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ning to the community lenar the developer is meeting it's obligation as you have heard they're providing the funds the issue is administration of the community benefits. community benefits by name sounds very nice however you need to look at the structure. you need to look at community over site and transparency. the signatories to the cba for the community benefits in the bayview hunters point is unprecedented in 2008 the majority of the community organizations are seniors that used to come out here for decades establishing advocating for the project. here comes the san francisco labor council. san francisco organizing council sfop and acorn has been
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disbanded these organizations are not the ones you saw meeting after meeting but they were able to strike this agreement this shady agreement and it's prooifly held how do you expect the community 207 million to manage. this might be a litigation issue. there is frustration. the goal of the people in the bayview hunters point is to make sure our youth have after school programs we talked about that for decades as part we're building a community center senior housing center for it's seep yors that came out to advocate for the establishment for the >> can you let her? thank you. >> none of the funds are being used and the audacity that the sfop and the labor council will be holding this private meetings none of the people here have
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ever been allowed to attend a meeting so we're calling on mr. tim paul son coming forward to the public they have explanation to do to understand to resolve this it might be litigation they need to dissolve the ic and start over again this is unacceptable. thank you very much. dr. walker charlie walker james bryant next. >> madame chair i'm actually disturbed about the various conclusion about problems. i want to thanks the san francisco foundation for it's report but it revealed even more there's problems very difficult problem. i got back involved 2 or 3
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months ago concerning the committee. one is that the politics have entered into the committee i have not been able to do basic business because of that that is one of the problems i have been able to learn i'm working with 7 or 10 subcontractors that need all kind of help. and they do not have any way to get the system so they can employ people from the community those are things that i'm really concerned about. then the oppression to fulfill dr. moody's position that is in turmoil at this point. in the committee in that particular area it's not working so unfortunately the six member
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committee i know it's made up of seven but the six have been working for a whole year and not able to come to a conclusion to elect the 7@person i'm very concerned as well as the other community members most communities members don't know what the ic is doing each person on the board can only invite three people just to come and listen they don't have a voice. i'm not condemning the whole thing but there needs to be restructuring thank you. >> walker followed by bryant followed by enna or malone >> i hope it's not embarrassing to you mrs. cohen either he had bad information or standing up
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here lying you can't have it both ways i have a document in my hand today black contractors that work for ibic nibi and kale owe them over $500000 every black contractor that has work the out there has not been paid all their money. there is such a thing a lady with me they didn't give us any more for grants or anything like this. this whom thing is a cher read white people don't send black people to tell the truth they tell us a big lie we're supposed to bite into it. we're not biting into it. i don't understand how he can be
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so disturbed to something he's paid to do but not give you any better expectation he gave to you today this is not fair to him not fair to us. and this document is document to owed to all the black contractors in san francisco and all three are left the rest went out of business. something needs to be done somebody needs to come out or there needs to be investigation to the way this whole thing is going because that money you are talking about ain't no black people got any of that money he's talking about things in 2011 this is 2015 the party is over. >> thank you james bryant deanna is next betty malone and christina sand value.
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>> thank you very much. james bryant the originator of prop g. ladies and gentlemen there is promises there was a promise that the community would be involved in this process two that was negated there is no transparency three there has been no jobs dlvled in behalf of this process four where is the community input? you know in may i think it was the 28th. i was out of town on union business i got a call and they said you know mr. bryant there say deal crack with the labor council and lenar that is worst deal the bayview had ever had in it's existence what it did is create a team of monsters that
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control money for the community they don't care about at all. i come from labor i can tell you about mike and tim i can tell you about each one that got in this position cony and well all i got to say not labor council not acorn not sfop spent five minutes going out running that campaign to give this community not one of them. and i stress that to say because if in deed they had maybe lenar was a little concern maybe they didn't know that they had a real brand election going i think it was 68-69% on a positive vote. but they cut a bad deal the community is suffering and you board members please help us do something about it. thank you. >> thank you very much.
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>> malia i give you the credit. >> thank you. come on up. betty christina you guys can start queuing up so we can move quickly >> hi malia. one question one project -- >> if you can pull the microphone so we can hear you. thank you. >> what projects that will benefit benefit benefit griffiths's have you been fit d >> thank you betty sand value is betty not here? after christina will be william warren angelo p king. robbie titus and robin son. >> hello my name is christine
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sandival i work for a peaked attics office in bayview i felt the need to come here today because this need is important i walked out of my job and toll them i would be back i thought this was going to be an hour this it longer than that it has to be heard and known that this community is in need. i have been coming here for seven years fighting this fight and i still have not seen one change basically i'm actually truly saddened about this i have gone to more funerals and gone to wakes then i have gone to any one of these meetings that are supposedly being held we were never invited to them. our youth are getting kills
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because of lack of opportunities i have a 22 year old i'm scared and petrified every time he leaves the house because there is lack of opportunity for him. he has done ycd he is graduated he is sitting with certifications and no job. no job. i'm sitting here struggling raising four kids two jobs and not one have i been involved in these meetings or anything this needs to stop this needs to end i'm tired of going to funerals i feed to see a change and we need to see something for our future black lives matter all lives matter. >> thank you. william warn please? >> hi can you hear me? good. supervisor cohen thank you for doing this. i'm glad supervisor weiner and kim are here.
