housing. those that live on navy, the new ridge, a lot of people didn't get back to the new. so they had to move to palo alto, richmond and other players outside of san francisco. so we have a chance to revitalize san francisco and this area particularly, and we need to make sure that those agencies sitting at this table is in compliance with chapter 10 and article vi that gives us the opportunity to have preference and the contract on all the jobs coming forth. thank you very much. >> i have been reminded to ask that the remarks be kept to two minutes, for the person to ask

a question or make a statement. the next person is diane wesley smith. >> thank you. thank you, everyone, for coming out to our community. i am heartbroken as a native of bayview hunter's point, i don't see a little bit of my people here who are in so much need. they are out passing out flyers because they need $25 or $30. supercohen, thank you very much for putting together this summit. i am here to echo the sentiments of mr. robinson. i am a community real estate broker, and it has been very hard. i came into realize so that my people could get employment. when i say people, those of us who grew up here. we have 4800 third street. no one can qualify to move in it because they have not had a genuine job.

i have been to many of these summits. i attended the workshop. you know what? i couldn't get anything out of it. i called everybody. i couldn't get a thing. you know why? i wasn't connected. i don't know certain people. i say that to go on the record. we have to be fair and transparent. clicking and giving jobs to people because they know someone -- no, i don't play ball. however, i stand here as a person on behalf of others. i have my home and my business, but i'm never ok until my people are going to be ok, and that is the residents of this district. let's do this right so we don't have to stop everything and start over again. this is great,, but when it comes down to job, a lot of kids can't pass the drug test and can't do that. there has to be training, and it needs to be thought out and

planned. we have the employees here, but we have to help them get ready. i am going to surrender my time to tony. >> your glassed. i am passionate. my people are starving to death, and they are moving out. >> mr. tony camera dash carpenter? >> i welcome everybody to our community. i am a lifetime resident. i was born in hunter's point in 1945. i think that it is important for us to understand what economic development is all about us because it develops our community. not only did it develop our community, it developed our city during the time i have lived here. the redevelopment process, i thought, when it came to

hunter's point, it was to benefit the residents. but over the years i learned different. it wasn't a plan for the residents. it was a plan for the city of san francisco to upgrade, and modernize our neighborhood. but in the course of upgrading, they failed to give us an opportunity to upgrade economically. when i was listening to what they were saying about the housing authority, and they mentioned a preference for 25% hunter's point residents. when they were rebuilding the development area and remoleding -- remodeling, i stood up for the residents of west point. you can't divide a community along project lines. now i find that is being done.

it saddens me, because what we are doing is we are being divided against one another. what hurts me is that i come from the projects. i had an opportunity to upgrade my economic standards. i had the opportunity to learn a trade and to start a business. but what happened was we are constantly discriminated against. we have a contracting company. it has been listed for 27 years. we worked on the new homes in hunter's point. we participated in building a new shopping >> but lately, we can't even get an opportunity in our own community. we need positive role models from hunters point. the hunters point businesses working in hunters point. our people look up to us. and they pattern themselves

after -- by suppressing our opportunities, we are not visible in our own community. that is sad. [applause] i have seen african americans, the numbers, a decrease in san francisco. we call it gentrification. if you build something and you don't give us the opportunity to upgrade our economic standards -- i don't think it should be about hunters point. it is a part of san francisco. whatever opportunity anybody gets in san francisco, the residence of hunter's point deserves the same opportunity and that is not happening. [applause] if you wish for it to happen, you have got to be in touch with us. we are hunters point.

any so-called representative that stands ouup doesn't necessarily mean they are representatives. those of us from hunters point recognize one another. miss espinola jackson. i grew up with her children. mr. robertson. all of our families grew up together. when they close the shipyard down, they became [unintelligible] in this neighborhood, financially, it sunk to where it is today. we have not had the opportunity for genuine employment. we have people out of work. what ever is going to take for the peoples to still live in the

region for the people to still live in the projects -- what ever is going to take for the people to still live in the projects, we need to show them how to upgrade economic standards. how to get them to the unions, become contractors and business people. our community can only be represented by non-profit corporations. it only needs to be represented by business people that knows what the issues actually are. we have to speak to being told about something that is not going to happen without giving us anything in writing. [applause] >> [inaudible]

