america has invested over $400 million and 27 projects to make this a better city. those investments have leveraged over 1.2 billion dollars, created $54 billion in jobs for people that live here. the bank supports the mayor's vision of building many more units in san francisco including 10,000 permanently affordable units, and we look forward to working on the preservation aspect of that plan also. i am personally happy and honored to serve on the mayor's task force and we work to innovate and build those 30,000 units. we are honored to work with amazing organizations like bridge housing and the many people here that built this housing and do the good work and fight the good fight so congratulations on building

these 60 wonderful homes, and i look forward to many, many more grand openings, and now i would like to invite and the reason why we built this housing wally gilbert to come and speak. [applause] >> thank you ari. good morning everyone. i am really so honored to be here with you this morning. my name is loli gilbert and live here. i am a certified nursing assistant or a cna. i am self employed and i also work on call duty with the clients. most of my patients are older people who have

dementia. i totally appreciate working with seniors because they have so much wisdom. a year ago i lost my husband to cancer. before that we were living a block away from here in a room or a shared place with a friend. i kept praying for a place of my own where i could enjoy some peace and quiet and privacy. when i had opportunity to move in this building it was an answered prayer. i went to the door of my new apartment for the first time and i had ashes of my husband. i cried and i cried, but they were tears of

joy. everything is here. i can walk to all the places i want to go to, to the church, to the farmers market, and to the main library. thank you for everything you have done to make this happen. this is the best place i ever lived. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you loli for your account. it really makes our job so much more meaningful hearing stories like yours. good morning. i am project manager at bridge housing.

thank you for taking time today to celebrate the successful completion of the beautiful development. this development has been a painstaking labor of love for bridge, the mayor's office of housing and icii and the team of architects, engineers and contractors and consultants who stuck with the project against all odds. i would like to thank several people who have worked tirelessly over the past seven years to get us to this milestone. i want to congratulate my core team members, mimi, code and chris hunter and richard stacy and staff with stacy architects and our general contractors. thank you so much for your hard work

and unflinching commitment. i want to add a special note of thanks to bill moffit who is in the back and the construction manager. this was a challenge and we couldn't have done it without your guidance and perseverance. thank you very much. i would like to thank the constructional engineers and our landscape architects. [inaudible] and casey moore with waterproofing consultants, [inaudible] with applied materials engineering, [inaudible] engineers charles and associates, treadwell [inaudible] and luke and associates. thanks to several of the project engineers and consultants our auditors and attorneys, many who are listed on the acknowledgment card in the program handout. i want to thank lynn for assisting in the process and the art work and

catherine wagner for the creation that compliments the exterior facade and thank you for helping to achieve green certification. we really appreciate mayor lee and his staff and [inaudible] at ocii for providing financial support and assistance and thank members of the south of market project advisory committee and the san francisco planning commission for their support and thank others and our lender bank of america and thank you to the committees for providing tax credits and bond allocations to the project. thank you to the bridge property management and our finance and accounting department and a big shout out to our marketing team ellen and lynn for putting a wonderful event together. i would like

to thank cynthia and others and the leadership team at bridge for their support and guidance and last but not least i want to extend a special note of appreciation to the staff and there are others on the list that were critical to the development. i would like to thank all of you for your efforts. i would now like to invite supervisor jane kim to say a few words. thank you. [applause] >> if you department think it took a village to build this i think she did an excellent job listing the actors and players that were involved in building the affordable housing in this neighborhood. i live half a block away so i could see all of

the construction happening and was so excited about this going up. a couple months ago a number of our residents on mid-market were afraid of getting evicted from their units and they came to our office and one of them that did work with us in the tenderloin said i really need to find other housing. every night i am anxious i don't have a place to live if he raises the rent or evicts me so we et cetera canned him with an organization and. >> >> and a couple of months later he came by and said he wanted housing here and he came by my house and cried "i didn't know what it was like to have a real home." these are the personal stories of why we do the work that we do and getting paid less

so we can get projects like this to the residents of san francisco. i met another woman that grew up like loli and lived in the neighborhood and went to betsy carmichael before it was the actual school and wanted housing here also and how amazing is that that residents that live in the south of market their whole life are able to find equitable homes they can call their own and i can't wait for the hotel to go up next director lee. project that we have talked much about. we all know how important affordable housing is here in the city. i came out of chinatown community development center, another organization that helps to build affordable housing but also building healthy and complete neighborhoods. it's more than just housing that makes a community healthy, safer and stronger. this is one

