clarify for your information one of the key healthcare issues that we were struggling with now, it doesn't mean it won't be better or that there would be more enhancement but definitely the city would have far less influences over the service and whether they would be provided to the population that historically the hospitals have served. and so, while outside of development agreement, it is a movement that is occurring. it might be symptomatic along with the discussion that's i think our staff pointed out in which while and to cpmc's credit, they are now caring for the subacute that were being displaced by the closure of subacute is absolutely true as was pointed out by the staff and

other speakers that there are no new beds that are being created in the situation. and that while technically, and we can check more, that cpmc was greatly instrumental in assisting in this subacute studies that we still need to continue to respond to the need of the city to have subacute services and we want to encourage that cpmc participate in that. because they completed the study, i don't believe that while technically to be considered in compliance that that should be the end of the relationship in terms of any further looking at a subacute solution for the city. we do recognize that it isn't one is that cpmc itself has to

come up with. they should be a part of this solution and that just assisting us with the first level of study in regards to understanding the problem does not absolve either cpmc from having to continue to participate. i believe that we are continuing to have dialogue with cpmc on this and i don't want to say they just walked away and out of the poor but i'd like to have continued i do a log in that and also in regards to resolving the sniff. as they have closed the sniff, there have been no added beds as also been pointed out by the public in regards to the sniff. so, we have kind of a conundrum here. yes, they have complied with the development agreement but there are a lot of areas while

complying we are loosing services that ar are and if we e the opportunity to be able to continue encourage that in the development agreement, we could continue to help influence and work together with this and i'll have some final comments and later after we conclude everybody's discussion, what we would hope from our department that we would be able to do to continue to service the people of san francisco. and in collaboration with cpmc. i think at this point, we should hear from our planning colleagues. >> thank you.

>> commissioner fong. >> i thought the planning commission was complex. you guys certainly have a complex job and i appreciate it. i just wanted to ask, after hearing all the public comment or the community input, it's cpmc had some responses to some of them maybe in particular the subacute care f. there was any reaction to that or things that are in the works that are addressing some of the community comments. >> specifically to the subacute care, as commissioner chow described, those patients have been transferred to the davies campus in a new unit there. the staff are credentialed and trained to handle those

patients. in introduced some of the other schematic things that were brought up, we've got retention numbers here. i'm sorry for the oversight if that was not included in the submission packet. i think the notion of transitioning to these new hospitals, everyone can appreciate is a complex and fluid process. one of the examples and came up around orth a speed i can is a good example of understanding how physician decided that that moment to move cases to a new location. services that support that work also need to follow. we would have loved to have had that decision happen a year ago, six months ago, four months ago, maybe not exactly when it did. but that is when it happened.

our commitment to safe, patient care, especially through these transitions, is the first priority. thousands of hours of training and preparation have gone into this. while i understand there are always going to be differences of opinion or concerns that happen when you get into that acute moment around the transition, our commitment is to absolutely quality, safe care, transitioning these patients from one hospital to another. we do have people here who can talk about some of the h.r. issues. we have someone here who can talk about all the work that's going on to promote the transportation subsidy. scheme atticly those were the things i heard.

>> from the planning commission side, if you don't mind just someone addressing about the transportation and the network system how that might play out. >> i'd like to give you background. i'm a san franciscoan for 50 years and i've worked for cpmc for 41 years. i'm proud to have worked there and continued to work. i have a tremendous amount of colleagues that are committed to cpmc. one of the areas that is complicated and dr. grown knows very well about it is parking. what we have done since last year in january when we started

the subsidy, we had put that information out to employees ever month. on their paycheck there's a by weekly letter that goes on the internet. we hold four transportation a year. this year we're having 12, which four were already completed last month and the next one will be in october and the point of one will be december. our push is to remind employees that the city first is to reduce the s.o.v. when we got the survey returns, a lot of the employees' comments were that they, why they didn't take public transportation. some of them claimed that they work at night and they come on weekends and public transportation is not available for them. amount of the responses were a

lot of especially with mothers, they would have to pick up their kids right after work so their time was consumed. it was necessary to go from one place to the other. we have made tremendous progress from last year, i believe we're now about 850 employees that take the subsidy. we're committed to get the goal much higher. another item that came to concern was that bart and itself is a scary for them to take that and muni was a concern. i know that the city is doing quite a bit of work to resolve those issues. again, we're committed. any other questions? >> thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you so much.

