don't say, i am not going anywhere. we know six months later, you will get another station. it is just that we need to be confident. we need for you to have confidence in our ideas. we have plans already. we are not so hung up on money. you get us on a on that. that is not the real issue. the real issue is control of our communities. and you learning to work with us. just because we are not rich doesn't mean that you cannot listen to our ideas and our plan on how we're going to solve some of our problems. i will end this on an important note. the recon park department terminated so many park and rec directors that the cold part about it is the majority of them were minorities. they were african-american costs, brothers would been in our community 15 or 20 years.

how can you justify the changing of the system, hiring them back part time, what a grown man is going to be working full time and come back part time? the way you do things, the way you treat us, makes us -- your past record speaks for itself. finally, ed, ed is a magnificent man in the sense that his word is his bond. i would like to tell you that the development community corp. is applying for funding not to the city, but to the feds. where can we get cooperation from city departments when we as community-base organizations apply for funding? we need your support. i need the's office to help us with our reentry program when we submit a $6 million budget for it. i need the public defender's

office to support us when we submit a $1.5 million core grant. we have ideas. we have plants. we need for you to listen to us and follow our lead sometimes. and not always we follow what you got plant. thank you. >> go ahead and pass into the next person. i'm really going to ask you to keep it very succinct, ok? >> hi. i am here to talk about josh, who i think is a wonderful human being. if it wasn't for him, we would still have the drug addicts, the drug pushers standing on the corner. he cleaned up. he really did. my grandson, who was only 5 years old at the time, went down there, and he fell in love with josh. he thought joshes a wonderful person. i don't understand why they let

him go. and gerry, too. that is all we want to know. why did you let them go? they were perfect. i enjoyed going down there. my grandson enjoyed going down there. all the other kids did. he is a beautiful person and a wonderful role model for the children. >> if you can talk to rec and park afterwards, that is one of the reasons why we feel that question. thank you very much. thank you. remember, we're making statements just for few more minutes. please make them breathe so we get people in appeared >> -ball and i'm a candidate for mayor in 2011 in november and i would like to introduce myself to the community. before we go any further, i would like everybody to give ross mirkarimi a big hand for being such a great supervisor. >> thank you. >> he has really done a great

job in representing district 5. he is running for sheriff and i endorse him. i really hope that everybody here helps and works with his campaign. the other thing out like to say, and it is rare couple of minutes here, a few seconds, i want to welcome steve to the position as chief of police of san francisco. we welcome you to our community. thank you for accepting the position. thank you, mayor, for pointing a local police officer. this means a lot. there's three issues that are important to me. one of them is more jobs. one of them is help with economic opportunities for people doing small business. another one is critical, especially in housing, the health of the systems with economic equity. this is an issue i am working with. i look forward to meeting some of you as the campaign goes on. thank you. >> thank you. during nice of you.

please come in next speaker. >> i am just here to make sure that the city really -- we have a big fortune -- bigger portion in the city, and they all need services, like alzheimer's patients. we are lucky, our agency, we have a small grant. we're running a care home for the alzheimer's, elderly. it is on rosen webster. it is a very small grant, but we save a lot of senior lives for not getting lost or missing and can provide a safe home for them. i just want to -- not just one home can take care of all the city. i would like you to think about

this when you are planning for your budget. and our agency, we're going to maybe lose service in adult health care centers. that is the major cut from the state grant. when you are thinking of the budget, please think about them. this portion. that is all i want to say. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> first of all, i would like to commend you, supervisor, and all the departments here. ed lee, for coming year. point clarification, i just wanted to remind everybody that they did commit to the city and county for redevelopment before governor brown came and did what he is doing now. that is most crucial to this community. i am appalled that nobody from redevelopment here -- i do see somebody -- they are not here. that tells us that what

redevelopment has done for us. the african-american out- migration report, i cannot go without saying, i am the one that was theire. i put together the task force. we carry it around like a bible. every organization from the naacp all the way down. it is not for these people appear to look out for the future of our communities. it is the leaders who are not here today that are responsible. my name is ace and i am on the case. i'm not new to this. i'm true to this. we need to have community reforms. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i would like to thank you, supervisor, for holding this. mayor, you have seen me around. i would just like to say to

support black businesses. support african-american non- profit organizations. i went to school here right across the street at benjamin franklin. it is not called ben franklin anymore. i have grown up now. my whole thing is, i can remember hearing the stories about jim jones and how he rated the black community of their properties and businesses. it is very painful to see that. i was born in the 1980's and i saw i whole lot of black businesses when i was growing up, but now, even back then, elders were telling me things were not the same. now that i've grown up a little bit more, and i come from the fillmore, i am seeing less and less black businesses. to me, it is not the same. it gets even deeper than what they were saying. i am seeing less black businesses. please find them if they have good ideas.

