so i'm really glad to see that be part of the consideration. [please stand by]

comments? seeing none, thank you very much. looking forward to a great school year. >> all right. you can applaud. good. it's a good thing. [applause] >> consent calendar items, we

have none tonight. section j., introduction of proposals. there are two policies and one proposal. number one is public comment which we don't have. two, board policy, student assignment 5120.1, lowell high school admission policy. and board members proposal 118 in changing the name of fairmont elementary school. elementary school being introduced by commissioners mendoza and sanchez. >> so moved. >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. i'm going to refer board policy

5101 and 05120.1 to the committee. and 188-14 a 1 to grounds. section k -- >> president, so you referred lowell to rules policy and legislation and not student assignment? >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: correct. we had this discussion in the agenda review. would you like to explain that? >> these policies are actually the result of the recommendations coming out of the student assignment committee, so the thought was there was no need for them to go back. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: right. you would be hearing what you recommended. right. so ok, great. thank you for bringing that up. section k, proposals for immediate action and suspension of the rules. i need a motion and second to take action on resolution 188-14 a 2 in support of our city, our home ballot initiative for

november 2018 to fund homeless housing, behavioral health service services introduced by matt haney. >> so moved. >> mr. cook? mr. haney? yes aye. ms. norton? >> no. six ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: could we get a reading of the resolution by the author. i'm sorry. i take that back. that was for suspension. i need a motion and second for formal introduction. >> so moved. >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, could i now get a reading of the resolution by commissioner haney. >> commissioner haney: in

support of the city, our home ballot initiative, where as homelessness is the greatest crisis facing the city and county of san francisco, we need to accept up and where as in the 2015-16 school year, identified 1 in 25 students as homeless, including 491 in middle school, 787 in high school and 168 in charter schools, and whereas the 2016 report hidden in plain site, states that over40% of formerly homeless students surveyed dropped out while they were homeless in middle or high school. whereas the 2014 report found that california is ranked 48th for its response to child homelessness. this ranking is determined by the extent of homelessness in the state, child well-being and

state level resources to prevent and address child homelessness. research and data including individual surveys of homeless youth indicate that it has lasting impact on a child's physical, emotional and academic development. they may suffer trauma, anxiety, shame, withdrawal whereas it is a holistic measure that transforms the crisis by a carefully crafted road map. this would generate $300 million, by creating a half percent tax. whereas at least 50% of the fund must going to housing. this would pay for construction, rehab and subsidies for 4,000

housing units. it would house over a thousand families and 800 youth. 25% of the funds is required to go to families and 20% to youth. this would ensure 7 thoup thousand households get legal assistance, permanent or temporary subsidies to stay in their housing or other forms of help they need to stay housed such as help with electrical or other bills. whereas at most 10% of $30 million used for 1075 new shelter beds, navigation center beds, as as well as help keep our streets clean. there be it resolved that the board of education of san

francisco school district supports the bilal measure, our city, our home homeless gross receipts tax for the november 2018 ballot. we have speakers on this. jack rice. sam law. jordan davis. alison broman. and julie robertson. come on up, you have two minutes. please note the clock. i like saying that. please note the clock. at your one minute mark, you'll get a yellow sign. >> hi, my name is jack. i'm a resident of the tenderloin and i'm grateful to see the work that sfusd is doing for the homeless. in light of the disproportionate barriers, i think that sfusd's

support of this bill would be good. >> i was born and raised here in san francisco and i also went to public school and went to lowell. i went to lakeshore and presidio, so i'm really excited to be here today. i never thought i would be at a school board meeting. i work with homeless families and youth on a daily basis and wanted to say thank you for looking over this resolution and thank you to commissioner matt haney for introducing this. doing the work i do every day with homeless families and youth, i've seen so many families living in their car because they can't afford to live in san francisco because they've been evicted. we've seen families living in the shelter. right now there are families sleeping on a mat in a church,

