San Francisco Office Of The Mayor: Mayor Breed's 2022 State Of The City Address

Press release from the San Francisco Office of the Mayor:

March 9, 2022

Welcome, everyone! Thank you all for joining us here today.

I want to start by thanking all the workers who helped us navigate this latest surge: The nurses, the bus drivers, the police officers, the firefighters, the paramedics, the street cleaners, the educators. Everyone.

Over the last two months so many of you have been working overtime to take care of our City.

And, for that, we thank you.

Sometimes, the devastating impacts of two years of COVID can be hard to see.

This isn’t 1989 when freeways fell. Or 1906 when buildings and neighborhoods burned to the ground.

With COVID, the scars can be less visible – but they are just as real, and they are deep.

We see it in our struggles to simply get through the day, our struggles with mental health – especially in our kids, we see it in their eyes.

We see it in our empty downtown offices; in the for-lease signs in Union Square; in the half-filled hotels.

We see it in those struggling with addiction on our streets.

We cannot sugarcoat it.

We have work to do.

Our recovery will not be quick, or easy.

But it will come. It is coming. San Francisco is coming back.

And as we look ahead to the decisions about where to take this City, we need to listen to our residents.

Last month, the voters of this City sent a very clear message.

They sent a message that we must do better by our children.

But they also sent a message that while big ideas are important – those ideas must be built on a solid foundation. On the basics.

Basics – like a well-run school system that puts kids first.

Basics – like a government that delivers essential services.

Basics – like accountability and competence.

This press release was produced by the San Francisco Office of the Mayor. The views expressed here are the author’s own.