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the next two fiscal years while leaving ourselves well above the 10% reserve requirement. i think last year, we had discussed trying to stay above 15%. >> right. >> so i -- i certainly wouldn't propose something that would bring us down below 10%. i think we'd be looking to aim probably closer to keeping it at least 15%. so anything i propose will be in line with policy and will probably still be -- leave us a much bigger cushion than the policy minimum. >> okay. i would favor that. i would favor the 15%. just, you know, i've given this speech again about fund balance. i won't give it again, but one of the things that you said is in these certain times -- in these times, we have uncertain funding from particular sources, particularly the federal and state governments, all the more reason for us to go conservative with our balance. so that would be my preference for that. finally, on the taxi cabs, i'll suspect you'll hear this from
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others. it is a compelling point. i think we do need to look at ways in which we can alleviate the pain for our taxi drivers, and ways in which will also serve a policy goal. if there is a shortage of drivers right now, some sort of break on the a-card may be the way to go. if, you know, it's a situation where the k-medallions are being turned back in or we got a disproportionate percentage, i'm not willing to say what the issue is, but it sounds like these are relativy smalleely s but i would appreciate solutions from staff on more things we could do to show the sort of understanding to that community of what we're going through. >> thank you, vice hachair heinicke?
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>> yes, director borden? >> yes, i would like to agree with all the points that director heinicke made. if students are going to school, they would be eligible under our program. i believe once you start a benefit, you can never take it away, so it would be one thing if we're talking about a long-term expenditure, but we're talking about a one time expenditure. i just feel like we're in a position where we can't extend that. i also do believe that there is some value, especially if money is less of an object in your family, of having to pay for something. i used to serve on the board of the bayview ymca, and we always made families pay something for summer camps. some families paid $5 and gave their time, but they don't value something they get for free versus something they have
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to work for or pay for, so i understand that. if you can't afford to pay for it, that's a different analysis. i agree with the indexing, i agree with not spending too much of our fund balance because we just don't know what's going to happen with the economy and also at the federal level. i don't foresee that there'll be more dollars in the future, and we have certain ballot measures in so many other things, so i think the more cautious approach is the best approach. and then, the other question i had was about the tsf, the transit sustainablity fee, and if we think the delay, was it when people paid because people can pay at different times in the planning cycle? why do we think there was such a discrepancy in terms of the fact that we thought there was some more $6 million expecting than what we were receiving? do we know what that was attributed to? >> you may recall when this was going through the board of supervisors, there was a lot of
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negotiation on grandfathering provisions on the tsf, and it passed with what i thought were somewhat generous grandfathering provisions, so there was some thought that perhaps because of all of the grandfathering that t-- i know new applications into planning are down a little bit, so that might explain it, but it seems like in the end, the tsf is going to come in largely in line with expectations. >> and when do people pay in the life cycle of the projects? >> they pay when they pull their first -- >> okay. and then, the question was some people were trying to expand it
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to include medical facilities or something, and i couldn't remember if that ended up in the final version. >> so i -- i believe it was that there was a lot of negotiation. some was around health care facilities. nonprofits were exempt, and small businesses, small residential, affordable housing were the exemptions. i don't believe that the city ended up exempting the health care institutions. i don't remember exactly where that landed out. i haven't -- there's recently been discussion to prove the increase on the amount of commercial, which would then change these calculations, but other than that, not heard any other -- other concerns with the current structure or proposals to change it. >> do you mean the increase on the special taxes or do you mean just the tsf? >> the ts fee, i think there's a proposal to increase it by $5 a square foot, the funds for
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commercial projects. whether that will move forward is a question that would presumably change our projections. >> maybe you can't speak to this because there's legislation potentially being introduced today related to tnc's. do you know if the intent was to earmark the funds to go to this program? >> so i didn't hear supervisor peskin's spoke to this, i believe, last week at the ta commission, and i didn't hear his remarks. my understanding is that when he spoke about it, that he was speaking to it as a general tax, so not a special tax that would be dedicated to transportation. my understanding is that the introduction is going to be happening today. might be have already happened or happening as we speak, so we should be more soon. >> great. well maybe it would be dedicated to this. >> i would support that. >> thank you, director borden. director ramos? >> thank you. thank you so much, director
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reiskin for this hard work, and miss bode, i deeply appreciate all of the heavy lifting that you all are doing to make this all shake out, and it's -- it's something i'm very grateful for. i'll be eager to keep talking about it and figuring out what direction we should go in. i'm going to agree with everything that i heard so far from my colleagues, reiterate colleague vice chair heinickes comments about the indexing. that's very real, and it's always a struggle if you don't do that. $15 would become under valued very quickly, i'm rather confident. i also want to appreciate mr. straus's recommendations around what you have in the report,
