started. i want to welcome you today. my name is supervisor malia cohen and your district 10 supervisor. how are you? good morning! this is a big day for all of us here. okay, i want to thank we will have translation today. i want to thank ocia frubeing here from the mayors aufss for doing the translation. okay, here we are, we are gathered at 66

raymond. this is a long time coming. this is process that the mayor and i have been working on the for last 3 years and i want to acknowledge every single community member that has joined us along this journey. thank you. [applause] for over 100 years this building is extremely important to the community. many people have danced, many people have shared a meal, there are wonderful cultural performanceess here in this building and today we come as a community to celebrate the reopening and rebirth of 66 raymond. thank you. today is

not just a about reclaiming this building we lost but reclaim agsymbolic importance this plaiz holds in the community. i'm proud to stand before you today to deliver a promise that i made to you that the mayor made to you to insure this building was open and it will remain an asset in the community. this building

reflects diverse population of the viz valley community. this building will serve everyone from those that live in public housing all the way down to the community members that will join us when the projeblth project is rebuild. so, you might be wondering what type of activities will be held here in this space. i want to introduce to you a few members of our city family here

todayment we have a lot of people we want to recognize. first and for emost the department of aging as well as department of children, youth and families. these two departments alone are going insure that we got services to offer fwraum the kind ergartners to the seniors of the viz valley community.

there men people that are a part of our xhounty that remained steadfast and dedicated to this vision. i want to recognize community leaders. i saw patsy teato and want to recognize [inaudible] doing a fantastic job with the beamen centers. i want to recognize the [inaudible] supporting the viz valley neighborhood. i want to also recognize the leadership, i see tony from apacc that are here. thank you for the community members that joined us and partnership and stephen i see you. [inaudible] i want to recognize the folks here and able to join us today. i want to bring up to speak a man that

delivered on his promises, who is a man i have come to grow to respect and admire his commitment and tenacity. he needs really no introduction, but he is our wonderful mayor, ed lee. please welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you all for coming to this opening of 66 raymond street. in addition to all the people that supervisor malia cohen just mentioned we just have carmen chew come in as well. she helps make sure we

get all the revenue in the city so malia cohen and i can respond spend it. let me tell you a little story about this place because a lot of people through chinese radio and letters and advocacy with supervisor cohens office and my office to many different channels wanted this place open, but want to explain why has taken a little longer than we had anticipated. a few

years ago, this location was put in bankruptcy by the bank. unbenonesed to us because supervisor and cohen and i were working to make sure we got it from sth the bank, the bank sold it to a individual family. so, about two and a half years ago supervisor cohen and i said, well, we have to sit down with the new owner who bought this through the auction and bankruptcy court to plead the

them on behalf our visitation valley and district 10 community that we needed the place for the benefit of the seniors and our families. and so for several months we got in touch with the owner and their representatives and we discovered that they are a old san francisco family that also listened to our request on behalf of the community. and

so, after those many months and after we representing the interest of the city and the community, they agreed to give this property to the city on the condition that we use it for this community's benefit. the building was not in very good shape. there was a lot of

things that were broken. a lot of conditions that were poor maintenance and so part of the condition was that we would use the money that we originally were going to use to buy the building to invest in it so that the real estate department can work with public works and police and fire and human services agency, work with department of aging, work with xhern children youth and family, all the different agencies, work together to make sure we have the building in shape so when we promise to have a place for people to use, it would be a place that would be in good shape. so, i know

that it has taken a little long , but on behalf of supervisor cohen and me and all the departments, i want to thank you the members of visitation valley community for being so patient to have your own center and to make sure we set it up so there could be meals for healthy seniors and families here. it could be used for kids and childrens plays. we have a brand new floor behind us that will be used for

entertainment and for the kids to have. we have a kitchen that works. we have rooms that are safe. no leaky roofs. all of this is all done together because we care about the quality of life of the people who live here. so, we are very happy not just to open the center, but we have agencies

