tonight for the good government awards. special thanks to spur for all that you do on behalf of the city and behalf of our bay area. it is an honor to be here as the

mayor to recognize the award winners and to thank spur for all your hard work. on behalf of our city to the people that workday to day at spur and board of directors thank you for all you do. i want to quickly recognize the award winners real quick. congratulation to sonali bose. round of applause. i've had a chance to work with her for years and does an amazing job. sonali, congratulations on your award. to kelly cornell. where are you? stand up. say hello to everyone. the chief urban forester for our rec and part accident does work not without controversy so thank you for all you do. jesus mora. right there, our chief information officer with our fire department. thank you for being here and all you do with our fraud technology

and fire department. thank you very much. congratulations on your awards. where's the entire dahlia housing portal team? this is a group that streamlined our affordable online housing service. thank you on behalf of so many people congratulations to you and to our encampment resolution team. these are the individuals making a huge difference on our streets. i see mohamed and jeff with you. thank you for all you do on behalf of the city. listen, congratulations everyone. i hope everyone has a wonderful evening and i'd like to bring up two amazing people our city starter and jason elliott. >> good evening, everyone. so this time last year we were

at the impact awards and mayor lee came up here and we had a long-running joke that i've been with the city almost 20 years and i never got an impact award. he said the same thing too because you know he started his career and he mentioned that when he gave his remarks. i thought about it this year about all the thing he did, not as mayor because as mayor you have a 33,000 workforce so you have an idea they move heaven and earth to try to implement it if you can through the bureaucracy and we get wonderful programs that come out of the mayor's idea and board of supervisors ideas, but as city administrator he allowed other

people to get the awards. one as city administrator he implemented 3-1-1. he was the one who worked with the deputy city administrator ben rosenfeld who got the call senator off the ground. as city administrate, unfortunately, the events of hurricane katrina happened and he was with the public utilities commission and traveled to new orleans and was with an activist who now the mayor of new orleans and started the life line council. out of that started the neighborhood empowerment network and made sure our city was resilient. when i talk about he didn't just say i have an idea, he rolled up his sleeves writing the standard operating procedures and going back to the department of public

works he started the community team event and mohammad was working as the deputy director it's now part of our institution we take for granted it's government. it's his hard work and rolling up his sleeves with great deputies who had many of these events put in place. with that i think we should honor him with the impact award. i think gabe is going to figure that out. >> thank you, naoimi. naoimi and i since mid december have had the honor and i could say the privilege and pleasure of going to events that we get to remember mayor lee and talk about his legacy and what he meant to us and the city and to the kelly family.

it's so much fun to go under the terrible circumstances and get to go around mayor lee and his legacy. it's not often we get to do this in a group of committed public servants, bureaucrats in the nicest way you can mean that word and when we talk about mayor lee's legacy and the thing naoimi mentioned we're so aware his legacy, which we're committed to, is the work you are doing. you're the ones fulfilling his legacy and those of us who work inside the building depend on those at m.t.a. finance and the resolution teams and the departments doing all the good work. that's mayor lee's legacy. it's not often we get to come and celebrate him but do so in a way where we're able to look out and say thank you because it's

your work that's your legacy we're proud to keep moving forward. congratulation to all the winners of the impact awards and have a good time tonight. >> it feels so right to celebrate mayor lee on a moment when we're celebrating the great work of city employees and his passion and compassion and doggedness to get stuff done is reflective in the work you have done. i have worked on two initiatives with the city of san francisco i think will forever change the course of history. one was as a young lawyer on the same-sex marriage case back in 2004 which was a series of litigation that gave rise to prop 8 overturned by the supreme court validating gay marriage and the second was saving public housing. it was a super courageous thing

mayor lee did. others might say those are federal buildings, federally funded, not my problem and he did the opposite and said we're a wealthy city. we have wealth of knowledge and treasure and talent and we're going to take over the buildings. and those are the kind of entrepreneurial courageous feat we celebrate in the city. the private sector, technology, doesn't have a monopoly on entrepreneurship. it exists in city hall as well. we're excited to hear the stories from you. i want to recognize our elected officials today. carmen chu and dennis herrera, hilary ronman and former mayor willy brown. also our sponsors for this event, rich housing corporation and san francisco international airport as well as our city government sponsors and chris