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i will keep this short and sweet. i'm an assistant immroement strategies in partnership with lenar i'm a guy people sit down with i do a resume with them when memories or pains come up i work with it with them to they're willing to be employable what i heard today when you hide things from the very people it's going to effect and you don't let them be on the same page you are causing them to be trapped in the what we used to called ghetto life. all of us you me the people here the people out there we want city life not ghetto life. so with what i just heard my will be i will end it like this my question would be what are
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all three of you going to do to help correct this situation and help move it along and help this $27 million come out more? >> thank you. angela p king lawny tie tis robbie robin son. >> in my older age i'm learning to get to the point. so the question is asked what can you do? the fact is the organizations that will come to you some of these organizations are city-wide organizations. you need to tell them first of all to respect community to have their community partners as members ad ten regularly has meetings outside of ic meetings which are already private meetings more or less they come with the information out of those meetings to say we thought
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about something else. do you have minutes? you don't have xhnt minutes what was it about? we don't know yet can you can you tell us what it's about? we are not sure yet. they post poent it not ready to tell you that. this is post poenting going on i'm here eight years accountable to the members of our community no way would this be going on. there are people out here that came to hours and hours of meetings to get this thing on and people promised them this money would support them in getting some of this opportunity this stuff that is happening is happening because you have ad ten groups that are kicking the can down the road postponing things they don't want the 7th member they would like to kick
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off the pak seat and acon transition. they would like not to fund san francisco housing development in the program when the mobilization program has given out $200,000 to local african american contractors out there who otherwise wouldn't get a loan took a year to put it in place by the time they put it in place those people had already started so it didn't have the impact it was supposed to have and this is to help them support the jobs they were trying. the point is the idea is you have the local people work for the contractors and they understand the folks that are now entering into the union you can't have people -- we have ace not to be like this we have ace
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on our board where is the rental assistance program? where is the foreclosure program why is it bayview is still behind in the number of people entered into the lottery this is only way we're going to get it this is not rocket scientists people down here for affordable housing and sitting on $9 million you need to ask your city partners who you are talking to you are directly over the money to change that you are not helping to impact change instead what you are trying to do consolidate power to kick off the community voits that were there to hold you accountable to say no you can't do that you have to do this have you to talk to those people to let community members stand on equal footing with them ask them to do the
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process inside of the ic not outside of the ic right now they're holding up the technical assistance money for san francisco foundation there might not be staff there will not be a vote for rental assistance that was supposed to be voted on three months ago there won't be that this month either i told them they were supposed to do that two months ago here we are. this is the kind of game play. if you have watched cnn and disgusted and the dead limit you talk to the partners that are didding a disserve to their labor member tell us and churches the people they're supposed to respect that is disgraceful don't talk to me about anything until you solve that. >> thank you. next speaker please?
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>> good afternoon supervisors thank you for calling this meeting supervisor, cohen it's appalling as a resident of the bayview community to know this money is out there and supposed to come to the community for people to be better for lives to be changed. it's one in a month where is the money? why isn't it being allocated to where it needs to go? who do we hold accountable because we always say we need to hold someone accountable when we don't pay our rent they hold us accountable. when you don't do your job us who put you in office we hold you accountable we need to hold someone accountable where is the money? where is the funding for all of these programs we so badly need
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in our community. i'm not saying it's your fault it's not i'm asking as humbly as i know how you work with us so we can get the funding allocated to the right places that it needs to go so our community can thrive so we can grow so we can prosper prosper we deserve that thank you. >> next speaker please? after this next spooek speaker i will call up irene mathies vander court alease vincent. >> hi my name is robin ron sinson i want to know when is the next meeting and we would like to attend the meeting if it is okay when and where >> i will connect you to mccay
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to answer that question for you >> i'm in labor i still haven't got a job in alice grifth and still looking forward to having a job down there can somebody help me to get a job there? i live right across the street i have been waiting and waying. thank you. >> next speaker in queue irene mathews you are here? is that you? okay. >> hello supervisor my name is irene mathews living in alice griffith what happened to the money and you held the money for seven years what happened to the interest on the money
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>> thank you next speaker please? >> my my name is adrian vaneder court a resident of alice griffith and attention association on the palmitariaan for eight years it's disgusting on the hold up on the money i hope one day soon they will release it then another thing i have we have been disrespectful the tennis association of alice griffith we don't hear nothing. i'm wondering why is that? >> thank you. >> thank you. >> cathy dave sis ronay kent.
