welcome to the city gardens brand opening very, very excited i want to thank mayor london breed this is acquired and helping us to get families here. i want to thank supervisor dorsey for your for the support for the acquisition stream and shout out to you you all are amazing (clapping.) i know that was this was tough that was tough, tough and very quickly i heard mayor breed talked about how that was an incredible and everyone in here worked for us worked to make that happen and thank you, staff

and the department of homeless and supportive housing for the wonderful job as well and working with all of you (clapping.) and exile dan adams our strategist i want to shout out to him unfortunately, was enable to be here. but those are two hundred now units of pouring and stability and hope for families experiencing how many of those i heard how wonderful the support and it made a difference to families and funding for public housing and homelessness recovery program the acquisition of city gardens was fund by 56 point plus that million dollars and $100 million in the local home fund the acquisition contributed to the success of

this plan that supported the expansion of the supportive housing by at or near 3000 units the building that is constructed in 2021 included a large lobby and residential lounges on every floor and office and bike storage and a courtyard this project will change lives and the lives of hundreds of families that are experiencing homelessness in our community the building offers a pathway towards families that have experienced hardship of homelessness and weighing in partnership and community supporting for this made that possible in addition to the city gardens will have a range of support services we case management. and by addressing the many underlying causes of homelessness city gardens will give families the tools they

need for the future and with that, i want to thank london breed for her leadership and toss the mic to her (clapping.) thank you, serene and it really is great to be here you know this project happen very fast and specifically with the city and county of san francisco it would have taken a really long time to add 200 units to our protocol let alone a little with 2, three and 4 bedrooms. i mean this when adams brought this to may attention last year, we are applying for dollars and san francisco has been a big benchmark of homekey dollars allowed to move people into the

buildings faster a lot of challenges in our city around family housing so i must say to a bode and the team and all the people who are working here and the fact you choose to be here and work in this cadet is very much appreciative we are grateful to each other and you're choosing to be here at bode and helping people whether they're challenging or not thank you, so much we appreciate that and let me say a couple of things i'll let you guys deal with that you'll get into the deal yeah [off mic.] >> yes.

>> and, you know. there are different people with different sets of challenges but at the end of the day, had i appreciate about all of you, you are here to help people and know that is not easy and now this is so important i want it is a thank you and express my appreciation and give you a view of for all the work we've done in 2018 san francisco has helped over 10 thousand people exit homelessness and over 10 thousand people (clapping.) and that's not including our shelter system on any recommendations given night we're housing over 16 thousand people including over 36789 people in the shelter system this city working hard to

support people we understand it is not a one-size-fits all a family housing shelters and supportive housing there are housing attached to resources and housing attached to independence all those examples everything we need to san francisco and i can name so many families we're doing it right but in and out without help without the people that work for you who are showing up to this base everyday we are doing it for people like la seize will talk about and make sure that our families especially who are raising children in the city have a safe affordable place to call home this is what this is about and this project is truly about we - the fact we got in building and didn't have to build it ourselves is amazing i

want to again really thank dan adams for, you know. dan is not here today but dan went through the city for us to buy or lease for the people we're trying to house i couldn't believe this building the details especially with the rooftop gardens it is previous thank you to dan adams and i also want to thank serene and her team did an amazing job to help people strushlgz are homelessness in san francisco matching the right people with the right opportunities it is really a thankless job a very, very hard job we want to express our appreciation to you sherri republican and all people to make sure you're shelter beds

and challenges that exist exist we are using the dollars to match with the opportunity and with the oasis last week all those great opportunity i couldn't be admonish powder of work in the city and so that many pieces of preschools by the reason we say this is to give you you a perspective this is an important place here by more importantly san francisco is doing a lot on the large-scale most people don't know that san francisco is one of the only cities in the bay area that actually saw a reduction in homeless a 3.5 percent reduction in overall homelessness and 15 percent in unshredded homelessness. it because of all this work to assure that places like we are today we're able to

connect people the opportunity. so it is great to be here and great to to be here with the supervisor matt that work hard to make sure that we have this space but also provide the funding necessary to keep the operation going to keep the doors open, to keep this place in good condition there is so much goods into it i didn't ultimately the smiles on the kids faces that get to life and thrive here that makes that worthy we're grateful to be here with each other and thank you so much for your hard work (clapping.) with that, please welcome our supervisor matt dorsey. >> (clapping) thank you, mayor breed and welcome to district 6 everybody i got at thes starting with the mayor london breed's really want to express my appreciation for

