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supervisor miguel bustos we talk about as the project is ramping up right as the construction, etc. we haven't talked about what happens after so i was happy to hear, if you will, the host project completion, if you will workforce development idea of because i have that in my voting rights notes of hiring resident essentially that's a question of mine you know making sure that we deliver on the project i've heard the mayor say it to the neighborhood that you know being blunt this is not the western edition so anything you can tells you at this stage about the post project workforce development idea or ideas. >> yes. there so as i said
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there's a 50 percent goal for temporary and permanent employees of folks that any development is creates those developments need to those to work with our office of economic workforce development to insure they have a hiring that i'm your relevant we haven't done this yet on the shipyard this will be a learning experience but oewd has done is we'll be working with the employment folks they have academy the hospitality comedy that insures that people that have placed have the correct credentials to be proprietorly placed for employment a lot of success on market of the large success in
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terms of of folks being hired in place that came through oewd training and workforce plan and i think we can be successful if building on the successes they've already had. >> okay. that's great. >> high-end complex you know, i noticed bloomingdale and nordstrom's and i know their outlets oh, those are the outlets of bloomingdale and i was curious we have our san francisco kill roadways. >> i'm sorry to let our developer partner answer the question for the target. >> i'm sorry i was looking at the photos there have a context in san diego i visited they had this multi cultural development or redevelopment areas where
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they had all those recommendation of the neighborhoods small boo technologies. >> my name is skip to answer our questions on the retailers it viewed into a broad diversity of projects so the the president we see for this sort of centerpiece of the neighborhood is not only where you get high end merchandise but things that are better priced it creates a catalyst we hope for a vibrant growth of neighborhood serving both on humanitarian new and other areas dispetersburg streets around use it will create sort of a nexus and
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critical mass that we think will attract a lot of arrangements you've mentioned pharmacies and there will be hair and nail as long as and bars and restaurants you know a place where you can get a hotdog that's part of the neighborhood and that is how a feels based on the demand by the market and it also grows based on did demand by the customers that live there i remember that's the vision that's what we are trying to do. >> thank you i can't wait. >> yeah. so instead of going to petaluma where i never go okay. great. thank you i don't have any other questions to you have any questions this is not an action item thank you very much oh, thank you
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we'll be talking some more and talking more please call the invocation item. >> the the next order of business is public comment on non-agenda items madam chair. >> do we have any speaker card for public comment. >> i have mr. oscar james. >> oscar james again what i came i've been talking to a lot of subcontractors some of them i grew up with by the way i used to be a trucking contractor a lot of them are having problems that the general contractor in receiving their pay and some of the general contractors want to a pay their bills with the gender and take on their own responsibility to pay the
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vendorsism. >> uh-huh. >> so can you guys look at that to make sure some of the subcontractors who are under the general contractors receive all their monies so they can pay their own vendor and the problem with that is being a contractor before when you're not paying our own builds you have a problem of building our bond capacity you only fill our bond capacity by a contractor and you pa pay your bills and add on and buy more equipment and guarantees once you complete a job you can go and do another job for example i had a contract another year in the late 70s in the portal station i was a contractor we did all our work and emigrate finished it
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ended up to be a million dollars additional we did the moscone center center trucking was my company we did a joined have you ever known and get finished with that project your bond capacity was 30 nature million dollars so each time you finish a job our bond capacity go up if i stayed in the trucking i'll bid on a contract and it could be guaranteed to be bid on my myself our company get a $3 million bond that makes you more independent so the contractors have to have that obligation to when bethey bid on something a general contractor or bidder you go for a city contract he know you request do
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our due diligence to complete a job so it helps to become better a general contractor you take the baby steps and you can't do that with someone else paying our bills can you guys look at that to make sure that minority contractors are able to step out and become general contractors thank you very much. >> thank you okay. please call the next item. >> the the next order of business is item 67 report of the chair. >> i don't have is report. >> okay the the next order of business is item 8 report to the chort. >> commissioners have a brief report i attended the grand press event for the ucsf medical
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center last thursday and commissioner mondejar was able to tend it was actually 3 hospitals cancer women and children and the first patient that were transported on sunday and it was immediate to the block killing more building that is sometime in the future checkout it out there are incredible facilities that are a great asset to the entire southeast that raise the quality of health care with the rewindshield of general and the rebuild of st. luke's it raises the whole genocide there that concludes my report. >> the the next order of business is item 9 commissioners
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questions and matters madam chair. >> one comment i want to picking picking why back on who what director bohe said i was there i took a robotics tour with corin woods it was walling i didn't who we followed around we called him an elevator and to the nursing and told his to move away and yeah. it is beautiful i'm glad i took a tour they have the largest robotics in the u.s. they'll be delivering food and meals and delivering laundry and things like that it was nice and the lighting was invites as you move along the lighting a changed that the haul and it was
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nice to get a robot to call the elevator for us i had only two kind of comments or questions for future consideration i'd be interested if having are workshop or an informal meeting obviously not with the form of the xhilths in addressing our sbe policy and how it should be shored up with the upcoming local business ordinance city passed in december but it's not effective i don't think nights july 1st i've been hearing from contractor they think our policy is the same as the city's policy it is not currently it is slightly i i mean it's different but in terms of the policy it is not in sync
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and mr. washington's concerns i have a recollection we're to receive an update or have a followup workshop on the certificate of preference program i think that was a request before commissioner bustos joined united states but it's important to said how it's working i know at one point we were talking about or at least the mayor's office of housing was talking about a website e web based portal to make it easier so get updates on that. >> we plan to privilege that in the next couple of meetings as part of our annual housing report and our staff is working with the staff to prepare as part of the commissions request
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i do know the web based portal is not quite up net certainly the city staff can provide the timing technical difficulties trying to make it as user-friendly as possible but we'll calendar that for commissioner consideration both items. >> thank you oh okay commissioner mondejar. >> just as some of you know i'm a domestic violence advocate we have a meeting at city hall on thursday on february 12th the one billion rising having domestic violence advocates i hope you come for apple hour to dance and drum and eat thank you. >> okay. i think the next item is adjournment. >> second it. >> the meeting is adjourned at.