>> mr. alonzo? >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for your attendance, representatives and offices in thsan francisco. i was born and raised in bayview hunters point. as a family, we have bred and bled and sweated to gather -- together. october the 9th, i turned 63

years old, but i was born and raised here before i came to hunters point from the south to escape harsh conditions against african americans to come to california to find a better way for his family. there are a few questions of like to put, what is the policy for a contract in to minority contractors? what type of representation on the selection and awards committee for jobs and contracts for these projects? what type of hardship policy is in place to ensure employment of our troubled youth and adults in the community. someone spoke to the issue of employment.

but we need something in place that will be a support system for the huge and troubled adults -- youth and troubled adults. we are on the path for returning back to society as a responsible member of society. the fourth question will be to the housing authority. this has to do with affordable housing. it is under the title, section 333, i believe that you were given this by mr. robertson. our explanation of the attachment of documents, i want to know from the redevelopment

agency and from the housing authority, what percentages are being rebuilt that are affordable to the extremely low, very low and moderate-income housing. the law requires that 100% is supposed to be returned. not 25% or 70% or 85%. all of those units of there were projects. i have not seen if documented -- it documented that only a certain percentage of those units will be for the extremely low and very low. the law requires that 100% goes back to the employment of those individuals.

for the redevelopment reports in the fiscal year '09-'10, required for the documentation. that is reported. we want to know how these projects have been developing and executed with taxpayers' dollars and about holding to compliance with the law and regulation of policy. i think you received this document. at your earliest convenience, we would like to talk with you concerning some very severe issues going on in this community. for the redevelopment and the housing authority. until then, if anyone knows

about western editions, it is circulated. they did not make it in the but -- nip it in the bud, the housing for affordable low- income families are not at that stage that the law requires. i am not making something up of the top of my head, this is documented proof. and the the law of the state of california means declaration of public policy. if we are going to move forward with the development in this community, we want to do it by the book. [applause] >> we had a couple questions that he had asked. with regards to the housing authority, dominica?

>> so the -- first, the housing authority has 20% -- i'm sorry. the housing authority has 20% contracting requirement. 20% will be awarded to minority business enterprises. that is the rule of the housing authority goes by. as far as the last question that you asked, the housing authority's unit serving low- income residents. those that we build, operate, and maintain serve those populations. in addition to that, we are

rebuilding at hunter view, and the standard we are using is a one-for-one replacement. if we demolish a unit that is serving in low-income households, we are replacing it with a unit that is serving a low-income households. currently there are about 267 units there. they are operated on by the housing authority. there will be more than 267 units built, but there will be 267 units that will be public housing replacement units. if it is something from the agency, i can't speak to it because i probably haven't seen it. and it might be that the agency has units and their including in the portfolio that are not specifically for extremely low income populations. but all of the units of the housing authority is serving the

income base. they are not market rate units. the development requires a one- for-one replacement. >> i just want to quickly answe r -- yes, i met with mr. robinson and i have agreed to meet with him on a monthly basis. i will honor that commitment. i am in possession of the document you're quoting from. >> miss espinola jackson? one last thing. two minutes. >> everybody knows i am long winded. let me say this.

what was raised to you was a section 3 of the guidelines the people that live in public housing get the job first, that is not happening in san francisco. that is all that is being said. it was stated earlier by the speaker. no one is in compliance when it comes to the residents of san francisco. the work force, i would like to know who is monitoring. i know that we started with human rights and we had some good work and going on at that time. but who is doing the monitoring? ha who is complying? also the statistics, how are you receiving those statistics? you have no one in the field to make sure that the contracts are complying with labor compliance officers.

