good afternoon rainy afternoon she said ruben carlisle state senator and david della former council member our mission here at the open community in seattle is to help provide a seamless integration of all persons of ethiopian origin into this great city we work to contribute to the social cultural and civic life of the puget sound and help give ethiopian americans in seattle the opportunity to preserve our cultural heritage many of the people that come here are immigrants or refugees who need help as they integrate into life in seattle like accessing housing or legal services for decades marilyn durkin has shown she is committed to understanding the challenges facing seattle's most diverse communities and in her campaign she has worked to help find solutions to many tough challenges facing seattle over the course of many visits to south seattle debates forums and community roundtables she came here and most importantly she listen and long before she chose to run for public office our mayor elect has been a strong advocate for civil rights it was our mayor elect who helped secure the first federal order blocking trump's chapel ban so we are honored to be hosting our mayor like today along with all of you and to have the honor of calling her madam mayor very shortly now it is my honor to introduce our current mayor thank you very much i think it's time to have another mayor this year don't you want just one more that's right we are here to witness the oath of office being given to the fifty she has the life experiences and skills to be a great mayor she ran for mayor because she knew that she could bring the people together to get good things done for all of the people of seattle from here in rainier beach to ballard from lake city to west seattle and every neighborhood in between she will be an outstanding mayor for our city and so let's get to the business of this gathering it is my honor to introduce federal district court judge richard jones first of all it's my deep honor to have been chosen of all the other judges in our community to administer the oath and so for that i began i think thank you almost  been given just a brief amount of time to give some brief introductory remarks and i'll begin by saying on january eighth two thousand and eight the following were the introductory remarks to history in the making you know they said this day would never come they said our sights were set too high on this january night at this defining time i suspect at the beginning of jenny darkens race to become mayor similar thoughts may have been echoed by just a few but seattle spoke loud and clear that no jenny durkan you did not set your sights too high and yes your day has finally come to be a mayor i referenced president obama's remarks because just like history will prove president obama to be one of the great presidents so too will jenny durkan proved to be the hallmark of greatness as mayor for the city of seattle i have known jenny durkan for years i know her character and her seen her take on enormous challenges always with dignity clear vision and passion for others please know that she comes to the office of mayor well equipped to face the challenges of this city that sit on her doorstep on her very first day of office the thing i cherish most about our new mayor is her deep commitment and dedication to her family trust me i know public office is demanding so i'd like to say in advance thank you to her spouse thank you to her family thank you to her son for the challenges that you will face in terms of having to share your mother with this dear city so before i administer the form i will tell all of you to get ready seattle because you are about to see operation excellence is being defined as an individual who cares more than others think is wise who is willing to risk more than others may think see one who has the capacity to dream more than others think practical and one who expects more than others think is possible i now ask that are about to become new mayor to please step forward as i administer  see you the mayor of the city hello seattle ok there we go thank you thank you first of these e o p and community center for having us here today i was able to be in this hall many times in the last six months and the last time i was here i promised some of the folks including the folks running the coffee shop i'd be back they just didn't know be in the first five minutes i am so honored and i am so proud to be able to serve the people of the city of seattle in case you missed it in the last six months i love the city and i am here in rainier beach because i wanted to break tradition i wanted to show that what i said in the campaign i really meant we will be a government and i will be a mayor not of city hall but of the people will make sure that we listen to your ideas to your concerns and to your hopes and dreams so today's my first day of mayor i will be crisscrossing this city and in every community over the next four years and a little bit i will be listening to you i will be hearing you i will be learning from you and i will be accountable to you and let me say to people who may not be in this room who hear it later whether you voted for me or not i am your mayor and i will fight for you as hard as i fight for everyone else in this city i believe we can come together to build a more progressive inclusive and united seattle that is for the next generation as much as we have for our generation and i want to acknowledge a person who's here today who introduced me my good good friend mayor former mayor tim i want to thank you tim for your service to our city not just in these last months where your firm hand was so important but for all these years that you have given to our city thank you very much thank you to your family and you're not quite done we're going to find something  you know it's been almost ninety two year since we