y. >> okay. any questions? go ahead because i have more. >> thank you for taking a look at that. i think it's important what our commission president said about traffic management. not everybody rides a bike and especially if you want to make this a family friendly event realize that people drive their families, not riding bikes, so that is going to be key to take a look at, so i appreciate that. second and this is a broken record of mine, but as you look at creating this building, this area, really look at hiring local people, subcontractors, whether in the professional services, whether they be construction workers, whether providing -- you know, they're local delis, especially along third street that is losing business because of the construction. this is a great

opportunity to contract with some of the local restaurants to provide some of the service of foods or whatever opportunities they have, so that's something we look at when it comes before us. we always ask staff about it and we get reports about how local hire and opportunities that local people can actually from what is happening in san francisco. >> sure. >> the same goes to any art pieces that you may be want to put in this arena or even in the halls of the office buildings. we have incredible artists that you see many of their works, whether they're on back drops for carlo santana to all great artists that we have -- especially in the southeast section so we have talked -- we maybe doing something to show case some of the artists that are local that could line the halls of the office building or line the halls of this

beautiful stadium. >> great. thanks for the comments you. >> will hear that as a mantra, at least from me, but i know i'm not alone in the sentiments the property, the venue is a san francisco resource so we just promote -- want to promote our own to be able to benefit from it. >> we understand, and hopefully what you have heard and seen so far we're fundamentally committed to the community and making sure that we complete the appropriate outreach. >> great. thank you. >> commissioner mondejar. >> i was just going to ask a question of a follow up since we're talking about the tmp and this is from a different side of it. again my ignorance. i don't know the fan base but presumably you have a large following in the east bay and people are going to drive over, perhaps bart over. i would be

interested in understanding if you don't understand answers now how is the influx of people coming into san francisco from other areas presumably we don't want you to lose the fan base from the east bay. >> sure. >> i am assuming that is part of the conversation. >> it is absolutely, and obviously one of our primary focuses is making sure we're not disconnected from the existing fan base in east bay so the warriors -- this might not be the place to go into detail but we're thinking about that. we're encouraged about the central subway and create a direct link from poll and park stop to the tline to the front door and maybe we haven't talked about how well served transit is and as adam described in his rarks remarks but we believe how we can influence the behavior of

guests at the arena by intercepting them or communicating with them before they make their transit decisions and even along the way so if i am taking a car and downloaded the app for the arena we will be delivering i believe -- we're in the process of having conversations with central partners with this real time data to steer you toward a garage that is not only convenient to you, but fits in an overall really big data oriented plan how we locate guests at the arena to enable easy access for them and others around the building. >> great. thank you. >> so my question is on special events and there was a mention earlier that the special event arena is accommodate conventions and there was a comment earlier that moscone center can't host larger

conventions like the democratic party convention for example. is that the plan? because you have 18,000 seats but in the event center going to attract convention eers? i live in the south of market and i know coming out of my building whether by car or transportation it takes forever. for example in front of the moscone center and they close the streets. >> sure. >> it's just difficult to get around. is this what is going to happy new year with the warriors special events arena because the neighborhood is there? in an extent the traffic jams -- not just the games but the special events? >> it's a very good question and actually i can give you a multi-part answer. in consistent with how we think about the building and how others perform in this market it's a satellite and other events at moscone. we don't

have a large floor. we can't accommodate trade shows and things like that. we're not designed for that. we heard from the folks at moscone that could be helpful and attract other events they couldn't otherwise secure we could provide a tiered seating environment for events associated with a broader convention where the ceo might want to address the sales force and moscone isn't equipped for that type of event. that might be one of 40 things that happy new year in a convention and we could be of service potentially offering that. if you look at other buildings in busy markets like chicago and new york it doesn't happy new year frequently. if i think if we attracted a handful in a given year we would think it's better