and there is no showers there. and there is no case workers. and they're sharing a room with like 40 other people. and this is the state that our families and that our children are living under every single day. so we know that in san francisco as was stated in the resolution, 1 in 25 sfusd children are experiencing homelessness. we know that homeless children have lower academic achievement overall and there is 87% more likely to drop out of school. obviously, folks know that there is a housing crisis. there is a homelessness crisis. and people want to see solutions. but nothing is going to be solved without a huge infusion of funding to actually address the issue. and we really see that our city, our home proposition c, is the

biggest measure and the boldest measure to truly address this crisis. i would urge you all to vote yes on supporting the resolution. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> jordan davis, i'm a resident of the tenderloin and formerly homeless voter in san francisco. and i just want to say i support our city, our home and i want to thank commissioner haney for all his work on this and for supporting so many communities. i was homeless myself in adulthood and i just cannot imagine -- and it's taken a big toll on me, and i came to think, you know, if it was rough for me an adult, how rough do you think it is for the kids? i've had to deal with a lot of things and i don't know where

i'd be if i was homeless in my youth. it is easier to lift up a child than to fix a broken adult. please no more broken adults. no more homeless children, please pass this measure, thank you. >> good evening, my name is alison. imthe parent of a student at tenderloin community schools which as you all know has one of the higher populations of homeless students of all of our schools and it's a population that is hard to identify. it's not something that a child want to admit. and our children come to school and are stigmatized, they don't have clean clothes, they haven't been able to shower. our city, our home, it is no exaggeration to say that this is a once-in-a-generation

opportunity for our voters to ask something major of the corporations in our city that have the most. and to give it to our most vulnerable residents. and as the representative of our schools, as a parent, i am asking you, please, support this measure. please vote for it when you have the opportunity. and show our students that you are here for them. thank you. >> my name is julie, and i'm a parent at redding elementary. as alison mentioned, we're also a tenderloin elementary school with one of the highest rates of families in transition in the

city, i think we're the 6th highest with 11% of our families in transition. that means that in each of our classrooms, there is 2-3 children who are experiencing homelessness. and a couple of years ago, our family befriended another family in the midst of homelessness and it was eye opening to see first hand and have her share what they were going through. they were up at 6:00 in the morning to get out of the shelter and had to be back by 6 p.m. she was lucky to move from that to a 3-month bed that are restrictive rules about when she could come and go. she was doing appointments day after day at organizations, community based organizations to try to qualify for longer term beds. she got a 6-month bed and during the appointments, she had to bring her children with her to

show he was eligible for family housing. or just because of pickup dynamics, she would have to take the kids out of school. she had one child in marina and another in drew. her children missed a lot of school as well as her daughter being bullied for being homeless in middle school. she found affordable housing, long-term housing, but we lost her, she had to move to sacramento to do that. as a tenderloin parent whose kids are friends with experiencing homelessness, i want to ask the school board to support the measure. market street has gotten a tax break and we're asking them to contribute to our schools. there are people with means in the city, who as individuals have interests in contributing. we ask you to support this measure to tax those corporations and make sure our families have homes.

thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: questions for comments from the board? commissioner wallson. >> commissioner walton: thank you, president. one, i want to thank my colleague for bringing this forward. as a strong proponent of our city, our home, understanding we all have to play a role in addressing the homeless crisis that exists in our city. this is one of many ways we're going to get families housed. people off the street and into the services and get them the support they need. i support this resolution and again, i want to thank commissioner haney for bringing this forward. thank you. >> commissioner norton: so i am still putting -- formulating my position on. this i'm going to need to vote on it over at the federal committee next week. i understand the mayor is working on the impact of the measure. that is why i voted against

suspending the rules this evening. so i'm going probably -- we don't abstain here, so i'm going probably leave the room because i don't know yet what position i'm going to take on this legislation. i certainly support homeless families in our district and would like to support this, but i do want to see more analysis on the impact before i take a position. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. others? >> commissioner haney: thank you to everybody who came out tonight to speak on the measure, especially the parents who are here. and folks from the community and the coalition for their leadership on this measure. i agree, i think it was well put this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity that we have as a city to take on what continues to be the most devastating crisis and shame that we have as a city. this is definitely a school district issue for all the reasons that the folks who spoke

tonight put so well. we have 1 in 25 of our students who are identified as homeless. the impact this has on our schools, on our kids, on our families, cannot be quantified. and is really immeasurable. we have opportunity with this measure to not just address the broader issue of homelessness in our city, but to actually address child and family homelessness. as i noted in the resolution, there is a significant part of this funding that would go to address family homelessness and it's perfectly aligned with the work we've been doing. a couple of months ago we passed a resolution formulating a new approach to how we support homeless students, committing our own resources, potentially our own land. being really a first responder to make sure that families that are in danger of becoming homeless get the support they need and the rapid response.