pruell our finance adviser thank you for your support and partnership. so with that, let's begin. the first award goes to the dahlia housing portal team. >> dahlia stands for the housing information. >> was onerous. you had to go to the developer and turn in the application and they then gave you a circus ticket. if you lost it you didn't know your lottery number. was i in it and you had to fill

out an application for each and every development. there was not one place to find out about affordable house. >> we're trying to create a one-stop resource. we have a good guide to how affordable housing works where you can find it. >> the challenge for us was to build this electronic system but make it very accessible and get all that information into the one place. >> now, every application is accounted for with the dahlia system. people are feeling better about knowing where they stand right up front. we're also able to hook people up with subsidy program this way and providing better resources. we checked to see if people are eligible for certain housing preferences which gives them an extra advantage in the lottery and if they look like they qualify we'll nudge them and say

hey, you have a chance. dahlia can eventually shape housing policy where it's constructed and what kind is built. >> we're build the community in terms of deciding what their priorities are. >> we have a new source of data on what people are looking for and hope it will provide useful information as the city continues to grow the affordable house stock. >> we are so proud of the dahlia team. they have taken on a huge task. they've gone through it methodically with great results and we couldn't be happier with their work. >> this is the epitome of good service. a flagship of what digital services is all about. thank you for your hard work and dedication. this is an award well deserve. -- deserved.

[applause] . >> naoimi and i would like to invite the dahlia housing portal team to the stage. and from digital services, ashley myers. we're pleased to present this award to this team that's done so much to help so many in san francisco. >> we're pleased to receive it. didn't we look like the mod squad walking through? a variation. good evening, thank you so much. on behalf of michael and barie and ashley we're honored by the recognition. it takes many farmers to grow a beautiful dahlia. dahlia is the name of our system

and first of all, i want to thank our director kate hartley and brian chu. benjamin mccloskey and mayor lee for their support and encouragement getting this program off the ground. we have made a difference in the lives of people applying for affordable housing at a time when the need and the assistance is most needed. the team who work every day on making the dahlia system even better. i'm not going to say all their names. there are six of them that work with us every day to test the system ocd, city employees who have spent countless hours working on the system. the mayor's office of civic

innovation, especially jay nap and christa kenoakis hooked us up with our googlers. yay, google. they gave us four months of their time of staff time to help us develop the dahlia system and make it really meet the needs of people who are going to use it. we had have a dahlia steering committee. i want to thank the dahlia steering committee and the office of community investment and infrastructure. that commission, thank you for your support and encouragement but also those tough questions that kept us honest. the wonderful dahlia task force. a lot of times local government will create a system and say,

here, there it is. use it. we didn't do that. we created this system bit by bit and each bit we had housing counselors and developers and nonprofit and for-profit testing the system. i'm going to call out roshen because she never gets a call out. the builders and designers of the system who have worked on the ground with applicants and people actually living in the cities of affordable house rental stock. wouldn't be here without you guys. thank you very much. code for america and your invaluable contribution. i'm almost done.

we need to thank the folks that were part of the user testing. the mayor's office of disability. light house for the blind and the many current residents of affordable housing and applicants. a special shout out to kuritas property management who gave up their time and tested the system. they were the first leasing private developer in the inclusionary housing program to jump in and use the dahlia system, took the leap of faith and they were our guinea pigs and sat through our project fixes and bugs and it is changing the lives of people applying more than we can ever -- just where we hoped.

