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The Following Transcript Is Provided for Your Convenience, but Does Not Represent the Official Record of This Meeting. the Tran The following transcript is provided for your convenience, but does not represent the official record of this meeting. The transcript is provided by the firm that provides closed captioning services to the City. Because this service is created in real-time as the meeting progresses, it may contain errors and gaps, but is nevertheless very helpful in determining the gist of what occurred during this meeting. [ Drums ] [ Drums ] [applause] [ Drums ] [applause] >> I don't know about you but I'm all riled up. Thank you, Calipulli Tonalehqueh for an amazing amazing initiation to the ceremony. [applause] >> Tamara Alvarado: Welcome friends and neighbors, city staff, students and seniors, distinguished guests and members of the City Council. Also: Welcome to tonight's newly-elected Mayor and Councilmembers and your families and special guests. Thank you for joining us. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Tamara Alvarado, and I'll be serving as your Emcee tonight. [cheering and applause] >> Thank you. I am the Executive Director of the School of Arts & Culture at Our Mexican heritage plaza and I'm a co-founder of the Multicultural Arts Leadership And part of the Calipulli Tonalehqueh. So a little generation: The term Inauguration comes from the Latin "inaugurare" which means "to take omens from the flight of birds". The ancient Romans believed it to proper to consecrate a new beginning with ceremony. In the United States, we celebrate the succession of one peaceful, elected government by another, something most of us take for granted. But let us recognize with appropriate gratitude that we live in a society where voting is a right and change is allowed to occur. [applause] Today's ceremony as you can see will contain some measure of pomp and circumstance, as it should, for this is an official action of the people's government. So let us begin today with both happiness and pride in this most American way of doing things. Before we begin our ceremonies, let me formally introduce the distinguished office holders seated before me, the members of the San José City Council: Mayor Sam Liccardo [cheering and applause] >> The newly elected Councilmembers who will be inaugurated today are: Chappie Jones of district 1. [cheering and applause] >> Councilmember Raul Peralez of District 3; my district! [cheering and applause] >> Councilmember Magdalena Carrasco of District 5. [cheering and applause] >> And councilmember Tam Nguyen of district 7. Congratulations. [cheering and applause] PSFSS >> Also with us today are recently Re-elected Councilmember Don Rocha of district 9. [cheering and applause] >> Councilmember Ash Kalra of District 2. [cheering and applause] ! 1! >> Margie Matthews, who will begin service as the Interim Councilmember for District 4 Next week [cheering and applause] >> And Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio of district 6. [cheering and applause] >> Councilmember Rose Herrera of district 8. [cheering and applause] >> And Councilmember Johnny Khamis of district 10. [cheering and applause] >> We with also like to recognize is some very special guests of note who are in attendance today. is state senator Jim Beall. Kansen Chu and Evan Lowe. County supervisors Dave Cortese, Cindy Chavez, Mike Wasserman. County assessor Larry stone. [applause] >> Make sure to allow for that time for you. Okay, all right, all right. County school board member Joe De Salvo. [applause] >> San José Unified school board member Susan Ellenberg. Moreland school district trustee Julie Grab. Campbell union school board members Michael and Julie Comstad . And Michael Rich. >> Unfortunately extreme weather on the East Coast cancelled the honorable Norm Mineta's flight, he regrets his inability to attend. We wish to hear his words of wisdom. You were an intern in his office and that is part of the reason, Sam, he was going to be here tonight. Now we know why the West Coast is the best coast but that's not on the teleprompter. I now have the very special privilege of introducing a young man who has appeared on stages from Coast to Coast, as well as on television, and has even starred off- Broadway. Please welcome Manuel Romero to perform the National Anthem. Please stand. [ Guitar ] ¶ O say, can you see, ¶ ¶ by the dawn's early light ¶ ¶ what so proudly we hailed ¶ ¶ at the twilight's last gleaming ¶ ¶ whose broad stripes and bright stars ¶ ¶ through the perilous fight ¶ ¶ O'Er the ramparts we watched ¶ ¶ were so gallantly streaming ¶ ¶ and the rockets' red glare ¶ ¶ the bombs bursting in air ¶ ¶ gave proof through the night ¶ ¶ that our flag was still there. ¶ O say does that star spangled banner yet wave ¶ ¶ O'Er the land of the free ¶ ¶ and the home of the brave ¶¶ [cheering and applause] >> Isn't he amazing? Manuel I remember you at Washington youth center at age 10 and look at you now. To provide us with an invocation, a moment of reflection on this day, please welcome Reverend Jon Talbert. Jon, come on out. He's a speaker, writer, and entertainer who's established a national reputation as a "Humanitarian Entrepreneur". I'm going to read a little bit more. Jon started a compassion organization in San José called Beautiful Day that spread virally across the country and has served thousands in random acts of kindness. [applause] ! 