>> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to city haul. my name is london breed. i'm president of the san francisco board of supervisors, and i represent district 5, the amazing district that houses

the incredible 3rd baptist church, which we plan to make official landmarking status today. aren't we excited? i just want to say one, praise god, right? praise god, thank you for being here, thank you for supporting this ceremony. we are honored here to have the mayor here to perform the ceremony who will speak in just a little bit, but i want to thank my colleague, aaron pes k kin for sponsoring this legislation, and thank you for supervise cohen for joining us here today, as well as our city administrator, naomi kelley. this is a wonderful day today. i'm so excited. remember when we celebrated with reverend brown and lady jane brown at the celebration with bill clinton, and i told you we would make this happen,

and we made it happen, and look how quickly we made it happen? well, i didn't have a choiz because reverend brown was calling me every single day, every day fighting for this community, every day fighting for this community, and one thing i want to say about 3rd baptist church, which is my church, my home, thank you for welcoming me. thank you for continuing to a beacon of light in this community, who need a place of sanctuarn, who need a place to call home, who need a place to feel welcome. 3rd baptist has been doing this longer than almost any other place in san francisco. it is an unappreciated institution because of its advocacy for being on the front line for anything related to challenges with our community, the displacement of our community, the issues with our children in the public schools.

every single occasion when there has been an issue in the city and county of san francisco related to our community, 3rd baptist is at the front lines, trying to make sure we speak truth to power and we change the city for the better, and so it is only fitting that we come here today in city hall, and we celebrate our community, our accomplishments, and all that we have done to make san francisco a better place, but more importantly, we leave a lasting legacy with the changes in san francisco making 3rd baptist church a landmark location, make sure that the next generation of young people, and the next generation know that we are still here, we have left a lasting impression. we have built this city, and we are not going anywhere. and so -- so with that, i'd like to turn it over to our

mayor to speak a few words, and then, we'll get to a few other comments from some of the amazing members of 3rd baptist church. ladies and gentlemen, welcome mayor ed lee. >> president london breed, you have already said and expressed a lot of my feelings about this legislation today, but let me welcome each and every one of you here to the people's palace. this is your house, as well, and this whole city is all of yours because we want this city to continue the strong efforts of being inclusive, being the rainbow city, welcoming everybody, but also working for everybody, and i want to say thank you to each member of the board of supervisors that are here today, our city

administrator, our commissioners, our department heads for all sharing this wonderful moment. but i also want to start out by saying thank you to reverend amos brown. your leadership on so many issues, reverend, kind of defines what the 3rd baptist church is all about, especially on challenges that face people of color. you've been consistent, you've been steady, and you've been guiding us with the greatest amount of integrity in whatever capacity that you have filled. and this is exactly why the supervisor and president breed said that when amos and his wife, mrs. jane brown, celebrated their 40 years at 3rd baptist church a few months ago, they didn't celebrate by themselves, it wasn't just community, it was people from all over the country that came in here: bill clinton, governor

jerry brown, reverend jesse jackson, they all came out because they recognized the historic center that the 3rd baptist church represented, but they also know that the reverend not only speaks locally, he speaks nationally and internationally. so congratulations reverend on 40 years of your life here at 3rd baptist church and for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, reverend brown. 3rd baptist church has been around since 1855, ladies and gentlemen. 160 years! -- 52? 1852. okay, my notes, my staff, go back to the history books, correct that history. make sure we have the right history. it's important because, you

know, when other parts of the country talk about their landmarks, and we get kind of embarrassed, what kind of history they're embracing, i think we're embracing the right history right here with a building that has housed people of african american descent and worship since 1852. and you know what's significant about the 3rd baptist? 'cause i've always felt welcomed, that it wasn't just african americans, what the reverend, what everybody else did was make it a center for everybody to feel comfortable with. that's the significance of 3rd baptist church. it was for everyone, and when you go there, and you do wrong things, you're going to be condemned. i've been there when people are condemned. sometimes i use the word, oh, looks like a crucifiction have been going on, but i've also been there with the greatest moment of blessings happen

because people do the right thing. and you know, 3rd baptist does have that line, what's right and what's wrong. that's what we have to do with our kids, help them figure out what's right and what's wrong, and when you go to 3rd baptist, you can help them gain the moral ground. that's important to kids these days. they don't know the difference between right and wrong, we're going to lose more folks. this is what's important to 3rd baptist, and this is why it's been so welcoming to me and to so many others, so by making the 3rd baptist church a historic landmark today, we're not only preserving the building, we're sending a larger message to the san francisco bay community, we respect all the people who have been here for generations, we respect you, we respect the community. we honored the work that you have done. it's hard work to allow people

