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 had a program teaching

cooking class, culinary skills. we have people in the community that could utilize the building for the citizens of san francisco and for the fillmore. give the people who live there a chance. you spend all this money and ain't nobody benefiting in the community, nobody. check it out. that's all you have to do is check it out. this is the last opportunity the community has to blossom and do something with the remaining businesses that are there so thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> michael fisher. >> i just want to reiterate what has been said. i am also a member of the media group. this is my first time doing this. i feel good about it but yeah it's important. we really need your help right now. we are on our last leg. we also want to -- we would like to set a new legacy

here in san francisco which is to be somebody, you know, to try to keep these kids off the streets. kids are being murdered. i have a program and people behaving like that [inaudible] and my program is interview people such as yourself. if you're proud of what you're doing i can interview you. [inaudible] but seriously we need your help and if nothing else come down and see what we're doing down there in the building you're all talking about getting rid it. come see what we're doing. we really need your help. thank you. >> thank you. >> oscar james. >> firsti all i want to say i support them in their endeavor. what happened in western edition can happy new year in bay view hunter's point. i am a native

for years and with the agency for years but i have been dealing with community politics since 1965 and i know the struggles. i know when they close south basin and the shipyard and a lot of people moved to western edition and became home and apartment owners. a lot of the fathers and grandfathers died off. a lot of the kids lost their property. a lot of businesses on fillmore, the first place i bought and knob shoes and uptown in the area and a lot of black businesses in fillmore. i have a book about the fillmore and a tape about the western edition about all of the shops they had, pawnshops and jewelry shops and clothing companies. even a black person that owned the

fillmore auditorium and there was a lot of ownership of black folks in the western edition and that should come back. the agency -- redevelopment came under jess herman and tore down a lot of the western edition. the people in the community got certificates and to me none of the certificates have been honored. put it back over there with the fillmore stores and restaurants and it goes on and on, but what i want to say i hope you hear them and listen to their meeting but i want to say happy new year happy new year to each and every one of you and i am proud of this commission. i am concerned about no one from hunter's point being on this commission. i have a real

concern about that, and mayor lee i hope he appoints someone from hunter's point to serve on this commission, someone who is knowledgeable, just like my buddy up there who is knowledgeable about the community who have been born and raised in san francisco, and all of you who have been in this community for a long time who are concerned and care about the communities. i know each and every one of you commissioners are concerned about our city concerned about the peoples and concerned about people who were born and raised here and grew up in san francisco being a part of business wise, economically, you know, because we are all one. i grew up in hunter's point but i grew up also in the mission district and in a club called the marquees. we fought for things to happy new year in the mission and the mission rebels

and what have you. i was there when that happened but we need to fight and make sure our community is well and one of the oldest comments besides -- the barbary coast where black folks were before the earthquake with -- anyway, what i would like to do is for you guys to get behind western edition and make sure that happens because we're scaring the same thing that happens there will happy new year in western edition and i bought a house in hunter's point. my grandmother bought a house in hurst hurst and the first

african-american and burned the house and when you look at our ownership and the largest in city and county of san francisco and all of the communities african-americans home ownership -- western edition was the same way. now we're listing 25% home ownership. there is something wrong with that. they're not only trying to move us out rent wise. i pay less than a thousand dollars but rent now is $3,000 and i couldn't afford to live in the community. we are retired. my wife has a law degree, what have you but we can't afford to live here. if we can't afford to live here and retired and had good jobs what do you think about the young people making minimum wages and want to live in san francisco but have to move to antioch and

other places and if we don't have businesses for the community and give people liveable wages we're gone. we're gone and it's up to us to become economically stable. >> thank you. >> and this is the group that becomes economically stable to keep the people in the city. thank you very much. >> thank you. next. >> alex tonisson. >> another deferral sir. i think -- is there another card? >> peter moser. >> i am larry edmond and i was watching the board of supervisors and i see ace here talking but i live in the tl. i have been here 25 year and i tell you in the tl we as black people don't have identity. you see men, women and children all the time and they don't know that black lives matter. it's amazing to see people march for us. we had a conference sunday