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>> hi miami cathy davis director of the senior centers i have been in bayview for 44 years i can't figure out how to penetrate this system to get funding i think my organization has done a lot could do a lot and would like to see something happen they paid us $6,000 for this lovely listening sessions if we had them i would have done them for free for the 5th time we can purchase the property take the money invest in property we could have dubt i'm so frustrating i know i'm not the only one trying to see something good happen it's a travesty that much money is sitting there with the housing crisis we have i have gone to the san francisco foundation they have funded me for the
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crisis for bayview's point i can't get the so kuled private money in the community to support the work i'm doing the work that the community is trying to make happen i know it's got to change i know it was agreed upon at a certain point in time it is dysfunctional it is not working there are too many people in bayview hunters point i don't like it when mr. walker is correct i want to choose to make him wrong and have this process work. >> mr. charlesly walker. >> charlesly walker yeah not -- >> thank you. >> my name is rola kent and with you are began strategies it's disturbing to hear some of the things i have heard today being
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that you know i have been here for years now in my position that i have working in the community and it's kind of sad to know all that money is sitting we have people that don't have jobs don't have -- who can't pay rent that need assistance i wish something can change now. >> thank you. next speaker please >> i'm dr. veronica honey cut chair for the chair of dock yard supervisor kim it's always nice to see a breath of fresh air when it comes to our supervisors let me tell you this. you know i'm going to have to be -- i will try to push it through in 3 or 6 minutes you will give me >> two minutes >> okay i'm going to move
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quickly the san francisco foundation is doing the best it can with the reason strants they're in. when you sit in those meetings the way i do the way angelo does you have to keep praying to keep your mind straight. i'm going to be very honest with you about that what is not working? the 7th person issue has taken too long to take place all of the political foolishness can can has kept up from having the 7th brirn that can break the internal grid like in the ship -- number two the technical assistance program the f that does not get rat pied we will lose sak and another one.
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both african american male as both competent doing great work. the original pack was not to the private agreement you have the ad ten organizations coming in you have the organizations in the cac pack in l level of trust. transparency i have begged the ad ten folks put on the table we can negotiate it and move this business forward nothing is frt coming we need the public's feedback we need their access that's what keeps us in line. not getting the dollars to these folks is not working of coursely ace calling for a housing moratorium when housings is needed thank you. supervisor weiner for that particularly working class folks in the bayview.
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what else is not working? in plan to place to take some of the those funds and make them sustainable so there may be money we can identity liez in the future that's a problem. these issues must be addressed and they must be addressed now thank you for allowing us to speak to you what is wrong with that ic >> thank you. next spooeker please. >> i want to thank you. supervisor cohen for calling this hearing as well as supervisor weiner and kim a long time bayview red a member of the sfop one of the original -- pokes who are listening who are watching in the audience right now sfop what anglo said
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ad ten having separate meeting those meetings are open. i will take responsibilities if we haven't advertised them sfop, meets every 4th monday at ymca at 6 o'clock. you are more than welcome to come address the issues to figure out our game plan for the ic and get the community input. i thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about what the ic has done. it's good to talk about some of of our failures and stumbles so we can go back and readd joust those issues as a whole i don't want people to walk away thinking this is negatively impacting us we will hit here and crumble we will work harder
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so the next time we're here it will be a better representation of what we're doing some of my colleagues on the board have definitely alluded so some of our internal dysfunction i joined the board in march of 2014 with la shawn when jacob moody was leaving i personally have been working hard to try to bring some softbreak some of the tension and bring uniformity get rid of some of the mistrust. it's been good moments and bad moments there is definitely more to go. i think there say lot of transition the board is having in terms of cony and john from the ace workforce not here their membership has changed they're not voting members of our board any more basically there is work
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that needs to be done we need to get the money out faster and quick leer come out to sfop meetings every 4th monday or the cac meetings which is tonight they give updates on the ic this with all of us working together we can fix some of the problems in our group. >> thank you very public comment on item three. if there is any other members of the public i'm sorry i think you have already spoken. sorry you can only speak one time. mrs. walker you presented but you have not spoken for public comment if there is anybody else that would like to speak on public comment if not she will be the last one. >> la shawn walker lenar urban i wanted to clarify or add to the discussion that i heard mrs.