How do I change footer?

I simply can not figure out how to change the text of my wp_footer or remove it. I tried doing this:

<!-- <?php wp_footer(); ?> -->
But it just took the footer out of the comments. I have a custom navigation and footer that is supposed to function like so:
`<footer>
<div class=”separator”></div>
<small class=”left footnav”>
<ul>
<li><a href=”/index.html” title=”Home”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”/gallery.html” title=”Gallery”>Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href=”/about-us.html” title=”About Us”>About Us</a></li>
<li><a href=”/events.html” title=”Events”>Events</a></li>
<li><a href=”/faq.html” title=”FAQ”>FAQ</a></li>
</ul>
</small>
<small class=”right copyright”>Copyright 2013 Events Page. Site by <a href=”#”>Me</a>. <a href=”sitemap.xml”>Sitemap</a></small>

</footer>`

I’m developing this locally so I can’t really link to it.
Wordpress is adding it’s own footer I’d like to remove or change to the above from this:
`<div id=”footer”>
?2014 Site Name </div>`

There is nothing in my functions.php that decides what this is.