all the work we've been doing with hamilton families. so i think that -- i hope as a district we don't just support this, but when it passes, we're at the table, that we're making sure we're funding some of the opportunities we have in our district. all of this rapid response money to prevent homelessness to begin with, a lot runs through the school district, so that we know on the front lines when a family is about to become homeless, that we're able to connect them with the funds and opportunities. so this is, i hope, not just a commitment to support a policy, but a commitment to see it actualized, to see it work well and to see our families have the opportunity to benefit from it. so i hope that the voters do the right thing. i know we're going to work very hard to make it happen. and i want to thank also the staff in our district who worked so hard every day to support families who are homeless and to make sure that the school district is not doing the bare

minimum, but that we're fighting every way we can to support our families. this is just the next step in this and in many ways one of the most important things we can do right now to be there for our families and schools. so i hope my colleagues support this. those who can. and i appreciate, again, the leadership of all the organizations who got us to this point. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: any other questions or comments? >> i want to thank commissioner haney for putting this forward. i have to say, i'm typically against bringing propositions that are on the ballot forward to the school board to vote on them, because often times they're personal, or there are positions we need to take as leaders in our city. and it's always a little awkward, unless it's something we ourselves are putting on the ballot as a bond or a parcel tax.

however, for this particular resolution, i am going to support it. and i'm supporting it because i do really believe that we have been making some huge investments in our homeless youth. and that whether it's the way we allocate our dollars, or the investments and the partnerships we've built with the city, commissioner walton and i have have been working closely with supervisor ronen on our overnight stay, which is something that is innovative and something no one else has done in the country. we're really excited about that. that takes leadership and courage. and i think this ballot initiative drives home the need of so many families, which is unfortunate. and this adds to the $30 million in private funds that our late

great mayor lee supported and raised monies for and made a commitment to ensure that those dollars are allocated first to our homeless students in elementary school. so he really prioritized the need for paying attention to the homeless youth in our school district. so what i know of our city or home, it speaks to many of the issues that we talk about on a regular basis around homeless housing. what i do appreciate about this, too, it speaks to behavioral health services. that's not for the adults only, but the children. i have a hard time bringing forward propositions on the ballot, but i think this will deeply impact our students and the idea that we can kill a high school with the number of young people in our school district

that are suffering from insecure housing is shameful. and whatever we can do to help prevent that in the future and to make accommodations for those experiencing homelessness now is something that i think we all need to stand up for. with that, if there is no other questions or comments, roll call, please. >> mr. cook? mr. haney? yes. murase yes. six ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, all, who came out to speak on behalf of this measure. we look forward to working with you on this. next item is section l, board member reports, standing committee. we've had no meetings taking place since the last school board meeting, our regular board meeting, so we don't have any

reports on standing committees. board delegates, membership organizations? anyone have anything, anybody went anywhere over the summer? for any of the committees? any other reports by board members? >> commissioner murase: i'm sorry, i did attend the csba leadership institute in july, where jim ryan presented on our algebra -- our math sequence and some of the stunning results of moving the 8th grade math requirement from 8th grade to 9th grade. there is a lot of buzz in how san francisco was able to decrease the failure rate in algebra from 40% to 8%. including among subgroups. so it was great to see him. one of his last responsibilities with the school district, because he has since moved on. but it was really -- generated a

