ill speak. >> john updyke director of real estate this is a resolution authorizing even though city to enter into a long term lease with the mistake museum a nonprofit corporation we know as 706 mission street at third and mission and that depicts essentially the premises around the building so while the museum has a history of over 4 decades and this particular project has roots over 20 years ago when the former development agency supported a home for the mexican museum that day has finally arrived protectively we have a b

little bit of work to do this is too the city and ocii and the developer millennium and consistent with their entitlements construct and knee a condo interest in approximately 48 thoughts square feet across 4 floors of development and lower levels storage including the historic building all below the historic building above. >> just to give you a sense of the massing of the project that depicts this development within the existing new construction and the residential blue above space will be built to specifications now in a collaborative design process tenant improvements from

construction through more than $10 million in grant fund provide by ocii and an agreement from 2010 that covers the terms of the grant this as supervisor kim mentioned a 66 year lease with a 33 year renewal and responsible for the maintenance and operating costs there is no anticipated city expense associated with those this is a robust review and specifications for the build out embedded in the lease and further terms of the lease to make sure the public will enjoy a world-class museum built and managed to the alliance of the standards and operating reserve requirements on opening day and graduating to 12 months by year 5 and the additional security deposit of

$100000 increasing to $2 million by year 5 thank you to the staff and ocii the arts commission and city attorney's office a number of them assist us josh is here and shawn with the partners and victor and andy and, of course the rest of the board and staff at the mexican museum for getting us to this point and following more than a year of negotiations i'll introduce vic for the general council. >> thank you very much fantastic. >> thank you, john supervisor cohen and supervisor jane kim and supervisor wiener that is truly a historic day i'm victor the general council the mexican museum with me the mexican mime committee appearing to give you a couple of upgrades

on the mexican museum as mentioned supervisor cowen andrew and wanting mr. gomez will be speaking and other folks from the building committee and there are two community members who were invited to speak after dozens and will be coming next week to serve the final vote as general council i led the council on the mexican museum for the long term lease to be moved to the full board the combined 99 year lease is extremely well-thought-out and we worked on it for over a year part of the negotiations included folks in the room as well as others for the mexican

museum think outside the box on behalf of team i want to thank the team who represented the city starting with john updyke who just spoke and tom and rebecca from the arts commission and tiffany and chris 10 from the accessory our agency and to very capable and distinguished council who is now general council for the museum thank you to each and every and everyone and particular to john who was supportive every step of the way and thank you to the museum partners shawn and mark and also christine moore together they negotiated continentals hours what is truly an amazing document that will

enable the museum to have a home last but not least i want to thank supervisor kim and her team and april for all their hard work the office provided over the past year not only on this legislation but the overall development to make the mexican museums dream a reality thank you all for your vote in support of the resolution and ask you move the item to the for approval with unanimously i'll be here to answer questions heights my pleasure to bring up to the podium my colleague. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> you'll get sick and tired of seeing me i want to thank you supervisor cohen and supervisor kim and supervisor wiener thank you very, very much i'm the chairman of the board on the

mexican museum and i'm 5 consul general and i'm delighted to speak for the government of mexico i'll hear to thank the city and county of san francisco its agencies and departments for clovis working with our team to develop the comprehensive agreement i take it been a long time coming today is a historical moment for the latino community and the residents as a whole and, of course, for the republic of mexico that will cement the gateway for the arts and cultural activities for the mexican-american and chicano for the yerba buena gardens as an mecca for visitors and students

and others as the staff of the museum we take our job serious today i have with me a representative of museums leadership i'm independ for all their work and insure the delivery of a world-class mime for the city and county of san francisco for the bay area right in the city for the next 3 years we further thank the city for the board of trustees and staff working to work on a crown jewel for that i thank john updyke very, very much and thank my partners particularly shawn and christine as chairman for the past two years going into the thirds year i want to talk about the leaps and bounds for the organization and the new building project of

which you'll hear from my colleagues in a few minutes in closing, i want to share two significant accomplishment to date one is the naming of the rockefeller gallery and wrosht whose the truest of our board with the board collection in mexican and pledged to raise and now provided fund for $3 million for the gallery in addition i'm pleased to report the naming of the gallery through his daughter who also are taking part in the advisory board this money assembly has pledged to raise the $3 million in honor of her late father thank you for your time and favorably moving this forward with the long term lease and thank you for all the time