to recognize what's right and wrong and do the hard work. it's the hardest work that we have to do today, whether you're holding a public office, being a minute center or bei-- minister or community activist, it's hard job, but it serves our community and our children, and we must try to do better. this has been an important home to gobs of community meetings, employment workshops, to incubators for employment opportunities, and it's also been a place where sadly, we've also had to send people away, who died in violence or met an early death. all of those aspects of life that are challenging the city, it's happening in a microcosm there at 3rd baptist in a

collusive and collaborative way. so i'm just sharing thisome things, but i'll also share with you some strong feelings with people that i've got to hire in the community, doing entertainment work, doing community work, doing leadership work, trying to save more people, trying to get them out of condemnation and into salvation. we're all trying to do it, and in a large part, a lot of what i have to do is save more lives and make sure people live more robust lives in the city, the city sometimes where people say there are a lot of inequities. 3rd baptist is about equity. it's n it's about finding love and support. that's why it deserves to be recognized in our hall of

landmarks, so i say to the rest of our country, you ought to be embracing the right principles when you're endorsing landmarks. you ought not to be endorsing symbols of racism and oppregnano oppression. this role that our community has played, this building will be known for when we place the final signature of landmark status. this is our history. this is your history. you've shared it with us. it's our history, it's the nation's history, right here in the middle of san francisco, we celebrate 3rd baptist church and everybody associated with it. thank you for being here, thank you for being witnesses to this wonderful important occasion for all of our citizens.

thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor, and i just want to again thank the cosponsors of this amazing legislation. supervisor malia cohen, supervisor aaron peskin, and supervisor mark farrell, and with that, i'd like to bring up our leader to give us a history, abbreviated, reverend brown, we ain't in church. we trying to sign this today. amen? amen. amen congregation. reverend brown, our leader, come on up. >> good afternoon. madam president of our board of

supervisors, supervisors peskin, cohen, to our city administrator, our friend, miss naomi kelley, i see other department heads here, but time would not permit me to name them all, and indeed to our fine mayor, my friend and servant of the people, mayor edwin lee, give him a big round of applause. and to all the members and our officers of 3rd baptist church, we have with us the chair person of our deacon's ministry, deacon alfonso

campbell, chair person of our trustee ministry, trustee preston turner. this is a tender and touching moment for me, for i am privileged to stand to celebrate a fateful day, a day in which our honored mayor will sign this legislation that w l defines a faith community as a landmark, a mark, a memorial of

what all faith communities should mirror. 3rd baptist was not founded in 1852 to just equip people with knowledge of spiritual things. thi3rd baptist was born out of struggle. she was founded on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the british west indies, and that struggle has continued cross the weighted span of these now 165 years. i want to acknowledge here that

william duboyce celebrated his 90th third day at 3rd baptist on april the third, 1958, when paul roberson, after he had been maliciously ma lined and wrongly accused of being a communist, first came back to the united states, it was 3rd baptist church that opened its doors to a man who needed befriending. dr. martin luther king, when he had inaugurated the montgomery movement had his first appearance in the

hallowed walls of 3rd baptist church in 1957. i said again that this is tender and touching for me, for i was introduced into this struggle at the age of 15 years old, when i organized the first youth conference of the national organization of the advancement of colored people in the wake of that malicious brutal murderering of em emma teal, and it was one year later that megawale evers asked my mother if i could come to san francisco to attend the national convention of the naacp, and on that sunday

morning of the convention, where did i worship? at 3rd baptist church, and i was as a young lad from mississippi, so impressed overseeing frederick douglas haynes, sr., standing before that sacred desk who had the presence and the elequence that was greater maybe than that of prince albert as a gentleman, as a scholar, as a pretty muche mucher -- preacher, and a social activist, so that impacted my life further, and to think we're here today with mayor lee, members of department heads, and citizens

with the city of san francisco to honor this struggle with this designation, and because of this designation, there will forever be known that 3rd baptist was here, was reckoned with and made a difference in the lives of people for the better. thank you, mayor lee, thank you all of you who gathered today for we have set the bar high. i'm a woman, but i'm wise. i'm an immigrant, but i'm industrious, i'm gay, but i'm godly, i'm saint, but i am sensible. that is the feeling of 3rd baptist, and thank you mayor lee for signing this document, so that in all common generations, it will be known that we knew more than how to walk the walk skb talk the talk as members of the human family.