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around using the prop b funds for operations. i think that that's -- i suspect that there may be hesitation with that because it's a fluctuating number. it could at least go down. >> it fluctuates with population. >> yeah. that's something we should not hang our hat on with respect to operations, but i think it's something we should look into, and i think if we can pull it off, it would be great. with respect to the free muni for youth, i, too, would love to be -- for those of us with means, we should pay because the system is still clearly not where it needs to be in terms
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of funding, and i would love for us to be able to get to a point where we subsidize transit as much as we subsidize cars. there was a comment made by a speaker earlier that bicyclists should pay their fair share. i think we should be thanking bicyclists every time we see one because they are actually saving us money by not creating wear and tear on the roads. they're not costing us money for the additional sort of infrastructure that's required of cars, and even transit, for that matter, but i digress. i think that i would move love get to a place where we have free muni, but i heard the taxi driver's, and i think everybody's going to feel the pain when paradrivers and the ramp taxis become fewer and fewer. i would love to be able to do
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what we can for them in this budget. i don't expect we'd be able to do a whole lot more. i expect we're in a place where we failed at the ballot a couple of years back, and i think we're starting to feel it. maybe if -- if the free muni for youth would be a ballot proposal in the future, it would be great to have voters vote on that. i would love a pension. there was an assumption made by mr. corngold that we get pensions, and i would encourage anybody never to make assumptions about what you see for anyone anywhere. i'm very concerned about my age, and when i heard anothere talk aboanothere -- another gentleman talking about seniors, i will be there in 20 years. i appreciate us being comprehensive in our thinking.
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once last little point i'll harp on is the term gypsy cab is derogatory. there's a whole people called gypsys, and they're persecuted in europe. they're regulated, as far as i'm concerned, and we should be doing more to regulate them. i don't know that we should be calling them cabs, but i would encourage my colleagues to veer away from those kinds of terms. they are offensive to some. thank you very much. >> thank you director ramos. directors, anymore feedback, comments. >> question. >> oh, yes, director torres. >> i'm unfamiliar with this process. do we go -- do we go line by line and vote to remove invites that we don't like or vote to keep items that we do like? what is the process? >> what we try to do is use this kind of run up to the
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process to get the sense to the board so i can put together something that's going to be hopefully largely in sync with what you're seeking. hopefully next week, we will have a large ballot proposal, whi. >> so on that point, what's your feeling about removing anything for the cab drivers. >> i would like to give you a comprehensive recommendation when we come back in two weeks, but it will show line by line here's what i'm proposing we subtract and add on the revenue side. in two weeks it would be great to get feedback on any of those that you like, don't like, so that when i come back on april 3rd, hopefully, it's a budget that reflects what you all want, but we do have a second meeting in april, in case you
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do want to make any changes to that meeting, which has happened in the past, and we can even schedule a third meeting. >> speaking of director ramos's concerns about reaching maturity, as we all will eventually. >> if we're lucky -- if i'm lucky. >> and i don't like people call gypsys out, because it was some other people that killed the gypsys and the jews. lastly, i think the point you made was excellent in emergency ro room -- in terms of what kind of subsidies do we provide? do we make allowance for transportationly gifted? do we move toward no fee at all. >> for low and moderate income
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people with disabilities, they can ride muni for free. >> and chronologically gifted. >> and chronologically gifted. >> they're going to make that an item, madam chair. >> all right. if there are no otherment coulds, i'll add my voice to what vice chair heinicke said, and i also agree that for those families who are luckily enough to be able to easily afford their children's muni passes, then let's go ahead and have them do that as their support to our system and their support to our friends who perhaps can't afford them, and no more gypsy term and we're chronologically lucky. >> we're gifted, too. >> all right. if there are no other comments, and director reiskin, if you have no other items for us. >> i do want to recognize our
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director of finance and technology, and the staff throughout the agency who worked to put all this together. it's a very large and complex budget, and she's not -- not only not gifted at operating powerpoint slides back and forward, but she's very gifted at all this work. i want to acknowledge her and all the folks that have worked on this budget to date. >> excellent. excellent. it is. [ inaudible ]
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>> if people don't have computers at home, they can always go use the computers at the library, because i believe on wednesday, some of the libraries are open late. it comes back to us. when will we and the public get to see the actual numbers, the big file, the big budget book that people always love to pore over. >> so as director reiskin mentioned, we'll be before you with better numbers next time. it won't be completely balanced, but close to balancing. you'll see the book right before the april 3rd meeting, sometimes the first of march to the third week of march. >> excellent. and if there are no other questions, we will move on. madam chair, item 13 is to take a vote and go into possible closed session. >> we'll take a vote.