first i wanted to thank city staff, cpmc, members of the community for coming out to share your perspective and my fellow commissioners, i have just learned so much from you already. like my fellow commission or fong just said, this is a great introduction into your world. [laughter] >> first, it's great to see a community agreement played out in real time and i'm grateful for this opportunity to be able to have a community conversation on what is happening so we can see what is working and what's not and what we can do to make sure we achieve our ultimate goals of providing excellent care to all san franciscans. i wanted to touch on health disparity which is a issue i'm passionate about in relation to the report out on culturally and linguistically appropriate care. this is in the news and several fronts. yesterday president cohen

announced a duel a care program to protect mothers, particularly women of color and their children. in this city black babies are 5% of birth but 23% of infant deaths and 13% of black mothers, 10% of pacific islanders mother and 9.1% have pre term rates which is 50% to 70% higher than white women in this city and that coverage has received national coverage. specific to san francisco and so when we talk about culturally appropriate care, we need to be talking about racism, stress, systemic health inequality and equity as part of those conversations. making sure that people can get care in their community and it's affordable, and you are working specifically not just in making sure that those populations get care but that we're working on reducing bias both in the hiring and staffing processes and our

fork worse, which is also diverse and also combating bias in the industry. i know the cpmc foundation was part of that duela care effort, which is awesome. i love to see other efforts that you are combining with your work force investments to really reduce bias in the industry. we know that it goes from hiring to how the care is actually delivered. on workforce development, another issue i'm passion at about. it's not enough to get people in the door. as my fellow commissioners have said, you have to create the conditions to help them thrive in that requires tracking retention, creating programs and support. so, you know, when we hear that number of 277 folks hired over five years, the number of 128 folks being terminated, that begs to question of someone would worked in workforce development what is happening with training and support for those workers. i have just looked up the average turnover in healthcare and it's about 26%.

those numbers don't mirror that. i know it's a different population but i want to know the average in relation of the workers in relation to the retention of those workers. it's been disheartening to hear about the lvn and rn and cna staff talking about their working continues. this population of the workforce tends to be diverse. they're also vulnerable and crucial to providing quality holistic care. and so, you know, i echo the concerns of the community. we want to better understand kind of what, how you are supporting those workers and that staff and then also, i wanted to address charity care patients. which i hope we can come up with a different phrase for that. really tracking where people are coming from in different zip

codes and their ultimate outcomes and whether they're moving the needle on their outcome. that's what we're trying to get to. if we're not slicing that data by race, location, it's hard to achieve goals if you are not measuring for that data. i grow with commissioner sanchez that i think that going to a deeper level of bet understanding of the data will provide all of us with an important opportunity to make sure that we're having impact, which is our ultimate goal. even perhaps inform the city about what is happening in our workforce pool and what are the best practices on retaining this type of workforce and ultimate

ultimately. >> it's convincing, however, the public testimony, including the questions that i associate was from the health commission themselves, seems to not fully substantiate the highest success rate of the data as been presented. and then comes the public voice which raises issues and anything with can communicate and that is where i feel my primary questions are. i like to basically stand with the san francisco for healthcare housing and jobs and justice questions raised about the seven issues. you have those issues in front of you. i do not want to spend time going over them but each and all of them individually and

together. the matter and require further and in-depth examinations including the strong infusion of the the human voices which testify to the fact that there is a big gap between the words and the deeds. the other points that i was raising is and i'm reading them off as i take notes. they're not necessarily listed in the order of the importance but i would say if i could speak at all of them at the same moment they're leaky as important. the issue of the chinese troops. a transition to new facilities and the lack of coordination at note giving, preparation and training. there is the ever-important nursing staff testimony that i have witnessed now for the entire time that these two commission have had a dialogue about cpmc and changes.