your leadership to doing everything we can to provide people exist to homelessness for projects like this and a strategy that is really making progress i think the mayor makes it an important point so many people kind of look at the issue of homelessness as an issue that is being solved what is really unseen in that? thousands of lives that are being changed. because of the work that hsh is doing that's my second thing thank you to everybody at the doecht and homelessness they're on the front line i feel they're doing god's work because they're all lives are changing is getting people exits to homelessness and turning their lives around we'll be hearing

about that is it great to have this - it is great to know. that we are fulfilling what san francisco is about. this project is part of a the civic creed of the city and county of san francisco the city of st. francis of assisi and the partnerships and mayor thanks many of people behind us but being a trusted procedure and partner means the world to me as a district supervisor knowing i can count own our partners we have challenges south of market and 6. i want to say more importantly thank you to it my new residents, you know. i had the opportunity and brought some cards i say this whenever i meet a district 6 resident i hand

them my card this is my number i know when i signed up and if i hear from you that's good and if you don't call me i know you're good. he's volunteered to be the point person but i actually you can call us or e-mail so if you, you don't see me well make sure you get me or bryan and express my gratitude to. >> thank it is an honor to be here i'll ash a supporter this the department and thank you, hsh residents will hear, you know. some project is coming and there's a lot of people a people public school hostile to that sometimes, i. really appreciate the department and mayor and the community members and resident

its that are good neighbors i when i support those and people push back i'm confident talk to me as a year or two i'm confident you'll be grateful this is building a county and san francisco represents thank you and i want to introduce the abode ceo for remarks. thank you very much. (clapping.) mayor and supervisors thank you. for being here today and nice to do a celebration and very nice to do a celebration 90 in those times i know your jobs are impossible sincerely the nonprofit is hurting we're sfooufr what a great difference and, you know, i want to shout

out for my staff here i mean, you people (clapping.) who work hard everyday to get things done and we're human beings we make mistakes more importantly we had a conversation about the influence in the neighborhood we're going to need to be aware of it and talking about the problem solving and a member of the supervisor dorsey's district you are a citizen here completely many in partnership with us that's true for each and lots of things to celebrate we're actually putting people in a place they can have an agency and meaning in their lives again and doing the things that give them joy and happiness and in a moment more importantly is to provide the children that are going to be in the building a family project in the middle of

santa fe i mean san francisco (laughter) we're in 8 county and i forgot where i am this is san francisco think of san francisco urban to address family homelessness an incredible building like this was made for middle class people a building. to have that and have the your team put together the purchase of this. and then to collaborate o collaborate with the services to do do property management at least on this on time by the way. (clapping.) i mean this was a pretty ambitious timeline. collaborate so, you know. sometimes this is okay for the general public but takes government, nonprofits and

citizens in the community working together to make this happens that makes this happen i can't tell you how overjoyed i am i san francisco i got it right this time and only begins here we're open to doing more and interested in addressing the bigger thing. which is the incredible social problem in california around unhoused people not being thought of for as long as it is predated you folks and san francisco it is california, and where in the hell this the (inaudible) we need to keep on plugging away we'll get there one project at a time and program at a time. i will stop there because the person you need to hear from is

a resident here been here 5 months with her son and talked about from her heart about what this means to her and any of the thoughts she has (clapping.) hello, mayor hi and i lost any voice so i want to week everyone many people know me and will la and city gardens this is a grand opening celebration i'm celebrating too. years ago san francisco was my escape today it is like i'm celebrating my new home and new life. my old life i

left this part behind you is that my childhood was unstable toxic and abused that would be an understatement and i was in years in foster care and - but then i ran away as a teenager (baby crying. >> i never went back home in my 20s i worked as a professional model and i was seen and no further heard and existed and not respected but i flirted with disaster i ran with a bad crowd that crowd is justified and abused me when i was a kid. and

this crowd showed the kinks he eventually would on the street without a home and i was traumatized. my life spiral down and down i hit rock bottom but given a choice a new chance at life i took life my life. and i never looked back. i joined a program and goat sober and today, i'm celebrating 5 weeks sober (clapping) thank you. >> slowly but surely rebuilding my life and city gardens help a lot too it is important it is not easy and i learned it is never too late to change. >> i take him he's a mouth full

and change but when i was making progress i had adversity here's an example i began taking classes at a school and get a housing voucher but one problem i was about to lose my housing voucher it was about to expire i was stressed all my hard work would be done gone and homelessness one again, i would not give up and at the last minute i got the call they told i had a home and finally this amazing home i had of my own a whiff place called city gardens. and this is the second best thing that ever happened to medical the best thick my baby?

