comment, public comment is closed, and the t.a. is adjourned. >> president cohen: good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back to the budget and finance committee.

i'm malia cohen, the chair. our clerk is miss linda wong. are there any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the october 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> president cohen: thank you very much. could you please call item number one. >>clerk: yez. item one, item authorizing the public utilities commission -- each with an agreement amount not to exceed 14 million and each with a term not to exceed ten years from january 1, 2019 to december 31, 2019. >> good morning. i have a very short presentation. can i have the slides, please.

>> president cohen: good morning. >> thank you. just as a kwiquick reminder, th contracts are to supplement or staff to conduct work primarily on the watershed lands outside of the san francisco. we're the second biggest land holder in alameda county, second largest in santa clara. there's a lot of property. we have very specific requirements in some cases to monitor and maintain these areas, especially our mitigation sites for your capital improvement program, and a bulk of the contract authority we're seeking is to support those efforts. we were here at this committee in april to extend our contract service we had at the time, cs-211. we promised we would be back, and here we are. we said we would issue a new r.f.p. and bring on a new

contracting authority to continue this work. a lot of the work goes on in perpetuity. we received four proposals, and selected three teams. all this was very well presented in the staff report. thank you for all of that hard work, and we're here to seek your approval to move forward so we can have additional contracting authority to continue our staff work. we'd be happy to answer any questions. >> president cohen: thank you. appreciate that. i don't have any questions. do any of my colleagues? i think the contract is pretty straightforward. we'll here from the budget analyst. >> severin campbell. the contracts are each $14 million or $42 million over ten years for the three contracts. page three of our report, table

two, shows estimated spending by year, the p.u.c. thinks that given the expending plan that they'll spend most of the funds over the first eight years of the contract, and we 'em are approval. >> president cohen: thank you for that. i still see no questions from my colleagues. we'll go to public comment at this time. is there any member of the public that would like to comment on item one? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: colleagues, is there a motion to send to the full board with a positive recommendation? all right. we'll take that without objection. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam. >>clerk: clerk item 2, item retroactively approving a contract for behavioral health services for children and families in an amount not to exceed approximately 36.5 million for a contract term of four years from july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2022 with one

five-year option to extend. >> president cohen: thank you. we've got michelle ruggles from the department of public health to make a presentation. good morning. >> yeah. so this is one of our contracts that we are bringing forward to you. it's an ongoing services provided by family service agency, but we conducted multiple solicitations and out of four of them, these are the services that they were awarded and are continuing. you can see that there is about 12 service category programs. they have a strong focus on older adults, reaching out to monolingual clients who may feel isolated in their ability to reach out and get care. they also have children to programs. any way, they have the whole range of programs. each year, we do a monitoring.

our -- we have a team that goes out. they monitor at each program location facility, and all the programs that are at -- at that address, so each of those, essentially, in your list gets a separate program monitoring, which we do to ensure that they are achieving their objectives, and i can say for the last completed report in '16-'17, they demonstrated outstanding performance on all of their objectives. as a system, what we're looking at for this type of program is, for example, we require all clients to get an annual needs assessment -- i mean, to get a needs assessment when they begin, and then, it's repeated so that we can measure progress of the client towards meeting their treatment plan. we also have a goal that all clients who request treatment have -- are offered an

appointment within ten days. we look toward measuring the success of the treatment by measuring who had rescidivism t an acute psychiatric inpatient episode within 30 days of discharge. within the program, we measure did they deliver the needs assessment to all 100% of clients, and then, digging down deeper, great, they did that, and, which they did do that 100%, but they also have objectives which measure improvement within the scale, so it's not just did you do it, but are the clients getting better? so for each one of these programs, there's common objectives and then there's unique objectives that pertain to the age group that's being treated. and so as -- again, just to

repeat, we measure each of those annually, and in our last completed year, they demonstrated outstanding performance in virtually every category, and we agree with the budget analyst's recommendations. >> president cohen: great. thank you. appreciate that, 'cause i think we will go to the budget legislative analyst at this point. so miss campbell, this is a resolution for a contract between d.p.h. and family services agencies for our behavioral health services for children and families. what are your thoughts? >> so this contract was selected through a competitive process in 2017. there is an interim contract in place pending approval of this contract. this contract is retroactive to july 1, 2018. it will replace the interim contract once it's approved. our budget for the contract is shown on page 8. it's about 8.1 million a year, or 36 million over the four year