there's a patient care testimony which each of us could find ourselves in in no time. and there is the hiring and job creation and retention issue. those were the ones i wanted to summarize and stand in the room knowing that they were most likely be echoed by all of us. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> thank you, again, to all staff involved from all the departments, all the companies. again, good to see the health commission here as well. i do have multiple comments regarding to the construction site of this project. >> rebekah gregory: i'.i'm not e hospital side. i'm an electrician by trade. before i got into this position, while still working in the field, i worked at multiple of the cpmc campuses on california

campus and pacific campus and later on, it was fortunate enough to work on the building of the new general hospital. i clearly remember the day where i was capable of filling out my local resident paper work and photo copying my driver's license and submitting that end. and it is a big pride for build like hospitals and we frequently see hows and commercial projects but hospitals are a essential corner stone to a well-functioning city and it's something we take seriously here at the planning commission and i'm sure the health commission does as well and i wanted to acknowledge ken and josh. with the office of economic workforce development and their continuing efforts to keep city build an extremely successful pipeline for all types of minorities from disadvantaged

neighborhoods, parents with or without children or parents that are going to have children, and we're definitely keeping an eye on increasing we're taking it to the next level. something i have honestly nothing to do with. we have been noticing a higher acceptance of the lgbt community within our trades and since this increase of diversity, this created the electrical workers minority caucus which has, proud to say, had a float in the pride parade for the last two years. the building trades is really making it strong effort to diversify, stay inclusive and what we've been doing specifically with city build to increase access to all residents, is workout partnerships and deals, for

example, a lot of people cannot pass the entrance exams to get accepted into apprenticiship programs. about what we've done is workout a deal with city build where if you have perfect attendance and a b average, you are able to buy pass the entrance exam and go straight to the interview stage of an prentice ship acceptance process. it gives access to a lot more san francisco residents and all the other zip codes but it's just giving people a chance to reap the benefits of organized labor healthcare benefits. prevailing wage. i'm up here today because i was accepted into a trade. i lived here in the city. i was interested in construction. it took me three times to pass the exam and actually gain acceptance into the electricians

programs. it's no easy task for anybody. the building trades and city builder are working tirelessly to increase the diversity of our construction workers and also the employees that work for the construction companies but off site in the offices. it's something we all take very seriously. if i could just address some of the project-specific notes i wrote. exceeding the proposed timeline almost never happens. this should not be overlooked. the fact that construction, i always look at organized chaos and so many things were scheduled on top of each other that if one small thing goes wrong, the whole entire project is pushed back sometimes months or years. and i i was lated to go to the

cpmc project of the there was a time line of projects that was a one, two, throw step where ucf mission bay was the first one to begin and all the of the residents from that job were supposed to go to the job and those residents were supposed to go to the ctmc of van ness and gary project and it was helped up by a year. things were playing to work in those residents and the hold up at van ness and gary threw a wrench into that. i do know that -- to make sure as many residents are working on this project in the office and on the job site as possible.

so, 30% local hire are considering that this is literally the busiest times the construction industry has seen in their existence and over 130 years, 30% local hire for the van ness and gary and st. luke's is in full compliance as far as i'm concerned. i can't help but emphasize that this is a model project that ideally we can duplicate on other projects with more development agreements. you've got san francisco contracting businesses, building a hospital project in san francisco and employing san francisco residents that attend apprenticiship training centers in san francisco they're paying payroll taxes to the city. some people have said in the past that local hire and local

contractors are bringing a higher cost to the project but when you think about it, we're just reinvesting i in ourselves and we're paying a wage where they might be able to stay in the city. buy a house in the city. stay here in the city and not commute four hours each day. that's just the way i think it should be done and this is the way it's being done on this project. so, again, as far as i'm concerned, from the construction side and the office and on the job site this project is in full compliance. >> thank you commissioner bernal. did you have something else. >> yes, thank you. for the opportunity to just add. i'd like to speak to the responsibility of serving residents the tenderloin. i understand this partnership is only less than a year in existence but when you look at the numbers, 180 versus a goal of 1500, that's only about 12% of that goal. and when you look at the residents of the tenderloin,

serving them alliance with the priorities of the department of public-health and i'll use a presentation that we just received the other day about san francisco's getting to zero initiative. san francisco is exceeded in radically reducing the number of h.i.v. transmissions over the past several years far out pacing the rest of the country. we're about to see a leveling off now. where we're seeing the new infections continuing to happen, is among many of those populations. people who reside in the tenderloin. people who are marginally housed or homeless. people dealing with mental illness. people who use injection drugs. the data shows not only that even if someone does become infected with h.i.v. that if they are able to be retained in care, and get into treatment right away, it reduces, many in cases, eliminates their ability to transmit h.i.v. data shows