in our thoughts and prayers my the boy is the truly the best thing ever happened to me and my goal promise to him have a place for him (baby that's a good question.) >> as for me, i'm a person of checking off lists and the folks at city gardens they offered so in services like pavrnt services and we even get to play bingo on saturdays. so i feel i need to thank a few people jill any of the paerp and rob and the family rising the homeless creative program and john austin. cynthia herrero and fought for me when i

didn't feel like fighting for myself and and kenneth thank you for move to approve i walked with my head high and everyone at city gardens means a lot to me and a lot of people they're super kind and work hard their angels and everyone has been too important to my journey those programs really work thank you for the help and their help to keep this going to say vital for city gardens the creative sense of community they are eir plausible i never feel loan and i want to use any credentials to help other families just like me bring me joy i look at my

personal growth. i think of my his over the years i collected a bunch of plants and taken snippets and they have their story before i was never stable enough but as long as i've been sober my thoughts have grown and we're healthy and my plants are used it is satisfy safe to say in a flapts like this and guess want i can't wait to see how big - you see city gardens where i found hope, hope for me and my little son this use to be my escape but now my home i could not leave my heart in san francisco like the song i found

my heart, i love living here in san francisco and city gardens and city by the bay never too late. >> thank you for giving me this chance mayor and appreciate you coming today and listening to my story thank you, (clapping.) it was amazing. >> i don't know how to follow with that, i. yeah, it is beautiful. thank you very much. >> so i guess want to thank everyone for being here at the abode for you're amazing services and sharing your story and thank you supervisor dorsey. >> thank you and i think we're going to do a ribbon-cutting is that correct? where are we going

to go oh, we're going to be right here. need everyone to come up and go ahead and cut the ribbon. >> okay. >> [off mic.] >> that's fine. >> all right. >> thank you very much. (laughter). >> all right. are we ready? yes.

>> let's start counting 4, 3, 2 , 1. >> wow. >> all right, let's get going. a lot of smiles out here today. hi everybody my name is phil i'm the general managers of

your san francisco recreation and parks department. and welcome to the city's newest park. so the, the mythical soccer coach ted lasso likes to use the word believe. today we believe, we believe in the power of to transform challenging spaces. we believe in the power of several city agencies private partners, community benefit districts, nonprofits to come together to transform a space into something that is happy and hopeful. today, we believe. the anchor. [applause] the anchor of this new space,

is a 13,000-square foot skating area. it is the nation's first of its kind street skating plaza at this scale. you're going to hear from him in a little bit and you're going to see him when we cut the cover of one of our skate ramps, decide for skaters and actually includes elements from san francisco's legendary skating history, that used to be skated illegally. i learned in partner with the skate community, that san francisco if you didn't know, to be one of the best urban skate destinations anywhere. people come from around the world to skate san francisco.

so why not skate here? we are, we are incorporating best practices from paris, from barcelona about how to transform challenging difficult spaces into happy spaces. but of course, u.n. plaza this new park is not just about stating. --skating. there is something for every one. we've got chess, ping-pong, a couple of new games, tek ball. the tek balls over over there and demonstrating. a mix of faoz ball and ping-pong. we have a beautiful fitness studio and from tichi to rum ba.

you can shop at the amazing farmers market. you can sit by the fountain which has been completely renovated with over 30 trees. you can hang out here in the morning, noon, or night. and none of this, could have happened without our first speaker. an incredible supporter of parks and public space, somebody who gave us the room to be a little edgy. who had our back when the change haters starting yelling at us. she gave us room, she has our back. she is our very own, ted lasso, the mayor of san francisco, london breed. >> mayor london breed: thank you, phil. and i will start the use for a skate park rather than a supervisor meeting is a better use!

