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that make a project like this happen that had a i want to thank you and the staff and silicon valley bank we have the tag line in addition to the $20 million each we put in in debt and equity which we're participant in the equity together combined putting in $40 million plus silicon valley's bank $90,000 federal home loan grant we we have a tag line with an one of our many tag lines nothing we'd rather be doing that says it all nothing we'd rather be doing than partnering with mercy hospital on t a project like this (clapping)
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>> so from city community capital thanks too on the so thank you from the bank side (clapping.) as christine mentioned another important partner was the bay area lift and another corporation they'll be speaking together you've seen todd many times he's often our k3wik9 investor and able to work with complicated projects that makes them seem simple and many of you know a stalwart over the years and provided an important grant to help us get the lead silver identification so with that todd and peggy. >> good afternoon let me introduce peggy with the bay
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area they're a parent corporation i have to be novice to peggy what lift does is provide loans for people and she's into a deal with the last money out thank you, peg i didn't as you've heard from silicon valley bank christine those are complicated projects i couldn't do it doug made it sound easy this team a fantastic sharon and barbara and jennifer they're tough negotiators i'm surprised they let me have 38 my shirt this project is a multiple number of investors so silicon valley bank and wells fargo bank of the west and city national are you'll people that
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gave us money so from my prospective this is special thank you and we appreciate it (clapping) >> so supervisor kim was mentioning to see me that's the great point so some seniors that live and be part of the community are living in this home will have been the advocates for change i think that supervisor mentioned the incredible advocacy around the corner liquor dell lists we call them that in jerseys and all the wonderful thanks that happy and mercy is in an england visible position there's so much work but in addition to st. anthony's i want to thank the community partners that have been here and
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will continue to be here and do such great work lukter and he others (calling names) so thanks to everyone that do all the work that helped us get to here today lp (clapping.) with that, i'd like to bring up diane in a and laura to say a few words (clapping) >> and beven. >> sorry we don't have a photo release. >> this is vera raze grandson beven the last time we were here was at a groundbreaking i have wonderful pictures of my mom
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shooe she walked down the foundation of the building i'm really glad we have that memory of her and those pictures of her thank you for naming that building after our mom it really is fantastic culmination of her work and her dedication this building embodies so much of what she worked for and fought for and inside this buildings are the residents and the people the residents the seniors a that's who she worked for and cared about and we told the story at her memorial on her way to intensive care on the last days of her life she took the list of potential residents there's a long list a printout
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of the lottery and she want to review the list because like i said, the people are what meandered the most to her she also encouraged us to volunteer so as a teacher i've brought some of the fifth graders to the community service and glad memorial i really appreciate having this place to continue to serve to bring evan is serve and volunteer (clapping) and keblg with his grandma this is truly we believe a perfect way to memorialize vieira and better than any gravestone thank you
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(clapping). >> i get weep i didn't at some point that was the first okay so i think those are wonderful words i think all of us appreciated what vieira did it is a wonderful feeling in the room so have this many people that cared about her and this impact so many people in the neighborhood that work was influenced or started by vieira this is a wonderful opportunity with people that shared that experience i want to bring up ms. jackie
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robinson a new resident here to say a few words ms. robinson is quite be unbeliever she's raised 14 children and she's here today (clapping). >> hello, everyone (clapping) i'm a resident here at vera haile housing senior housing i'd like to thank mercy housing for giving me an affordable place to live a wonderful place thank you (clapping) and especially thanks to vera haile housing (clapping). >> all right. thank you very much jackie and so by way of of closure we're going to have a brief encounter for some of the
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folks for the speakers on the deck there's going to be tours and a little bit of a buffet lunch we hope you'll stick around i'm scanning to make sure i'm sure i forgot someone i'm going to have a will with the fact i'm sure i forgot someone i want to (calling names) are the staff that will be running the building for mercy and going a wonderful job marissa grew up in this neighbor the mercy staff are incredibly dedicated and incredible strpdz and for the residents i'm happy this opportunity is here i hope you'll share your steroids with that i want to thank everyone for your time and keep