about black lives matter and what i found out at third and palow, the new opinion cents store there they have the history of bay view. i found a man ran in 63 and how ironic no one knows the history there but he was about housing and education and jobs and police brutality back in 63 and i -- i know fillmore. i go to the kwanza but i think all black men, brown, yellow and all in san francisco matter and makes me feel good about the stadium and we don't get to see black role models close up. san francisco should have been had a basketball. this is great. you can't be an

international city without people of color. that's one thing. that's a fact there. what i am here to say so often we find in these communities these districts. i remember before the district elections we didn't know who represented our districts and it's the time now there are many generations -- keep the eyes on san francisco. i was at the tree light. people always come to san francisco to march and protest and in san francisco at kwanza i had my globe and [inaudible] and she showed me people are taking there and 928 people at san francisco state. they have pages of people that died with the jones town looking for a place to have housing and build and live comfortably who left san francisco around jim jones. most people think jim jones was

a chinese man and most people were african-american and we never talk about that. nine days later killing them at mo connie and mill and we never talk about those people and we're ailing and suffering through that right now. san francisco must -- it used to be said in the lobby. san francisco must take care of the individuals. that's why that bridge willie brown is there. san francisco had the investment to really make sure that this city is really what america is supposed to be. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker cards. no they're deferred. they didn't waive. >> okay. >> good afternoon. i am with local 21. i am try to keep this brief. i'm the union rep for project managers, housing

specialists, contract compliance officers, engineers, all the folks you see before you who help make these redevelopment projects possible, and as you know since 2012 it's been a very difficult time for the former agency. both local 21 and seiu have been in difficult discussions with the city and county of san francisco and ocii. the good news is that in november proposition d passed. and that granted former redevelopment employees city benefits and the majority of voters in san francisco supported that, so this is kind of representing a turning point in union management and relations, and it's given clarification to all of the uncertainty created by the state when they eliminated redevelopment so we're working with the city and county on a transition of employment for our members who want to continue to work on redevelopment projects but as employees of the city and

not ocii employees. however, under prop d that transition must take place before march 1 and that means we need to have settlements with ocii and with the city and county of san francisco as soon as possible, the real deadlines here that are critical so the union anticipates u.s. commissioners do not want to be responsible for torpedoing the settlements and with ocii. right now some of the proposals on the table and made two years ago almost by a different team, from a different employer include some examples of taking away the fundamental right of a union member to honor another sanction line. asking them to pay dramatically more in health care, $200 more a month and

pensions towards their pensions which they already pay seven and a half percent and that would erode the delayed 6% raises proposed and that all city employees have received already and these former rda employees didn't receive and working without, so we know that all these employees have been through a lot of hardship and uncertainty in the past years. we think now is not the time to take advantage of them so please we ask you to instruct your bargaining team to work with the team on a settlement that is fair and members working without a contract for years by no fault of their own. thank you. >> thank you. call the next card. >> the last is peter massur.

>> good afternoon. i am the union rep for seiu 1021 and the beauty of following alex i don't have to go over the same details and he captures it and to reiterate when the voters approved prop d they support the idea of the workers moving over to city employment but as with everything comes with time lines that have to be followed and then we find ourselves in a situation where we need these workers to move over seamlessly and update component of that is wrapping up this contract now that has been -- these folks have been working without a contract for several years now and we want to make sure as alex said we do that in a fair and amicable way, in a way that understands and respects the time limits but doesn't try to

extract concessions based on the time limits. i know you're going into a closed session with the bargaining team and i want you to reiterate to them we want to make sure that the process happens smoothly and seamlessly for the workers and the frustrating situation they have been put in over the years and having questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. >> i have no report. next item please. >> the next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. executive director. >> i actually have no report at this time. >> okay. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 9 commissioners

questions and matters. madam chair. >> yes. do any of the commissioners have a question or matter? commissioner mondejar. >> yes. i just wanted to find out what we ask do -- i mean we had a group from the western edition that were raising all these questions, requests. what is our authority or our what we can do as the current commission now since we don't have any projects there really? i mean is it something that tiffany you could respond to? >> sure. i can -- >> briefly i think. >> because it's not calendared commissioners the former redevelopment agency issued loans using tax dollars along the fillmore corridor including yoshi's and the number of loans. when the redevelopment agency was

