five. there is one not under dr that had a vacant unit. >> does that jive with your numbers? >> yes. >> okay, thank you. so, you know, i sit up here and my heart goes out to everybody here who spoke. my father was a veteran from world war ii. he's no longer with us. i know what he went through and he gave to the country and it affected him for the rest of his life, too. i know judy woo helped you and gave you hope and kept her word and that's what you're telling us. two things though, i'm looking through the lens of she did all this with the goal of financial gain. so she was making $100,000 a month doing these things.

i also look it through the lens of there were many legal ways judy woo could have helped you, she could have bought a building with 30 units or a warehouse or legalized some other space in the dog patch or somewhere but she chose not to. she chose to game the system. and what sowed it for me, there were lots that were illegally added, there was a dr where i think there were 12 units and as a trust had, we had no choice in the end but to demolish two or three of the 27 units. i felt horrible because we had no placement plan for the people in the units. here we have a placement plan and it comes down to me, with -- i have hope that mr. buckley and

mr. cole and the city family are going to give you hope and keep their word and help you. i don't have that hope with miss woo after i heard she put another person at risk in a unit we thought was vacant. the plan around let's spend 200 k to "make them legal" because there's no stove, after hearing that doesn't hold water with me. i couldn't trust judy woo as far as i can throw her. i would trust the city and trust the fact that we have your interests in mind and you're going to get comparable units and i would support the staff recommendation and again, hearing it was another person put at risk when she knew they were being put at risk sealed the deal for me. >> commissioner moore. >> this is not only heartwrenching but probably the most difficult thing we have

ever did. there's the human side, which all of us are 500% on target, but then there's the reality. and in addition to what commissioner richards eloquently summarized, there's the others. i did not expect to hear other neighbors talking about what is basically a primary rh1, get along with each other without causing nuisance and stress. hearing that was not necessarily finger pointing and loud shouting but very calm and convincing presentation that there are already others who are affected by what is basically the self-focused operation of personal gain, aside from the niceness and i appreciate that she is humanly friendly,

accessible and caring, but the other side, she's not caring enough to deal with those impacted by it. the trash, the excessive number of cars and that's all part of getting along in a neighborhood no matter where you live. i think that makes me support and be convinced that the summary is on target and i have to stand with what the department and city attorney's office are proposing as being the one and only way to get us out of this. i do have to put my trust somewhere and i have to say that the additional work and by which everybody has taken a responsibility to chip in and create what i believe is a pretty seamless strategy for

help in moving forward is the only way i can support at this moment. >> commissioner richards. >> so i move to -- how do we want to do this, a-q. >> can we just take staff's recommendation. >> enmass? >> yeah. >> i take staff's recommendation on all the items. >> second. >> thank you commissioners. on that motion then commissioners, to take dr and approve the matters -- >> we're not -- >> i'm not arguing the case, i just want to point out a technical issue in the motion. revered, if you can make sure the unit count is correct, i think there's a discrepancy. >> i think that technical issue

can be resolved by staff. >> we're allowing four units in the building, four units in that property? >> that's correct. that's what the chart says. >> it is four units. >> that one -- let's see -- 1351 revered, seven units currently. >> yes, there are seven units and there are four -- we're going to legalize up to four units, so it would be a loss of three units. >> so we're taking dr and adding the adu on that property. >> yes, the original building permit did not have the adu. that's included in the four. >> okay. >> so commissioners there's a motion seconded to take dr and approve with conditions items 24a through c, not take dr and

approve 24d and g. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> that motion passes anonymously 6-0. >> is there general public comment? oh, we don't have any. ♪

