they started responding with good leadership and today we're proud to say that ycd has been named one of the non profit, the best non profit 2014 of the non profit times for this year. isn't that an accomplishment right here? [applause] ranked nationally it's number went. on an overall on a list of non profits, ranked number four in the small non profit category. they grew in the past few years from a staff of nine to 25 members. they're still there. getting all these jobs, a great strong partner with our summer jobs, now year round jobs for our youth and they are right in the center of our employment services, particularly when putting skills out there and training people to get new jobs, new economy, advanced manufacturing, the

transportation jobs, the housing jobs, construction jobs. even helping us place folks into the healthcare industry, which is our number one explosive employment sector in the city. i know everyone in the community would love to have an attachment to healthcare, hospitality, construction and now local manufacturing. this is all the work ycd has been doing. i'm proud to welcome the director and great partner for this housing project, shaman walton and our elected school board officials as well. >> i want to thank everybody for coming out. want to thank you mayor lee for your leadership, and also for your continued presence in this community. we have a lot of work coming to bay view and a lot of work coming on in bay view hunters

point and we can always count on you to show your support. i want to acknowledge ycd's board of directors, our board president is here. [applause] so churches, homes, businesses an schools are built on faith and this lot 49 is a recognition of the nait faith we have in the community here in bay view hunters point and the faith that the city, the community, all of us trust in terms of what this shipyard could be. we're excited about the community participation on this project, all the way with the beginning of the design on the project to the construction of the project to eventually making sure we have members of this community living and residing in units here on block 49.

it's been exciting to work with mcal,ocii to make sure our folks and members of this community get to work on this project as we build these units here. ycd as an anchor institution is looking forward to seeing children running around in this community, see families using the family space, people promoting bay view as one of the premier places to live in san francisco. our community partners, everyone that we worked with and worked hard for to see things like this happen, we have just begun and there's much more work to do. young community developers has been did kated for more than 40 years to make sure members of this community can go to

work and really remain economically self sufficient. block #49d 49 is a part of that continuation, it's going to be exciting to see that families don't have to be displaced, but families have opportunity to move to other areas of their community and for affordable housing, if you look around you,we're not just saying it's affordable housing, but it's housing you can be proud of, happy to reside in. so we're looking very forward to the continued construction on this project, with seeing everything on to the end and making sure that the community is working and living here. we appreciate everyone's support. thank you all for coming out. now i have the pleasure of introducing mr. percy who has three decades of experience in multifamily units and construction. he's transformed am cal into

one of industry's leading developers, but developing 800 million residential and mixed use productions for california. he's part of an organization dedicated to advancing affording housing. >> we've been doing affordable housing since 1995 and been developing real estate in california since 1988. we've developed in 38 cities, but what makes this really special is this is our first project in san francisco. my heart's always been here, but there's never had the

opportunity to do it and so for that i want to thank craig adelman who helped us acquire the site. [applause] and i want to thank obviously mayor lee and the city of san francisco and ocii, other community developers, bank of america whom we are partnered with on multiple transactions throughout the state and of course leonard bourbon who without we would not be here. we are looking forward to hopefully doing more of this. as we all knoll there's a lot of need, very critical need and we only going to make a small dent in this and i don't think the affordable housing shortage is going to be solved or even getting close to being solved in our lifetime so we're grateful for the opportunity, glad to be here. this building is going to be

ready. hopefully we'll have the mayor here for the grand opening in june of 2016 and with that, i wanted to acknowledge a lot of the people in am cal that worked on this project. robert barta, the project manager; louis ramirez, executive vice president and many other folks working hard in our office in la. i'd like to now introduce la shawn walker, she's the director of public affairs. she's a native san francisco citizen and resident of bay view. she's the former resident of bay view merchants and the community implementation committee chair. please welcome la shawn walker. >> good afternoon. what he said about me is i'm

also a lowel graduate. i needed to throw that in. you've heard obviously from our mayor and mr. walker and other speakers, about the importance of these 60 units of housing. but i'd like to just flesh it out a bit more. this is our first development of rental housing, which i think is very significant. our inclusionary program has already started on the blocks that are already in construction. 80% of ami or below for our for-sale housing that's currently under construction. but having a rental project is very significant. as you've heard already in terms of the need for a variety of housing types for people in this community. and so i just wanted to