2! >> That was very hard to follow. Was that the best national anthem you've ever heard in your life? My gosh. [applause] >> To my friends stir leaders distinguished guests to our mayor and city council and to the great people of San José, grace and peace to you. Across the country there are literally are thousands much -- of inaugurations that are taking place in cities and towns, officials that are ceremoniously being sworn into office. In my mind, no inauguration is more important than what is happening in this city and in this room right here, right now. This year we have witnessed events in cities around the country like Ferguson or Brooklyn or cities that that have experienced natural disasters that break our hearts. In the back of our mind we wonder, what if that happened here? How would we respond? Mr. Mayor and city council, while this day marks the beginning of your leadership in our city it also calls tort collective the rest of us, to do our part to support the very foundation of San José. To be more involved to encourage to lift up to come alongside that we encounter that ancient calling, to love our neighbors. To those in this room, if you are a person of any faith, or not a person of faith, at least a person of goodwill, our city council is in this area, you would extend a hand of blessing, as I pray a prayer-blessing over them, asking that favor be bestowed on them in their leadership. Will you extend a hand of blessing with me? Heavenly father as the citizens of this great city we extend a blessing to our new mayor Sam Liccardo and the City of San José. Play you bless their leadership that they walk with integrity and honesty, may you bless their relationships, though closest to them and to build bridges to those that they disagree with. May you continue to bless our city. That businesses would prosper, jobs would be created, that our educators would be supported and built up. Bless our city services and the nonprofits, that they may lead us to care for those that are neglected and broken and lost. And may you bless every man, woman and child who calls San José home. That we would become better neighbors living in a city that has peace and prosperity. We thank you for your extension of grace afforded to us all in the name of Jesus, amen. [applause] >> Tamara Alvarado: Thank you, Reverend Talbert. Inaugurations offer an opportunity for reflection and contemplation on many levels. Here to share his unique perspective is the Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, Mr. David Perez. The author of Love in a Time of Row bob apocalypse which by the way is very good. Mr. Perez is a poet, writer and educator, who serves as a Professor of English at Ohlone College. He has been named "Best Author in the Bay" by the SF Bay Guardian. David. >> Thank you, Tamera, Mr. Mayor, city council. In preparing this poem I was asked to write about the power of the human voice. And I realized along the way that I was also writing what I would want to say if I knew everyone in my neighborhood were listening. So this poem is for this occasion but it's also for you, San José. Voices I hear. I hear shouts issued from mothers, their cords tired and tuned. Bidding ! 3! daughters and sons, stop at the crossing and wait for the light. Cutting through St. James park the voices of women in thread-bare starter parkas recline on liberated Safeway shopping carts. Read me with Pall Mall cupped hands. Presenting delicate artifacts for me to examine. Pure obsidian and the boxes whisper back. I hear it's the future. I here grunting men at the pull-up bars tattooed pistons framed in Greek column. Milled from the same minerals, the same jungle. It's fight-night and they ask, Yo, who you got? In San José the answer to any sports question is a simple multiple-choice affair, sharks, earthquakes. 9erss or Kane Velasquez. Blinding vest directing traffic in a hand language everyone assumes I'm supposed to understand. The light rail squeals, clinging to a semblance of attitude control and condos puff their chest and yawn hip hop scenes from the youth, a father's ring tone drops like hail, he ignores it.
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