>> good morning, everyone. i am elaine 23 orbes and i am the executive director of the port and it's good to see everyone here today. this is a very important moment for the port of san francisco, for the city, for the dogpatch neighborhood and for the future of our city, and this moment really started a long time ago. 20 years ago, port staff began a master planning process, and i see some of the folks that started that process in the room today. when i first sat up here seven years ago, i thought interesting place, very beautiful. lot of different maintenance. how in the world will we get this rehabilitated for the public? how will we protect the balance sheet from the deferred

maintenance, but we had some people in this room where people saw beauty where others say decay, and that was very important to this place. we have the tenacity and the creativity and the believe that something that takes 20 years to complete and to do it right, so i'm very proud of the collaboration of court staff with all the city departments to make this a reality that we're at the point where we can sign documents today, and i want to say before i turn it over to our vip guest, a very special thank you to ken from dwd. ken really took a lot of time to understand the port's points of view, and others points of view, the developers and to find solutions when things got hard and you never took your eye off the ball, and you were a great partner, ken, and i am

so proud that you were leading this effort and the collaboration between our city departments. so this thing that started 20 years ago is going to result in affordable housing, connection to the bay that's been lost to the residents for 100 years, art spaces, creative spaces, pdr, and primarily, it's going to be a beautiful space for everyone, the kind of thing that you demand our departments create, so we're very proud that we kept faithful to your project for the city, and with that, i would like to introduce the mayor who has been instructal in seeing this through to the end. mayor lee. >> well, thank you, elaine for not only your leadership, your work here at the port and to all the staff and commission because the port's really an exciting place. a lot of things happening, and i want to let you know that i'll be working very closely

with you as we talk to the public about one of the most important infrastructure projects that the port's going to lead, and that's of course the protection and rebuilding of our seawall because that's something that we will find very near and dear if we get information out. but the port has become not just a place for business, it really is a place, because of this leadership, byron and all the others working, ben, mr. benson here, and so many others, that it's now become a place for families and people to really enjoy the entire city, and our signing today, because of supervisor cohen, because of jack sylvane, because of all the others, allows us to do something that often times we don't get to do. you know when you go down to pier 70, views and access are basically blocked by abandoned

historic buildings, and that blockage has not been very good for us, and i know a few years ago when jack was working with kenneth matz, he got me down to a concert of all places, some music concert down there, and then, we walked around the area, and we got excited with made in sf and some of the other events we held down there, we finally for ourselves was discovering how beautiful it was and planning. and that's why we're here because the role of the port and planning working alongside for the city -- and jack, by the way, wanted to praise him, we worked with treasure island for many years, but he's in that spirit that we really

wanted to get things done here that finally opened up access for everybody, and pier 70 project is all about that. it's about rediscovering what san francisco is and bringing all the people in that area together to enjoy nine additional acres of parks and rebuild with a lot of respect those historic buildings, make them useful. there's a lot of quiet artists out there because nobody paid attention, and so we want to bring attention to the fact that they've been out there, and we're going to work with forest city and they've committed to make sure that there's an arts center out there, community center will be built. and of course as part of my agenda, along with supervisor cohen's agenda, we're going to building a lot of housings in that area, 30,000 units of

housing. a lot of commitments that were made by forest city, let me take the opportunity to thank kevin ginter and forest city, making sure that if we were going to introduce a project of this magnitude, its r had to have the amenities that we all enjoy. there's a really basic commitment that we're going to see through, and that is a lot of residents of district 10 are going to get to work on this, just like we're getting the work on the chase arena center among others. this project is not only going to be great for housing, for land use, for art, for open space, but it also will create the kind of jobs that we want. it'll also create revenue to contribute to the sea level rise challenges and the seawall. in fact, i think we're estimating maybe over the ten

years, probably $1 billion of contributions to the seawall, and i think they're going to support us on another ferry service at the end of 16th street. these are all wonderful, wonderful attributes that i have to attribute to the people that have been working on this for over a decade, and i want to say thank you because this is why it was fairly easy for supervisor cohen to get a unanimous vote, because all she had to do was get in there, get the benefits. you know, it's easy, like all the proms that she does, so i want to say thank you to her, because everybody does get the benefit from this, and i feel strongly about this because we haven't opened up a lot of this area of the southern waterfront to everybody. it's been closed out, you know, you know, later on after this -- and of course, we're looking at treasure island, as

well, but we also have other projects that will open up the waterfront. there's mission rock, the potrero power plant to the south, the parklands that we're beginning to identify with the blue-green trails that will dot it all the way through. you're going to see multiple transit opportunities for people to access, along with the housing and the jobs, so we're very excited about this. there's a lot of great benefits, but it took a while, and it took a while to make sure that everybody respected the historic buildings, that everybody used them. it takes a while tor historic preservation to also catch up with development, and in this area, it's not only catch up, we're going to pay a lot of respect because that is our city's history, and to respect that also means to reuse these buildings and respect the architecture and design of that history.

