businesses, including the architectural firm. i want to thank the department of public works. certainly, i want to thank the construction team for working together, making sure this is all done correctly, on time, and compliance with all our ordinance is. at the same time, working hard with all our contractors to keep this project on time. we have a lot of good step on it. we have a private consultants. we have the public works director, working with our current public works director and former public works director and me -- we all have our public works and has on today. it is a wonderful time -- we all have our public works hats on today.

if you take a look here into the pit, i think you will see how complex the project is. it has thousands of tiebacks into the sides of the walls. the utility relocation for the power and utility conduits that have been the formal historic connections for our hospital have been rerouted, and this pit will be the home for the sub 2 floors for the hospital. they will be trying to open a new hospital in 2015. they are on time. i wanted to make sure as mayor that we abide by the standards for fiscal responsibility and

getting this project on. this is exactly the kind of project that this city has correctly invested in. is something i've been personally involved in from the start. this investment is well worth it. this is the greatest hospital in the bay area. we have a trauma center that is open to every san francisco resident. its still is today. it will be even better when this is done. the i see you, the intensive care unit, currently has 27 beds -- the icu, the intensive care unit, currently has 27 beds. we know we have to have a new hospital. overall, there are 284 beds in the hospital. that is an additional 32 from what we have had in the past.

the city is still carrying out the wonderful relationship we have with california-san francisco come up with the medical group that is still in partnership with us, and they see this as a tertiary academic center as well as the trauma response center. it is the most important project we have to date, and it is important week rebuild the hospital, because everyone can see any kind of emergency situation come up whether it is a car accident or other man-made cause after this, they can get the best care in the world here. i was up yesterday, by the way. i paid a visit to ryan white, the nine-year old boy who was hit by a truck driver. he is recovering. the family asked that i come by here and say a word and give a

little personal attention, and i felt really good about the staff here at sf general. we need their services to be housed in the most modern facility we can possibly build. we need to build the new hospital, compliant, modern, safe, that takes this into the future for the next 100 years. i am here today to review all the develop on on, and my thanks go to the team for every aspect of the project. we will carry out exactly what i have in my former capacity and now as mayor, to make sure these projects are done on time, that we honor all the commitments that we do, especially with the largest general obligation bond project we have in our history.

84% of the voters. we want to make sure that practice is done. that is what i have been about for all these years. i want to make sure things get done in the city, get done right. so, this wonderful example of what we do to lead the city, and when you look at it, we are investing correctly. we're doing the right things here. this will be so important for our future citizens to have a general hospital, to have all are residents be very faithful in knowing they will be taking care of -- taken care of. so, i want to again thank the team for the collaboration. it is one that has to be continued all the way to opening

day, and you can already see the way they are doing this in cooperation, this team will get through the next three, up four years to see this thing through. i am proud to be here, announcing we are 14% of the way, but we are doing it right, and this hospital is well on its way to being rebuilt and it is a shining example of the smart investments our voters and city government have promised and are carrying out. thank you for being here. to the whole team, to the project managers, to the dpw, the hospital staff, the consultants, because they are again part of this great team. you will see how complex this is.

it is well worth all the time. i appreciate the support and the status, and i will be back here in another year hopefully to see the steel frames going up for the base i slater's. 115 of them in 13. for months. they are not being built in foreign countries. they are being constructed and designed and made right across the bay. so, they will be shipped here. they're already under way. one of the most important things, because it will allow the hospital, there will be a ground inland in 30 inches in any direction. it will allow that to not disturb the hospital building. that is why they are called base by solicitors. that is the most modern and oscillators that exist.

-- modern isolators that exist. we talk about the new energy standards for buildings, that is again late into the way we plan the facility and the way it is being executed. i am very proud of where we are today. we will keep executing these projects to make sure we are fully compliant and they contribute to the economy of the city. that is the most important thing. 3000 jobs, everybody doing the right thing on this project, and i am very proud of it. thank you very much.