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♪ >> i am so looking forward to the street fair tomorrow. >> it is in the mission, how are we going to get there? we are not driving. >> well what do you suggest? >> there are a lot of great transportation choices in the city and there is one place to find them all, sfnta.com. >> sfmta.com. >> it is the walking parking, and riding muni and it is all here in one place. >> sitting in front of my computer waiting transportation options that is not exactly how i want to spend my saturday night. >> the new sfmta.com is mobile friendly, it works great on a
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tablet, smart phone or a lap top, it is built to go wherever we go. >> cool. >> but, let's just take the same route tomorrow that we always take, okay? >> it might be much more fun to ride our bikes. >> i am going to be way too tired to ride all the way home. >> okay, how about this, we can ride our bikes there and then we can take muni home and it even shows us how to take the bikes on the bus, so simple right here on my phone. >> neat. we can finish making travel plans over dinner, now let's go eat. >> how about about that organic vegan gluten free rest rft. >> can't we go to the food truck. >> do you want to walk or take a taxi. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there and then take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options.
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>> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. >> that is smart. >> are you giving me a compliment. >> i think that i am. >> wow, thanks. >> now you can buy dinner. sfmta.com. access useful information, any (shouting.). >> more and more city's high san francisco is committing to
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dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyone's responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good
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weather allowance even at 25 mile-per-hour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didn't cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take you're time
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cities cross america are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing here's what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see
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pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their
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activated a pedestrian crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes
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are for people protected by parks e.r. parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to
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drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike san francisco general hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection let's take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime you're correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk
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yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on what's one of the best things to do to avoid collisions? you can it take a breath pay attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult here's a test how many times did the white team pass the ball? if you answered 11 you're correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever you're surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if you're
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not looking for it here's some basic principles driving near peep e people from you're driver's seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting you're turn
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watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure you're clear while it might feel you'll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you won't save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someone's live here's important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the right-of-way people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train don't block the
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box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a
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close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make you're preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left let's try a few more questions who are the most vulnerable people on city streets? children? seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride
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close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes? turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation? thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the driver's side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for
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bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. >> bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see you're vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didn't controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions
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whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or you're job people walking and biking are vulnerable people can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or you're job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. >> thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember we're counting on you
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>> all right. madam chair, directors, the sfmta board of directors met in closed session to discuss in two cases. the board voted unanimously to approve the anderson and huang cases. the next item would be to make a motion to disclose or not disclose. >> vote to disclose. all in favor? aye? all opposed? okay. we vote not to disclose.