that being marginally houses is your adherence to your medication. these are communities that really need to be served and we would like to see better numbers in terms of the community members that you are ability to engage in the tenderloin through saint anthonys. >> thank you. so, i am not going to repeat any of the other comments that my fellow commissioners have made. everybody has had ever point that i have. the exception that i do want to stand with healthcare housing and jobs and one of the particular things that i would expect at our next time reviewing this item is a much deeper analysis in the areas where we're not hitting the

numbers. i hear you that, hitting the 30% in a time of all-time high construction is good. i don't -- i wasn't satisfied with the level of analysis of the numbers that we represented, particularly around th the decre of apprentices so i would like a newance analysis of why that is happening and what we're doing to rectify it and under the purview of the planning commission, especially at the public transportation benefits and what the plan is we are seeing a decrease in car ownership in san francisco. and a major employer with 43% of its workforce living in san francisco is that those public transportation numbers would be higher. i'd like to have a deeper

analysis presented of what we're doing about it and how we're going to see those numbers increase. thank you very much for the presentation, and for the staff, the presentation was clear. for the members of the public who continually come out to keep tabs on this project on making sure that the public benefits that were negotiated in the development agreement are being held. so thank you very much. >> i would just like to also conclude with a few remarks and what i hope we will also troy to carry out some of our obligations from the health commission and the department to try to respond to some of the questions and answers and clearly in one area i did not actually get to go into, also i

think it's the same issue that we've raised here and while we can check the boxes, for example, under the cultural and linguistic standards, we don't have an understanding of what those actually meant in terms of i.d. and analysis, i did a study, i did this and what were the results and findings? to also then, i think coming back to that question, just as an example of -- if we're using people who came to the diabetes clinic at st. luke's, it doesn't seem to capture the -- an analysis needs to be done if the question is should there be that type of service.

of course, since it's now been moved to the foundation, i'm glad to hear the foundation has those services but we would now and that's another example of moving these services from the public side of scrutiny to the private foundation that we then really count on the good will of cpmc. just to conclude then, what i have heard and what i believe that our department would be able to do to help respond to some of the concerns that both the public and our fellow commissioners have raised, i first want to indicate that i think i'm one of the members here who have been through this entire process from even before the construction started. not too many people remember

that i sat even on a blue ribbon committee in regards with what to do with st. luke's and prior to that, there was all the issues also of the rebuild and how big the rebuild should be and where the rebuild should be so it really is wonderful to see that a new community heights area has been built. that is part of fulfilling the public-private partnership in order to have a healthier san francisco. there is no way the public itself, the public side, can actually handle all of the needs that will create a healthy san francisco to respond to the disparities that as another example, st. luke's has been doing as commission sanchez pointed out. and the development agreement in its spirit called for a

continuation of that commitment to the city and that while yes, and it's wonderful that the project has brought $300 million to san francisco, it is not without the needs also to continue to remember the obligation then that as a non-profit hospital, and even just using the historical basis which is why so much was written into the development agreement, to try to be sure that it would not just be a facility to treat those who could afford it. but to be able tol to participae with us. i want to acknowledge that i think cpmc has been working with us. but you know, it seems that we always have to actually keep asking for that to happen and it would be so much nicer if we had

hey willing proactive collaboration, even at our commission meetings when we were looking at the potential of changes, it takes almost that public hearing in order to make some of the accommodations that were needed in order to respond to the needs of our residents. i found that the sutter model of we and you was very interesting. i think at the moment, from what we can hear in the testimony, there's a lot of we and very little you. and instead, i suggest to cpmc that we could have a true we and you if we really didn't look at this as we versus you but we should be we and you. there's an outreach to the community that really is needed, continues to be needed and along that line, we as a department,

specifically would be looking at the issues that i believe the coalition has raised validly and has been also brought up by all commissioners here in terms of -- we're going to only look at the health side. we'll leave you to look at the workforce and all. i believe that we're going to ask our staff to actually try to look more in depth into understanding that not only is it technically done but what was done. i commend san francisco foundation report that is in here that showed you what was done when they received the money? who actually got help and how it happened? i think it's also important we try to where the issues are at saint than on' an anthony and te