than expected. >> thank you. >> sure. >> commissioner bustos any other questions? i have some questions on noise impacts. i don't know if you're the person. why not. >> i will take a shot at it. >> okay. noise impacts. i am sensitive to the idea of being a neighbor of sports arena even though i live in bernal heights and don't have that issue but once upon a time represented the recreation and park department and there was concern about special events in golden gate park and i hear about ucsf talk about babies born and hospitalized. can you talk about noise mitigation strategies? >> as you know we study that as part of the ceqa exercise in the eir, and we have a consultant on board who have experience with similar kind was performance venue who is is in the process of helping us

evaluate impacts or issues that we might encounter. in respect to the mitigation strjs we need to complete the analysis to determine if any mitigation strategies are required. we're lucky there is little residential close by and one thing we considered and the ucsf facilities are not that close to the building so all those things happy new year and the happy between the perceived sound at the receptor and where it's coming. distance has a geometric impact. it's one of the reasons why we pushed the building a little further towards the water, towards the bay opposed closer to third street. >> okay great. and the only other questions i had were about the first source hiring. in it's very early to talk about, but i guess i don't understand how that would work. how does it work? i guess i have lost --

kind of -- i lost track of that program and how that works in this kind of setting. >> no problem. great question to clarify some earlier discussion. i am with the project team helping on the project entitlements. as was alluded to one of the speakers during public comment the warriors even before moving to mission bay did a rather unique thing and they volunteered to subject themselves to what was then a pretty new ordinance in san francisco called the "local hiring ordinance" and intended to put more teeth behind the first source program by committing -- putting a framework in place requiring projects subject to the ordinance to meet certain goals and failure to meet the goals were backed by significant financial penalties and the warriors committed to that two

years ago when up at the site on pier 30-32 and they're carrying that commitment forward which is significant and the first private project to volunteer to subject itself to that requiring ordinance. in addition now we're in mission bay we're subject to all of the mission bay requirements around local hiring and participating in the first source program we so expect on the construction side we will work closely with city build, with their community partners and always with ocii directly and your team that is working on those issues so we're very excited about the opportunity on the construction side to provide really robust local hiring opportunities for the work force on the construction side. in addition to that then this project offer what is is unique in mission

bay anyway is significant use of end use jobs so we're developing a program to deploy community folks into end use jobs and anybody that knows my personal experience very focused on that issue and we're working very well with the warriors in developing those programs and partners and bay view hunter's point and south of market and to come up with a comprehensive strategy. we also as part of the overall move from oakland to san francisco it's worth noting we have entered into various labor agreements because in oracle many of the jobs are governed by union agreements so for example we entered into a agreement with local two here in san francisco who then partnered with east bay to ensure that we're actually allowing for union jobs to continue here when

the arena moves here. we will maintain all of the commitments and provide for right of transfer of exiti existing employees to come over here. >> >> and we have addressed the issues and the opportunities and we're frankly -- i am personally excited about the warriors and how they stepped up to the table on this and really gone above and beyond. >> great. thank you. yes commissioner. >> i just want to make one last comment for the warriors in interest of full disclosure. my organization working with the warriors, the filipino heritage games but i am very happy and commend the warriors for working with the community. the comments from the cac, the other organizations. i know you're working with ucsf but you

continue to work with the community to continue to hire locally and use minority vendors. i know that you have been reaching out and working it out but i hope you internalize these processes into your bigger strategy to get approved and get the arena work and continue to work because as i said there is a lot of local communities and minorities that really need your support and i appreciate you work with my community. i know that we work with the giants and you guys and the oakland a's and i was part of the building the filipino data base. we're a basketball community but somehow the san francisco giants was able to build -- you know, fan base in my community, so i just want to commend because there were some comments about traffic, transportation and trash clean up and being a

resident of the south of market also the quality of my own life is really affected by all these developments that are mapping right now -- that are happening right now so thank you. >> >> thank you. no more questions apparently. no? okay. so this is not an action item so thank you everyone for the presentation, for your presence, your participation. i look forward to the next item on this matter. madam secretary please call the next item. >> the next item is item 6 public on non agenda items. madam chair. >> yes. we will have an opportunity to clear the room. if any members of the public would like to speak on public comment on non agendized items