but u.n. pla is a park and a place meant for people to enjoy themselves in so many different ways. before there was technology and cell phones and everything else you can think of, there is been skating and chess and yes, checkers, i know checkers was not on the list but hopefully one day we'll get it out there soon. the ability for people to come together in these spaces and to have these opportunities, this is what bringing community together is all about. yes, it meant a bit of a change for the farmrs market. but i'm so happy that the farmers market is closer to city hall. so thank you to the folks who are part of the farmers market and the people who continue to support the farmers market that is just opened today just in case you want to get fresh vegetables and fruit. but here we are, today and i

want to say to phil, thank you so much. let me tell you, he and i have been having discussion buzz u.n. plaza for a long time. and the staff and staff and park rangers they've been working overtime. but nothing is going to make this more exciting than to see the skate community descend. and some of you may not believe that the mayor can be a skateboard fan. before i was not a elected official, i ran an arts organization and i remember when we worked with k dub and we created a number of sports, and spray painted and we made it an exciting place for community. and we want to do that here at u.n. plaza. we want this to be an exciting place for community.

that includes the skateboard community, that includes those who think they are great at ping-pong and those who want to play chess or take one table to play checkers and that includes the fitness center. thises how it should be rused, for the community, for the people that enjoy the park system and i'm so grateful so all the city workforce, to the toekz who helped with the climb walls and all the thaingz are going to be part of this wonderful community. i also want to give shout out to urban alchemy, to the ambassadors and so many of our city agency who's will ensure that this space is used for the purpose intended. so, [applause] thank you again, all of you and especially thank you to the skateboard community for your support and your patience. and also helping us design this place.

because it was not about people who don't skateboard, it's about people who understand what they want to see. one of the things that bill said to me when he went over the details of this project. these are all the elements of different parts of san francisco that are very popular in the skateboard community. we are bringing every element to u.n. plaza unlike ever before. so we look forward to seeing a vibrant area and exciting area and we thank the rec and park department for their excitement, their work in getting this done in record time. we started this project this year in san francisco and finished it this year, that is fast for bureaucratic years! so congratulation sxz thank you all for being here. [applause] >> thank you, coach, i mean mayor. all right, before our next speaker. there is going to be a lot of acknowledgments, it's been said that victory has many parents

and there are a lot of parents declaring victory today. but i want to acknowledge a few of our, a few special partners and person for our speakers without this would not be possible. first of all, thank you, thank you, thank you to the civic center and executive fearless tracy. tracy you and you and your team it's been an amazing partnership. bill, thank you for giving tracy the ability to run and bill, for this civic center. [applause] and then even she is really a parky at heart, this morning, she was just announced as the new permanent director of public works, my partner my partner in good on this project and getting back to believe. believe, folks that city agency kz tear down those silos, work

together and not squabble over who is paying for what, but just get it done. that's the valley that the mayor has infused in her city department and one where carla and i and several other city departments who are going to be singled out in a minute, we infuse it in this project. carla short, thank you so much! [applause] and then last but not least, this had to get built. and as the mayor said, it got built fast. and that means there is a project manager out there that did not sleep, a little more hunch over and did. and it's not me.

i don't really know how to do that. the next person i want to celebrate from rec and park, dan mar who ran this project. where is he at? [applause] all right, what we've got here is a skate park that is a worldwide destination but also a local park and a local park for a very important community and the next two speakers are going to talk about how important this space is to the neighborhood and local community. first up, my friend, a fierce advocate. >> good morning, i've been working with tenderloin, working with residents who work

with increasing housing resident and housing clinic for a long time and calling for u.n. plaza to be a safe and open place. i'm excite today see the transformation of u.n. plaza to positive useable space which for few years, you've seen it as a problematic area. where the u.n. plaza has turned out to be a place where open air drug dealing, vending and also drug use. thank you. the u.n. plaza is surrounded by various neighborhoods. and people who work around, surrounding areas, use u.n. plaza not only to be here but to get public transportation and also to go from one place to another. i in all of my years of working in tenderloin and advocating for open space, i know one thing for sure. that is a open space has to be