tenderloin. it's been a year this happened and we only have this small up take. is it transportation? is it access even at a primary level. welt review this again and try to see if we can also be continuing to be helpful in the partnership that has been put together. again, the center of excellence is certainly something that we would all be concerned about. that could be something and with working with cpmc in terms of the understanding where the issues are. dr. barnes has also outlined his vision obviously the vision is one that needs to be developed by cpmc but i think the consideration is a very good example of working with the

community could get a farber far acceptance and product that meets the needs of the residents in that community. so in conclusion, our department does continue to be eager to work with st. luke's. i will get the new name one day. but with cpmc and sutter. you are very important part of the city. sutter is with the assets that could be placed to great use so that we can continue to enhance the public-private partnership that we've been enjoying between all the hospitals and providers in san francisco with the public sector as we achieve our goal to improve the health of all san franciscans. i do want to thank everybody who

participated. the staff who did such a hard work and analyzing this but i think in our next review, i believe that we've heard a lot more details should be also provided to understand what happened after the check mark. thank you. >> thank you. >> that concludes your agenda today. >> make a motion to adjourn. >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> should we ex back at 1:30 maybe? >> for those members of the public who are here for the 1:00 meeting of the planning commission, i imagine the commissioners who have been here will wanted to take a quick lunch break so we will convene no sooner than 1:15. >> 1:30? >> very good.

>> thank you. >>

>> it is a great day in the bayview today. the sun is shining. here, on third street attacking the bayview to celebrate the opening of an extraordinary business and an extraordinary san franciscan eric my name is joaquin torres. i'm the director of the economic workforce development and a proud partner in this community. and very much i am looking forward to cutting the ribbon today with all of you and to have a moment to introduce our esteemed mayor breed and supervisor cohen. i want to recognize folks who are here today. i want to thank the bayview merchants association, the african-american chamber of commerce, the young community developers, our southeast community facility commissioners , diane gray and lavonne kang. i want to thank d.j. for being

here. thank you for being here from down the block. [laughter] >> we have coffee out there for you. renaissance, and economic development on third. and our partners at bay area, local initiatives support corporation, bay area list. with that, we will kick it off with our mayor, london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you everyone for being here today. it is a beautiful day in the bayview and it is a beautiful day to cut the ribbon on this incredible business. i'm sure some of you from back in the day remember the monte carlo. [laughter] >> mayor breed: some frequent visitors of the monte carlo and i know the former owner of the monte carlo, teresa, has joined us here today. i'm grateful she is here to support what we know is going to be a new and incredible addition to the bayview hunter's point community.

that is café envy. [applause] >> mayor breed: the owner as café envy track shaft april spears, a.k.a. auntie april, is here with her mom today. she is born and raised in the hunter process point community." for ten years ago she opened one of our favourite restaurants in this community. auntie april's has stuck with this community time and time again. instead of using her incredible talents which he learned from her grandmother's kitchen to open a restaurant and other cities and other places in our city, she chose to stick with her community. she chose to invest in the bayview hunter process point community because she truly believes in this community and what we need to do to make sure that people who are part of this community actually have a stake in keeping it the way that it

needs to be for the residents of this community. the san francisco -- unfortunately it has suffered a decline in our african-american population. we know that that continues to be a challenge. that is why we are so grateful to april for choosing this community to invest in. for choosing to invest in her home. so i don't know about you, but some of you might be familiar with her fried chicken at auntie april his. you may want to get familiar. supervisor cohen and i have had more than our fair share. we continue to support her business and continue to make sure that she is growing and thriving. this second investment in this corridor is proof that she is going to continue to grow and thrive and be an important part of the small business community here in the bayview hunter's point. and part of what made this possible are a number of important things, including open

and -- opening s.f. it helps small businesses navigate the crazy and bureaucratic process that exists in city hall. many of you know about that when it comes to small businesses, when it comes to housing, when it comes to a number of things in order to get something as simple and incredible as this business open, the city sometimes can be an obstacle. so open s.f. played an important role to navigate the system. the other program that is incredibly important in making sure that this business grows and thrives is the ability to get a liquor license at an affordable price. three state legislation clock we were able to make this possible and make it more affordable because most of you no kak that there is a limit to liquor licenses in san francisco. they can range in the market anywhere from $250,000 and