i mentioned jennifer matz's team intentionally because she was part of the team on the port that worked so well and brought so much enjoyment to these projects. jack had a good time working with her on the same team, and that's the team that ken rich came from, all of that team continues to do wonderful work with the port, so they've given me a list of names that i make sure i mention, because i should, as the mayor, to recognize people who have minimally, six to ten years, working on a project and brought to it the final conclusion that has not only the unanimous vote at the board, but a continued for the next ten years, phase development that i think will be honored by not only the immediate residence debts, but the entire city will be welcome to come down here and enjoy all

of the assets that have been associated and be part of it. elaine forbes, christine maher, ken matsuda. from the office of economic development workforce, ken rich, sarah dennis philips, cat daniels, mark majors, patrick mitchell, john ram, of course, beg dan siders, job switsy, melinda cooper. city attorney's office, they've been working a lot on language. a lot of things had to be balanced, a lot of things had to make sure, and in fact, i want to thank them because they just got some lawsuits on this, nothing to delay us, everything to go forward, and so thank you to the city attorneys be there

with us and working on drafts. people like andrea ruiz, kriss tom and kate stacey. they had a whole host of other agencies who assisted them. our public utilities agency, our public works, and of course our contract monitoring division all had dedicated staffers that contributed to this project. all in all, the best projects are the ones where there's a tremendous amount of collaboration, a good trusting relationship with the developers so they know we're not trying to rake them over the coals and take money that isn't from there deservingly, but they will be honored from this project. we can't get projects done without a supervisor who's going to champion it along with the mayor, and let me introduce

our supervisor, malia cohen. thank you. >> oh, my goodness. today's wednesday morning, which means that yesterday was tuesday, which means we had a board meeting. i'm still in shellshock right? but good morning ladies and gentlemen. it's good to see everyone today. we've really come to celebrate and kind of pass ourselves on the back. it's been a tremendous lift. this project has been in development for ten years, and i have been a part of it, certainly in earnest for the last three years. everyone looks good. you look good in a suit. i love it. and but i really wanted to tell you what -- you've heard -- you know about the economic benefit to san francisco, and we're really fortunate to live and to work in san francisco, but i really want to talk a little bit about the community impact, what a project of this magnitude actually means.

it means, coming from a native san francisco resident, that we have an opportunity to interface with a beautiful shoreline that really has been locked away. when you go into the dogpatch neighborhood, it's almost like you're relegated to just the 3rd street corridor and maybe one block, block and a half, did he fe depending on what side of 3rd you're on. you can see the water and the bay in the distance, but you can't touch it. you're not able to bring your kids to experience it, and this project begins to breakdown those man made barriers and open it up, and the significance of pier 70 is it's going to be connecting where we are in the embarcadero all along the southern waterfront past the bayview project into the community. this is a tremendous project to get through, and i want to

recognize the mayor already gave the names -- called the names 'cause we remember, but i don't think you guys understand how many hours of public comment, how many hours of neighborhood meetings, and then, just right before you get to a vote, you literally spend the weekend with the city attorney drafting amendments, making changes, and then, that's when you begin to talk to the colleagues -- excuse me, you're incident being with colleagues prior to this because you need to bring them along to make sure they're nothingable about the project so that they will vote for it, and that is where the challenge really lies, balancing your colleagues' perspective and what they want to see with the reality of what can actually be done, with the reality of what your constituents want to see, and i think that is where the rub is. i'm very proud to be on the team that has steered this ship to make this come to fruition.