support the use and support the community. please support them. it is important. the western addition, the fillmore, would not be the same without the african-american community. san francisco would not be the same without the black people. i will just ask you respectfully to support that. it is very important. thank you. >> thank you, everybody. for those of you in line, we only have a few minutes left. somebody is going to get cut off unless you are 20 seconds apiece, please. >> this is about 20 seconds. i have a question and comment. is anyone looking into the city's material waste and inefficiencies? my last 10 years in the department of social services with my conservation program saved millions of dollars. this kind of program needs to be citywide. for example, something i have

recommended 16 years ago, to charge city employees for parking, has come to pass. it is now reaping $3.5 million in revenue. i have many ideas. i wish somebody would please listen to them. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker appeared >> hello. my name is karen and i am part of the japantown planning effort. i want to thank the city as a whole for being so supportive of the efforts we are making. over the last year, we have been reviewing in small committees are draft plan. we are now heading into our final community comment period and we need the support of the city. i also want to say to audience members, pick up one of these pink fliers. please come to our meetings if you can. what happens in japantown will

have echoes and the facts on the larger and western admission -- addition. thank you. >> thank you, karen. daniel, please. >> mayor lee, supervisor mirkarimi, the department heads, i want to say two things that stick out in my mind about this whole setting. i know the department of education is not here. we are talking about budget and money. however, our community is yearning, especially the disenfranchised community of the western addition, to be educated. when we speak about money, to really speak about money, you have to have an enlightened community. that is not so good that we are not discussing education at all tonight. in the spirit of the budget, i think a lot of times, it is so much money going toward law enforcement, we need to use a

balanced approach. we have 800k coming out of the office of economic and work- force development. we have so many problems with them on how this money has been with our community. it should be a no-brainer, you would think, but you get resistance from people looking for a personal paycheck at the expense of a community that has been impacted for so long. thank you very much for coming out. i hope that can be put at the table. thank you. >> thank you. >> real quick, we started a lower fillmore neighborhood association to address some of those needs, just like ace and ashley spoke of, of us taking control of our neighborhood, and city hall listening to us, not dictating the way we do things. i think with this new association, if you guys get a

chance to come out and listen to our views, and i do want to be a part of that committee that you are starting 4 rec and park, i am across the street from kimball, and i don't see people from the community at all. we want to see an overview of who your funding in our community and we want to make sure people are doing what they're supposed to be doing. thank you a lot, mayor lee. thanks, ross. hopefully this is not the last time that you come out. i hope you do stick to what you said and get your old job back. hopefully we can work together again once you become sheriff appeared >> thank you. this is going to be the final speaker. then we will wrap up. >> how are you all doing today? i represent more real tv. i want to say, support your up- and-coming on some heroes.

ross mirkarimi, you have a young man in your district, manny. people talk about safety. maybe we need to support heroes who are doing something to create more safety. boxing is growing in the bay area. take a look at this. i saw kareem and his brother packet out. it is all about the numbers. support that and look into that. support your new up-and-coming heroes. god bless you all. >> thank you. let's give a round of applause to the public and their contributions to tonight's discussion, to all of you. we have just a few more cards we did not get to, but the topics, i will just read them out to you. perhaps of people want to continue the discussion afterward, i encourage you to do so, or talked to some

representatives of the city family here. there were concerns about the ecology contract. is it good for ratepayers? there were cards about pg&e. what about smart meters and the safety and reliability of pg&e? there was another card that spoke about, we want more urban gardens. there was an example laid out of a park and other work that has been done here in transforming blighted areas into wonderful urban gardens. and a card about homeless, how the homeless seem to be hanging out quite a bit under the walkways that lead to the rec and park areas off steiner and webster, and what police, rec and park, and others can do about that. those were the other themes in the cards. we hit every other card and the theme identified. i want to thank mayor lee.

the new police chief and the whole rest of the city family, for being here. most of all, i want to thank all of you. we come in our district, have made tremendous gains, no matter what neighborhood you come from. i look at the economics that weekly. i look of the public safety stats. i look to the general health and wellness that. many neighborhoods, particularly the ones in the sector, have overcome a lot of challenges, a lot of problems. it would never happen if it were not for the service and leadership and the activism of so many of you that are here tonight. i want to say thank you. thank you for the collaboration between you and the city. we have got more work to do. at least we got some answers here tonight. everybody have a good night. remember, june 18 and 19, come and celebrate. have a good night.