lot of interest by other school districts. >> thank you, commissioner walton? >> commissioner walton: thank you, i wanted to shout out two things that happened over the summer. shoutout to bayview with the leadership of the bayview cohort, educators, principals, parents, and everyone who wants to see our school succeed in bayview. got together to get personnel excited about the upcoming school year. there were trainings, speeches. superintendent participated and a lot of leadership in the district. we're excited about going into the school year. i want to thank the leadership of the cohort for bringing the school personnel together to get everyone excited and really get to know the community they're going to be working in as we get ready for monday and the start of school. i also wanted to shout out our college and career department

for the work they've done over the summer. a lot of things have happened that have increased opportunities for our young people in terms of connecting them to opportunities outside of just regular academic curriculum over the summer, so we increased pathway programs and opportunities over the summer. more of our young people are participating in internships across various sectors of employment. i'm excited to see that work has been increasing every year. and that is continuing. i want to give college and career a shoutout as well. and thank all of our school personnel, faculty and everyone working hard over the summer, still providing experiences for our young people when i know -- when you work all school year with young folks and then turn around and put in the work over the summer, we appreciate that, thank you.

>> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. vice president cook. >> vice president cook: i was also going to shoutout to folks at bayview. commissioner walton stole my thunder. >> again. >> he has a habit of doing that [laughter]. i think it is a great model that i hope we can do more of across the city to get people together, excited to get back into the school year. i would like to see it for the schools in the western addition, students in that area of the city. they suffer the same challenges that a lot of the students in the bayview do. thank you for the leadership making that happen. i heard great feedback from a number of administrators about the institute. i want to acknowledge dr. matthews and his team for putting that together. i know people worked hard, long hours to get that off the ground. i wasn't able to attend because i was not in the country. but you were all working hard

and i really appreciate that. and i'm excited about the year ahead. finally, i just wanted to briefly -- about another loss that we had. i wanted to briefly acknowledge nia wilson who was tragically taken from us due to an incident of violence on one of our public transit lines on bart. she wasn't a member of our school district, but a member of the bay area community, one of our children. and i'm really focused on, i think we all do believe in keeping our children in safe. so i wanted to say her name. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you vice president cook. i think this is symbolic of the children we care for in our own district, so thank you for acknowledging her.

so the calendar committee meetings, that's on me. and i am actually passing around the committee request, so if you could please complete that and i'll announce the next -- or the new committees by the 28th. but the board members will know before that. section m, other informational items posted in the agenda, two reports, the student assignment transfer mechanism and quarterly report on the uniform complaint. section n is the memorial adjournment. so we're adjourning in memory of linda lee and me lan, i would like to ask commissioner norton to do the acknowledgment for ms. linda lee. >> commissioner norton: linda rose lee was with the school district from 1994.

she was a gifted person and educator with outstanding leadership and impressive capacity to bring people along, including those that others doubted. linda's conflict management skills were well known. her understanding of research based best practice in education and her ability to communicate these in development and professional learning activities, as well as in written forms, including manuals, training modules was highly respected throughout california and beyond. linda was almost single handedly responsible for the ed indications of sfusd. her impasse on inclusive education in san francisco

cannot be overstated and her passion was contagious. linda began her own participation in public education as a child with a physical disability. as one of los angeles's many segregated special education centers where she was a student until 4th grade. then her father advocated for her to be included in regular class in her neighborhood school. something that was no small feat in the 1960s. in 1994, linda moved to san francisco to accept one of the regular inclusion support. as they initiated, 10 elementary, two middle and one high school provided services in that first year and linda worked with elementary students and became full-time. in 1997 she was appointed as a content specialist k through 12.