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>> all right. madam chair, directors, the sfmta board of directors met in closed session to discuss in two cases. the board voted unanimously to approve the anderson and huang cases. the next item would be to make a motion to disclose or not disclose. >> vote to disclose. all in favor? aye? all opposed? okay. we vote not to disclose. >> and madam chair, that concludes the items today. >> okay. thank you very much for spending your afternoon with us.
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hello, everyone, i'm elaine forbes. it's great to see you here today. we're celebrating a 10-year endeavor, 12 years by some count, that has brought us here today to a historic day to celebrate the work that the city has performed with our partner, the san francisco giants, to bring a new mixed income neighborhood to the waterfront. we've also had the helpful support of many, many people from the community. we all know that the late mayor lee would have enjoyed being here today. he was the biggest supporter of the city. he was an advocate for the project. and i believe there bear, he may have been one of the giants
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number one fans, so we reflect on mayor lee and his legacy and he would have been proud. this ace project that will help build a water front for everyone and deliver benefits to our residents for years to come. the residents of san francisco and the state will enjoy eight new acres of open space. the rehabilitation of pier 48. thousands of new affordable homes, 40% of which are affordable along our waterfront and much more. the project has created these benefits while recognizing the future challenge of sea level rise. it's adaptable to the rise and for us, it provides an ongoing source of revenue to adapt other areas for the waterfront and the shoreline tax. this was done the san francisco way as a team effort. and we are not surprised about how many port tenants and
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three-time world champions san francisco giants led our team. thank you to the giants, to larry bear, to jack bear, to fran weld, to john and so many others from the hometown team for leading a gold standard community project. the giants are in the long game in this community and it showed. it promises a diverse community and in planning we heard from many voices on how the future of the waterfront should be prepared. that included the central waterfront advisory group. the mission bay advisory group. the south beach neighborhood association, they participated in every step of the plan. i see many of our resident stakeholders here today, including ms. katy la del, alice rogers, bruce and so many others that participated. sonny schwartz is here today. there were many city agencies that collaborated.
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i need to say thank you first and story most to oawd, to ken rich, todd and adam. and we also will remember today jennifer, she had big vision for the waterfront and enthusiasm for the site. today, we recognize her work effort and can-do attitude. the mayor's office played an integral role in the project to support the benefits of housing, the housing program, the transportation program, and on ward. i really think that this project is emblematic of what with can achieved through a public-private partnership. when we have supervisor jane kim. you were very dedicated to this project throughout and you challenged our team to deliver more affordable housing and we
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have done so. with a decade in the making, this project had the support of the mayor and now mayor newsom, the late mayor lee, acting mayor breed who helped us finalize, and now mayor farrell. mayor farrell has supported this project for two terms while on the board of supervisors. we're celebrating many years of hard work and welcome our mayor, mayor farrell. [applause] >> thank you, elaine. and congratulations to you. so, i'm excited to be here to celebrate the signing of this legislation. let's be clear, we all want to talk about the world series coming up here to san francisco. i know, it isn't here, but i'm here to say congratulations. first of all, elaine, congratulations to you and the port team for all your hard work
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and to larry, you and your team for all of the hard work. this is emblematic of the best of a collective planning process we have here in the san francisco. this is a city agency willing to be creative with a ton of support and a willing and engaged local partner in the giants. to really come here to celebrate this today. but it's because of the port and the giants and their hard work that we are really here today celebrating what is going to be an amazing project. as you think about the project itself, 21 acres is going to be redone. 1500 new housing units, 40% that are affordable. congratulations to supervisor kim on her hard work on making that happen. [applause] eight acres of new open space. we're going to have teachers and nurses and firefighters and police officers living there, transition age youth is going to be living there. this is a big deal for the city of san francisco and a huge part of what mayor lee was pushing for in the housing units, that
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he has been pushing for as mayor. and transportation improvements. you think about the t third line, the $40 million, the new mission bay ferry terminal, which is an amazing resource for the neighborhood and million dollars for workforce development to make sure the children we have growing up in the neighborhoods, they can work in the neighborhoods and they're ready with the job skills they need moving forward. i'm here just to say congratulations to everybody. a number of people to additionally thank. mentioned the giants and the port. i want to thank the entire board of supervisors and president breed for all their work. david chiu for his hard work in legislation that he pushed forward that allowed it to happen. other city departments, todd, where are you? to john ram and planning, ed riskin and the mta. that was a collective effort from the city family. as elaine mentioned, huge thanks
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to lieutenant-governor, alan and especially thank in closing to our late mayor ed lee who worked very, very hard on this for his entire time in office. and i just think he would be proud of being here today. congratulations, everyone. [applause] >> thank you, elaine, and thank you, mayor farrell. i'm larry bear from the giants and i have to say this is truly an exciting day for the organization. it has been mentioned, it was a decade in the making. i think maybe a little north, 1, 12 years, i was just sitting here thinking nobody on the giants roster right now was actually on the roster when we started this project.
