >> put this on the shelf. >> any for the parade every year this gongs and not like and we can do better the only people that know there is a hip and now have jan i'm not sure james understood how much work but thank you to james and his family for allowing him to do all that work (clapping.) as well as the whole board of units irish sovereignty i was handed this board and like being on a big ship and all i have to

do it stay out of the way and every year everything is done the business the hospital and the day cape county of los angeles day and looking to ask the rose committee to one of our events to make that agent better and next to get more people to support this. >> put own this parade we need a lot of help in the city and got nick with the sf mta rec and park phil and others and the staff and, of course, jeanine nicholson and asking a lot of them to do the work we appreciate that. >> (clapping) you know, there is a boss but

are face to face with the captain jason from northern station and their staff of a toby moore and frank and you accessibility adam shaw. when we have those meetings we're sitting across the table those are the ones that gets this done for one hundred and 73 years i appreciate the city employees taking care of of us so once again thanks (clapping.) i'd like to congratulate and thank our grand marshall tom and his wife may mary and as honoreey grand marshal it is huge honor to be a grand marshal of san francisco but a lot of work we ask a lot of those people most of these guys want to be in the background we ask them to go on tv and they're not

me but they do that and we appreciate that that's why we're honoring people like them and past fire chief joann that's she talked about mercy hospital and mike murphys kids behind me - i worked with mike murphy with my son at bayview station a small town and it's amazing i get to honor people like. so thank you, (clapping.) and as always have to thank my wife i get a lot of phone calls she looked me and roles her eyes okay, honey. the support i get from here is amazing. and i

appreciate and love my wife and want to shout out also to every board member they in the same boat so thank you, (clapping.) this is the season to celebrate being irish and i invite everyone to become irish for the season and let us unit san francisco. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, liam. >> this concludes this part of ceremony and irish coffee or two i know again, the generosity of supervisor stefani down the hall you on your doors we appreciate that thank you. . thank you. >> um, thank you, mayor london breed and i was going to say i want to congratulate tom hunt a your family as grand

marshal the wonderful experience and mike murphy thank you, ferry the attracts to our city before we conclude mayor, i the president to briefly count the voices have you come up for a certificate. >> (laughter.) >> this is mary who oversees cal tick voices (clapping.) i'm going out a limp are i still principal at sanity (rustling of papers.) and wonderful principal and next

mary joe murphy and school of dance (clapping.) great job. >> (clapping) thank you, everyone for joining us happy st. patrick's day and month thank you, london breed. >> good

[♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in

public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the

oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards.

[♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of

water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school,

and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪♪♪] [music] since the opening on

third and mission in 2010 the grove is a epicenter. tis is part of the community. we bring tourist, we bring convention ears and have a huge group of locers who live here. we are their living room and love to see them on a regular basis and seek newcomers to the city of san francisco and serve them a good dose of san francisco hospitality. we make everything in house from scratch every dape we vahand carved [indiscernible] the chicken pot pie we serve probably a hundred thousand if not more. roasted chicken, prime rib, salad[indiscernible] coffee cake and [indiscernible] all the pies are fresh baked. the home made cookies are done, once, twice a day, depending how fast they go. we believe in goold old fashion

home cooked food. we want to be a welcoming, warm hospitable place for everyone to come and hang out. respond time with friends and family, meet new people. have important conversation. relax and enjoy, rejuvenate, get restored, enjoy one another and the at mus sphere the growth. the grove is over 730 to 830, 7 days a week, breakfast, lunch and dinner. you're watching sa francisco rising with chris manner today's special guests i'm chris you're watching san francisco rising the rebuilding

and reimaging and our guests the executive director of the homeland security and today to talk about the city and solutions and welcome to the show. >> thank you an honor to be here. >> let's a start by talking about people traeld don't consider that much the business programs what does the city need to have that. >> most people think of homeless they think of people they see on the street in the tenderloin and many people experiencing homeless have not visible to the average person and a lot of those people are children or older adults and families that is what we see at the department of homeless on top of homeless among the black community we don't realize