a defined open space if not it wouldn't be a positive one. and i have to say, you guys have seen it for years, for almost a couple of years now, the dog park which is right around the corner and it was an open space but once it became a dog park, there are a lot of dogs that go there. so when it's designated it's safer and much easy to use. i have to say, thank you, phil, for implementing this designated use of u.n. plaza and i'm looking forward to have this positive not just for this place but also for surrounding neighborhoods. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, fortiba. next up, also representing this community, is the chancellor of uc law formerly called hastings, right there. this is that community's front yard now and uc law in addition

to all the students and faculty, just cut a ribbon on 670 new housing. this is your part. >> thank you, phil, thank you, mayor breed. let me just say, it's an honor to be here. good morning p i thought i was going to be invited because of my skateboarding ability but that's clearly not the case and it would move up any knee surgery, i need. this is our front yard. we have for more than 50 years, been in that building with 270 units. and of course we occupy the entire block. we have what we call an academic village and the academic village that just opened this august, that mayor

breed graciously came to the ribbon cutting. we are putting together a collaboration of universities in the bay area. so one-third of the 656 units of housing will be occupied by ucsf but also open to san francisco state, uc davis, berkeley graduate program, university of pacific dental school and we're creating an opportunity to bring all of these graduate communities together. and we want to be in partnership with the city of san francisco with the tenderloin neighborhood. we want to have, if you look at our new buildings, they're all glass. we want to be open to. we want our clinics, our centers to work with the local community. i hell you what, i was visit withing one of our partner units and we were up in what we call the sky room which is on the 24th floor of the building that is going to be renovated. and one of the dean said, you

know the neighborhood looks really good from up here. and i thought, it does look really good from up here. but we want to make it look good down here and we're committed to that partnership and we're committed to this neighborhood in this community. i'm thrilled part of this celebration. i'm not much with the skateboarder but i'm good with a ping-pong battle so i challenge anybody that wants to play me in ping-pong, let's do it. thank you very much. great to see you. [applause] >> this next speaker, one of our part nrz who knows full well that parks are full end solution to public safety and he's been the champion every step of the way. we almost talk daily for almost six months now, our police chief, bill scott. [applause] >> thank you, phil. i just want to start with saying thank you to mayor breed

and phil ginsburg, this would not happen without their vision and their support. i've got a lot of people to thank, so my few minutes will be thanking people. i want to thank all of our city partners. with the mayor's leadership and partnership, we opened the drug market coordination center. and all the city departments representing the work that went into this, i want to say thank you. dr. grant, at dph and his team. [applause] that's right. sheriff yamimoto and his team. dr.er sharaoen and her team. fire chief and her team. chief crystal and bro basing team, they're out here. we have deputy chief scott, my cousin, no we're not cousins, bart police and his team.

who am i missing? we have the park rangers and where is chief murphy and his team? [applause] dem, and mayor alan carol and her team. but most importantly, the community members. the community members who hold us accountable who push us and a lot of you are out here. we spend so much time meeting and talking and trying to plan and really, sometimes deservedly so, taking a lot of heat about what we're going to do to make this space better and make this community better. and this is a first step, but let's not let it be the last step because we have more work to do. and i just want to say also to dean and the u.s., uc a team and many of you are out here. and those biweekly meet that'sing we have, i think we've been having them for couple of years, this is what we meet for.

we meet to make progress and this is real progress. so as i close, i want to say a couple of things. the mayor mentioned this and i want to reiterate. this is a beautiful space, we are commit today keeping it a beautiful place. last niem phil ginsburg called me late last night and we talked about for about 30-45 minutes about what is next. how do we keep this space beautiful. how do we keep this place safe? we're not done yet. we still have challenges. we have a whole community and we're committed to doing that. thank you all for being here and thank you all for your support. thank you, mayor for your leadership. >> okay, now we got the stars of the show, we're coming down to it. next up, from our skate community, we've got sean connolly, and chico brenis,

tell us what you think, guys! come on up. >> hey, what's up, everybody? >> i'm going to read this off my phone. i wrote a little something special to me to be part of this. so i really appreciate it. sorry. to no end, sion william gains, peppy mono, spence cer, po blo ramirez, trevor prescott, jake phelps, basto, botelo, eric swanson and mark dillard. [applause] i say these names in remembrance and also as a reminder of how short life is. it seems like yesterday i was here to take advantage of all