you've seen my testifying and especially supervisor jane kim for being in that district and pushing for us. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor kim and supervisor wiener i'm the president and ceo of the mexican museum i'm delighted to be here and thank you for the opportunity to thank you for your support of the resolution for the mexican museum long term lease at the yerba buena gardens art district at the staff level we've been to category the collection of over 16 thousand objects of art reflecting the prehispanic and could luggage mexican-american latin-american and chicano art we have in effect working to get the

collection ready to move to its new home to yerba buena gardens we'll be on your way to realizing the supporters long term dream of building a permanent home for the institution collection we look forward to for or against two working partners with the arts commission and our sister organization at yerba buena that includes the jewish amount and the yerba buena center for the arts in addition, i want to highlight that the only smithsonian museum in san francisco we'll be undertaking joint programming both in san francisco and in the countries capital we're working to forge partnerships with the institutions in mexican for two programming as well as 5 high-level for capital and empowerment and to help with the

travel expeditions that will be record expeditions at the yerba buena thank you for your sponsoring and moving the list for the approval for the full board. >> thank you very much let's see i think at this point we'll weigh to move into. first up will be (calling names) >> good morning, everyone. buenos toward us and supervisor cohen and supervisor kim and supervisor wiener i'm delighted to be here as concert of the board of trustees for the mexican museum in the mission strict that's an honor

to be here today over a long, long period of work and a lot of you know a lot of work from many levels and different groups we're here to show gratitude for the city the city believing in us and our community how wonderful to have a museum of all places in san francisco in a land that once was part of mexico that continues the impression expression of our contingent and the community has been looking forward to this the actions will move our dreams of a community forward and you know this museum was founded by wonderful all over the a wonderful member in 1975 that realization of his dreams will become a reality today, our vision is beyond a gallery to full scope of mexican latino

heritage through the programs we family sunday's easy family exhibition and programming throughout the bay area so we look forward to permanently playing together our communities cultural experiences and enrichments at yerba buena we're delighted to work with the partnering with all of you this sets the stage for us a century of meaningful collaboration we thank you for your approval of this. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor kim and supervisor wiener i'm alley forehead co-chair of the mexican museum along with high colleague like my colleague manual i'm a lifelong resident of the mission

district thank you for your strong and unwavering support of mexican museum and all our efforts to build the amazement anyway mexican museum the approval of our long term lease marks an important historical milestone for our institution that milestone coupled with the work we're undertaking in the building committee will relate in a world-class word renowned asset for the city and county of san francisco for the national and international community that is from the local community and local government will culminate in the construction of a truly lovely mexican museum we'll be proud of i'm pleased to report we've completed the conceptual design for the museum building we look forward to sharing the design with you and your

colleagues i'd like to thank our building committee and recognize our designer a mexican architecture firm and those comprised of earth and peter and others together we've been hard at work to complete the conceptual designs and working in the schematic design face i want to recognize the excellent partnering our development partner who are building the bias of the 706 residential and mexican museum project and i'm pleased to report we'll be borrowing in conducting set to be the cornering obey turned over to a 2017 we be opening up in 2018 join us for the breaking

ground in summary thank you for your support. >> thank you very much roe better and others (calling names). >> greer. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen i'm also a native san franciscan and as a youth services director i'm here representing our agency and our executive director who couldn't be here today i'll read the following statement with the 3 thousand seniors and families they visit this annually we've been providing services over 50 years i'm here to express our strongly support for the mexican museum and ask you approve the long term lease for consideration the dream to build

a new home at the yerba buena gardens yerba buena arts district is realized over 50 years this will help with the image and self-esteem of our community from young children to senior citizens that call this place a home of their own we thank the board of trustees and others for their hard work and dedication in keeping this mexican museum a royalty and thank you to the city and county of san francisco to help build the dream into reality. >> good afternoon. i want to say thank you if you look at up you'll see the architecture design small business had a dream to build this building i know how long it took the mediation museum has taken us 20 years to get it built and this

is a very special day another hearing another meeting hopefully those will end and you'll not here from us again until the grand opening much thank you. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. for item number 5 i'd like to say to the representatives of the mexican museum it's been a joy to sit on this board and listen to the presentation again and again you get a little bit more excited i'm happy happy to add my name to the legislation. >> supervisor kim. >> it's great to see the community back i semi enjoyed seeing you this is been a long process for everyone and the community to thank you for your endurance and patience when it

finally opens it will be an important contribution to the city and i also want to thank the group for representing the folks i don't take enough time to recognize our staff the staff does a lot of work we take the accolades but thank you for i'd like to move forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> a recommendation from supervisor kim and siblthd by supervisor wiener this motion pays for a with a positive recommendation to the full board (clapping.) you know one step closer and madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. >> all right. no further business this meeting is

adjourned. >> >> all right. is this cyc?