god bless you all and thank you all for honoring us this day. >> thank you, reverend brown. we had church a little bit up in here. he going to give it to you good on sunday. you all ain't ready for the chapter one, chapter two, and chapter three on sunday. he got some making up to do after today. thank you, reverend brown for always being there for our community and just really protecting our history and reminding us how important it is to remember what happened in the past so that we can celebrate that and continue to push and advocate towards the future, and so with that, i want to welcome up deacon campbell to just say a few words, and then, we're going to get to the ceremony. deacon campbell, come on up. >> good afternoon. to mayor lee, supervisor breed

and president of the board, to my fisk university alum, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor peskin, and all others who are here, it is a pleasure -- and to reverend brown. don't let me forget to say that. it is a pleasure and an honor for me to have an opportunity to say a word or two on this historic celebration. this morning, i woke up thinking about what would i say

because of the origin of 3rd baptist church out of racism and say it, and the development in the home of two members has led to this. i just know that god is good. i just know that this was meant to be, and with all of the preparation and the organization and all the things that have been done, this is the payoff. i can remember martin luther king, in one of his many

speeches, made the statement that the arch of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. this is justice; and we try to do that at 3rd baptist. we do it. we show as mayor lee said, respect to everybody, and we make every effort to show justice to love mercy, and to walk humbly with god. with that, i will just end by saying thank you and the fact that as long as there is a san francisco, there will be a 3rd

baptist church. thank you. >> okay. i just wanted to acknowledge supervisor jane kim and thank you for joining us today, and with that, let's get down to business. reverend brown, it's time. it's time. come on over here. [ inaudible ] >> to mayor lee, and all the other folks around here, i just want to say thank you for all you have done for 3rd baptist church. you know, when i came here, i joined 3rd baptist right off,

'cause i've always been impressed with the church, but the biggest thing this church has done for me, it has so much carin caring, c-a-r-e-i-n-g, or c-a-r-i-n-g, i don't know which one. but any way, they're so caring. we have back on track to help young folks, because if young folks can't make it, it's no excuse, 'cause 3rd baptist has got it. we have a beautiful senior extension group, and oh, boy, i can't wait to get to that because we play bingo and all kinds of exercise and things for the seniors. but we also have a music

department that's out of this world. you have to come to some of the concerts because you can't beat it. but the thing that has helped me is that caring way. let me give you an example. this morning, one of the members called me and said, mama smith, make sure you dress warmly 'cause it's raining outside. wasn't that beautiful? give her a hand. and not only that, this is what has happened to me in 4.5 months, i'll be 100, and i have to give 3rd baptist part of that because god works through a good church, so i'm just thankful to be here, and i'm so

thankful for you all who have done so much for this church. keep on, because we are for what is right. we are going to be there forever, and we thank god for it. amen. [ singing amen ]

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take in order to convert a parking lot into affordable housing in the middle of the tenderloin? well no longer 7, of course, tndc of course, the mayor's office of housing, of course, the incredible financing organizations that came through the department of hud enterprise came in indicating to construction their compressed be contracted so all the agencies came together with tndc working with the community making sure at least one and 13 unit get built all accountable jobs are another stake and certificate of preference and having the schools and community they're all at stack if we can't get in housing built i'm here to thank everybody for putting this together and making sure wear on

our way to do more housing that by the need and build the kind of housing housing for everyone but in particular the hardest thing to build 100 percent - even if a parking lot so many fencing mechanisms to meet the champion >> (clapping.) >> sew mr. mayor i think what is really special about this project the fact over 60 percent will think two bedrooms and three bedrooms apartment we know there a sdaerth of family housing no inform has an incredible impact on the economy and, of course, on the communities if you can't have families that work here afford to live in the city they living live and work we have much, much more to do across the country to make sure we're housing the

middle-income and working-class this supplement will help to solve the problem thank you for making that neighborhood healthy and congratulations to tndc for the groundbreaking thistoday. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and

festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater

bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that

is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really

great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan

we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to >> good morning, everyone and thank you for coming my name is rosy form treasurer

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>> commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate service center and un plaza food and music and other social activities oil stephanie the vice president of operations for this. >> in 2016 an initiative called the service center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and community partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. >> my name is a - i'm with the program manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. >> the city approached us to provide food and beverages at

the event kind of the core anchor to encourage attendees to food gives people a reason to stay i really like this like it is really nice like everybody is having a good time. >> our goal to enjoy the space and eat and drink and listen to music we wanted to inspire people with the un plaza as a place to hold they're community events. >> it is a great way to get people to know about global music and cuisine a great way to bring people together. >> a natural beautiful backdrop the asian art museum and . >> it is welcoming. >> two more events left in the series so, please come and enjoy and check it out we're having a great time. >> we love our city being a

san francisco based on company it was important to engage request san franciscans and tourists alike. >> we want to inspire people and everyone interested in providing and coming out for a large or small-scale event reach out to the commons 3rd thursdays and we'll direct you're seeing to the right people to get to - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the

healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying

to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and

assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk

out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and

get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak

that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just

beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have moreyou. >> today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for

buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our

next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better

>> this is a meeting of the san francisco recreation and park commission, will the secretary please call the roll? >> commissioner buell? here. commissioner low. here. commissioner