as the number of inclusive schools spread across the city, 50 preschool through high school sites through 2000, focusing on those with the severe disabilities and then broadening. they co-chaired the inclusion task force created by the superintendent in 1995. she led, wrote and was contributor to multiple state wide inclusive education efforts. linda left in 2007 and went on to leadership roles in several districts in new york. the board of education and san francisco unified school district send our condolences to her daughter and her husband. i would like this thank dr. ann for helping put together this memorial adjournment. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner

norton. vice president cook? >> vice president cook: yes. i'm going to acknowledge miss gladys scott reed who is the aunt. before i go into the official readings, i wanted to say i attended the memorial for milan, it was a touching credit to person. she was a superstar. she worked for the student family and community support division in the community partnership office. she was a brilliant young woman who brought excellence, innovative ideas, contagious energy to all of her work. she was a generous and

supportive colleague to all. her daily work, she worked with community based organizations, provided support and assistance to develop strategies to students and families. she was the innovation award hill crest elementary school, supporting the school to build a black student union. and a mentor to high school girls for success program. she epitomized the core of the values. everyone that met her was instantly impressed with her intellect and spirit. she could work a room like no other. when she would present in front of a group of folks, she held the group's attention, put people at ease, could make them laugh and smile, even when she was telling them how to do

better for our black and brown families. she spoke -- she often spoke about her beautiful son mason, about her hopes and dreams with him. mason was and is the love of her life. everything she did was for him. she would light up whenever you asked about him. and would happily share all of his current exploits and achievements. she grew up in san francisco. she went away to college and also got her masters before she came, determined to support the community that focused on education as an opportunity for everyone. one of the reasons she was so effective was the community partnerships, was her ability to build trust and make connections, bridging multiple rolings, educator, mentor and college prep and youth clinic.

she will be deeply missed. she lives on in our work and our hearts. rest in peace, milan. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, our deepest condolences to the family. thank you for being here. we appreciate your presence. this time, we'll take public comment for those who submitted speaker cards for close session items, we don't have any. we're going to section o, which is closed session. the board will go into closed session. i call a recess at 62942 workin together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a

valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each

class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their >> really appreciate you being here. in april 2013, urge the

leadership of the late mayor ed lee and then supervisor london breed, the city and county of san francisco resolved to undertake something that had never been done before. in the face of decades of federal underinvestment in public housing, they've put together a massive plan to utilize the new rental assistance demonstration program, to undertake massive repairs across 29 public housing properties in san francisco. the rental assistance demonstration program did not offer any new funding, but instead flexibility around rules show that cities could utilize creative ways to finance the work. what san francisco accomplished, renovating 3400 homes at a total development cost exceeding $2 billion a true model for the nation. if there is one lesson to be learned from all of this work

from me, it is that monumenttal things can be accomplished when an entire community across a all levels of government and with the private sector come together with a shared vision. it is my tremendous honor to introduce leader nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much for your great leadership and today is a very special day for us personally and officially because of what it means to the residents here. and what it means to the redenlszes here is that they have been treated with great dignity and respect. and having a say in how this place, this wonderful burton manor has been developed, to recognize the leadership of our dearly departed mayor lee with

the program working with the then-president of the board of supervise source and now our distinguished mayor of san francisco, london breed, to bring this to fruition. there are many factors at work and you'll hear from folks like the bank of america because there is a private sector role. beverley will talk to us about her experience here. i just want to talk a moment about john burton, a former member of congress and former president of the california state senate and california -- so many titles. so much commitment -- [laughter] so much commitment to our country. and to this great state of california. someone said to me earlier, i never had -- don, actually, said -i never got to meet her. she was a force in our community for a long time as a member of the team of phil

burton, who served in congress for a long time along with his brother john. somuch about, again, the dignity and worth of every person. and always the saying that it really matters that people have the dignity of the home, the respect we give them and the decency and the -- just dignity of where they live is a sign of how much we connect with them and their aspirations and she was a force in our community. person of deep values who would be so happy -- wouldn't she, john, to see this beautiful place. now we just met the colonel and he showed us his apartment. it's lively and he told me he was his own personal decorator there and that it was an advantage to him that when

these apartments were being rehabbed, that he move to a different floor and then came back. but one of the things that we all shared was that we have recognition of people in the neighborhood to have access to facilities and just keeping some people in the building helped to facilitate that. when a private second is to side, it is really important to note that much of the housing in san francisco, affordable housing that has been developed has been developed because we had a tax code that enabled us to take advantage of the low-housing tax credit. thank you, bank of america, for doing that and being so much a part of this. [applause] that -- [applause] you can ask any of our nonprofits and certainly the tenderloin folks would

