to be done today, we celebrate the completion of one hundred and 7 homes and tomorrow we celebrate asian pacific islander list griffin and after that sunny value and the katrero hill. i want to thank the mayor for the investment in the community - itself up here i'm sorry. i want to thank leader pelosi for her devotion to san francisco to john stewart and the housing corporation none of this would be possible and tiffany with the infrastructure as well as the commissioners, thank you. again, i want to thank entrepreneurs community partners and the san francisco foundation and welcome back our brother fred blackwell and director olsen lee. and also want to recognize the

executive director of the housing authority barbara taylor smith. thank you barbara i know you've had quite a year and at least i want to thank the hunter's view residents thank you so much for being patient. and recognize the hunter tenants association and as we help our people with walk it's a new organization that's been be born out of the entire process. to our housing authority and commissioners thank you very much for your services and mothers against crime we wouldn't be her without you and uplift our educational macomb x institution and we wouldn't be here for the leadership of then

mayor gavin newsom and my predecessor between the two of them i also want to welcome the secretary back to san francisco thank you for being here. and thank you, everyone (clapping.) as we've heard so far take the village i was to invite our next village person secretary thank you. now we'll do the ymca. so good morning to you all. thank you congresswoman and supervisors and mayor and residents for the invitation to celebrate this grand opening. i bri bring you greetings from

governor jerry brown we're a part and champion of hunter's view what you see was financed through public-private partnerships which combine government resources and private financing to facilitate the construction of new affordable housing >> market rate housing using initiative design material. in collaboration with the community members the residents of hunters view the city of san francisco they created a vision to have parks and playgrounds a teen center and computer learn center and childcare center and everything we wish for. california's investment in the project totals $50 million this includes two multiple housing

program loans for phase one and two we'll be back for phase two and the information infrastructure grant that helps to support the infrastructure that includes the replacement and up grad of on entire utility system and reconfiguration of the streets and open space that's a fundamental understanding you need to redo what wasn't done well or outdated are. that was the vision of the residents so say this is what created the opportunity for all of us to come together and deliver the pieces that made the project financially possible. but the neighborhood would not be here today without the financial support and participation of each of the

partners. it took a community to incision the project. in conclusion, i want to take a moment to introduce the staff. north america define ford and another lee mr. mayor. jean and ken holder all over there (clapping.) congratulation to the residents and the financial institution and other for your commitment to this project. thank you (clapping.) all right. as we continue with the program you know hunter's view represents our annual program we have other will sf sites we couldn't do that

without our financial parpdz i'd like to introduce richard from city capital >> thank you very much. congresswoman and supervisor cowen and other. it is a everyone here knows about this project but i can tell you around the city and country people are not familiar with that every time i tell people i'm coming to hunter's view i got a love of eyebrows but the cab driver who dpropd me off thinks this is incredible and i want to add my congratulations to the city and state and good friends of jon stewart and i want to thank mine

staff brian who unfortunately wouldn't be her today. but most importantly i want to congratulate the resident of hunters view i know from the past of cutting ribbons how important and life changing a project like this can be public utilities i'm sure i've been reading a lot of stories and hearing about the high cost of housing in the united states particle san francisco i think the new york times talked about this there's no deity. i have less support from the government because of budget we finance projects all over the united states and there isn't a city in the united states that don't more to help residence particularly in the protecting

than the city and county of san francisco. you have a lot to be proud of you want to congratulate you for a fantastic project and thank you for inviting me here today. >> you all doing all right. the next speakers with one of our partners in crime he and i worked tireless also ferry the sf project i'd like to invite rich from the enterprise partners to join us >> thank you honestly i'm not sure which view is better i'm glazing at the city and turnout and s see this magnitude project. one the drawbacks of being the

last speakers is everything has been said but there are definitely some clear themes that are important here and it's throughout the speakers and the history of hope sf about that keeping projects and that's been said a second one is patients. and while the residents shouldn't need to have pains that's one of the keystones of hope sf we can joke at enterprise the shirts are more expensive than we can image. one of the things a theme through all of this is tromg lives. we have some of the worse housing in the country her and

some of the most isolated families and seniors we must take responsibility in san francisco. another theme that's important is about government could go what government does best and i want to say that clearly mayor ed lee has lead this initiative speaking pelosi has led the federal government. we've had help in every level of government that's critical it proves what government can do and should be doing. that's exciting the other pieces that's important it be a private and public commitment. someone said it takes a village and while a lot of people say that it takes a entire city my country. i'm wearing 3 hats my enterprise