because of our program and because of our ability and our desire to invest in communities like the bayview hunter's point, the liquor license for this establishment was about $15,000. huge. [applause] this is the first new liquor license in san francisco in more than 80 years. that is incredible. [applause] >> mayor breed: the other program that has helped in this business is s.f. giants which is a grants that provided assistance with façade improvements. ultimately, we want this business to be a success and provide investments like this provides the opportunity for these businesses to grow and thrive. again, it takes incredible will. it takes a lot of patience. simon siren -- simon siren --

>> mayor breed: it takes good views -- good food. april spears has stepped up to the plate to be this incredible anchor tenant in the bayview hunter's point community and we must support her. thank you april for this incredible step and thank you so much to all of you for being here. i want to make sure, especially, if it is your first time here at café envy, it will not be your last, let support the small business and let's make sure that it continues to be here for generations to come. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed. i want to recognize the captain for joining us today. i want to shout out some of the businesses in the house. luxurious males, -- luxurious males -- males -- nails.

>> i hope we are showing you we are doing this today. mayor breed and supervisor cohen , with no further ado, supervisor cohen. >> good morning, community. i was listening to the mayor's remarks and i was reminded and i want to call this out. what you have here are the public of the public school system. i went to middle school with april. [siren wails] >> she is a graduate of galileo high school. [laughter] >> of galileo high school. i went to lolo and i want to recognize meghan mitchell who is also a graduate from the san francisco unified school district. today is really significant. what you have is folks who grew up in the community -- communities were standing together and organizing themselves in opening businesses i want to pay homage and pay a tremendous amount of respect to the folks who went before us.

they really laid down the rules, as well as a foundation that allows us to stand here today. ms. miss vincent is a regret representative of an entire generation that is transitioning but has passed on very important key community organizing principles, but most importantly , the important knowledge of self determination and collective economic growth. when i think of economic growth, i also think about earl shattuck they started an organization, the economic development of third street. at the third street corridor. the mayor's remarks, sheet talk about how people fight and choose to be here in the corridor and that is asked -- absolutely the case. times have changed when people are fearful and they don't want to locate into the bayview. most of the businesses that were recognized by joaquin torres our new businesses. we have laughing bunk, we have anderson's business -- word caée

there is a lot of momentum that is happening. so i was one of the people that turned 21 and thought this is one of the first bars and clubs that i went to. [laughter] >> i followed the rules. i did not use my fake i.d. they were -- they would put something in the lane here and it was fun. that liveliness and the vibrancy that the bayview was known to have is coming back. it is coming back. i'm excited. it is a new crop of leaders and businesses that are committed. not only are they committed to their own respective businesses but they are committed to the entire community. they are hiring from the community, they are sharing the resources and the money that is generated and staying and capturing in the community. that is critical as we continue to uplift ourselves and move forward.

keeping in mind that we leave no one behind. from my perspective as representing district ten for the last eight years, this is a long time coming. it is an exciting celebration. a lot of the hard work and dedication that we put in, hours of community meetings, right? hours of community meetings, four, five, six years ago are finally bearing fruit. finally bearing tacos and bearing fried chicken. finally bearing whiskey finally bearing wine and grappa. there are many things that are bearing fruit along this corridor and i'm excited and delighted to be here to see this transformation and rebirth. congratulations to all of them. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much supervisor cohen. as mayor breed and supervisor cohen said, it would not be possible unless you had someone who was willing to make the investments initially in the community and serving the great

food, but beyond being an extraordinary entrepreneur, being a great mentor to those who have gone through the women 's program make sure -- making sure folks know it is possible to find opportunity in the city with determination and creativity and extraordinary food. with that, chef spears, thank you so much and we love to hear a few words from you. [applause] [cheering] >> i was looking for my notes but no one wrote notes for me. [laughter] now that all the food is cooked on the doors open, i think i don't know i have to speak now. i just want to say that i am so grateful for this opportunity. being born and raised in the city of san francisco, my parents first home was here in bayview on bridgeview. i learned how to ride my bike up and down third street, at least when it was much safer to ride your bike on third street. we have a lot of obstacles now.