subscribe to the fact that that public-private partnership was -- has been essential. i have to say sadly that much of that has been diminished in the tax bill that passed last year. in the congress of the united states, signed by the president. and we really have to reverse that. because it is -- it had been an impetus for us to have more affordable housing now that it is being diminished. but thank you to bank of america for participating, up until now, to make today's if ribbon cutting possible. so you had something to do with it, for-profit wise, and nonprofit-wise in every way and they knew how important our seniors and our people with physical challenges are to our community and how proud she would be to have a facility

dedicated to their health, well-being and just the dignity that sala burton would be very proud. thank you for the opportunity to participate today. [applause] >> it is a huge honor for me and i hope you will join me in giving a warm welcome to our mayor. mayor london breed. [applause] >> it truly is an honor to be here today with people, i think, that are legends in the political world including john burton and leader pelosi and the work that they have done to pave the way for opportunities like this many of you knew i grew up in public housing called plaza east. >> yeah! >> also known as o.c., out of control projects -- [laughter] and it was definitely an out of

control experience. we had a lot of challenges and the conditions that i grew up in sadly when i became a member of the board of supervisors were a lot of the same chance too many of our public housing residents were still living in. i know what it feels like to live with the mold, with broken elevators, with the roaches, with the neglect, with the messed up pipes, the need to use someone else's bathroom on a regular basis because yours didn't work. the bathtub that didn't work. the frustration, the hopelessness and the feeling that nobody cared. and that is why when i became a member of the board of supervisors my first year, i went to mayor ed lee and i said to him, when he asked me what my top three priorities were, i said public housing, public housing, public housing. when you have had to live in the kinds of conditions, sadly,

that these buildings that existed in these buildings for over 20 years of your life, you wouldn't think about anything other than making sure that we change those conditions and immediately, immediately leader pelosi stepped up to the plate to provide the opportunity to work with us down this path. we began work in 2013 as don falk said, we had many fights in the community, talking to people about what this would do. and as i said, i grew up in plaza east. and when plaza east was torn down and rebuilt, my family and i were displaced. we weren't moved on the property. that's why it was so important that we assured the residents that we were going to make sure that they get back into the same unit that they have lived in. that we were going to rehabilitate the unit, move them within close proximity of

where they felt so they felt they meant exact little what we said they were going to do. and we made it happen. here in sala burton, we made it happen for 100 residents in 89 units. beautiful units. a beautiful community room. a clean place and affordable place. a transformative place. for the people who deserve nothing less. and i am so proud to be mayor of such an amazing city where opportunity can exist, where change can happen. this is what happens when we make the right decisions. when we work together. when we do what's necessary to work with all of our city. departments, our federal partners and federal and state agencies. and had it not been for a fierce leader in congress, we would have never gotten as far as we've been able to get with rehabilitating over 1600 units

so far and still counting. and the we finished pitt ma -- plaza, a place that ed lee, myself and we took a tour of pitt's plaza and it is beautiful with free wi-fi for the residents. a transformation. that's what this is about. no longer will residents in san francisco who live in public housing be neglected, live in substandard conditions. you are residents of san francisco just like anyone else and what we have been able to accomplish here by renovating this property demonstrates our commitment to you now and in the future. i want to thank tndc for their work and don falk and his team and kate hartley. barbara garcia is here from the san francisco housing authority. thank you all. jeff buckley and olson lee and so many people who played an

important role in making this incredible project worthy of the name that it represents. sala burton manor. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. tndc has had a partnership with the bank of america that extends back 30 years. please join me in welcoming maria barry. [applause] >> hello, everyone. it's so great to be here with you today. on behalf of bank of america, i want to really start out with many thank yous. starting with leader pelosi for your support of affordable housing and the rad program. mayor breed for your support when you were a supervisor and now as mayor. mayor lee, the late mayor lee and the office of community development. tndc, as don said.