there. 40 percent of our homeless populationist with the african-americans and only 5 percent of the population today the with the african-american and the same thing about the communities that over represent and we we try to make sure there is equity in the system and reaching the goals not seeing by the public as much we know that housing is essentially what everyone needs to thrive in the community. >> quite correct some of the solutions often vulnerable or smaller scale how do we expand those solutions as we go about. >> a attended in the homeless he roman numerals seeing none, three interventions need presentation for the people

experiencing homes in the first place and pouting are ways for people to get to permanent housing on their own and need shelter so really need all three of the intefrjz for people to assess one the things we often don't understand meet people where they are and sometimes did have the documents or other things to move into housing. they maybe waiting on disability income or themes so we have to be prepared to have things ready to use the sheltered are reality important. we know that ultimately preservation ask one of the most important toltz we can put into our systems if people don't have that mri better off for many reasons but way cheaper to have someone out of homeless in the first place

and the permanent housing is a wonderful tool for many people can't get housing on their own and needed case management or other services to be able to assess the other part of their life employment and things. >> so the home by the bay plan can you explain the basics and how to address the needs? >> sure the home by the bay the strategic plan the 5-year plan to prevent homelessness i want to do what at mayors said homeless is not just owned by the department of 40e789s but the responded didn't has to include a number of stakeholders what that requires is really a collaborative approach we're really continuing to work very close with the 0 department of

public health and law enforcement or the department of - aye. >> by linking to the voices of people exercising homelessness need to create programs without listening to the people experiencing and finding what is like for them to go through the system we're not going to make that better and ultimately will not be successful. your first goal really to produce inexacerbated in our system remarkably equity and also want to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 5 years and over all address homelessness by 15 percent your offer arching goals for us and some people said that didn't seem like enough or didn't seem bold enough to given where we are not just a a city

but country wiring proud of that goal and look forward to implementing the work that it takes to get there and hoping will be can he have in 5 years. >> we are here the property interrupt trip to the lovely agreement can you talk about that and then maybe talk about how public housing will be a solution? >> one of the very exciting things about that building it accommodates names families in a neighborhood with grocery stores and transportation a little bit out of the tenderloin when we think of families with children finding places in the area that are enacted by homeless. so very again community space and actually have a partnership with the housing authority the

housing authority has different kinds of vouches they have available and in case with the vouches we use those vouchers with the unit and help to cut the cost we have homekey dollars that provide money to the counties our acquisitions and able to leverage that. >> can you you, you talk about the voucher programs how they help public housing and help landowners into the whole thing. >> sure we have a few voucher emergency vouchers from the federal government during covid and dispersing those with the housing authority and the programs one they can help prevent people from 0 becoming homeless and people are in danger of becoming homeless with a necessity they can stay in the

place they have and people are experienced homeless and in a shelter and kwobtd with the system the best way for them to find it themselves with the help of a case manager or a housing locate our that makes sense in san francisco we will have a number of buildings in certain neighborhoods in san francisco and a number of places in san francisco we find people experiencing homeless across the decide but don't have an easy option with a number of neighborhoods so emergency housing voucher program we partnered in bay view and been successful in making sure that people from that neighborhood and that neighborhood kind of a proximity for people who have

experienced homelessness with born and raised in bay view and, you know. instead of putting them in a place across town a unit available able to work with them to find their units in the neighborhood eventually and we hope when lvrndz will see the value got a number of landowners buildings with a lot of vacancies we think that it is really um, helpful for them and hopeful for us we can work together and see the number of units in partnerships we can get people housed with a steady income from the rent. >> thank you i appreciate you coming into here today. you know. this is great. >> thank you chris appreciate that. >> that's it for in episode and

for sfgovtv i'm chris thanks fo (clearing throat) >> great this meeting is reported and you may begin the retirement board meeting of wednesday, february 14, 2024. at this time. >> councilmember fosle present. >> vice president thomas thank you, we have quorum. >> first item. >> >>