that is a very big concern and i think i have 20 seconds left. i am used to talking fast before -- because i go before the board of supervisors. i would like you to understand what the community is saying. we would like a change along with the supervisors. you need to know everything that is going on in the community and not everybody coming to you speaks for bayview hunters point. we will give you truth. what you have been receiving on not truth -- are not truths. they would receive truth because we have been here since 1943. i know my community. [applause] >> rhonda, you probably know the

statistics when it comes to hunters view. >> let me talk about compliance in general. every time i come down here, it is about compliance. israel, it is part of the history here -- israelit is reat is part of the history here. in terms of compliance, we have a lot of compliance year. -- here. most of this is in good faith. ahead ms. jackson, a number of folks in this room, they have been in the struggle a lot longer than me. the compliance of section 3 that has been referenced by a number of you, i work with dominica and the housing authority.

it is good faith, it is not a mandatory compliance. the first source is good faith. redevelopment policy is good faith. the new policy is mandatory, but a lot of these projects are not subjected to that. what good faith means is that we work hard getting folks ready, we spend a lot of money looking at -- there are a number of cbo's the receive those dollars to get the folks reheaready. we contacted out to help get the folks ready. to the degree that it is a perfect system, i get criticism on both sides of the i/o. i think it is a collective process to try to figure that out. hunter's view, i thinkw e have -- think we have some decent

numbers of there. it is impossible to get the folks to see that. we are working hard to figure that out. the three policies that have been on the books for a number of years have been the full faith federal requirements. there is no mandatory policy or mandatory goal. the local hiring policy that the city of san francisco is one of the only local mandatory policies on the books. it means that contractors are obligated to hire a percentage of folks by trade on those projects. that is not the case with section 3. it is not mandatory, miss jackson. >> [inaudible] >> miss jackson? >> [inaudible]

>> ok. >> the panelists will be here. >> we can talk about it all day long. there is the disconnect. this happens a lot here. another thing that might be helpful is to have those same folks that feel that it is mandatory in these meetings. to my knowledge, those are not mandatory. that is the way we monitor them. >> are there any other additional questions? we can hook up with miss robinson. >> [inaudible]

>> [inaudible] >> ok. thank you. i just want to responde to the question. previously, the establishment of the human rights commission was done by what we called chapter 12. you know that, that was about the employment of residence here in san francisco. we still have chapter 12b on the

books. however, 12b is the employment ordnance for the city -- ordinance for the city. as the administration changes and this government with a different government leaders, we were giving the responsibility to deal with only the employment and if there is a case of discrimination. you can come to our office if you feel your not treated fairly in these locations based on this regulation. you can come to the human rights commission and we will take your complaint. we will investigate that complaint and to make sure that your complaint is heard. our role has changed. our role has changed in government. we are only able to deal with the discrimination and of that.

we need you to come to the human rights commission meeting on the seventeenth. i would like for you to come and tell us again about it. if there are individuals with specific complaints or problems, please come to the eighth floor. we are out here at the bayview business center three times a month. we are here to hear your complaints, your problems, the concerns. we are trying to help you figure out the bureaucracy of all of these issues. and try to resolve them the best we can. our duties got reduced in some sense on chapter 12b. it was done by leadership in the mayor's office.

>> [inaudible] >> diane? i am available after the meeting. you and i can talk. you are a local business, and therefore you could not get a job placement. but we will take care of that after. i want to continue the meetings of the others can talk and we

can move on. i am around, i am not going anywhere. >> yolanda jones. >> i am yolanda jones, bayview resident for 51 years. i want to piggy back, but i will tell you new things. when my father, charlie walker, comes to every meeting, i said i am going to open my own business and i will get all of the certification that use a unique and i will try to get some work. i am certified -- transportation authority, redevelopment agency, everybody that you are supposed to be certified that you're black and out of this

community. you said one thing and. the disconnect from them in hunters point, yes. we have been lied to. i have been certified. i am on nine contracts. but only one of them started for me and it was 30 days and that was it. i am on * contracts but i have learned they have to find out when they start. if it goes to 2018 and you put me out on 2017, i will be out of business by then. the contracts mean nothing if i say i am black and from hunters point. if i am still living, if i am still employed, that i will have an opportunity to make