that the city funds and whether it is self help for the elder ly or whether it is the asian pacific community that the board is here. i see many the directors and board members that are here. they will all create and support programs that we fund so that everybody's lives can be enriched here because we know that if there is any communities that feel isolated from the rest of the city, it is not good for the residents and that is why supervisor cohen and i worked skoe so hard not just to get the space, but our commitment now is going to be that we support all the programs that enrich peoples lives and have the center a healthy place, a fun place, a place that supervisor cohen because i don't dance anymore but she can still dance. she

can dance in high heels backwards with carmen chiu and i will sit and watch. and that people have a place where local officers also help keep the community safe. it is place where people can learn how to be citizens and good pathways to citizenship and unit family members rchlt you will see me come down to support all the wonderful programs just like the bayview opera house. we are never going to allow these communities to feel isolated and abandoned, they are part of the city just like everybody should be. and so with the

support of our office, neighborhood services and support from all the groups, i want to say thank you for everybody's strong advocacy. now you have a safe, a really great location and now i can ask mar lean tran to come and say, thank you rather than, you

haven't done yet what you are promised. we delivered on our promise mar lean and she will say thank you i know that as well. thank you everybody. lets talk and have fun and make sure the programs that improve the quaument of life, make sure everybody that is safe. this is now the community center and we are very proud to have done our part to deliver it. let's use this place for all the right reasons and let's have fun. thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor for those wonderful words. i appreciate the mayor taking a moment and walking us back in time reminding how far we have come when we lost this location and we went and fought and got it back. thank you for your support. there is a couple things i really want to talk about and we have speakers that will touch on it in depth. one thing i have been hearing in the community is there a

certain this place will be exclusive to one segment of the neighborhood oppose today opening up for everyone. there mayors staff and i have taken careful steps to insure that this is go tog be a location for everyone. the viz valley community has a very rich history they share with multiple cultures and this

community we need to come together, we will come together and this is a space that is going bring us together. i like to bring up sharine mac faden from department of adult-dos, what is that? aging and adult services. she will talk about the senior programming. she will talk about the rfp process. i want to make sure the space is utilized from morning to sunset. why don't you come up and share with us your vision. [applause] >> the folks at the door, why

don't you come in. there is space along this wall. come on in. come in. it is a fire hazard for everyone to block the exist door so i need everyone to come in and not block the exist. >> good morning everyone. so i'm delighted to see this room full. i can't believe it. last time i came in this room was empty and still being worked on and can't believe because that was about a month

ago, i can't believe everybody pulled this off. but i'm really delighted to see all of the senior citizens in the room today and just ask if you are a senior citizen and proud of that fact, if you can just raise your hands. that is fantastic. one thing i want to say before i talk about the process here is aging is all about living. and i'm so happy

and think all are so happy we have a mayor ed lee and a beard of supervisors today led by supervisor cohen who really support aging is all about living. so we envision great things to happen here and i just want to start by thanking annie chung who is ceo of self help for the elderly because self help for the elder when we ask them to, jumped to come in here and start the meal services and to start some

activities. i just want to thank annie chung and her team for asking so quickly. [applause] i also like to thank [inaudible] and apacc and his team for the services they have been providing for over many years here. and i also like to thank amor saunt augo and apa for being a fantastic master tenant and thinking about services for seniors and

children and everyone between. [applause] and i like to thank my colleague mu aria sue from department of children and families because i think we will have a great partnership. i just quickly want to say we started serveish meals self help started service meals september one and we are serving generally speaking 80 meals a day here. today i think we had more like 150 but that may be because we have celebrities here today. in

addition to the meals we have activities here offered by both apacc and self help for the elderly and those include things like, karaoke and dancing and exercise classes. but in addition to that, department of aging and adult services have just put out a