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>> it seems like everyone in san francisco is talking about housing san francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone million dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the $207,000 in california it is
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more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher it's more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in san francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an all-time 0 hive of 6 hundred thousand in the 80 the
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population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, it's grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the city's history and it's not only san francisco it is greek the bay area has $2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403.9 million people unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing that's been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that i 9 percent if we don't pursues housing the cost of housing
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about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents san francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout san francisco those plans developed by years of community planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and non-built affordability housing that majority of housing in san francisco as well as throughout the country market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city
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some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1/3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is $70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than $7,150 to be affordable san francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the inclusive program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the
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blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you can't afford a million will home you're not alone in response san francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now e-mails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the san francisco ethics commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels we're working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. chair protect the housing semiand strengthen goals
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yee. scott wiener, cindy wu, phil tang, wane young and shou young and norman fung. when you get a list like this, i would like to say if there is anyone i didn't acknowledge, i would like you to raise your hand and i would be happy to welcome you. one of our friends rick quan is here. good to see you here, rick. the honorable mayor of san francisco and the cousin david lee is here. [ applause ] >> one of the most ferocious players on the court, one of the most genteel and fun guys off the court. damon green. [ cheers and applause ] his nickname is the senator
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which is why i have him separated from ed lee because when you talk about election results, i don't want to have two politicians together. one of the rising stars as he is. [ cheers and applause ] and a man who continues to dominate the nba from seattle to all star weekend to years in the league office in phoenix and now the president of the warriors, lebron james business, rick welch. [ cheers and applause ] now, events like this are always important to the warriors because there is two baseball teams in the bay area. there is two football teams in the bay area, but there is one basketball team and this is the one team. we are the bay area's team. you think about it whether it be
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from napa and sonoma all the way down to fresno to sacramento and tahoe, san jose, oakland and san francisco, our new home. this is really something where millions and millions of people come together for one squad. this happens to be at 36 and 6, the best team in the nba. [ cheers and applause ] we always say about coming to a warrior game and the crowd with this collective bay area molestation lestation mojo that our players feel it and if you were there friday night to see clay thompson to go from 37 and a quarter. i know we are worried about the san andreas fault but that
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building levi taetd on its own. it's so important to the warriors. if you think of san francisco with the largest population of chinese outside of mainland china. it becomes a key part of who our fan base is and we reach out to our fan base of all races, carried, ethnicity. really for china this is a place where we the warriors have traveled. harris and damion has traveled. i have traveled with the olympics. it really shows you how the nba can be identified on a global bases. what i found out in china is that every city in china must
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have a basketball court. that's by state law. no matter where you are in beijing, shanghai, places the warriors have visited or the agricultural areas there is always a basketball and always someone like tramd green is. we have an account for the very first team to get involved with social media, internationally in china. it's important to us. we have a special unveiling today that links the warriors specifically with something very special in the chinese new years. >> let's hear from eric welch. >> let's hear it for bob. [ applause ] . >> we are going to have some fun today but i want to do something a
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little serious from the beginning. we are at the betty young recreation center and we are known for the history with the warriors and you need to know who betty was. she was a flight attendant who took off from a flight from boston. the first flight that hit the world trade center building and somehow during that flight she had the presence of mind to be the one communicating to the people on the ground what was happening, who had been the perpetrators of this horrible event and showed so much strength and courage. she was born in san francisco, she grew up here in chinatown and she's a true american hero. it's important that you remember that. thank you. [ applause ] >> is
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