and we'll team continuing to work on the project until it is even better than now. thank you. >> thank you very much. next up join me in honoring our next winner, jesus mora. chief investment officer, san francisco fire department. >> when i was working at the city i worked as a contractor in the national 9-1-1 project which was when the department of emergency management was first create. after a few years i realized it was something i wanted to make a dashboard that let us know at

any time how many ambulances we have and how many are private and how much additional resources we need to provide. working with the fire department i get to interact with other departments and that's something i in -- enjoy. with 9-1-1 and we can look at saving lives and protecting property from fire and natural disasters. i'm not there. but it gives me satisfaction to know that i can help them by providing information in a timely manner. >> it's a huge asset for our department and for the city as a whole. he oversees our i.t. infrastructure and it's our scheduling system and reports

and he's the unsung hero. without a uniform he's my hero in that he does so much for everyone in the san francisco fire department going from a carbon paper department to all the technology that we embrace now is in large part due to jesus' innovation and talent and ability. >> there's always going to be chris -- crices and we have professionals to solve the problem and doing our best to deliver services that will always be there. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you very much to spur. i'm chief joanne hayes white

with the san francisco fire department. thank you. congratulation to the honorees and it gives me great pleasure to introduction the next honoree the san francisco fire department's chief information officer, wofnderful man i have the privilege of working with and call friend and that is jesus mora. >> good evening. i want to thank spur for organizing the event and recognizing the quiet work city employees do every day and i want to thank the chief for nominating me and always being a champion of new technology initiatives. we started with almost nothing and we had really eventually created a system that gets used every day and the end users

enjoy and that gives me a lot of pleasure. and finally i am very happy to work in the fire department because i know that the work that is being done every day is helping people. i feel somehow i contribute to that effort. >> thank you, jesus. please join me in honoring our next award winner, kelly cornell chief urban forester of the san francisco recreation department. >> any job is maintaining the trees and meeting. a lot of our work is responding

to some kind of event. tree failure, broken tree, anything where you have to react. the green way program started over 20 years ago. the department was making a lot of waste and we were paying a lot of money to have it hauled away. since the park was manmade the byproduct should be put back. insects naturally occur and then you add the rim fire and the other fires. we lost a lot of trees. we removed up to 4,000 trees so far and now we'll wait and see how effective it was and then we'll go to replanting. it started out as a rumor the red wood grove was being used for the bicycles and kids making

jumps but when i got down here these kids should have mining contracts because they basically carved out the whole northern embankment of the red wood grove and then we found the trees were being used as support beams are for their banks and berms. it had to go. brought in heavy equipment and took the area and turned it as close to what it was before. kelly cornel one of the park department's most outstanding and colorful employees. he's our very own lorax. he speaks for the trees all 310,000 and preserves our amazing urban canopy. >> the best part of my job and it sounds cheesy but knowing back in 1982, city and county

gave me a chance and i'm still here. i get to sit in a red wood grove and restore damage for take an area that needs help or after a storm try to make an area safe so people can continue on with their lives. >> good evening, everybody. my name is bill ginsburg of your recreation department. there's a native american saying, we didn't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we are borrowing it from our children. and our proud awardee kelly cornell is making sure we return it to them in good condition.

the lorax, as i like to call him, with limited resources and 900,000 bosses come want him to take the tree down and others don't want him to touch it, he has figured out a way to preserve our incredible urban canopy, 135,000 trees in our parks and yes, he is caring for them. you should be so proud. colleen, sarah, jessica, i know you're proud. the recreation and park department is thrilled to recognize kelly cornell. >> feels weird to be let out of the park. anyway, to colleen, sarah, jessica, and my right-hand hand,

kevin jackson, thank you for being here and we're continuing to move urban forestry in an upward motion. my biggest gratitude goes to my boss. denn dennis kearn because he believes in us. >> thank you. isn't it awesome of the diversity of the award winners and fire and trees and housing and all the different aspects these great men and women work in in the city and we'll keep it

up with the homeless encampment team. this is from the port of san francisco, san francisco public works and the department of homelessness and supportive house the encampment resolution team. >> the water front navigation center is a village-like complex of modular units connect decks and courtyards and shelters residents until they can be transitioned to more permanent housing. >> it grew from efforts to continue the model that started with two other navigation centers. navigation center was the catalyst behind this in terms of the design and the way it was laid out, modular units could be placed and removed is brilliant. >> we have three years to operate and then it will be completely removed.