>> thank you for joining as this morning. this is another milestone in cyc history, the opening of our bayview branch office. in 1970, we opened the organization to expand our geographical reach to over 4000 east and families each year. it is heartwarming to see some many of our friends, colleagues, and supporters to share this special day with us. we are also honored and humbled

by so many of our city and state officials from our funding agencies and foundations. thank you up for being here. and now, it is my privilege to invite mayor lee to say a few words. >> thank you, sarah, for your leadership here and jamie for your board leadership as well. i'm here along with board president david chiu, supervisor cohen, who represents his district, community leaders that are here, extremely valuable city officials, police chief, juvenile probation official as well. i see tom. welcome, welcome. [applause] tom has historically been a big supporter of young and thank you very much, tom, for being here too. i am part of a growing course of

people who are appreciative of this fantastic decision that was made by c.y.c., in concert with bay view residents to open up an office here in the middle of the bay view district. you know, when you look around and perhaps if you look at the last few years, maybe other people decided they would leave. maybe they felt comfortable, this wasn't a place for them. and then the violence started about a year and a half ago. i know all of the supervisors came with me to start forming solutions, some of the solutions started coming out. we started the community ambassador's program, that has focused on the hot spot, transit lines that occurred. we worked very closely with our new police chief, who was then captain of the bay view station, to make sure we were making sure all of the conditions here were

concerned with safety and the officers paying attention to what was going on in the street. we have gotten great dialogue within the city family. i want to register my appreciation to the board of supervisors for having such a dedication issues on issues of youth. we reflected that in the way we decided issues in the budget. we did that have a lot of input from members of the public to make sure our youth programs, employment programs that would lead to leadership, better leadership, less truancy, less violence in our streets, programs that would help youth do that and make sure that it was led by youth and youth advocacy programs. we did that in the budget and today, with the opening of this office, is yet another reflection that we made those right decisions. i want to thank our supervisors. i want to thank the community that's have been here for many, many years.

sharing their concerns that youth want to go in a different direction in the city. i just came from, by the way, a technology center called rocket space. and that was a center where we had a lot of new technology coming out, creating new jobs. but they also said, what about the youth of san francisco? i looked to hide ra -- hydra every single week to advise me what programs to support and increasing with our school district, whether it's anti-truancy programs, whether it's ending violence, whether it's increasing educational opportunities and getting all of the gaps covered. and we know i did -- we did a very, very good move, we found several hundred thousand dollars to make sure there was summer school for kids that weren't able to pass math and science classes. that's a new requirement in

order for them to go on. that's made all of the difference in the world. i don't know if their youth was appreciative. assuming their parents are. we're on a very, very good track. as your mayor, i want to make sure we celebrate the opening of this office. we know the very first programs coming out will be the c.y.c. bay view youth advocates that started this program right away. they're here in the presence of all of us as a witnessed to fact that when we have challenges for any community, our youth want to be part of the solution and this is inclusive of all youth. bay view youth, youth that will be here many, many years. they want a safety community. they also want their community to grow. that's why c.y.c. is here. they want to help grow this community and grow it the right way. so thank you for the commitment. thank you for the initial trust that you're building but also thank you for being a part of this great community. and i'm here to celebrate that. thank you very much.

[applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. and now greetings on behalf of the c.y.c. board of directors, please welcome our board chair. >> good morning. on behalf of the c.y.c. board of directors, i'm joined with my board members joseph and victoria looper. welcome to the ground opening of the bay view office. as many of you know c.y.c. has been servicing youth and their families for over 40 years throughout san francisco. but it isn't until today that we actually have a physical location in the neighborhood of the bay view where the youth and their families can come to be service in their own neighborhood. we're very confident in the leadership staff that we have that would be based in the bay view to work with the community because the bay view is such a vibrant and diverse community and we're so excited to be here.