cars and trains. it has been a long time coming. it has been a journey. i've been in business for 12 years now. and i am just excited to be able to bring this new business to the community and to really make sure that we are preserving the legacy of african-american business. it is really important to me in the community. moving forward, and anything that i do, i have decided to bring along a community partner because i would like to reach back and pull community with me in everything that i do to make sure that we are all successful. meghan mitchell, who is here to my left, is kathy -- café envy's community partner. she is so wonderful and we'll try and bring as much livelihood and great things to this corridor. we are excited to be part of a merchant separate your belchertown, a.k.a., the mob.

[laughter] >> which was started by a group of great women here in bayview. we have barbara grappa from greta lyons and we have her partner, kathy hanson. we have missed bernadette from the jazz room is a big part of our movement. we have -- i see andrew out there from laughing bunk. we have josh out there somewhere from bayview pasta. earl shattuck as part of merchants about your town and our executive for e. dot. that is economic development on third street. our goal is to enhance and bring business to the corridor door. i see michael hammond out there as well. my mom to the right. please forgive me if i forget people. i get a little nervous with all these cameras. my mom is here. here to support me in everything that i do. [applause]

>> she has always been here. my aunt brenda smith spears. she has always been a great supporter of me and she is here today to support --dash i see bernie mac out there. she raised her hand like don't forget me, girl. we have miss bernie out there. i see my homeboy out there. i see video out there, deal ellington of district ten, running for supervisor. i see you out there. i am glad to see you here as well. a lot of people out there. please forgive me. marcus, i see you out there from renaissance. such great people. i see my home by dutch homeboy for giving me the eye. i see richard washington of luxurious nails. please make sure you support your black owned nail salon here and i see mother vincent. she is my angel and i love her. she has been by my side through a lot of things.

i'm glad she is here to share the stay with me. gary and teresa, the owners of the previous monte carlo are here to support as well. i see you all out there. thank you so much for being here i am just really excited and hopefully that everyone comes out and supports businesses on the corridor are. we have a lot of great things going on in bayview. we sometimes get a bad rap out here for all the negativity, but there is so much positive things going on here in bayview. so many positive people. we want to highlight those positives and those businesses and community members. please support us here in bayview. we are here to serve you and hopefully you can all come down and have a great meal and a drink on us here, while not honest, but with us. [laughter] >> with us. with us. thank you so much. then, ben who walked me through -- i lost some sound, ben who

helped facilitate and get everything going with the 87 liquor licenses. without you, i would not have got through that process. it wasn't that hard but you made it so easy for me. i really appreciate all the work that you did. walking, thank you so much for always being here and rolling with us in the bayview. and our corridor manager. mr larry who is on the pavement every day. he works hard every day with us and we are also, you know, we have a great movement going on. larry is a big part of that. we hope that we will be able to succeed in that -- thank you. supervisor cohen, i appreciate you for being here and supporting the businesses, as always. mayor breed, i love you and i'm glad that you are able to take out a bit of your time from your

busy schedule to be here. i really appreciate you coming to support. thank you guys talk so much. come on in and a few seconds, i guess. back to you cleat back to walking. thank you guys, so much. [cheers and applause] >> i want to give a shout out -- i think everyone can see one singular small business, please come on in. do it. >> auntie jackie. i love you. she is way in memphis and she is a person who helped me put my business plan together to make sure we were able to secure this business. i love you, if i did not remember to say that i would be in so much trouble. there would be no more at me and there'd be no more business if i forgot. i love you and thank you so much for everything. [applause] >> thank you auntie april and thank you chef spares. as everyone can tell, driving spaces make thriving spaces outside and that is the work that we invest in and every single business as you can see

here, we have not been to the bayview before, this is the community that is here to support you. it is here to welcome you, with loving and wide open arms in this extraordinary neighborhood at extraordinary corridor. i want to give a shout out to the team members. holly lunn, as well as at darcy who helped support some of the signage here as well. and, with that, we would love to formally, with you and with the mayor and with the supervisor, and partners, cut the ribbon. >> all right. [applause] >> five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] >> congratulations!

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