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i believe bruce was a rookie manager at the time for the giants. but really valuable, important projects are worth taking the time and being very carefully done. i have to -- there is a number of people we want to thank because they led with their hearts in making this project happen. they understood the vision, saw the vision and led with their hearts. it's a profound statement when a mixed project can garner 74% of the voters' support in this community, which was the case in the election two years ago. and unanimous support from every commission and every board. many of you we will talk about were part of that, of garnering that support and leading. without the folks we're going to mention today, this would not have happened, it would not have been possible, come together.
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what we're really most proud of is the creation taking a surface parking lot, what we used to characterize as a wind swept surface parking lot and creating a new dynamic neighborhood from the parking lot which will serve as a central gathering place, a hub for the surrounding community, for the mission bay community. it grew on the expertise of thousands of created people, dedicated people in this planning process, including our neighbors. which we'll talk about. so leading off the thanks, i would like to thank the project team who worked hard, diligently, long, long hours, lending their expertise in urban planning, engineering, architecture, finance, legal work to create this topnotch project that meets the values of
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our community. mention the neighbors and the community based organizations, many are here in the audience today. they've been a voice for the project from the beginning. now the city departments. the city departments have been quite amazing led by the port of san francisco, the mayor's office, economic and workforce development, the city attorney office, the planning department, dpw, mta, all unbelievably collaborative in their work with us through this long process. i want to specifically acknowledge port direct elaine forbes for her amazing work. commission president kim brandon. where is kim? so kim brandon -- [applause] -- kim brandon unlike any of the
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giants players or bruce, did precede this project. i did a fact check, because i don't want fake news, 20 years on the san francisco port commission, looking at the progress and what happened to the port through her two decades of service. thank you, kim. and and finally the city leadership. a heart felt thank you to jane kim who authored the legislation and has taken a personal interest in this project from day one. huge thanks to board president london breed for her long time support of mission rock and keeping us on track during crucial moments. thank you to david chiu for spear heading the state legislation that allowed us to do the project. and finally, i want to acknowledge our friend, our late mayor ed lee.
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very bittersweet here without him. one of the project's biggest supporters, with us from day one. we are eternally grateful for his leadership and support and we miss him every day. thank you, mayor farrell for making this historic moment for mission rock come true. we're thrilled to move closer to the ground breaking and realizing the vision of all of us here for this project, a decade in the making and now the fun beginsment thank you so much. [applause] >> hello, everybody, my name is london breed, i'm president of the san francisco board of supervisors and i am so excited to be here today. as a former san francisco redevelopment agency commissioner, i know how long these projects, these major infill projects can take. i mean, but looking at mission
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bay and what we're doing with the shipyard and watching as this entire neighborhood change and provide more businesses, more housing, more parks, this is really a crown jewel for this particular area. i want to thank the giants for investing in this project, for working with the city, for working with the port. elaine, you're an amazing leader and i've got to thank kimberley brandon and the members of the port commission who spent countless hours listening to public comment, arguing over the details, getting the criticism and look at what we have here today. an amazing project that is doing something we need to do all over the city and county of san francisco. provide 40% affordable housing for low, moderate income families in san francisco. how exciting is that? people who make up to 150% ami. when we think a
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