stress the fact and the importance of this particular block. the mayor alluded to our work force goal of 50% of local hire, but we're doing amazing things so i wanted to just spend a couple minutes to say more about that. we're not just building housing for the community, but with the community. we right now have an average of 45% of our work force hours are san francisco residents. that's not the goal, that's what's happening right now today. we have in our sbe participation right now we have 46%. sbe participation in our housing construction we have 73% sbe for our infrastructure and we have 75% for or

professional services. i think that deserves a round of applause. [applause] so with all of the affording housing that is going up in the community right now, including this block and other projects that are not even our projects, we have an average of 63% of all the housing going up in the community right now is affording housing. i think that too deserves a round of applause. [applause] it isn't just about the statistics, it's about what's behind them. so you heard about these partnerships and how important they are, but as someone who lives in the community and works for the community, it's really critical. as i look out, all of you are very committed to the creation, the construction of,

the financing for. thank all of you as well. now, i have the privilege of introducing the director of ocii, as she says, the artist formerly known as -- ms. bohi managed hunters point shipyard development project, aimed at producing economic growth, affordable housing in san francisco so she's been a great partner for us. her track record of negotiating and implementing complex projects includes mission bay and planning and development affording housing throughout hunters point, western edition, south of market and the recon point south beach area of the city. in 2012 ms. bohi receive add

certificate of honor from mayor lee for outstanding service to the community. we thank her and i welcome tiffany bohi. [applause] >> thank you so much. appreciate the introduction. it goes without saying we owe thanks to our mayor, mayor ed lee, for his innovation and leadership that carries through to the stewards overseeing this development, our commissioners, our president, we wouldn't be here without their innovation, their leadership and their constant drive to make sure we hit our numbers which matter and deliver for the people of san francisco. we're certainly here today celebrating the ground breaking of pacific point, which is truly an innovative public private partnership in that it will deliver much needed housing for san francisco citizens.

ocii is thrilled to partner with am cal. we're glad to be your first project here in san francisco and of course ycd, thank you so much shaman, percy and rob for your hard work in delivering these 60 units of affordable housing. just to put a fine point on that, because it does matter, these homes will house families making up to 50% of area median income. for a family of four that means earning about $48,000. they'll be able to access these homes. these new homes are being built on public land so they will be permanently affordable. much, much needed. the residents at pacific point are a part of a larger development here in candlestick.

lenar has provided all the funding and that vision stems from the mayor. our partner lenar has broken ground on five residential projects, delivering over 280 homes here at the shipyard. , a third of which, right now will be permanently affordable. these residential projects are just the start. once complete there will be over 12,000 housing units and a third of all those will be permanently affordable as below market rate. and as you've heard, these homes are being built for the community, by the community. i want to commend the efforts of lenar, ycd, city built and am cal for showing how it's done. i do want to thank the cac for their lead irship and hard

work on this. you've heard before that they never get thanked, the staff on the ground, pam simms, the entire shipyard team. [applause] i want to give a shout out to olson lee. he's been involved with the shipyard for decades now. it's important to acknowledge his contributions and we're pleased to be bringing this to you today. now i'm getting to the construction [inaudible]. it's our privilege and we've partnered a great deal on a number of affordable projekts and that's where charmane comes in. of course as you know, community development banking is dedicated to lending and

investing in low and moderate income communities. that's all they do. they focus on increasing the supply of affordable housing for renters and homeowners, small businesses and providing economic development in stressed and underserved communities. she brings 34 years to real estate with the last 20 years focused on affordable housing and economic development. please join me in welcoming charmane atherton. [applause] >> thank you so much. good morning everyone. this is a great day. a really great day. we have heard about collaboration and partnerships and that is exactly what this requires when you're doing

something that's meaningful, that's creating affordable housing for communities. now, public private partnerships are important, that's the three ps, but the fourth p, persistence is what really makes the day and there's been a long time coming to get where we are here today. relationships are key and you've heard a lot about that. i'm very proud to say that i think -- i don't know if i did your first deal percy, but i've been doing transactions with am cal since '94, '95 when they began in the affordable housing arena. they're good at what they do. they deliver on the promise and that's the other consistent theme that you hear