you can eat hot cakes before 8:00 am at the carl's junior over there. make sure you don't lose your receipt. i'm extremely honored to speak at this opening ceremony, a skate spot for some of us. although it may seem like an exaggeration, is another way of saying home. when i lived up the street, my apartment was very small. at that time, i could navigate the sidewalks and city streets as i wished. as a matter of fact, i used to warm up on the same black marble benches right over there besinger as i made my way down to embarcadero. like most did and now referred to as the mid-90s, but there is a lot of youth out there that live just up the street and they're too young for this to

be an option and do whatever you want to do. for kids like that, they live in densely populated regions like this, they're space is shared with the entire city. for many of us skateboarding is a lifelong passion, but try to tell this to somebody when you ask them to move a bench when they look at you and they look like they have not eaten in a week. i'm coresponder of, we wanted create a space that never existed before. a welcoming location where skateboarding brings us together. but this is another example of that, a place where people come together with a like minded passion. day after day, it becomes our home. identify like to acknowledge and give a shout out to the city just for building spots like this. after losing a lot of our plazas, and open public spaces

like embarcadero, the main library, as it used to be, brown marble and bay blocks and appear, it's excite to go see a location in the middle of the city dedicated to us. [applause] keep working, keep striving, and keep drawing. fall down 7 times, get up 8. thanks. [applause] >> hello everybody i'm chico brenis. what's up. first of all, i want to say thank you to the city and everybody involved for makering this happen. it truly was made in record time. about three months when the first time i heard about it and now we're skating this. the crazy thing, is i grew up down here back in the 90s, that was the mecca of skateboarding back then. that's where i practiced all of my skills and craft after school, weekends and summer.

it's also where i met lifelong friends, that to this day i'm connected to and close with. i'm sure this is going to do the same for the youth and for our community. thank you skateboarding and let's shred, man! [cheers and applause] >> all right, we're almost there. everybody has been waiting a long time. we're going to get that inaugural grind, behind us. and this is a nod to very famous, to pueblo po bl* ic in paris. but still for grad you'd and it would be wrong not to acknowledge so bear with me, i'm going to call out the institutions and not the people so that we can get to the skating. but our profound thanks goes to the folks at 11 market. 83 can do street association.

asian art museum, bart, the central city collaborative, civic secondary school, the department of emergency management, delux distribution especially andy pets, the federal government, fitness zone, heart of the city fitness market. the l.a. who are doing the demonstration over there. mechanic that is programming chess, mo magic, the fitness campaign. thank you. ray studios, rns construction, thank you matt ramirez, sf adult probation, sf library, mta, the parks alliance, sf planning, police, the skate club, symphony, the department of public health, the sheriff's department, the state of california, general services administration, the tenderloin

clinic, thrasher, trinity plaza, uc law school, at mazing men and women at urban alchemy, the y*u w w*i school and many many more. special shout out one last time, to our own staff. i want to thank our commissioners for being here. commissioner kerry windtrap among others. to the amazing staff and barber who put this event for us today. let's do it! thank you. >> we broke ground in

december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it

was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space.

>> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want

to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the

heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] i'm anthony i'm owner of scoop ice cream in the bayview. >> the environment sit down environment to enjoy a bananasplit. root beer floot. shake, et cetera . just creating that environment for people to come and enjoy. they can experience this is cultural driven. we pretty much replicate what our culture means in the bayview. >> a back story me and my siplings my aunt took us out for

ice cream all the time. spend hours eating ice cream and talking and catching up with friends and family of came with an idea. why don't you bring the ice cream shop back has not been one here in a time since the 90's. i thought it would be good to bring something back to a community where i grew up and something with me in business community. my fate is the apple pie flavor made from french cashew milk it is vegan. homemade cashew milk and cocoa nut milk. apples upon cinnamon and nutmeg and create a great desert. my great grand mother made it from scratch. made ice cream for kids in the

neighborhood and made different flavors. sugar free and dairy free. got passion to do it being here in the community and from my family. meeting of the san francisco health commission. secretary will you call the roll. >> yes, i'll start with commissioner chow. >> present. >> commissioner how. >> present. >> prept. >> present. >> and commissioner christian. >> wonderful, and commissioner chow will be reading the land acknowledgment.