and please hand in your card and call the first speaker. the first speaker is ace washington. >> okay. i was going to wait -- >> well, we can call another -- >> i can do this in three mrnts but i am glad to be here. ace washington. i am aw washington junior. i was named ace washington in elementary school playing piano. i was a musician and we were figuring out the name of the band and one of the teachers said let's name it "ace and the diamonds" . so i am aw washington junior. my father was aw and from the texas and from the south and had so many kids named us after the alphabet. that's what they did in the south and so many kids. they named my grandfather aw

and i am aw washington junior but i element free school and what does it stand for? they used to tease me. ma, why did you name me aw? so when my father died i respectfully changed my name to ace and i became ace and at city hall i am ace on the case so ladies and gentlemen i have a few people here. i thought i would give you history. there is six of a committee of 15 that have been working closely at the formerly known as yoshi's and now known as the addition. you all come in. but these are the -- some of the individuals that are hidden in our committee that we have been working diligently to help michael johnson out to noaa. vail we haven't met with him since it's been going on.

>> >> they're going to request. i have been doing it for months. maybe you will hear what the rest are saying and i will introduce the individuals so we're not taking up three minutes each time. this is vivian. this is our queen. we have ken johnson here. he's the director of our organization and give you the name. we're going to ask him to come in. who else is out there? come o we have a supporter from the cac. she's here. she will speak also but anyway what we're doing today is set a precedence to show we still haved vs in the western edition and not just ace by myself but i also want to demonstrate if this isn't enough i will bring 25 and next week i think bring 30. we are left in the western edition and

piece are people we're meeting for over four months. we have marid and pastor and speak to you and michael fisher and sing songs and ken johnson who is the director and vivian the queen person handling the events so we will have the pastor come up and make the presentation. >> has everyone submitted a card? >> okay. let me go by the cards. >> can you call the names on the card madam second. >> [calling speaker names] >> you can certainly wait -- >> yeah, we will wait until the presentation is done. >> thank you. so the next -- so we're going to wait. the next name.

>> ken johnson is coming up. >> mr. washington we're calling the names on the card so to the extent they're related to what you just presented. >> [inaudible] >> no no, no. please -- >> first of all i apologize for coming in at the other time. >> no worries. >> i am noni richmond and lived in the western edition for 40 years. we bought our first house there on ellis street and are part of the neighborhood. for five years i was a member of the western edition cac to the redevelopment agency, and just yesterday i heard that one of the places, one of the stores, the businesses that we had invested a lot of public money is about to go out of business again. we gave -- we appropriated public money to

establish yoshi's and other businesses and now it's become the edition and i heard it's about to be ordered to close because of outstanding bills, and i am here today to ask for a public hearing in the western edition. it could be held right in that night club, a beautiful place, a public hearing that tells us what happened to that money? why has it failed? why are there all these vacant store fronts for blocks when a block away is one of the most famous restaurants in the country? we have all these vacant store fronts that i helped get public money for and it's empty so we need to know where the money has gone? is the current owner planning to -- hording the money to start a next business? there are a lot of questions and in the meantime our community is suffering so thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon and again commissioners. i am just standing with a group of community members here that are looking to establish -- what you call a little theater space in the heritage center. we have been meeting and trying to create some type of programming for the community, and a little theater so we're just asking that you know you take a look at it. we will submit a proposal to you, let you know what we're planning on doing -- we are doing in there but i am reaching out to say there's not much left in the community. the only other thing we have left is the safe way little driveway. i believe that's the ellis street there so that's not much left. the community hasn't benefited. like you said it's come and go with businesses. the fillmore center has so many vacant spaces

that has been vacant for over 10 years and you don't know how -- you don't know what to do. gussies, gomer piles was closed. the vis dareo is changed. with the african-american community is non existing in the fillmore and the whole redevelopment agency was to upgrade the quality of life of the african-american community, but it took us 30 years to redevelop the whole western edition. by the time everybody got their developments everybody that was displaced was already replaced and wasn't really wanting to come back. we had to make it a law to even add family members to the certificates. that wasn't passed just for the sake of just doing it on general