this is a significant accomplishment. pier 70 will deliver. this project will deliver a tremendous asset in public space, open space, office, retail space, affordable housing, i mean, you name it, and i've got to admit, i wish there were more development projects that got it. this team got it right out the gate. they got it correct. they went to the constituents that were affected in the area, and they said, what do you want to see? how can we help you -- what can we develop that's complementary to your neighborhood? everything from drawing figures, which was an interesting way to take notes, but it's a new fad, to beating back an appeal. if you all -- most of the people in this room have dealt with development, and you know how challenging it is. i don't want to belabor the issue, but i just want to come out here and to pay my respects

because many of you have lost a lot of time in your life on this project. it's the truth. this is -- this was not easy, and i don't know where kevin is. where's kevin? is he somewhere around here? okay. i spent a lot of time on the phone with him as the project lead. the port, entire team and family is phenomenal. elaine, you have a phenomenal team here. mr. mayor, you have a great team with the city, not only the planning department, but your economic development thinkers and workforce builders, and we need this. this change is moving and changing and we need to make sure we don't leave people behind. that is a fear that people have, particularly a little south of this project, and i think the mayor and team in this project has demeonstrated that we're not going to leave

anybody behind, we're allowing everybody to speak and be heard on this project. it gives me great pleasure to be able to come out and to celebrate, to christen this project. it's been an incredible, incredible -- contrary to what the mayor said, he made it sound easy, and i'm sure from his vantage point it was, but i'm here to tell you this stuff was hard. it's hard. it's difficult, but you know, when you have a team of professionals, it makes it a little bit easier, so i wanted to just say thank you to everyone who worked on this projects, from the lobbyists on down to the person that was at the neighborhood meetings. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor, you said so many important points, and you led a process that was not appealed

at the end, an actual development project of 28 acres that did not have opposition, so it was hard getting there, but my goodness, we certainly got there, and thank you so much for your leadership. so to do this, we certainly had our vision and our plan, but we absolutely needed our partner to do it, someone put at risk capital up, to find private investments, to endeavor with us through all of those hard meetings and plan a benefits package that i really think is bar none, something worthy for other projects to see, and i say it's a 20 year process because we did the planning process first, but ten years ago we selected forest city, and that was the moment where everything really got going, and we began to see what was in our heads to something that could be real in the ground, and we're so fortunate to have selected forest city at our development partner, and i'd

like to introduce jack sylvan who has led the development project. jack? >> this is really happening. thank you very much for all the kind words for our team. where we've gotten to, this really is a special opportunity, and the chairman of our board, james ratner tried to get out here from new york last night, but he wasn't able to, but when i asked him, what do you think is really important for you to communicate from you, he said please pass on that we think this is one of the greatest projects, the greatest opportunities in the country. they see some projects as they're traveling around. it's been said, just the -- the amazing amount of people and energy and time that goes into

getting the project, a project like this, just to this point. the collaboration, the dead indication, the commitment, the -- the fighting, the haggling, the finding common ground as we get to a place like this, and mostly, i just want to pass on from forest city the gratitude that we feel for being at this point, the opportunity to -- to jump in and take what has been on paper and turn it into a reality. that started, really, with the mayor, thank you for your unwaivering support from the beginning of the process. it's crucial to get to this point. it will continue to be crucial as we start implementing the project. supervisor cohen, you're right. it was a lot of really challenging work, and

your--your commitment and your leadership along the way was crucial, and it actually, i would

>> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change

or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or your neighbors to provide feedback and ask questions

the best way to insure you'll be alerted the community meetings sign up for the notification on the website by signing up using you'll receive the notifications of existing request the specific neighborhood or project type if you're language is a disability accomodation please call us 72 hours before the event over the events staff will receive the input and publish the results on the website the notifications bans feedback from the public for example, the feedback you provide may change how a street corridors looks at or the web policy the get started in planning for our neighborhood or learner more mr. the upcoming visit the plans and programs package of our we are talking about with our feedback and participation that

is important to us not everyone takes this so be proud of taking ann >> we'll, it gives us great pleasure to be in san francisco for the coverage or our flesh tour. i would ask you to all to join me welcoming our host, dr. kitka from 360. >> thank you all for coming. health care is a right. now, normally, we shout this from the roof tops, but covered california kind of took care of that for us because they actually painted it from the to have tops -- roof tops, so on

behalf of the 35,000 clients from roof tops 360 -- [ inaudible ] >> it's not a very big room, so on behalf of the 35,000 health care clients of health care 360, i thank you for this gift. when we took the leap to move into this new building, 50,000 square feet of welcoming integrated health care services, it was for one single reason: that we knew without any reservation that health care is a right and not a privilege, and having this message emblazoned on our building empowered us not only as service providers, but every

person who passes by, which is a lot of people. there's a three way off ramp right there. so peter lee and the amazing cover california team, thank you. we are so proud to be a canvas for your beautiful work. mayor lee, supervisor breed, mayor kim, thank you for being here today and for your unending support for the communities you serve. and to everyone, covered california is going to have a long open enrollment period. don't wait. so sign up for coverage now. thank you. >> thank you so much, and it's such a pleasure to be here in san francisco, but in particular, it's a pleasure to be here in health right 360. i think some of you know some of the members of the health care 360 family have very deep roots in san francisco and california. two i want to call out, the

haight-ashbury client in, is part of the oldest -- is the oldest health care clinic in san francisco. and del martin, one of the oldest communities established for the gay and lesbian community and serving us for more than 30 years. >> the reason we're doing this program here, health care is a right, and this billboard is going to be here, because like the clinics, we are woven into the fabric of this community and this state, so this has been something of a wild ride in washington. all this talk about repeal and replace, sometimes people are confused about what's happening in washington. we in california are not confused. the affordable care act is the law of the land. we have provided coverage

through medi-cal in southern california to 5 million californians, and while it is a roller coaster in washington, it is not a roller coaster in california. we're not taking people for a ride. we're making sure that people get kompl, and that it's affordable coverage. one of the reasons we have coverage in california, we have hard working people in washington and in sacramento, and i want to appreciate representatives of congress woman nancy pelosi, and you'll hear it from several people, including mayor ed lee. there is some confusion in washington, but let's be clear. here in california, 1.1 million neighbors get coverage through

covered california. for them, their health care costs will go down on average in 2018. we're making a difference in millions of people's lives, so how do you do that? people are financially eligible, get that financial leg up. without getting that financial leg up, many would not be able to support coverage, and we're trying to get the mess amg out, open enrollment, short period, but here in california, it's three months. it's gone through the end of january , but we want people to sign up by the middle of december, december 15th, because if you do, you'll have coverage for the entire year. you can go to our website, and in two minutes, you can find out if you're eligible for financial help, and the back news is there's 700,000 californians that are eligible for financial help who have not signed up. they are one minute away from

finding out if they're eligible for health care that may cost them $50, $100. they have people that will help them sign up, some of the the hundreds of organizations, there are thousands of people ready to hem them enroll, and that help is there today. so with that, i'm very please to introduce first mayor ed lee. he's taking the initiative to make sure we truly don't leave people behind. mayor ed lee. >> okay. that was a great introduction. blown away. all right. welcome, everybody. i am so thrilled to join peter

and covered california, of course, president breed, who is already pretty healthy because she was at the exercise room this morning before going to work, and she was talking on the phone while she was doing her exercises, so i know she's keeping healthy. you know, it is ten times better so have insurance than to not have insurance, and while it's been a challenge to get the affordable care act, while we have it, peter's absolutely right. let's take advantage of the affordablity that all of the wonderful people at covered california have done in partnership with us as a city, but also with health right 360, because they don't just work by themselves, they work with community based organizations. peter's described some of them. i happen to know chinese