here today, delivering as promised. [applause] without them $20.4 million of construction lending, i think 15, $16 million of tax credit equity in there for the long haul and we're a permanent lender on this one as well so we're on every side of it and we couldn't be more proud and just happy, happy, happy to be here today. and now i'm going to introduce a very important person, the connection to the community and i'll tell you, these things don't happen without

that. so i'm going to tell you a little bit about doctor veronica honeycut and the hunters point shipyard citizen advisory committee which was established back in 1993 and that was in an effort to increase community participation in advising the agency and city on matters related to this hunters point shipyard redevelopment. the hunters point shipyard citizen advisory committee is a group of san francisco residents and business owners who are selected by the mayor to oversee the redevelopment process. the cac holds monthly community meetings and workshops. they promote principles of environment, economic development and job training. please welcome to the podium,

doctor veronica honeycut. [applause] >> thank you very much for those kinds remarks and i'm bringing warm real guards to all of you from the members of the citizen's advisory committee. some of the members of this committee have been on the committee for almost 20 years and it is always so good for us to be a part of projects like this, the block 49 project. this is a culmination of all those years of hard work, lobbying people, listening to the community, making sure that the interests of the community were folding into mayor lee and his staff so that everybody could be happy about forward movement with these projects.

i am very delighted and i want to make sure this gentleman is recognized today. kevin i'd like you and your staff to stand, all those wonderful people who led -- [applause] -- thank you, all of them, who led the block 49 [inaudible]. people from the community came in and talked about this project. they talked about their anxieties, they gave feedback about project and i want to thank you too shaman because you were an instrumental part of that, but what's wonderful about all this, and these people who are standing, and you can sit down now -- these wonderful people listened and folded in the ideas to this project. it wasn't this -- you know, whatever.

it was, that's a good idea. let's see how we can incorporate that. i think once this is all built out and you see the cull rture ral narrative and artifacts piece to this project, i think you eel be pleased. there's a connection to the community with block 49. i wanted them to be acknowledged and we thank you for that. i'm also here to applaud our always on point, mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] and the things that mayor lee talked about, the meeting the local hiring goals, that's near and deer to the cac. we like to make sure folks from our community are employed in various capacity on projects in the shipyard. the unemployment rate, the employment rate, that's marvelous. more jobs, we're glad to see that our friends in the community are being hired for these jobs and we are always

happy when we see ycd add to their powerful arsenal of skills that they bring to this community. most of us rely on ycd in one way or another to make sure our folks are being taken care of. i also want to applaud our wonderful people at ocii and our commissioners. i've always said there's no one quite like the executive director of lenar urban. she's at the forefront of some wonderful activities. and of course our banking partner, we're always happy when they have some money. we're very grateful to you as well. we move forward building out this project, moving the entire shipyard to fruition and i want to thank the

community, and you know who you are. nose of you who call me or other members of the cac and say look, veronica, this is not going right, thank you. because then we are able to share that information who are responsible for making things better for all of us. i have the distinct pleasure of introducing a marvelous young woman who put together this event, by the way. bridgette is a small business owner and a commissioner who sits on the southeast community [inaudible] here in san francisco. at this time she will acknowledge invited guests. thank you. [applause] >> thank you doctor honeycut. all of the [inaudible] have done a very good job at acknowledging all the people to make this possible, but i would also like to give a special shout out to the ocii

exhibitioner. er commissioner. we appreciate all your hard work on this project. also the ocii staff that's present. the representatives that may be in the audience, young community developers staff and board members -- can you please stand? [applause] i am personally so very proud of the organization. also am cal representatives and a special shout out to robert baca who this could not have been possible. the mayor's office of housing, bank of america representatives, thank you very much for all the hard work you do. all the lenar representatives. also mike goreman, mr. sanchez and the k hill representative that are here today. the bay view stakeholders at bay view hunters point. without you this could not

happen. and last but not least, it is very important that we hire small businesses throughout the community. last but not least, what we're going to do now is actually going to ask all the persons to follow bj. bj, come on up. you're going to take your hard hats, you'll proceed to the golden shovel and we'll take our picture. thank you all for coming in. as soon as that's over there is food for you to partake. thank you very much. [music]

>> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned.

you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you

build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be? it is the relationship that you have committed to. it is the vocation. no matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. whether it is a large scale or very small scale. the need to create is going to

happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. >> good morning, today is november 25, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the transportation authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for