so happy beacon hill thank you for your leadership and your enthusiasm and without you, you, you obviously we wouldn't, here today i'll say first of all, to echo homelessness is an issue that effects every san franciscan and ever neighborhood and visitors but homelessness in our city and this issue we tackle that has been happening for years this is those are our mothers and father and brothers and sisters we'll not be who we are as the city of st. francis without making this a priority i'm proud as we on up to send a message to the city of san francisco, and, secondly this navigation center sends a message that still and city government will not accept the small business commission not afraid to break the mold we'll

challenge wasn't we've done in the past there's a better future for the homeless in san francisco and today is just the beginning thank you very much (clapping). >> several years ago when i had joined the sdpufks san francisco budget & finance committee i remember feel like we never had enough teachers or pens or enough paper and it was midway through office i realized there's the one thing the city and county city had too much it was land and what our surplus property would like and since this day this is the number one priority we know the the achievement gap is the opportunity gap we started thinking about values in our

surplus property now the automatic is thinking about dollars let's build market rate housing on the site this used to be the site of fedex school it was we all had long kvendz whether what about a different surplus to build grocery stores where kids have access to healthy food and build affordable housing for teachers and kids this is what is keeping our kids insecure that was a long and multi year process but i'm excited with i came to the board of supervisors actually part of the mission in the district i represented i was able to continue working with the mayor my first year to figure out with the housing and urban development and it was on the boundary line to build

affordable housing i'm so existing this is expedited actually in the pipeline that has become a reality in the meantime waiting for affordable housing in the mission something actively this community fought for we're going to be able to make this an oasis for people in the homeless shelters and i want to recognize but before i say that something in the policy word did h.r. policy and the mayor made a commitment to take an homeless by hiring beacon hill he was notorious we were imitated by the level of his public engagement he respondent to everything no phone call was two small to take to respond to and for him to be the person that is new addressing our

recipe with no homes and nothing in our city this level of public service is being it is being partnered with that community it is incredibly important i i know he brought a lot of folks together i see people from the community services asia the hope lions and shawn h s a and over the course supervisor campos office coalition for homelessness and to make sure we're providing the serviced we haven't traditionally provided in the shelter i respect there to get my placement and thought when i saw it that night if you were disabled or a boyfriend i didn't want to leave midnight the shelter or a friend in the - all of the things addressed in the pilot program i'm excited about the trust we're going to begin to build i'm thankfully

for everybody making this a reality. >> i want to call out the members of the hope team for all mohammed i 120e8 st. sam from the public housing i'm going to acknowledge dee 1k34i6rd and chris teen that does amazing work everybody loves christine and another community lalia son and we have brought on board the director of the navigation center someone that was involved in opening the myths neighborhood center and went on to go back east to school work no new york city and coming to making sure it is working this

is julie ledbetter right here we not only have the mayor but the director of pblgs he wants to get this going the police chief suhr is here and the mayor mentioned jeff who has been to the site and helping to clear people's record and police officers are here for public safety and i know their exist about bringing up resources and i want to thank in the spirit of what the mayors represent in working with the corners of the city the coalition of the homelessness is here with due outreach and encourage people to take advantage of the services we're providing thank you everyone for being here and scott walter is here and his colleague is not here under the leadership of trent has done an incredible job of bringing on board dave is here from h s a

and supervisor kim acknowledged the contract board the 24/7 and the e pitiful of community services working on other things with the city departments now mohammed and the mayor are going to start off a tour with the press and anyone is welcome to come here we're going to have food assessable twoursz for people that are living that under tunneled thank you all we look forward the best is yet to come thank you very

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it host it share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005 she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of species species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long

detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very

strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a

bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researchers ers--

group of researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context a context that really allows people to

appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe

maybe one per continent maybe two or three in this country then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicineal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber

that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotional emotional, psychological spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memberorial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit thesame mistakes.

thanks. >> i example the first thing to point out is the first word is camp tlargz to be bugs and dirt and so long as you can get past that part in place is pretty awesome. you're going to get to our cabin and why is it so small well most of your time is spent outside. programming was our first step we wanted to offer a program

that is, you know makes people happy and leaves them with memories. >> here and there. >> so more points. >> ready 1, 2, 3. i think a big part is it's coming from san francisco it is real estate a kind of vibe people relate to each other and everyone's living in the city and you can feel the breath of fetish air and the experience you get out here. i think it give us an opportunity to get away from technology you come out here and look at it here and not look at our iphones and you kind of lose users in the city and have a cup of coffee >> i'm corey a typical day

increase no typical day. and just the first time being on the talent show and getting a huge applause and i never expected it is is r is a great experience i'm an executive chief here at kathy serve over one hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks. people love our meals and the idea they can pick up a meal and don't worry about shopping or doing dishes and enjoy and have a great time at camp mather >> grasping grab on. >> i like camp mather it is a

lot of freedom and kids run around it's great. >> they have all the things i don't have to do the kids get to do what they want to do and we basically focus on them that's our only job. >> i like camp mather because i can ride my bike. >> i love camp mather. the children are up here playing around and riding their booiths bicycles that's a great place to see what the word is like outside of the city.

[ gavel ] good afternoon. it is 1:03 this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure. the success or agency commission to the san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday march 3, 2015. welcome to members of the public. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you, madam chair. the first order of business is item 1, roll call. commission members, please respond when i call your name. commissioner mondejar >> here. >> commissioner singh? >> here. >> commissioner bustos, here. commissioner rosales. all me