component in it along with the nonprofits that provide the services to our residents when they are in place. but it is also my honor to work with a mayor that had made affordable housing his top policy priority. maybe some of the mayors will argue about who has done more for affordable housing but i think we can all safely say this is our only mayor that has authentic and meaningful relationship to affordable housing units actual work experience before he came an official and working in chinatown and with residents and as an attorney helping low income residents. that experience is imcomparable to just saying this is your priority. you have worked with the people that you know will benefit from it and you have lived in affordable public housing and it is my honor then to introduce our mayor, mayor ed

lee. [applause] thank you and thank you to bridge housing for your tremendous work. [applause] >> well supervisor kim thank you very much for that introduction. i'm going to join with all the of the comments and certainly acknowledge our long lasting partner bridge housing that you're going to hear more of. they're helping me rebuild public housing as we speak and reinvision with us. i want to also say in light of supervisor kim's comment about my work previously i have also been a customer of bank of america for 50 years so it's great to see that pay back for the interest. [laughter] -- really good --. i am over joyed to be here to join loli and the residents that will be here in their new homes. we

understand the struggles that people have in the city. it is incredibly expensive and it's also we're faced with many other pressure points that cause people to live in some level of concern and fear whether they can be here in the city, whether their jobs will be there for them or the residences and i join with supervisor kim in acknowledging the level of anxiety that exists in the city, and that's why i have to make sure that the city family of agencies from ocii and the great leaders and the commissioners are working closely with dbi and the house -- office of housing and the incredible resources and niby

brothers and working with the office of engineers to the office of disabilities to make sure they're for the residents here and only when they feel comfortable is our job to rest for a minute but we're not resting. i think today is both a celebration but yet another call to action just like last november under construction when we announced our aggressive goal of 30,000 units and 33% affordable but also over 50% of the housing we're going to build will be reachable with work force that are here that are also feeling a lot of pressure as well. we've got to build more housing and we've got to do it more aggressively and when you look at the numbers here and all of the complicated things we put together whether tax increments, using the ocii's

abilities, using acquisition in a creative way working with financial partners you will discover it's incredibly expensive to build affordable housing. you do the math and how are we going to get to the other units for the other thousands of people that are waiting like loli had waited for years to get in and feel more comfortable in this city. it is not only the pressure points in d6. it's all over the city and we need to produce better and faster so we're going to challenge ourselves. olson you're on the front line for that but you have friends and tom and i and others and ocii have a lot of history to build on but we have to ask ourselves how can we build faster, do more, and build it in the lifetimes and career times that people have so they feel the city is for them as well? so we are and i am saying "we" as

the supervisor and i wrestle with not just goals of the city but practically how to do it utilizing the strengths of the economy, the people building market rate housing, how they can contribute more. i suggest that office builders need to understand their link to housing as well, so that they're not just building office buildings or just building market rate units. they all contribute along with the city to make sure we're all contributing to the building of long lasting sustainable beautifully designed affordable housing like this is. this is yet another call to action and therefore i will always arrive early on these openings where we're handing keys out and celebrating people here because we have an agenda that is a real agenda in the city, and you will read about the struggles that we will have to try to get there. it is my job to make sure that nothing

disturbing the resources that we need to build and build faster. we will have things that might distract us, but we will always come to the ultimate conclusion what does it take to build to preserve affordable housing, to build more of it and all the other things that allow people to be successful in this city? i want this city to be for the 100% and i know that they're going to be price points that price people out of the city. that's why we have to be aggressive in our affordable housing. i need all of you to commit yourself in celebrating this let's do more, be faster and more creative and more risks in this area. that's why we put $96 million in the two year budget to take more risks. we have the ability to do it and do

it faster. let's keep working together so more loli's can feel great about the city it is a great city and i am so proud to be the mayor of it. thank you very much. [applause] >> please join us now for the ribbon cutting follow by refreshments on the ninth floor.