we have a partnership that's gone back 30 years, which is justs so tremendous. h.u.d., the housing authority. thank you for trusting the new partners and really overseeing this and ensuring that they will be a steward of these properties going forward. and also i want to thank our bank of america team. ari belliak who was the head of organizing this for our firm, told me that we had over 40 people working on this. so i -- so it was quite an initiative and something that we were so incredibly pleased and proud to be a part of. this rehab is about so much. you know? it's about the mccal and life safety changes. it's about the public spaces now being so welcoming and really creating a great sense of community. but it's also about the residents, as everyone's been saying.

it's really about transforming their lives and a major part of this was a social services component that was included in our participation and i got to hear more about that this morning. and just what it was able to do to make this transition so much easier for the residents so when they moved into their new home, everything went so much easier for them. and a lot of the little things were taken care of, which we're so happy to hear and be part of. this is my second time out to look at these developments and a couple were finished my last trip and now getting to see sala burton apartments so wonderful. these homes are incredible. it's fan it is a ticket see -- it's fantastic to see on resident's faces the story of

how nobody knew each other before and now it's a real sense of community. that is how it is for us at bank of america. it's about providing the financing so that the residents can live in safe, comfortable homes. it was nice for a long period of time. they're built on a sustainable manor. so, long-term they will be wonderful homes to live in. at bank of america, we have a very strong commitment and we were founded over 100 years ago and we invested $2.2 billion into sfrad. and that is such a big investment for us. to give you some perspective. in 2017, we lent and invested $4.5 billion across the country. so we put a significant amount of our resources here and are so happy to see the progress that's been made and the transformation.

we also provide foundation money so last year we provided $5.1 million to local nonprofits and we have about 4200 associates in the market. and we also put in $40,000 community service volunteer hours. one of the things that we value is shared success and we're not successful unless communities and customers we serves are successful as well. so this project was all about that. at sala burton, our purpose was to help the residents succeed in their quality of life and live in safe, comfortable homes. thank you so much for including bank of america in this exciting work. we are so proud to be your partners. thank you. [applause] >> and now it is my great

pleasure to introduce beverley saba. [applause] >> we are here to honor and celebrate for women who are our founding mothers for rad in san francisco. barbara smith and alicia cisca of the housing authority, london breed, president of the board of supervisors, now mayor, and nancy pelosi. without these women, rad would not have been able to come to san francisco and be launched as the class act that it is. barbara and alicia had the sad task of informing us that the traditional funding was not in any way adequate to take care of the habitability of our housing and ultimately our housing itself.

they applied to get rad to come to san francisco and it meant that the housing authority had to completely restructure itself, which was revolutionary and dauntsing. but their commitment was absolutely to the tenants inhabiting the housing that they were providing. they made sure, these two women, i know there were other people, but primarily these two women made sure that rad could come to san francisco. housing authority had to go through a lot of goalposts passing through in order to get it here. they did it. now it's here or it can be here. public financing and private

financing, it had to be launched. they had to be brought together. so london breed, when mayor ed lee announced the reimagining of public housing, got right on board. and she put her effort in and it was a positive effort to get this to happen here. and nancy pelosi, using her political influence -- which is formidable -- her political power and her savvy, made sure that it was launched and launched as a class act. when the building was scheduled to be renovated, tndc sent their promising manager, tom lauderbach and the architect chris duncan, to talk to the tenants. their question to us, what do you want?

not once, not twice, four times. at least four times. we spoke. they'd come back and say well, we can do this. but we can't do that because of code. let's figure out something else. first time anybody asked us what the hell we wanted. [applause] and good for them. [applause] one of the things we advocated for was a community room. we didn't have one. lara, they built us this room. it did not exist. tndc got in and they built it for us so i want to make sure everybody understands, tndc and our four mothers really put on or made sure that red became a class act. and to our founding mothers, can we get the flowers, please? ok.

[applause] from our heart to yours, nancy may i give that to you? ok. we have barbara and alicia. there's one over there. >> thank you. >> we'll put them in the back. >> i'm sorry, sweetheart. this goes to alicia and barbara. right there. [laughter] so founding mothers, from our hearts to yours thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> love you, sweetheart. >> thank you, beverley. >> you're welcome. >> we'll do that afterwards, is that all right?