hat and the campaign for sf which we started and had a key partner to bring in the philanthropy because it takes a city to do this we bring in local and national fountains and there were 3 initial groups that came into the campaign early and said i get is the san francisco foundation is one and the bank of america is the third one they understood this is a community and the idea of patience this is going up to take a long time. in the important. to see that enterprise calls this the most important initiative in san francisco and actually i've said enterprise

we're a national organizations but we look forward not only housing but transforming lives and community. we've expanded in the bay area because of the hope. and the investor we're the investors for bank of america and let me say they took a big risk you had to have a sense of vision to look at what was here before to see that cross the street and say we're in this and we believe the mayor and we believe the city government and that's really important. so i want to thank everyone involved for allowing enterprise and the campaign to be a piece of this and congratulate jon stewart and rich they've stuck through this like no one can 33 and i understand how incredibly

difficult projects like this are congratulations and thank you for allowing us to be part of this (clapping.) so all morning long you've heard folks it talk about why we're here i represent those folks in the community so why don't we hear from one of the residents, please come to the stage >> man god is good. so my name is p j i'm the member of the host and activities committee i'm also a hunters view pier leader and a a long time resident. i did live in hunters view and on the 26 of this month i'm in a new location.

i thank you mayor ed lee and nancy pelosi and i want to thank you guys and the city and county of san francisco. i am looking forward to having new memories with my families and i'm sure you are too. change it coming if you're not ready for the change get with the program it's coming so everybody needs to get with it. another group i want to thank is the ymca they've been doing nothing but helping our residents in transferring to the other locations. thank you to hope and activities activities thank you so much for the work you've done federal or state for the community.

it's funny that nancy pelosi brought ate unit i didn't. and it's going to happen i'm not sure saying every is perfect but not anything that can be changed in the near future. thank you all the residents i love my new place i hope you love yours. from my living room it's the best have you up in hunter's view. thank you so much (clapping.) i'm so sorry for our last speaking that has to follow that. however, i would like to introduce our mr. jon stewart. oh, my god see you all i need to look at the program.

indeed. so jack garden is going to come up here and talk about this from the jon stewart company (clapping.) well, that's what you get when you work for a company that's named after a man they call all of us jon stewart all the time and it was producing for me when someone called him jack. let's rearrange the next time for speakers thank you ymca so i'm honored to be able to say i was one of the village people with the leader the speaking and mayor and bust a circled move on behalf of everybody up here. thanks to mechanic and thanks to the mayor and commissioner torres and nancy pelosi and all

the previous speakers for their comments and support it's hard to revoke all the supporters we're very honored to have the housing authority and commissioners and former ocii commissioners the director of planning and so many help us celebrate the grand opening of the new hunter's view. phase one we're celebrating here today one hundred and 7 brand new units is 14 percent of new unit that are going to be developed and hunters view. just this week i signed the contract to begin the infrastructure next door another one hundred and 7 toward the project. block 10 which is is a 72 more

units that includes childcare and resident library and more social serve spice a mining that any park almost 40 percent of the new hunters view is complete under construction or well on it's ways to fruition so give it up. those are all affordable units all 2 hundred plus, it's a testimonial to the cities commitment to put the resident first but fast tracking the old replacement of the eyewitnesses united and get the folks into their new units as quickly as possible as you can see from the long partners program this is truly a group effort and long labor of love. which is the way it needed to

be. as president johnson said on the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 the only success worst having a success chufd together. we got this done the only way it could get down together. so thank you. again to our elected officials for their vision and listener. thank you to our furnished for their flexibility and money. thank you to our architect dan and paulette and contractors our subcontractors the many participatpartners thank you, john i didn't lee and andrew and rich nonprofit larry

and cassandra and other board members i want to recognition thank you to everybody at our jon stewart company especially john and our senior vice presidents and regional director and vice president especially vice president of demonstrate margaret miller all of whom (clapping) for both also choosing optimistic the court: thank you. p j and all the residents for hanging in there with us and they're ongoing support and for their faith that we could get this and future phases of hunters view

done. so, please join us after the ceremony for refreshments and tours up in our beautiful community room and thank you all of you for be able her and to quote the mayor welcome to the new hunter's view (clapping) thank you >> all right. a that's a wrap you all. do visit the facilities i want to personally thank margaret miller for the organization of this lovely event. thank you all for joining us f

just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor

agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything

supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we

origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate

about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to

share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're

capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and

vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's trulyroll callk >> item to primitive permits for march 25, 2014 meeting. >> so moved >> 2nd on favor say aye the minutes are approved. >> item 3 public comment and question. >> public almonds seeing none, bubble, and is closed >> item for executive session.