dissolved they were assets, property or debts in the case of the fillmore center and still belong -- assets of the former redevelopment agency and transitioned to the assets of ocii. we continue to enforce our agreements and working collectively over the past several years with each of those tenants along the fillmore street corridor to make sure that those businesses can continue while we protect the public investment. we issued a very detailed informational memorandum on the fillmore street corridor loans and assets in september of 2013. last year -- on a status of all of those. we have also discussed in open session through the budget process work outs. a number of businesses have filed for

bankruptcy including yoshi's and there were agreements with them as well as the other loan recipients, rossla's was settled et cetera so we can bring back an memorandum or materials to respond to any questions that commissioners or the members of the public would have. >> yes. before i begin commissioner bustos would you like to state anything? >> [inaudible] >> i would like to request that the informational memo that you referenced be redistributed to the commissioners. commissioner singh is not here but i would also like to request the scheduling of a special meeting in the western edition a special meeting focused on these topics, so that we can have a forum in the community to understand kind of what not

just the commentary we received here and previously but also understand some of the concerns, the challenges from the community side, so we can also provide information about some of the topics that you referred to, and i don't know when we can do that but i suggest it be as soon as possible. >> [inaudible] >> excuse me sir. the matter is with the commission. >> i just wanted to thank you for doing that madam chair because i think it's important, and as you talked about development, redevelopment was created to benefit the community. i think at the time redevelopment -- i think the opposite. i think it was a systematic way to get rid of a certain population in the city

and i think justin herman was adamant about that. i don't know why we have that plaza named after him about that's a whole another matter but i think what you see up here is are people who are trying to right the wrong of what redevelopment did during those times 40 years ago, and we are not perfect, but our goal is to do that, and i think that's why you hear a lot of us talk about having things in the community, having opportunities for people to have these jobs, and having some of the small businesses and the professional services come from local people, so know it's not lots on us. we were appointed by the mayor because of that. we know the

bad history of redevelopment in the city. i can say this probably collectively our commitment is to undo the wrongs that were done as much as we can yet we need to do it together, so it's those of us, and those of you in the community that will help us succeed in that effort, so i just wanted to make sure that you knew that mr. aris so when you're in the community we understand and want to fix things and make it right so we can get to the point where redevelopment does benefit the community; right? we vote on a lot of things but the question i have in my mind is who are we voting for? for who? so we appreciate you. we appreciate everybody that came to speak about this today. thank you. >> thank you. okay. next --

call the next item please. >> the next order of business is item 10 closed session. madam chair. >> yes. i'm going to need to ask anyone not directly involved in this item to please leave the room because the commission is going into closed session and i'm going to make the announcement to confer with labor negotiators pursuant to government code 5495 7.6 to confer with the reamgdzs and the representatives are tiffany bohee, jim morales, leo levenson, geoff rothman, jeff sloan. i don't see charles sakai and april ward. >> [inaudible]

>> we're on. at least our pictures are on. >> it's almost ready. >> okay. >> now you're getting spoiled. >> i know. >> [inaudible] >> commissioners we're back on. >> thank you. thank you. the commission has concluded its closed session. there is nothing -- no action item to report. please call the item item. >> the next order of business is item 11 adjournment madam chair. >> i don't think we need a motion for this. the commission

meeting is adjourned at 3:44 p.m. [gavel] thank you. so, welcome to the third

counsel everyone and those of you were not seated yet, please grab a seat. i'm joe letterman

on the president and ceo of the their account so it is nice to have you all here today. born excitement and some exciting news that we have. you may be a little anticipatory as to what it is based on the nature of the invitation, were not supposed to give it away. i was a we invited gov. rick perry to come and he seems to have declined. so that may make more a story about this. as where mating the us olympic committee is about to be meeting or maybe meeting already to determine who is their pick for the us big-city and of course san francisco is among those good one without giving again anything away, once we do get this weight we should probably quickly get him some notice what happens here this morning because it should weigh heavily in our favor. so i want to thank very busy fellow mayor ed lee are coming here today. and being with s&ls began a moment. i want to thank the milken