we believe that the services that will be provided out of here will continue the mission and the vision of c.y.c. to motivate our youth to be the future leaders of tomorrow. we're very confident in this location. we know they're very successful. some of you may or may not know supervisor malia cohen. this was her campaign headquarters and look at where she is now. [applause] so thank you so much for coming. >> thank you, jean, and all of the c.y.c. advisory members for your commitment and support to us for so many years. at this time please welcome the honorable david chiu, president of the san francisco board of supervisors, to make his remarks. thank you, david. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it's great to see the diversity of san francisco here in this room. i am so pleased to be part of this announcement, in part because this is an organization

that has been doing tremendous work in my neighborhood, in district 3. c.y.c. was actually located literally a half of block from where i live on poke -- polk street. they are currently so many people, asian-american youth and diverse youth. it is wonderful to finally come here to the bay view. last year i know there were many community leaders here working in the aftermath of a couple highly publicized incidents of crime. and this uncovered, frankly, decades worth of frustration in how our community is dealing with public safety and how we're making sure our young people are part of the solution. c.y.c. has really helped to model for the rest of us how we need to do conflict resolution, mediation, lordship training and i really just want to thank the staff, board members and supporters of this great organization for doing what you're doing. and, frankly, i want to join all

of us for coming together. our mayor, board of supervisors, our community leaders representing the african-american, the asian-american, latino communities. i want to thank our wonderful state assembly men and your leadership in trying to get funding for programs for young people. all of the representatives from our city agencies and our nonprofit partners. it takes a village to make sure we are safe and c.y.c. is now a proud part of the village that is here in the bay view and we look forward to years of your service and leadership. i do have with me a certificate of honor that is signed not only from my colleagues jane kim and malia cohen but from every member of the board in recognition of c.y.c.'s grand opening for your continued leadership in providing conflict mediation, educational enrichment and job readiness program to our youth of san francisco. we at the board want to extend our highest accommodation, our

appreciation and our thanks. congratulations. >> we appreciate the support we have received from you and all of the supervisors. supervisor malia cohen has been especially supportive and generous with her time and energy to the establishment of this office. please join me in welcoming supervisor cohen. >> good morning, good morning.

hi, everyone, friends and neighbors. it's wonderful to see this place packed. i haven't seen it as packed as this time last year, as a matter of fact. i think this place has spacial anointing. we're definitely going to be victorious as we continue to go on and go forward in unifying our community. i just have a few words that i just want to leave on you. i want to publicly acknowledge sarah and eddie and jane. these are my new friends. i recently met them but i worked with janery for many years in the community and it's an honor to continue to work with you, especially implementing such an important message. the beautiful thing being out here on thursday -- you guys in the media realize this because you're out here every week, but we have been coming out here and doing thing as long third street on a weekly basis. this is a commitment that mayor ed lee has made with -- to me in january and he's been continuous in honoring this moving forward. i also want to acknowledge my colleagues here. this is not the first time, nor

will it be the last time we are here. a few weeks ago when we had our town hall meeting with the kenneth harding shooting, my colleagues were here. i think that today is important because what it represents is that we have a city that is starting to come together and act like a city. no more will you find district feuds but everyone is caring -- everyone is considerate and compassionate about the people here in the southeast part of san francisco. and i especially would like to say thank you to assembly men tom ammiano. thank you so much for being here today. it's an honor to see you. i'm very excited and extremely optimistic about all of the wonderful things that c.y.c. is going to be -- programs they're going to be putting forward along the third street quarter as well as bay view. i have one request, i hope we will be able to get language classes here, just basic classes. i see some of my community leaders in here, i say walton

and vivian. wouldn't it be to see jackson on the mic saying ni hao ma. i think that would be wonderful for members in the community to be welcoming and this is the world -- the world is becoming smaller as we listen to the news and how technology connected us, and it's our humanism and it's our human compassion that connects us. and i'm looking forward to the culture exchange we will have, vivian. i will be looking for you to hold some dance classes here. i hope to see you next year -- doing the lion's dance next year. this is really the beginning of such a wonderful partnership. as our family continues to grow, i look forward to welcoming more businesses that are going to be thriving on the merchant quarter and i look forward to any nonprofit that wants to partner with the city.