supporter health care -- i happen to know blue cross/blue shield, high numbers, 36,000 people enrolled, and not only do we want all 3700 to reapply and to do it comfortably in the next few months, we want more people so that they come out of the unsured category. we've done a pretty good job. in fact our uninsured number of people is less than 5% because of covered california. it is also less because we weren't just stopping -- covered california is a wonderful thing, and it's so good that we even added our own program to it, our san francisco health plan to make sure additional people can be covered. this is how much enjoyment and how serious we take people's health. in our chinese community and asian community, if you don't have good health, you can't help anybody else, and this is why covered california is a

principal part -- it's something that we not over fought for, but let's not confuse, as peter says, that because they're having the debate and ups and downs in washington d.c. doesn't mean we can't get the health care coverage for people right here in california, and i want to also address my thanks to apexer because i think you've got to have the branding with it, and with the buses that covered california are going around, you're not going to be able to miss it even if it gets to you late. okay [ inaudible ] >> i want to make sure it gets to all of the destinations. i understand, peter, you're going to go to some 22 spots and make sure, not just at these speeches, but the visuality of making it easy for people to enroll, making sure that people take care of themselves, and that is the whole point of this. our health is value. we don't want people to take up

all the emergency spots that we have for people who truly have an emergency as the zuckerberg general hospital does for all of us, so be healthy, make sure you have that insurance, and we're going to be saying this in spanish, in chinese, in tagalog, and in all the other languages, that we want to make sure people have that access, so congratulations, covered california. it'll be our privilege to bring this not only back to san francisco to make sure everybody get -- reapplies and make sure we stay healthy. thank you for being here >> thank you so much. can we have our board president breed come up and say a few remarks. and you don't look very sweaty after your work out this morning. you look great. >> thank you, thank you. it's easier for the mayor to get ready after a workout

because he doesn't have to do his hair like i do, but it's wonderful to be here, and i want to thank the mayor for choosing health care 360 which has been providing health care to our communities in the city and county of san francisco for more than 50 years, so it is appropriate of the 13 locations that have been chosen to display this amazing piece of art by this incredible artist -- apexer, thank you -- that we made sure that we art in places that demonstrate what our values are as a city, and this is the exact place where it needs to be based on its reputation, based on the work that they continue to do, and based on the continued needs. as the mayor pointed out,

37,000 people signed up for covered california, and 80% of those people qualify for subsidies, but we know there are 30,000 people out there in the city and county of san francisco who qualify and don't know that they qualify and could use the benefit of health care. when i was in college, i remember leaving home and thinking what am i going to do? it was expensive, i had a few schol arrestships. i had to pay for the greyhound bus to come back and forth from home, but i didn't have health care, but i just prayed where nothing bad would happen where i didn't have to go to the hospital or go to the dentist, things that we take or granted. health care is a right, it's not a privilege and so thank you to health care 360 tor

demonstrating time and time again that that's why it's so important to make sure we continue to get the word out. go to cover i-- coveredca.com. we want to make sure they get the services that they need to continue to grow and thrive in our great community. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much supervisor breed and mayor lee, and the numbers are big numbers. 35,000 san francisco residents, 700,000 californians eligible for public health, and they don't know it. so what are we doing? big advertisers. it's not that big scary stuff like cancer, but that small stuff, like reading your cell phone while you walk across the street, tripping and falling and breaking your wrist. we have someone on our bus who broke their wrist recently, $57,000 it's the little stuff:

up on the ladder, putting christmas lights on your ladder. we're going to get the word out. one of the ways that we're going to do that is this cover in our tour. over a dozen locations, local artists conveying on community clinics, a paddle shop, insurance agencies. a couple of things, that health care's local, and we're bringing it home. but we're working with groups like health care 360 that have been a part of this community for years, because covered california is here for the residents of this city and state. this mural is not going away in three months, it's not going away in three years, covered california is here fore the long haul, so you'll see us here. health care is a right. we're so thrilled by this piece of art, but i want to say something that i've marked many times in the lesbian and g gay parade right here down on