informal bid for more services and so we are looking for organization to apply to us so they can provide more services in this building because as mayor lee said, we want the building to be used from morning to night. sqump and i just want to reiterate what supervisor cohen and mayor lee said, this building is everyone. visitation valley has a rich and diverse history and so when we look at the proposals when they come in we will look for really strong

partnerships to make sure we are serving all the community. so i just want toened my reminding you aging is all about living. [applause] >> thank you there are a few community partners i want to acknowledge. i want to recognize our outstanding police department, the ingleside station in particular that patrols the streets of visitation valley. we have officers here with us. thank you vaer much for being here

sfpd, we appreciate you. i also want to recognize department of real estate that was this incredibly instrumental helping negotiate the property and want to acknowledge john gaven from department of real estate. and finally, i also want to recognize adembly men david chiu, he is where us every step of the way when a member the board of sfr visor squz now a representative for saf san francisco and sacramento. he has two staff persons here who probably don't need introduction mr. chan and

[inaudible] the next person i like to introduce is dr. maria sioux who is the director of department called department of children, youth and families. she is considered the expert here in san francisco when it comes to early childhood education and programming, summer program. dr. sue will help us program the space for our children. [applause]ue who

is the director of department called department of children, youth and families. she is considered the expert here in san francisco when it comes to early childhood education and programming, summer program. dr. sue will help us program the space for our children. [applause] >> good morning everyone. i'm maria and thank you so much for visor cohen for that generous introduction. so today is a wonderful day. i remember 3 years ago standing here with mayor lee and supervisor cohen when they made a promise to this community and their promise was that, we have to close the doors of 66 raymond today, three years ago, we will come back and make this place better, safer, more engaging and for everyone. today they have succeeded. so thank you so much to supervisor cohen and mayor lee for holding and keeping your promise to the

community. [applause] it has take an while to get here, we are here. i am so happy to be partnering with other city departments, brother and sisters to make the programs here and facilities here as bright and as brilliant as the people who live in this

community. so you already heard about all the wonderful program s that will come here for the seniors. let me share all the other wonderful programs we have here for the children, youth and families.

we have over at 50 raymond two amazing amazing partners. first is cross cultural family services and they run a very high quality preschool program and we jointly fund that program with first 5 san francisco, the human services age and department of children, xhoo youth and families. so,

cross cultural also runs an after school program for us and it is also available to all our families here as well as lots of other programs within the visitation valley. thank you mayor lee. so, we also have apa family services and we are very grateful to have amore san tiaugo here. a pa runs the resource center also open to resident in the visitation valley community. let me tell

you about a couple new things we will be doing, more things we will ing bring into this facility and visitation valley community in general. first, we will be partnering with first 5 san francisco department of human-human services agency and our department to release a joint rfp which is competitive process to put more family services and family support programs here in the community.

and then, dcys in july 2017 will release our big rfp for children, youth and family services and that's to provide funding for non-profit agencies to run after school programs, teen programs, youth workforce programs, health and wellness programs and overall violence prevention programs. i

remember when i was in this community talking to the board of dbcc several years ago and they said to me, we will hold you dcyf accountable to making sure that whatever it that you do to help the community thrive you need to make sure we do tit more in visitation valley and with more commitment and dedication from our staff and i want to share i'm delivering on that promisement . we will allocate funding to visitation valley community and-air yae than other places in the city because we believe the need in visitation valley is really great. we also believe that

everyone in visitation valley deserves to have access to high quality programs and services so we can all as a community thrive and be amazing and do better because san francisco, we believe that it is great place to be and to grow up here and let's do this together. [applause] thank you.