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[applause] much. >> good afternoon. i'm supervisor yee representing district that. i want to thank you all for being here today, we're here today unified for children and

families yes (clapping) we are honored to have not only mayor ed lee but assembly member tom who is on his way to join us today. thank you. (clapping.) this is a special day for san francisco children we'll be introducing the final version off our legislation the children and families first initiative today at the board of supervisors meeting the final result was much, much input. from mire colleagues and from mayor lee's office the reward for working together is a strong, strong piece of legislation supported by not only by me but all 11 members of the board of supervisors and

mayor ed lee. (clapping.) san francisco's population totaled children population is approximately one hundred and 9 thousand children. 56 thousands of those attend our publics schools there's about 35 thousand children between the age of zero and 5. this is why we're asking voters to support the children and families initiative which brings amendments to our city chart of four elements number one reorientation of our children and family fund passed in 1991 and 2001. two the reauthorization the fund for the enrichment passed in 2004 one of those dates.

number 3 modification of the rainy day reserves to become two see reserves and we will have baegs that that number 4 asking for the creation of the family council shared by mayor ed lee and superintendant. we have several goals to consider. strengthening the existing children's fund and the public education enrichment fund and flrsdz resources and allow for more flexibility toe meet additional children and you and increased efficiency and provided better oversight. and highlights of the children and families initiative includes many things the creation of the children and families land that

puts children first in providing city services and infrastructure including housing and number 2 the creation of the community advisory committee for the office of early chair and education and 3 the creation of the oversight and advisory committee for the department of children youth and their families and number 4 allow for original free school for all children serving children zoo to 5 with priority on the four years old and expanding the definition of transitsal age youth. number of increasing the set aside for children's services by 33.3 percent over a four-year period. number 7 increasing the amount of fund to our public schools by at least 6 million and 8 rainy

day rules that provides san francisco school district to allow the district to have oethd for this allocation. the children between zero and 18 in san francisco is only 18.4 percent of our population making it the lowest in the united states. the city must do better for your children and families this legislation will get us closer to doing a better job. first, i want to bring up mayor ed lee to kickoff today's program i'd like to visit him up and thank you for being here today to support this crucial measure mayor ed lee >> thank you supervisor yee. hello even e everybody happy summer in san francisco.

this is to introduce something that the board has been working on and soberly supervisor yee and city leaders a lot of family and neighborhood advocates people that have been working on this for a very, very long time and you tell result is we say a united front in the city it's children and families first in the november ballot and thanks to the entire board amazing voting their work is reflected in the hard work our offices do together to have a shared policy agenda for the entire city focused on our children, our youth and families. you know, we have one of the best public schools systems in the nation thanks to this incredible school board and the staff we have and we've been making record nichlts north e

never letting the episodes that the state or national government effect us two negatively but we've attempted to recover that's why we have one of the best schools not only in the classroom what happens before and after that's with the families and in our neighborhood. and that's both of these incredible sources has come together to support but the backdrop of a school that's improving and, in fact, not only do we enjoy record niechlts from the city but the private investments for the foundations that are putting their money together like the benny harassing foundation with their contributions to the middle school initiative but it climates all the foundations that are working with us they

believe that early education and sustained support at the school system will help all the families improve and give the skills we need for the 21st century. this children and families first initiative brings together the children's fund and the public enrichment fund those are incredible fund and need to be renewed but we have not only renewed them in this initiative we've adding for conflict of interests and creating accountability we've heard parents throughout the city they've never heard a lot of our programs they don't know where to enroll we want them to be provided with all the contributions that our city has been given but all the great programs and want to make sure that all the families that

deserve our support get it in a way in which to in fact, and here heard from parent to have a more efficient system and let's not have me find out when my kids are in the teens there are so many great programs we've got to get a system that i think this is reflected in this initiative to have families analyst it easier and to increase it at the time not only when the city is plentiful but when the city wants to enjoy more investments and i'm happy to join the entire board of supervisors the elected officials and tom who started a lot of this back in the days when he was supervisor i give

him credit along with applicant working together they're pushing hard to make sure we have the best programs and we have the opportunity to have this conversation with the public this november. we're going to have the best children enrichment programs in the world here in san francisco. raids our families here and get our kids in the public schools? going to be the best city for the families here >> thank you, mayor ed lee he did a pretty good job introducing assembly speaker tom he's also going to be considered an educator and the only reason we're talking re30 years anything is because of tom. thank you very much (clapping.) very kind words this is so cool

i was going to photo bomb the mayor we'll wait on this. i was talking to commissioner 1915 (i) state plan hcbc about 24 or 25 years ago this women and men came in and presented this no idea and i said well, i like it i've taught school i say this was many, many deficiency on resources so sometimes under the reagan bush years they'll take all the money away from the school district and have a skeleton crew but we needed to prioritize well kids are worth it we've got push back you, you know, it's a carve out but to me it was a compensation for all the years there were no money nor education and