>> good morning, and thank you for joining us. i am the director of the mayor's office -- and i am here to mark a milestone in this neighborhood, one that is about revenue. this will support and enliven the neighborhood, and allow me to stop driving to shop at

target. the speakers are mayor ed lee, donna eagen of target, and the director of the sentences to redevelopment agency. we will have a ceremonial groundbreaking in this room. i would like to talk about the following individuals. the city college board of trustees, natalie burke. since assuming office in january, growing the economy has been a priority. and as we saw, he delivered. without further ado of like to mention -- i would like to introduce the mayor. >> if you notice i am smiling, there is such a combination of good will here, and good direction.

i get the opportunity to be productive and destructive at the same time. i am here to bolster and brag about what we are doing in san francisco. we are still doing the right things. i have been here so many times and we're talking about how to sustain the economy and grow this. i have repeated, we are doing redevelopment's so well and i want to thank everyone, -- i want to thank the redevelopment commission, i have spoken out in the very beginning in january, when people suggested that redevelopment was a don entity and maybe this should not be done. we are continuing to do the right things in this city.

and with this fantastic view that we have here, with this wonderful site, as it has been labeled or called for some years, this land is actually owned by the redevelopment agency. they have done the right thing again. by enticing a major investor to come over, from the extremely successful screen, to offer their vision to have $30 million worth of investment. and to invite another fantastic tenant, the target or what people are trying to make me pronounced this, the weather pronounced this year, to have a special store. in addition, this is part of

the $30 million investment. the restaurants and dining facilities that will be facing this wonderful, beautiful garden that we have invested so many years of the effort on in this great city. that is why i am happy and smiling. this is the use of redevelopment in a positive way. they are such a cornerstone for jobs. we are talking 600 construction jobs as this program begins. 700 permanent jobs are reflected with the restaurant and eating facilities that we have here, the kind of facilities that this floor will have in terms of how it will be used with public space. and the jobs that target will bring in. and there is the urban design target store, these are the attributes that we will have a

mayor who is enthusiastic about this. this fills a constant theme that i have with job creation, green hope to the city, that we use the agency, the best way possible. and this is really another highlight for redevelopment. and i will say to the governor, and to the others that are suggesting that we do this the route the city, we continue to do this right here. we have many examples of how we do this right. this is job creation and job sustaining, and that is the growth. i was here in the original opening. we welcome the in sony at the time. things change, and new things occur, and then we is the success to that they have had in the shopping center a block away. and we adopted a beautiful addition to the city, because every time that we have done

shopping, we just look up constantly, and all the people have the same vision that they have here. you could be looking up to many floors of wonderful attractions, restaurants, eating, and all kinds of entertainment. and my wife and i have been here many times. this theater is going to continue to be a vibrant theater here. this is one of the region this is part of the city, where the office is working with redevelopment, and we will continue along the market to bring forward the new technology companies, the companies in the room right now talking about how we can make them excited, with perhaps a relaxation of the stock options and the taxing that we have done, so that we do not hurt them as they grow into the city, so that the employees that they will hire, we have 50%

local hiring here on this project. this is thanks to the redevelopment objective. those employes will find everything that they need, along the mid markets and the streets, and then, as they want to entertain themselves in the evening, they can spend all evening here. it is so excited to put the sledge hammer to the wall. to actually be productive and to welcome in the jobs that this will represent, the finest example of how we do these partnerships, with the redevelopment agency.

we will invite the investors and suggest that the investors have the confidence in the redevelopment agency and what we are doing to move forward. investors at westfield and target would not do this if they did not think the city was a good partner. i also want to thank anthony rich, because he just told me this personal story about himself and his wife, moving into russian hill. they love this as much as i love this city. investing their personal lives and all of their investors future vision in this city. this is a wonderful story. i hope that you sustain this and whenever you have to do to get the story out. we are moving forward as a city. the future of the city is the young people who will get these jobs. we're making certain that we reach out all the neighborhoods

to make certain that the shops are open to all of them. they will not do this without a solid education system. i want for the youth to have good lives in the city. thank you very much. >> westfield has been a strong contributor to the economy of the city, and their presence in the city generates thousands of jobs for residents of san francisco and millions to the tax base. the $30 million that is being invested in this facility speaks volumes about their ongoing commitment to the city. this is the president of westfield. >> thank you. i would like to thank ed lee, the commissioners, jennifer, the staff of the redevelopment

agency, and the office of economic and work-force development for being here today on a spectacular san francisco de, to support the efforts of revitalization. i also like to thank amy and the staff of the redevelopment agency, for sharing in their expertise as we work. imagine this great location. and working with the city to make this a reality. the office of economic and work force development, is also instrumental in advancing these clans. thank you all for working with the team, led by scott valley and the vice president of development on this project, to reach this important milestone. to be here with museums and performing arts venues, streams of world-class conventions. you have to bring a strong

imagination. we understood this from the first day. we have always believed that this property could be real imagined and better integrated into the neighborhood. i would like to touch on the plants. each floor has a signature focus. the first crucial step was to literally turn the street level of this facility into this facility. we will throw open the doors to the gardens by integrating the new dining terrace, with over 470 seats inside and out. we will also -- importantly turn to face fourth and mission street. but must 7 cisco buildings, we will create a lively, nod, and we truly believe that this will be a great complement to the area. on t