>> we are all most done with our program. i like to bring up to the microphone, mrs. luvon king, she a long time viz valley resident and community activist and leader. mrs. luvon king. >> good morning. my name is luvon king and i moved into this neighborhood 40 years ago. i had a 6 year old and a 2 year old. my husband and my

younger brother had been killed . a purchased my first home, it was 4 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths. when people would knock on the door i would open the door and they would say, where is your mommy. and i would

reply, i am the mommy. now, my 2 year old is 47 years old and she works with the san francisco police department. and my son still needs a lot of love and prayer from all of us. and this center supplied groceries next door, provided childcare. we came in here and had classes and had fun and did dancing and art work so this is a rich history for me i'm a miracle that is happy to be proud of it. i'm honored to be

here today and we will continue to mix and mingle. there is no little i's and big u's we are all one big family. you's we are all one big family. this facility has supervisor cohen said is open to everyone. we want to you to spread the word. there are services for seniors. i'm a senior citizen and malia cohen called me grandmaand i just happen to be nana and happen to be 70 years old and i feel great.

[applause] and thank you all very much. [applause] >> okay, laink ladies and gentlemen i want to say thank you for joining us. we have refreshments we are honored to sirfb you as a token our our appreciation for your patient and kindness and remember today

is a celebration for a new beginning and new birth right here at 66 reaened. raymond. thank you very much , have a wonderful day. and before we conclude our program, we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony and i like to bring up our recorder campen carmen chiu for a short presentation. >> [speaking chinese]

>> i'll keep my remarks brief. i want to come out here to say, a lot of the wurk we do bring revenue in is make sure we are able to provide for services like this. for us, being able to provide service for seniors is so important. you raise us when we were liting it is important for us to take care of you as we are able to. [speaking chinese] [applause]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [cheers and applause] support. >> i'm going to get starting this is a great opportunity a great momentum i'm using the

your host with many other hosts including the residents this is grouching foreclosure transbay 78 and grand opening of gained 6 this is at first mixed income in transbay if this was a vision that our redevelopments agency ocii and the city has had of creating communities that are truly mick all the amenities you need to live a wonderful life in a transit rich location without driving a car all the time he know that we have the chief promoter of number one driving cars your mayor, we have a pot and get you to transit 7 right now the salary didn't work we're lucky to have a couple of residents that offered to speak

and give me tare perspective on what it is like tobacco live in the did you development first, i want to start by welcoming up your mayor we're particularly lucky in san francisco i think we have a cast of elected officials that support affordable housing like not other thank you and 23w7b jane kim and your mayor go comments we've here but open up to mayor ed lee. >> thank you doug for the introduction good morning, everyone today's lucky numbers 6 and 7 (laughter) 6 because we are in district 6 i know that supervisor kim know that for sure they represented this district and a partner to make sure that every opportunity we have whether that you are

ocii tiffany and the the commissioners are here i see all the commissioners very proud of their role in infrastructure and investment for your communities and they have not failed on the steps of going from a redevelopment that was kind of extinguished to make sure what happens in the city and county so i want to thank you to ocii and thank doubling and mercy housing for o for being a great partner many projects that olsen and the mayor's office of housing working together in collaboration on and particularly i've been asking recently years my ocii list i need to really be on top of what tiffany and the commissioners are doing i want to be there when they're making announcements about another 69, 100 percent unit our city this is what we're doing today with the lucky

numbers of 6 and 7 as doug said we're block 6 and block 67 that is groundbreaking with another one and 11 units all 100 percent affordable to low income and middle-income families this is fulfilling promises of our city that we will build affordable housing along with the market-rate housing we're doing and we've make sure that 50 percent of all relevant units we put an there are middle-income and low income this is what 50 percent of ami is important to understand those are deep, deep substances for those teaches projects just a year ago reiskin ca a apartments for that formally homeless was built and opted out the residents reinterviewed them

i'll see a lot of smiles in their oath the streets into supportive housing we need to do more to articulate our goals for thousands of holes it on the street in between that we'll build as many affordable housing we can i know that recently you read in the newspapers i have courageous the developers to go as high as 25 percent of their market-rate housing to be affordable we have to, of course, pay attention what is economic and feasible so that number will adjust but it is still a something that the cities have to the figured out we have taught figured with our serious investments in fights last week there blocks 6 and 7 again are examples of what we cocktail to mc as a affordable in those