purposes. >> . >> we had to might for that as a law and the certificate holders are trying to buy a house at this time in san francisco. it's not going to happy new year. we can't even get people to buy in the development itself. there is just so much. hopefully with -- in the next couple of months we can have a real sit down in our community and talk about the real issues that happy new year. it's not much that you can do to repair them. i know that but we really need to put this thing on the table and let everybody know what happened and move forward. i know the planning department -- everybody's in the community now that you left. it was secure when you were there but now it's open season we don't know who to go to so i want to

reiterate if we could have one meeting to expose the elements of the western edition and what lose out means. >> thank you. next speaker. >> oscar james. >> [inaudible] >> okay. mr. james is deferring to the next speaker. >> majid crawford. >> i am with the fillmore bay area media group where we do activities currently inside the yoshi development in the screening room and i guess my point is i know that there's an issue -- i know michael johnson -- he's from the community. he doesn't represent the whole community obviously but he's a part of the community and his team are part of the community. i know he's trying to raise money for the development.

it's not clear how much is out in loans or it's not clear what other money he need to raise, what is the total amount to raise to save the development? but i would like to ask this board though to reach out to the community to see about maybe the community will help raising these funds, and the reason that is important is because if the community is part of this process of raising the funds working with this board to support michael johnson then that gives the community the opportunity to have ownership rights in this development, and i know there's a reputation in the fillmore. it's impoverished neighborhood and this and that is not the case. there are people with money. there are people that can help raise money for the development so i would like to ask the board just before the doors close to reach out to the community, reach out to myself, aris, ace, and reach out to

people from the community about us helping us to raise the money for mike will johnson because once it leaves this phase where it's at right now it's going to be more difficult for the community to have access to the building. i don't know what the process is. but potentially you have to look at the laws of the state but it could potentially be on the auction block. the biggest auction -- i don't know if it's legal to transfer directly to the city. maybe it's up for auction and if the community is trying to auction with the whole world for this space so i would like -- and in this process here for this board to reach out to the community and work with the community to help michael johnson in raising this money. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> vivian ellis. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am vivian

ellis, and i am a resident of bay view 60 years but i have worked city wide with seniors and the youth, and i made [inaudible]. i was interviewed. my interview made it to the library of congress. i am clear on the politics. i don't know if you answered the questions or concerns of what the people are going through but i have to say i'm a member of the fill more media group and we're here to keep the center open just to present our heritage and culture so a lot of people get confused about where the monies are going and the property but i work with youth and children, and i have been for over 40, 45 years and i am still scrambling around to get support to do the

documentaries because of the politics and it's not fair, and i work with all races, creeds and colors and i want to know if you guys respond to us so that we can move forward? because we're losing generations of the youth. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ken john. >> i am speak. i am mike fisher. >> that's okay. >> i am ken johnson and a native san franciscan from south park and you know what happened to south park? it's gone. it used to be a black area and speculators came in and it's no more. anyway i am with the group. i am the president of fillmore media

group and meeting in the theater. we have been producing tv shows on channel 29. before this meeting i produced a show with three executive ladies on how to hold on to your money and save money, and i just want to piggyback on what the brothers said. we would like you to come down to the fillmore, to the edition and see what we're doing. now this coming tuesday we're having members of the super bowl 50 host committee coming down and maybe they might help us out and help with this whole situation so if one of could come this tuesday to see to participate from this end of of the situation maybe that would help everything out, so we

really are trying to uplift and hold on to the remaining businesses in the fillmore and bring some kind of stability back because the building was built to help the community, but the community has never benefited from the yoshi's. they bring in their own staff. they bring in people from somewhere else. they don't hire nobody from the community and the same with the edition so the community has lots of professional people in it. you've got bobby webb. he produced concerts in golden gate park for years. you have emit powell and knows all of the gospel greats. you have aris. he