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yourselves part of the movement and hopefully st. anthony's and mercy are good stewards as well have a great day (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank you all for coming out this morning it's a beautiful san francisco morning as it seems to be those dazed
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but a difficult morning as yesterday yesterday morning an 87-year-old resident of sunset resident named alfred was walk on this street geary that boulevard in a krouks on 26 oath trying to cross the road when struck by an automatic turning left onto endearing later in the afternoon died another san francisco general hospital this is not yet conformed we ronald reagan are hearing that someone driving a motorcycle on 15th was struck and killed by an automobile i want to express you know on my behalf and everyone here our profound condolences to the
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family and friends and anybody that i know either of the individuals are who is impacted by the loss it is tragic that those people are losing their lives on our streets this is a franklin we're restore here the city adopted a goal a policy to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco and while we're not here to mourn their loss we certainly want to honor them and again offer our dlops we're here to reinforce the notation this is is not accidents i want to ass ask us to eliminate accidents when we talk about traffic collisions in the street the word accidents suggests inability accidents happy but we've we've done by adopting
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vision zero we don't accept that the inability of people getting killed and sierra injured in our streets not something we're any longer than accepting and it is something that modern we're telegraph hill working together under the leadership of our mayor within the city but the greater san francisco community to make sure we eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco by 20024 there's a number of physical improvements that are going into the streets we've already gotten 12 of the 24 so-called vision zero projects in the ground and here today to talk about improvements on gere and fulton ironically the two streets people lost their lives in the last two
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hours makes this real and impervious we're making the improvements and also importing the laws we're joined by the san francisco police department to step up to make sure that when people are traveling around san francisco no matter how are you how are you how their traveling adhere to the laws and it is about education outreach we look to the media to help us get out achievement of vision zero everything has a responsibility anytime you step off a sidewalk go go that in but you automobile or walk that your traveling and aware of our surrounding so we will continue to doing the right thing to make the city save we need everything to do their part so we don't have to start press
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conferences in the future with press conferences like this we're doing a lot with the leadership from city hall the board of supervisors adopted vision zero policy and mayor ed lee has directed all the departments and exclusive branch of government to accelerate do everything we can to make our streets safer please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed (clapping.) let me add that as we take a moment ponder the circumstances of which those fatalities happen we are working very hard to make sure that there is less of this and today, we're in district one with commissioner eric mar who also joined strongly the effort to put their concrete work into vision zero to make that happen
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today, we wanted to demonstrate as part find an education and awareness campaign those strooirpz we called them san bernardino are a striping on the swauktsz that have in the past obey retired around schools and mid street kroger's are now going to be more dominant in our intersections beginning on geary street those are important one there are and do in fact slow down traffic and make people more aware but also what ed reiskin and others have been saying in our street safety advocates we've got to make people more aware if we can make sure that ice are the first and not other distractions that the eyes see the crosswalks and
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people in the crosswalk using that it will penetrate people in vehicles to slow down and respect the people that are using the sidewalks and streets and the warns turns into a higher level of safety on the streets this is exactly what we're trying to side here you'll see the departments working i'm going to take physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going to happen because we as a city agreed we're going to put serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness comes boo about it as we work on the compacted streets and
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intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the so-called descend are a striping we'll be taking a look at with our police department and our mta and public defender's office and others on the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will slow down the speed on and we've already done so on sunset and
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some of the streets we to name more streets that has your signage and office those as well as our officers we want to insure the public we're working to redesign other streets completed streets and make sure that we present safety to be the preit is not necessary policy to be rkd in those streets but also you'll see me and the supervisors and ed reiskin as well as others making periodic announcements to keep visibility on this serious topic of that he had public safety bicycle safety and driving safety to make sure that awareness is at its highest level and to make sure that violators it will be consequences and our officers are out here today sometimes, we might feel we cannot solve every