market street, but health care is a right in rainbow colored, anchored in the streets here in san francisco, but health care is a right and it's known by san francisco residences, by californians, and americans. health care is a right, and that's what we're going to make sure we keep delivering on in california. so with that, i'd like to introduce ricardo richy, apexer. >> i want to say thank you to everyone who spoke today, ed lee, supervisor breed, 360, everything that everybody said when this project came to me, i'm a native san francisco resident, born and raised here, working in hospitals and health care industries, and i live really close to here, and i

remember seeing the building get remodelled, and i think it's great that it's a health care center, health care 360 in the middle of san francisco that a lot of people when it comes to public transportation, traffic in and out, so thinking about the mural, i definitely wanted to touch base on a lot of different points. the different communities that health care 360 helps with services, as well as i also think the rainbow colors represent everybody. it's not just one group of people or one race of people, san francisco is of many different races. there's a lot of different people, as well as a lot of different class levels. you know, painting murals in san francisco, i get to see all walks of life every day, and a lot of people speak to me, and they relate to my work and different manners that i don't -- of my interest, but not necessarily the first thing that you would think of. it lets me know that my finger's on the pulse of that, and so for this particular

mural, i really wanted to give back something that everybody immediately, when you look at it, you know what it says, you know what it means. you feel it, and you can just take it away with yourself, and hopefully continue the conversation, as well as to have a mural that kind of highlights this corner, and if you come around and you see the logo on the building, that then, you're like oh, that's what that is. that's where i can go, so that was something that was really important for me, and that's just a little bit about the mural that i created. thank you. >> apexer, thank you so much, and every one of these murals done by a local artist in their community telling a story of their community. i couldn't agree more. this is the diverse cities in one of the most diverse states in the entire world, and we have done a lot of work to make

sure many people are enrolling, and i appreciate the mayor's comment. you'll find the material on our website in english, in spanish. you'll find people at our location that speak english, spanish, chinese, tag dli alog -- is katey mcbride with us? i want to know that we talk about big numbers, and we in california have reduced the rate to historically low numbers, and behind those numbers, people's lives have changed. i want to introduce katey mcbride. she's one of the people that have benefited from covered california to say a few words. thank you so much. >> so yes, i am a big fan of covered california. in 2006, an undiagnosed congenital birth defect caused my colon to twist into a knot.

two surgeries and the removal of 15 centimeters of my colon was saved, but i knew that i would not be able to ever be without shurinsurance. when the affordable health care act passed, i was finally able to purchase individually without being tied to an employer's plan. my health care did not have to determine my trajectory of my professional life. i learned the hard way how quickly a person can go from being healthy to needing medical care. i am forever grateful for the passage of the aca and for covered california. thanks. >> katey, thank you so much.

you know, talking about personal health issues takes courage. i want to thank her, one of the bravest things is people talking about their health care issues. this is not an abstract, this is a real issue that's changing lives. so's ayou heard, 36,000 san francisco residents have coverage through covered california. 80% gets subsidies, this is something for families that makeup to $90,000. beyond that, no one can be turned away because of a health condition. that's what the aca is doing. it's changing lives. i want to remind you in california, and covered california, we're going to be open until the end of january , but there's a deadline, december 15th, and because of that here in san francisco they're having a big enrollment on december 2nd. sign up so that you have coverage that takes effect january 1, and to do that, you

must sign up by december 15th. so now, i'd like to invite you to join us -- in a moment we're going to take questions one-on-one from media that want to do interviews with any of the speakers here, and then quickly, we're all going to go out to the bus to get a group picture. we would like all of you to join us. this is really about all of us getting san francisco, californians covered. join us at the bus, and hopefully, we'll get the right apg will to g apg -- angle to get the mural behind us. we're going to be done, we're working to get this finished, but please join us outside for the picture, but thank you so much san francisco. you'll been at the forefront to make sure we don't leave anyone behind. thank you so much.

>> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices, fire commission regular meeting november 8, 2017, item one. roll call. president ken cleaveland. vice presidential stephen nakajo. commissioner michael hardeman. commissioner francee covington. commissioner joe