cases 100 percent you can't change that is not to be were interpreted any on the way than a strong commitment by the city as we gain control on the sites we'll make it as affordable as we can the people we're representing and others people that does have a vows unless what we are doing with the sites take a look at the squander for ocii over two years and see an active organization working with the mayor's office of housing and the former housing authority that are a hope sf for all the public housing and making sure we encourage anyone that owns vacant lots in the city? if so it vacant arrest empty gas station give it up we have a need we can build and do better

things are and encourage public transportation because one of the reasons we're able to gain much such a site is because of electrician transit center for the entire area it will be i look forward to being here because i want to ride the high speed rail from the basement to la marble we'll beat the dodgers as a result of that all of you in the housing development the private and nonprofit eastern working with our city agencies thank you to you all of you that's not easy to accomplish and takes a lot of different skill sets to put it altogether but now it is 69 in a few moms another one and 11 units you put those kinds of things together with the other projects we're under construction under permit and you emigrate potentially 10

thousand more affordable housing units by 2020 and this is what we're committed to and making this another example questions are on the way to accomplishing this thing together with all of you have go solar conversations with the board to do more thank you very much . >> (clapping.) >> we're blessed in san francisco to have elected officials that are supportive and many of you know the supervisors track record on there for mercy housing on many, many occasions and building more affordable housing in her district marathon any of the districts i want to thank the supervisor and bring her up for a few minutes supervisor kim. >> thank you doug and actually over the past year the mayor and

i have been mercy housing ribbon cutting with 24th street i housing for the former homeless families in mbe the reefrment halls been an amazing promise we've eye to build high levels of affordability all the way into families to the formally homeless and lives on the street to mifrment families that can't afford to buy a home in san francisco and transbay neighborhood is within of the neighborhoods way before the mayor and i negotiated 33 percent trev o transbay had a loft i didn't gel of affordable housing >> (clapping.) >> i want to recognize he's not here but our former state senator john burdening what is from it is in the midst of the

housing crisis we're seeing units for low income and mifrment families through the work that happened many years ago and part of the solution of some of the households today block 6 and 7 were the first development up in bid i want to recognize ocii, tiffany the director and commissioners commissioner myrna melgar and commissioner singh to make sure we are building affordable housing mifrment on time and schedule thank you for all your hard work thank you for all you do and mercy an amazing participate one thing to get the funding and one thing to find the site but to have the capability and know how and knowledge is incredibly inmental and having nonprofit that help

the communities they work here already and provide services onsite to the residents so to critically important we want to make sure we're serving your families and households they can stay in the housing we're building today so i'm very excited for the opening of blocks and congratulations and thank you for choosing san francisco to build in and really xiefrtd about building blocks 7 next we'll be heading over to the groundbreaking and thank you to everyone that is involved in making it happen today. >> (clapping.) >> all right. as usual the supervisor cadet me to the punch thank you tiffany and her staff they're a lot of people from the city does that really, really couldn't have done this project it relied on the mayor's office

partner and thank you to others ben and gretchen and jean i'm sure one more name sarah price all of whom are miscellaneous those are truly partnerships this had three or four stages thank you to the commissions for your support and the ongoing support we're excited to be about to begin to mark soon with the ocii and candle stick point he can't agree with the mayor more we'll make progress i'm personally happy if the perspective that those are truly mixed income communities trying to build together to make sure we have the right amenities as an example when the one and 20 apartments requester up in the middle a very affordable

childcare center another part we need to take into account a lot of people to thank i'll entering first this if you have comments wait a minute. >> this was a very i'm not going into the gory details but a scomplashthd building more complicated than most you're sitting or standing on top of a garage a garage that is actually, the foundation for both it high-rise tower and ours so i would not say i should would build two buildings but in project sponsor couldn't have done it without the work of the team innovate because the most important but they did an amazing job i don't see the folks but chuck sorry chuck of