the mobile units were quick to procure and easy to relocate and offer a scale that's intimate so it's not an overwhelmingly large space. that combined with the outdoor courtyards and trellised area provides for a more restorative environment for folks to get back on their feats. >> people we meet on the street we offer them a place and it's generally a time-limited place, but if we can identify they have a priority one status to be placed in permanent supportive housing we move them to a pathway bed or bed to hold them until the placement can happen. a place for people can sleep and access to bathrooms and showers and space to get meals on their schedule and in the on a standard meal schedule. outdoor space to deal with pets, access to benefits. access to medical care both physical and behavioral health. it was important the community be supportive of the project and what it was trying to do.

we had various community meetings. i have to the dogpatch a lot of credit. they were engaged and supportive. a great partner. >> on behalf of the port of san francisco we're so honored our staff collaborated together to achieve such a remarkable result for the city and county of san francisco for the residents of the dogpatch area and a shut out for tom carter who is being honored in this award and i'm very thankful all his hard work ended in such a great outcome. >> i want to thank everybody from public works and the staff at hhh and this takes a team effort to address >> i want to thank our team who

worked with various agencies. it was a unique site and the team. thank you for doing a great job. >> we worked together collaboratively and developing the first from scratch brand new navigation center. it's multiple departments coming together and making something that is working. >> good evening, everyone. i hope you're having a good time. i want to thank spur for putting on these awards. it's important that those who work hard and are behind the scenes to get the work done be recognized. i'm proud to be here but more importantly the work the three agencies have been doing together to take the next step

in solving the problem of homelessness provide place for people to be able to go in the city are needed and behind the scenes a huge number of people trying to make the change. our team, jeff and rod from the port have been leading the way but today special recognize to tom carter representing the board of san francisco. come on up, tom. scott walton from the department of homelessness. and public works.

>> we are appreciative for the award and thanks to spur and city government for making this possible. the port of san francisco provided a central water front center with a home and a place for us to assist the persons experiencing homelessness. the three of us would like to thank elaine forbes the port executive director for the nomination for this award. tom carter has the support of the special projects director and brad benson and the division. i also want to say tom as you noted in the video participated in the shared efforts of gaining and maintaining the support of our site neighbors. we want to thank the doi dogpat

association. and it's amazingly functional and i think think paul as the lead architect and leading the landscape group including many people and wanted us to appreciate the construction work of the ddr construction and treaty construction and the design space modular. their work brought this together and it's a beautiful space floating on top of a street for three years and then we'll be removed. i also have to think -- thank mohammad because they partner with us with our resolution on the street. the department of homelessness and supportive house is responsible for the outreach and operations of the program. the project began before the creation of the department and i

would like to thank the leadership and support of the human services agency from the beginning of the navigation center programs and from the beginning of this particular site. my thanks to the leadership of the new department. it provides us while we're trying to grow the department to continue and grow our amazing program. we have to thank our providers who helped run the program and the province foundation. i also need to thank our government and community relations staff for helping us fit into a community. the san francisco homeless outreach team and encampment team who connects with the clients on the street to connect to to the program. we celebrate this award because it's a collaboration of multiple departments and not just our three departments, every day we also work with the san francisco

police department, the department of emergency management and 3-1-1 and others to respond to homelessness. we thank our family and friends for their support. we share this honor with our co-worker and our leaders and we celebrate this collaboration wan move issues forward. in addition, i have to thank the san francisco police department for adding the tag, god ain't no punk. >> we have one more final award winner to sonali bose director of finance information and

technology and cfo mta. >> in my career i've been extremely lucky to have worked in public and private. one thing i love about the public sector is you get to see the stuff you do. i came and i realized there was a huge structural deficit so i combed every possible way to get revenue including, for example, increasing our advertising revenues which were $400,000 when i came and now $30 million a year. looking at the fares and fees and the sf park pilot was the first in the world where we based parking rates on demand and we got a grant from the federal government to do that and was successful and has been launched throughout the city. i'm a big risk taker. if you give me a problem and

