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.

one, two, three, five, four, three, two, one. >> yeah! [applause]

>> we're here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. we have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why don't we capture that to support the mission youths going to college that's

for the food for thought. we didn't have a signature font for our orientation that's a 40-year-old organization. mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual they've helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need i feel successful in life >> their core above emission and goal is in line with our values. the ferraris yes, we made 48 thousand >> they were on top of that it's a no-brainer for us. >> we're in and fifth year and be able to expand out and tonight is your ungrammatical truck food for thought. food truck for thought is an

opportunity to eat from a variety of different vendor that are supporting the mission graduates by coming and representing at the parks >> we're giving a prude of our to give people the opportunity to get an education. people come back and can you tell me and enjoy our food. all the vendor are xooment a portion of their precedes the money is going back in >> what's the best thing to do in terms of moving the needle for the folks we thought higher education is the tool to move young people. >> i'm also a college student i

go to berkley and 90 percent of our folks are staying in college that's 40 percent hire than the afternoon. >> i'm politically to clemdz and ucla. >> just knowing we're giving back to the community. >> especially the spanish speaking population it hits home. >> people get hungry why not eat and givelooks very liberal.

you know i am glad to come here today and i thought that i would introduce myself. >> and you can do that too, later thank you. >> and okay, is there any other public comment on items again, related to the business of the entertainment commission, not just to introduce yourself?

all right, seeing none i will close public comment. we will move on to item two which is the review and approval of the minutes from july, 15th, 2014, are there any changes, i do have one myself. i was present at that meeting and it was not commissioner hyde. >> is that true? >> it is true. >> july 15th. >> okay. >> and a piece of legislation

that was created, to cover the issues of two venues that were considered arcades that have the zoning issues, and so in that conversation, supervisors breed's office, sort of expands the legislation to also include the changes to how the police code, looks at mechanical amusement device and obviously

then, how we issue those. and there has been, and so it went to committee, and then, went out of committee in a really short time, like 24-hour period essentially and as a full board and in the committee, dramatic amount of changes and before i went on vacation, we had weeks and weeks of meetings of what we thought that the legislation was going to have and then the major in the committee and went right to the full board and so, they convinced the board members that this needs to slow down a bit and the changes that were kind of rushed through and needed more conversation and that did not work so well. but, as it was mentioned to the board, and so the second reading is of the september second and in the meantime, last friday we were able to meet with supervisor breed and

pretty much roll back to the original agreement so that we sfmgr, is going to be able to manage the mechanical devices via the limit. and at this point, and more than one. and so, there is one, and you can have it without a permit, but more than that, it will be permitted and they will be oversight and so that is the long and short of that. and hopefully in the interim between now and just recess and september, second which is the first full board meeting we will not have any more changes to the agreement that was made. and so cross your fingers on that. i wanted to just keep you up to date on the late night transportation and really, we sort of started to call it the late night and early morning transportation plan. we had one full as a mentioned before, one full task force meeting and we have had the working group meetings and we are working on a survey and by

and large, what this is, is a needs assessment that will then sort of yield a report at the end of the six months to the board of supervisors, pretty much to then, keep stepping forward, and in terms of what changes, you know, need to be made locally and then regionally. and so we have another meeting with the working group or the staff level tomorrow, and then, september tenth, i think, is the next task force meeting. and president tan is in the list, and above the working group and this body, you know, wants to move ideas forward through the president, you can do that. but, it is going well, and we are still on track and timely, it was just great. i stepped in with the ongoing project, and they will cover me

unless you have any questions, i don't have much else to tell you. again, i was out of town for quite some time. >> i have one question, on the mechanical amusement, does that impact us? >> it will, but at this point, again, based on agreement that we have, it will be a very small impact. >> okay. >> there is some part of the agreement is to wave some permit application fees but, the license fees are still going to be charged. and this is really the bulk of the ongoing income. >> do we get that money from the license? >> yeah, we get in quote from the busy air quotes for you and it is a general fund and we are a general fund department and yes we get credit for those operating expenses. >> thank you. >> so i will turn it over. >> and i just had one. >> sorry.

>> i just know that cohen's office was interested in becoming more involved in the late night and early morning transportation because she feels her neighborhood is really far impact. is there still time for us to have someone bring those concerns? >> yeah. >> i think absolutely. and ben is here, somewhere. >> yeah. >> and so, if we can note that, and then, there should be, yeah, i mean back from recess before the next meeting. so i don't see why that would be a problem. >> thanks. >> all right. >> you guys are all set. >> good evening commissioners. this past end of july, july 26, the san francisco marathon was held on a sunday. everything we want off without a hitch. a couple of small stages and dj