make some noise. cyc. [speaking foreign language] is cyc here? yeah. community love right here. [speaking foreign language] hey good job, good job. smile, smile. it's not that heavy. you make cyc proud, the community. oh yes. all right. i don't know if they're going to fit on stage. you know i wish your captain were here. oh there he is. captain. one of

my old favorites. commander is here too. [speaking foreign language] >> okay. i think the mayor should go first so sisters and brothers san franciscans the mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> what a presentation from our golden dragon and all of our wonderful young people. i want to have a special welcome to our valley christian and our students from beijing. yeah, they came all the way over here to celebrate this wonderful event and gosh this is all about

family. it's all about extended family. i want to welcome everyone here to the year of the ram celebrations. this is a kickoff. we're kicking it off. we're cleaning our area. i want to thank julie christensen for being here and supervisor mar for being here and dpw and muhammad is here and our police department our fire department, all of the agencies working together with our community based agencies to celebrate. keep everyone safe and enjoyable. we're going to hear a lot of fire crackers and you heard norman already and he is warming up and a big parade and just the warm up today but we're excited with this community flower fair. i want to give a great thank you to our chinese chamber of commerce for having been here from the very start.

all of their wonderful leadership. eddy is here, rose is here. the entire chamber has been doing this for many decades and we have been growing it for the world to see. i am very proud that this parade is put on by so many volunteers. i want to thank all of the sponsors but most importantly all of you here and enjoy yourself. buy flowers. norman said earlier to tell each other you're beautiful. that's the first time i heard that from anita. i have been telling her that for 35 years but the reverse hasn't happened but anyway this is a great time to celebrate. i want to say thank you for so many of our community partners that put this on that really think about and are creative and are dedicated to building this chinatown community so we're

proud to display our culture for the rest of the world to see. thank you for being here. [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> just to let all of the dignitaries know we're keeping it short this year and keep of the blessing and that's it and of course we have to thank the chinatown chamber of commerce and eddy and you can speak longer. >> for all of you let me say something in chinese. [speaking foreign language]

[applause] >> all right. so supervisors real quick and you have to say the chinese except for supervisor eric mar who has a prepare speech. >> right. happy year of the ram. happy valentines day as

well. to all of the children there is a lot of kissing that goes on today but i have a lot of love for chinatown and all of the volunteers serving the community and the people. thanks to the sponsors as well. [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> all right. other supervisors all you get to say is a chinese new year blessing. we will start over here. >> you want to go? >> no, go ahead. >> hi everyone. i am scott wiener from the board of supervisors and here to wish you a happy new year and thank you to everyone that made this happen and have a great one. thank you. >> this is julie christensen the supervisor for the district. congratulations. all of you picked the best place to be today. it's a beautiful day so happy new year. happy valentines day. have a good day in chinatown and thank you to the chamber and to ed and rose for putting on a party and inviting all of us to be here.

thank you norman. [speaking foreign language] >> any other supervisors? that's it? okay. are we ready? >> [speaking foreign language] (speaking chinese). i i am here to represent the recorder assessor carmen chu and happy new year and celebrate with your valentines too. thank you very much. >> real quick captain can you say chinese new year? >> [speaking foreign language] happy new year. happy valentines day on behalf of every police officer that has the best job in the world patrolling chinatown and thank you very much. >> we have to go to rose and

get ready. >> [speaking foreign language] so what i said is wishing everybody a prosperous new year. however, safety is number one and second is cleanliness so i have a cane. if i see anybody throwing garbage around i will wack you. thank you. [applause] >> i got enough scissors this year. okay. let me tell you what is going on. they're going to cut the ribbon and then the beijing and valley christian will be ready. after they cut the ribbon i will go "one, two,