tell my i can't do it, i'll get it done. my tenure has always been tenuous. to me you have to take risks to leave a legacy. you can't just push paper and do debits and credits. i'm interested in policy and how to implement them through the back end. before i came the agency could not issue debt. we changed the charter in 2007 to allow the agency to issue debt and we're the highest rated revenue bond in the country. we've had four rating increases from poors and moody's. it's been doing whatever it take to get the revenue. >> i nominated sonali because she brings more to the agency than just her title suggests. she's extremely passionate and tenacious as anyone who's had to interact with her would tell

you. very dedicated to making transportation better in the city. she does not stay within her lane of cfo. she's built a great team but it's her passion and commitment that's made her a fierce advocate for what we do at the mta. >> everything i've done is because i have a great team. >> good evening, everyone. i want to join in recognizing all the awardees and the other hard working public servants who work every day to make the city a better place for everyone who lives here. i'm the director of transportation and it's a great honor for me to be able to recognize sonali. i think probably everybody in

the room has had some interaction with sonali. a few positive. the rest otherwise but it's all been in the service of transportation in the city. as we were sitting there between the speeches she was trying to talk to me about budgets and interagencies agreements and that specks to -- speaks to who she is. join me in honoring our chief financial officer sonali bose. >> i have a speech because i was told i had to behave because otherwise i will probably say something not appropriate. when i told ed i wouldn't leave the agency until i got the government award i think he turned in my nomination within the hour. thank you, ed, for nominating me.

it's been a wild ride both literally and figuratively and those that work with me know i have many faults but i hope you feel i helped move the mta forward. every day i've been in some sort of trouble with somebody and i think i have probably the longest tenured finance person. as a martyr of fact, gabe and i had a bet who would be the last person standing and i think you may win this one. i've been so impressed with the city staff i work with. everybody's so commit and talented particularly those at the mta who work long hours with little recognition. a shout out to the mta folks here. particularly the members of

finance and technology teem which i couldn't do anything without. thank you for your support so most of you have an impression there's not a fare i don't like. that's not quite true. what i love are increases to fares. as i leave the city, i leave you with a plea to support the city's transportation system because it's great system. please pay your fare and it's okay to get a parking ticket and get your car towed. it's already. -- all right. if anybody wants my job, or know somebody who you think may want to do my job, forward my name to ed. i need time with my successor to show them where i hide the money, particularly from ed.

lastly, i'd like to close by sharing a poem that summarizes my 12 years with the mta finances by an anonymous author called the cork and the whale. a brown cork fell in the path of a whale who lashed it down with his angry tail, but in spite of the blows the cork arose and floated before the whale nose. said the cork to the whale, you may slap and frown but you can't keep me down for i'm made of the stuff that is buoyant snuff -- enough to float and never drown. thank you very much. >> now you know why we put her last. i hope you understand that. thank you to the award winners and thank you for coming and for

the spur board and everyone else here and have a great night. i want to thank everyone for coming here, all of the guests and leaders standing behind me. we're here today because history, earthquakes and climate change compel us to protect our city. history. over 100 years ago, the 'em sea wall was built and we're fortunate it lasted this long. it was built at a time when they

didn't know how to stabilize against earthquake risk. we know the big one will strike us at some point over the next three decades. and if it does, we'll see flooding along the water front. climate change, despite climate deniers we know that the estimates of sea level rise by the end of the next century are 4-10 feet. we need to fix this sea wall. what is it that we're trying to protect? millions of san franciscans and californians who live work and play along the waterfront. we see 24 million tourists visiting our waterfront every year. it's imperative we protect this asset not just for san francisco, but the bay and the california economy. i want to again thank everyone standing behind us, our mayor, board of supervisors. when i was on the board of supervisors, i served on the

