>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled

with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all

week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing

for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. today we are going to talk

about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what

we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect

example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered

and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a

non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine.

>> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> my name is robert baca, i'm the development manager for block 49. i'm excited to be here and start construction as we've been starting construction for the last three weeks. the biggest thing for me today is we're a year-and-a-half for 60 families for having brand

new affordable hopes. something about that really excites me. i can't 'em , emphasize how much collaboration won't into this. we have a great group of speakers today, but i want to make a quick story about why this project is so special to me. i lived in san francisco for a long time, i went to school at san francisco state so i've been involved in this community for a very long time. being part of this project means a lot to me. i'd like to thank the mayor, his office, oci, the commissioners, the citizens, advisory committee, bank of america, david baker architects, kale contractors and every single consultant in my development team. i want to thank bridgette for putting this event together

on such short notice. this is a really good event. the one thing that fascinates me about real estate development is that it's one of the few industries that requires such a large amount of collaboration and team work. you can't find the industries that require this level of collaboration and i like to compare real estate development to team sports. i know you're probably tired of this comparison, but instead of doing a 45 minute lecture on how real estate development is a team sport, i want to compare my team to 2012 49ers. you could call me collin kapernick. i want to give a special thanks to pam simms. [applause] i want to give a special

thanks to shaman waldon. these are the people i've worked with the most and i'm sure they are very happy they don't have to hear from me every single day like they were for a long time. so i'm grateful for everybody. there's not enough time for me to thank everybody individually. i'm excited to get this completed and the families moved in. now we're to the good part of the program. i want to introduce a special guest. this man was my mayor for several years so i've had the opportunity to learn a lot about hip. he's a great mayor and dedicated to affordability housing in san francisco. i want to introduce mayor edwin lee. [applause] thank you very much for that -- i like these construction hats. it means we're getting things

done. morning! >> morning. >> welcome to the bay view, as always. this is a good time for the still. it's a good time to get together with friends. it's a good time to get together with community, to celebrate, but also, as always, to get road work done for our residents. i'm out here again, as i've said over and over again, i hate making new promises. phase one's about ole promises. i want to thank the commissioner for helping me keep that promise. this is the promise to build 60 units of 100% affording housing for this community. this is a great holiday story and -- [applause] yes, be proud of ourselves and of the city working together getting that done, and while we're doing i want we're doing it the right way with good companies, good sub contractors, good people that

utilize the talent of this community already. 30% of the work force is from bay view and 50% san francisco residents to help build this housing. not only is it a good goal that we look forward to opening in 2016, we're doing it in a fashion in which local residents get these jobs. it is all about the jobs. i can see that in the eyes of the gentlemen standing back there. you're not going barbecuing, you're working. this community is invaluable to our city and now as people get down here more and more often to take a look at the homes opening up here, the communities that we're building, the partnerships we have with entities like am cal and ycd and the people working are going to feel more and more where has bay view been?

where have i been to not recognize bay view and i think you'll see a huge surge of people who want to live here so those of you who own and rent here, hold on to your properties. make sure your do the right investments and take care of yourselves. when we do expand more and more attention to this area you'll find more and more people naturally inclined to live here. there was a promise you'd never been isolated from our city. residents do deserve to be hooked up, connected up, being part of the city and this has always been about one of the major reasons why i took up the challenge to become the mayor of this city and i will continue doing that for all our communities because this is what not only makes me feel good this is the right thing to do, carry out promises that have been made over many, many years and be assuring that those things are done. so i want, again, thank all the agencies. i'm excited for this project

to happen. we break open this ground. i am in great anticipation. i'm not sure i can wait until 2016 for these homes to open. meanwhile, we'll probably be opening up construction projects to advance and accelerate. tomorrow you'll hear more about howard doing it across the city to build more affordable housing. this is the theme. my administration is the affordability agenda. i'm going to be talking about it until everybody is sick and tired because you were sick and tired of me talking about jobs, job, jobs. well, guess what, we got 7,000 kids jobs as a result. we got 4.3 unemployment. i want the benefits of that economic strength to reach everybody in the city everyone including the bay view. this is what we get to do

with additional revenues build more housing, gets more kids, more people employed, allow them to experience the wonder of earning their way forward. and then we can work in collaboration with getting even better leadership and that's what i'm talking about when i mention the name shaman walker. ycd has been there for us. in fact did you know ycd just a few years ago was struggling until they found mr. walton to come lead that effort. they were struggling to find what their role was and we started the relationship to say we mean it, we want our youth to be employed, we want them to be trained in those employment. it was for us in city hall a realty that we're planning for this very day when seeing all this construction going on in the community that we wanted

this community to feel that and be involved in it. we started investing in ycd, 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