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if at any point we can keep a vigilant and dedicated effort to continue to educate and making those changes so this leads to a higher level of safety not about being help also but more action in lives lost that were going to take an opportunity to come even more concerted effort we need to make to prevent those things from happening we have busy streets it in san francisco that's a indication of our economy but make sure that is complimented with a higher level of awareness for safety for everybody thank you for being here commissioner eric mar. >> (clapping.) thank you complair and director reiskin on the yes, ma'am of the responding district i'm going to
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put my notes aside i'm anger and inside mr. alfred 87-year-old mr. alfred yee on gary and 26th avenue outside of a senior center in 2011 a woman an geary we campground a 3 and 4-year-old open fulsome modify who was killed on 25 letting avenue in fulsome we've known about this for years how long will it take to take rapid action on vision zero so as director reiskin they're not accidents they're killing basically we have to work on education engineering and enforcement i'm proud our r0r7bd station is here they are the one station that took a hard
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look at vision zero i want to thank the hard working men and women at the richmond station i'm raifr from the robert district i learned about that or this so my comments are from my heart three or four supervisors from the time after sophies death in the new year's time over a years ago we're looking at new york city and other cities with the bicycle coalition and walk sf and our community coalition we've been advocating for this i'm glad it tom maguire with our sustainable streets is here my hope was we painted stripes that are important csa as we think about high injury corridors like geary
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and others we're looking at other practices and putting our money where and mouth is the culture of feeding in san francisco our community coalition office says the culture meeting meeting in san francisco not only pedestrians but bicyclists and other drivers at risk there are too many tragedies not only mr. alfred lee and others in the richmond district throughout the city the two children i mentioned the told her a two combrrldz hit in the outdoor richmond on fulsome we move to lower the speed limit i hope that our city like portland and seattle have safe routes to schools i'm hoping san francisco iowa's what put our money where our mouth is and making the streets safe is a
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responsibility as the mayor said for all of us but the walk sf and the pedestrian advocates have been working on this for many decades we have to listen the coalitions the traffic lights like the new ones planned for 22nd and geary and 26th and geary like the ones near the senior centers i hope to implement that around other vulnerable areas i as geary rapid transit moves forwarded how to implement the vision zero longer than geary boulevard i as a superintendant for the richmond i urge the mayor and director reiskin to move as
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quickly as possible to prevent the death in the corridors reducing the slightly and thirty mile-per-hour in many ways is not that much of a reduction but as asz our distributing that slowing down saves lives we'll see that on fulsome we need more help i want to say that the vision zero committee the board of supervisors are meeting i'm going to do my best to look at it becomes by the sfmta to move as rapidly not only in the richmond but citywide i know that safety should be first as the mar said i'm here to say for the richmond district after the two tragedy deaths i'll do everything i can to prevent death for the future thank you very much for being here. >> thank you supervisor mar mar
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i'll say did supervisor has been one of the be strornth advocates longer than fulsome and geary but we are i will assure you working with the partners in the city to make sure that the transit improvements only geary boulevard is fully incorporating you'll see best practices in terms of the public safety at the transit liability and itself public safety at the same time, we're looking at ways such as the crosswalks or anything we can do while we're designing the 0 project we're not waiting for the big projects we're putting in krouksz open geary i want to thank the mayor for his leadership in pulling the agencies together and engaging with the community and the advocates with the victims of the families to make sure that
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we're getting this work down as quickly as possible. >> we're going to i'm going to ask the mayor and the supervisor to help us lay the paint on the final crosswalk dozens along geary i want to recognize the director of sustainable streets and the liveable streets director who does the design and george who hearsay a field operation with the 0ur9 city to put the paint strips on the ground thank you, everyone for coming out i'm going to ask the mayor to help initiative that painting of the crosswalks.
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(clapping.) >>
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