capital planning committee, where we planned for how we took care of tens of billions of dollars of assets. this is at the top of the list. i want to thank my current colleagues in the legislature. you'll hear from scott wiener. in 2005 they established the financing district we're talking about today. she had drafted the legislation to ensure we're investing in infrastructure as well as historic resources, the bill we're discussing today is to ensure we're expanding what it is that we're protecting. protecting our shoreline, ensuring we can rebuild our seawall. before i introduce our next speaker, i want to say two things. we're here in part because we have to come together as a community. you'll hear about the efforts at the local level, as well as at the state level and what we had

hoped was going to be the federal level, but despite what donald trump is saying what he is doing about infrastructure, none of us are holding our breath. so san francisco and california need to act. we're here for our kids. and our grandkids. none of us are going to be around when the next century turns. but my hope is my son and his friends and his next generations, will look to this day as a day that our city leaders came together to care for and steward the assets of our city. our next speaker is someone who has children of his own, and i know that he cares very much about ensuring that the future of our city is in good hands. i'm delighted to help introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor mark farrell. >> thank you, david. i am proud to be here as the mayor to thank -- [horn honk]

i'm going to start off. i want to thank mr. chu along with assembly member ting, but specifically on this issue here. leadership is critical to the future of our city. critical to the future of the waterfront and proud to be here at this announcement today. our waterfront is one of the most iconic parts of san francisco. it always has been. subjects of pictures, it's why tourists come here. it's one of the most beautiful parts of our city. and holding up the waterfront is our seawall. these are the buildings, the waterfront, the restaurants, the small businesses, but it's been holding back the bay to make sure that our tunnels are not flooded. holding back the rising tides of our san francisco bay to make

sure we can walk along the waterfront in front of us here today. it is critically important to san francisco today and to the future of our city. we need to do everything we can as a city to make sure it survives and it's strong for the next generation. this project is not cheap. i want to really thank elaine for her leadership and the entire port commission for making sure we plan for the future. it is a $5 billion project that we have to plan for. the voters of san francisco will have a bond on the ballot going toward this effort. and the bill is going to play a huge start in kick starting the project. and let's be clear, this is about planning for the future of the city. it's about infrastructure and making sure our city is resilient when the next earthquake hits. the next earthquake will hit.

it's not a matter of if, but when. we need to be strong and ready to respond and make sure our infrastructure is ready to protect the residents of our city. proud to be here today and really want to thank assembly member chu for his leadership. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, mr. mayor. some 13 years ago in 2005 when they established the legislation to take what were known as public trust lands owned by the state to turn them over to the authority of our port department for stewardship, i want to thank elaine and her department and commissioners for bringing this to our attention for so many years. i championed the earthquake safety emergency response bonds. there were two of them over the years. unfortunately, we were not able to the bonds to develop or create the assets to protect what we have here at the port. with that i'd like to bring up elaine forbes to tell us where

our seawall infrastructure needs to go. >> thank you so much, assembly member chiu. i'm representing the port staff. we have the port commission president by my side and she'd she's been a steward of the waterfront for 20 years. i can say this is a dream come true day for us. it's remarkable to see the leadership behind me embracing and supporting the need for investment in the waterfront. as our mayor and assembly member has said, this seawall is a work horse for the city. so much economic activity. the infrastructure. and there is other things, too, that the seawall does that goes unseen. it's going to be the place of emergency response. we expect people to go out by water in the event of a major earthquake and goods to come in by water.

this has to hold up. if we're preparing and preventing disaster, it will be five times less to do so proactively. this represents how we can get this done. how this daunting task of a $5 billion effort will come to fruition because the leaders behind me are making this a priority. we start with the $500 million phase, laying out the improvements for 20-30 years and then tackling the most critical pieces first. i want to give a huge thank you to naomi kelly behind me. she pole vaulted this project along with mayor lee by identifying it as a critical piece of infrastructure for the city. so we're so -- port staff, port commission and i are so excited for the day, so thankful for the state leadership for assembly

member chu, ting, getting us $250 million for the project, should this be approved, we'll work hard to get it done. we're so thankful the leadership has heard our call and is going to prioritize a safe and vibrant waterfront. thank you so much. >> i'm grateful to my colleagues for representing this effort. phil ting, as well as our next speaker, senator scott wiener. >> thank you, david, i want to thank assemblyman chiu for his leadership. when we served on the board of superviso supervisors together, we all care about infrastructure, but david took so much leadership on