had a woman mayor and the last one sworn in was bertha landis this we know now she said something in her years as mayor that stuck with me she said her job was to make seattle a larger home she thought of it as a home and that's what we have to do we have to make sure that our city is a place where everyone has a home a place where people are united and engage in dialogue with one another a city where every person every person regardless of their race their gender their faith or their economic status has a place here that they know they have a home here and we will fight to protect that now we've done a lot over the last ninety two years to build that kind of vibrant innovative and global city but too many people in our city are in pain and there's too many of our brothers and sisters who are on the streets as we are seeing our city literally rebuilt we have a call a call and a duty to rebuild seattle for the generations to come for all of those who are being priced and pushed out of the city we will make a place for you the crisis of affordability really is threatening the future and soul of the city too many of our neighbors are experiencing homelessness in pain our growth we know it we feel it every day has outpaced o transportation system and our infrastructure there are no easy solutions to any of these problems many of them were years in the making if there were easy solutions seattle probably would not have elected a woman mayor again but our city has an indomitable spirit we are not just up to these challenges we will also sees the opportunities we will continue to invent the future we are that city that not just survived a great fire we rebuilt and we got better we were the jumping off point for the gold rush we have always been that city that gets things done we are the city of the future al gore thinks he invented the internet we put it to work we pretty much invented or reinvented air travel first the airplane and then how to book it online customer service started in north firms coffee software the personal computer revolution on line shopping the cloud and yes right here in seattle the four ninety nine roast chicken so now though we must invent a new future we have to show not just our region but our nation that the most enduring the most successful generation is that society that is built on our progressive ideals of inclusiveness justice and true opportunity our mission must be to make good on what bertha landis said to make seattle the larger home for all so well i travel the city day i leave here i go to west seattle then i come back to chinatown or national district in then i'm in finney ridge and then i end up in lake city way well each of these stops has its own unique flavor character and people we must remember in every part of the city we are one city we must remember our common bonds and our common purpose are so much more powerful than our challenges and our differences and as mayor that will be my goal to pull this together to remember those common bonds and to forge those common purposes together to face those challenges today i know we can attack the problems of affordability we can make sure that seattle is a place that honors everybody and their tradition and their background we will affirm our commitment to race and social justice and we will make sure that we care for our poorest and most economically disadvantaged brothers and sisters who have no home except for streets temps and vehicles and in through it all we will also remember we will deliver basic services we will fix those potholes we will clear the roads of snow remember that my friends first snowflake were  done during my campaign i told you we needed urgent action and you will see this week that i will be signing a number of executive orders to start exert action on things that we said are so important to tackle affordability to make sure that people have they have the access to to education including two years free tuition for every seattle public school and as i said i will be affirming our commitment not just to the current but to strengthening seattle's race and social justice initiative now our challenges don't just come from in seattle we know that building this more just an equitable society means that sometimes we will have differences with our president let me say this the people of the seattle and this mayor of seattle will not be bullied and we will not be told what to do are not spoiling for a fight but we will not back down from what we know is right and let me tell you some of the things we believe in we believe in science we believe in justice for all for all we believe that our city our state our country is best when we stand together not when we seek to divide and we believe now we know we are not going to let anybody stand in the way of our progressive future so through the campaign i asked all of you to share your thoughts your concerns your hopes your dreams i want you to keep doing that when i'm mayor i will be out talking to you i will have access to you i want you to tell me what you need for me and from your city what you need what your family needs where your community needs please we need to hear from you because we serve you we also have big big dreams for what we think this city can accomplish but those dreams are too big our challenges are real but our dreams and our strengths are bigger so let's work together let's continue to seize all these opportunities that have made seattle great and will make it greater and let's not shirk from these challenges many of them are years in the making and they're not easy solutions there is no microwave answer to some of these problems but the answer is right here in this room and in rooms just like it all across the city together together with you i as your mayor in ready to fight those challenges i thank you for the great honor in the ability to do so now let's get to work