our arms are open and we're ready to work. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor cohen. and we will also like to have honorable assemblyman tom ammiano say a few words and make a few remarks. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm very very, happy to be here. i worked in this district a long time when i was on the school board and board of supervisors and watching it develop and watching it grow has really been gratifying. we are passing the torch now to the younger generations. our kids are meeting kids of different cultures and races. the thing i liked about district elections is the thing that we disproved in theory, if you have district elections, then everybody will be out for their own district. this really is a testimony to that not happening. it's a great dynamic. it's true it does take a village. in san francisco, it kind of

takes a village of people. but you know, which is another dynamic. all of our communities are going to embrace. i did ask ed lee, i said how do you say congratulations in chinese? he said -- monthsle toff. -- monthsle tov -- mozel tov. >> at this time i would like toint deuce our good friend and supervisor to come here and say a few words as well. >> thank you. i actually got to get to know the work of c.y.c. and meet the amazing staff of c.y.c. ten years ago when i started out as youth organizer in chinatown. it's really been amazing to watch the growth of this organization but also to actually see personally the difference they've been making for young people throughout the city of san francisco. something we all know that do youth work, they migrate services. and many of the young people i work with live in district ten.

there's a need in district ten for more community-based organizations to be here to serve this community. it's great that c.y.c.'s finally opening here. one thing that president chiu had talked about is that there is a reality our communities are moving closer together. bay view's been historically an african-american community and there's a growing asian-american community that's coming to live in this neighborhood. we cannot shy away from that. we talk a lot about public safety. last year when i was working on the lawyer's committee for civil rights went had several incidents happening on third street, you know, ed lieu zhang, malia cohen, many leaders of the african-american community came together to talk about how can we bring our communities together? when we talk about a safer neighborhood, a safer neighborhood is a united neighborhood. we can't improve our neighborhoods, we can't bring -- we can't make this a neighborhood for everyone unless we're a united neighborhood. i know c.y.c. is committed to doing the community building and

community bridging. our communities have more in common then less. and it's something i know as asian-american that's really important to me is the importance of african-american contribution to this country and building our civil rights. we would not be here if not for that movement. and it's really important as communities of colors come together living in the bay view that we acknowledge our common history and our common struggle. i know c.y.c. will be a part of that dialogue. thank you. >> thank you. to make this branch office possible can't be happening without funding support. we first must acknowledge the california endowment for supporting our vision of the establishment of this branch office. and we must acknowledge and thank the mayor's office for the continuing staff support we have received over the years. at this time i would like to interdue brian chiu, director of community development for the mayor's office of housing, to say a few words.

>> i just wanted to say what a pleasure it was for our office to receive the community development programming for the city and be able to offer c.y.c. a $50,000 grant, seed money really, to kick off this program. i have been familiar with the great work c.y.c. has done since my community activist days in the 1990's. for a number of years, sarah and i have been talking about the need to bring c.y.c. into the southeast, to recognize the changing demographics of the city. and we were really looking to support and agency that was really committed not just -- not to just bringing the same kind of programming that c.y.c. has been doing in chinatown but to actually create a new model of interaction. and we feel that c. dwrrks c. -- c.y.c. at a part is a model of a social aggressive organization that could really take the leadership of all of the people in this room and change it i think into a dynamic model of what this city needs it to be. again, we're really honored we can be a part of this great

celebration and we look forward to seeing you next year when we have our one-year anniversary and we hope this room will be even more packed with excitement for the great work that sarah and her team has done here. thank you. [applause] >> at this point i would like to introduce friends and c.y.c. supporter to give a brief remark. >> thanks. thank you, sarah. i'm proud to be joining many of my elected city officials here today and just begin thanking c.y.c. for coming into this neighborhood and really offering much, much needed services. if you look at how much need there is in district 10, district 11, throughout the east of san francisco and then map out how many agencies and how many community groups are here, it really doesn't fit nearly the amount of need. i'm here with anybody nells our city government to just celebrate and thank c.y.c. for their wonderful work.

we know during these very challenging times, youth need a place to go. youth need activities that they can participate in. positive, focused. conservative workers. i'm so proud and happy to support it. thank you, sarah. >> thank you. we're rare very fortunate to have staff that work tirelessly to make dreams a reality. please welcome c.y.c. project manager, eddie zhang. >> thank you very much, everyone. i'm very grasteful for all of your presence because all of you represent the models that we need to follow as city officials, as community based organization leaders and as he people who want to make positive results in our community. because without you, there will not be any one of us left y? we have to come together. this is definitely an historical moment for all of us.