not just the sexy infrastructure, but on the infrastructure that we depend on but the people don't see. and the seawall is certainly part of that. i want to thank the port. i am really trying to work and support the port's effort to move this bond to the ballot. i want to thank elaine, my neighbor, and the entire port staff for its leadership on this critical issue. this is really about two realities of life. sea level rise and earthquakes. and as much as we want to wish them all away, we can't. the big earthquake is going to come and unless we take radical, radical action today around reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change, we're going to continue to see sea level rise. and sadly because of the disaster known as washington d.c., there is no bold action

happeni happeni federally to address climate change, and we're doing what we can but this is a national problem we have to resolve. we're going to continue to see significant sea level rise. our downtown is so at risk of inundation, we're doing what we can to reduce carbon emissions. doing what we income the bay area. just a year ago we passed a tax to start restoring the wetlands destroyed in the bay area 150 years ago, because that will help us to mitigate sea level rise. but with everything we're doing, we have to have the seawall. it has to be intact, has to be able to with stand an earthquake and be able to protect us from the bay. we love the bay, but the bay is going to cause us problems when it floods the muni subway tunnel and downtown areas. we need to get this bill passed.

this is just one step. we need the bond. we need this bill and a lot more work to fund this project. i look forward to collaborating to get it done. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, senator wiener for reminding us we're putting the sexy back into infrastructure. i want to thank everyone for coming together. i want to invite the next speaker, someone who has been a champion for infrastructure in our city, supervisor london breed. >> thank you, everyone for being here today. you know, it's easy to talk to residents of san francisco about the need for more housing. the need to address challenges with public safety and homelessness and things we can see. what is harder is trying to help people to understand the significance of the things that we can't see.

the infrastructure needs that hold our city together. we know the consequences when we don't do what is necessary to protect our infrastructure. we only look at new orleans and what happened with the levies and how that devastated that particular city. and so we in san francisco, we must be proactive, we must take these kind of bold moves and creative solutions. i want to thank assembly member david chiu for finding a very creative way to help us pay for it. i want to thank the voters in advance, because this fall, we're going to have a ballot measure that is going to help with $350 million to help in this effort. we know that there is so much work to do in san francisco. and as the president of the board who now serves on the unknown capital planning committee, the needs of our infrastructure are at the top of my list on a regular basis.

i want to thank not only noemie kelly, but also elaine forbes. she would reach out and say, supervisor, i want to meet with you about the seawall, i say, wait a minute, i have to work with this challenge. she always brings it back to how important it is not just to protect my district, but to protect the entire city. her leadership along with port commissioner president kimberley brandon that been outstanding. they've been in sacramento, in d.c., they've been all over the place trying to put together the money for this particular seawall and i know with their leadership and the work of all the policy behind me, we're going to get this done for the people of san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you, president breed.

our final speaker is someone who represents the district we're currently in who knows that it is her residence and businesses that could be flooded if we do not invest in the infrastructure. please join me in welcoming supervisor kim. >> thank you, assembly member chiu. as someone who represented your sister district when we both served on the board of supervisors, we understand the importance of strengthening our seawall, shield that prerkts our residents and workers and many of the tourist attractions up and down the waterfront. mayor mark farrell, myself, supervisor cohen and peskin represent the districts that are along the boundary lines of the seawall lot that we're here about. so much of what we love about our city is just along the waterfront, our housing, offices, jobs, transportation, the giants who i see in the audience today. it is important to make prudent

investments today to strengthen the seawall shield and strengthen the unbreakable bond between the city of san francisco and the waterfront we love so much. i want to thank our san francisco delegation in sacramento, for making sure we're prioritizing the very infrastructure that will keep the city beautiful and running, thank you very much. [applause] >> that concludes today's press conference. again, appreciate everyone coming together around a plan to protect the future of our city and our seawall. any final questions? we will end the press conference and open it up to folks to ask individual questions. thank you very much.