term of the contract. it's funded through both state and local general funds and we recommend approval. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. and it sounds like, miss ruga ruggles, in the department of public health, they're in agreement with you at this time. we'll take public comment. anyone wishing to speak, come up. >> this is a good program. it helps families, and it helps children, but i want to point out to you that the success of this program could be a lot higher and more beneficial to everybody involved if you provided housing for the people who you're trying to treat. you set the income requirements for families of low-income and very low-income back at people where they can get permanent housing and not recycle in and

out of your shelter systems and these navigation systems where they have permanent housing accommodation with their disabilities and the treatment of their behavior situations, which is a negative impact, and their impact in their lives would be easier to manage if you had permanent housing. you set the requirement at the a.m. i. at a requirement equal to their income where they have opportunity to apply to be a tenant, and all the apartment buildings that's being built in san francisco, you have better success and a lower race of homeless people out in the streets. sincerely. and about taking an inventory and setting the median of the incomes in the communities. these developers are not being fair. i appreciate and respect the line of questions that cohen had when she asked, how did you come about the median income for the neighborhood, when the truth of the matter is that the

calculations was only made by people in the community who are in high income brackets, and you didn't include the calculation of the income of the lower level people incomes which make you have a median of about $90,000 a year, which is not true, sincerely. >> president cohen: are there any other members of the public to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: all right. i'll make a motion to accept the b.l.a. amendment and make a motion to send to the full board -- >>clerk: madam chair, i believe the b.l.a. does not have any recommendations. >> it turns out the legislation was changed to already include the retroactivity. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. thank you, madam clerk. well, let's make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we will take

that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: okay. item three, please. >>clerk: item number three, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a grant application which provides funding for counties to develop multifamily housing specifically for persons with serious mental illness who are homeless, chronically homeless or at risk of chronic homelessness. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. we've got amy chan from the mayor's office of housing to present. welcome. >> good morning, chair cohen and supervisors fewer and stefani. so item three is a resolution that authorizes the mayor's office of housing and community development to apply for the no place like home program. it's developing housing specifically for persons with serious mental health illness for homeless, chronically homeless or at risk of chronic

homelessness. the $20 million in noncompetitive funding will be available to each county proportionately's housing count. they will award funds based on the approval of documents submitted to the county with the county's application. san francisco expects to receive an allocation of about $100 million. as part of the application, h.c.d. requires that the county submits a resolution from the local governing body that authorizes the county to apply for funds. as such, that resolution allows mohcd to apply, and it will allow us to receive and an center our allocation of funds with h.c.d.'s approval. we are requesting some amendment language today because h.c.d. issued new instructions yesterday that require

resolutions to include very specific language that references state code. this language does not make any substantive changes. it basically references this code section and requirements under the no place like home program, and we're asking the committee to accept the amendments and to forward the item to the full board with a positive recommendation, and i have copies of the marked up amendments for the committee members. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, miss chan. the language amendments that you're passing out, it's just to ensure that the application complies with the state grant requirements, is that right? >> yes, that's correct. >> president cohen: okay. is there anything else that you want to highlight for us? >> no, that's it. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. there is no budget legislative analyst's report. thank you. we will go to public comment on item three. >> this, too, is a good program

and an example how in order for it to be a success, when you calculate the amount of money that the tenant must be charging rent, you must be sure that no price fixing is done. sf, viewer, please. >> president cohen: any other member of the public? oh . >> here's a true and correct copy of the income brackets. the people who you trying to help are mostly on social security benefits, the program that's called s.s.i., when you have a mental disability and a chronic mental disability, a combination of both mental and physical disabilities, these people in these income brackets are on the scale at 20% and 45% of the area median. every apartment building complex that the city publicizes that's affordable housing, the lowest income you start, you target a minimum of 55% of that median

income scale, which is 44,400. these people who you trying to help are not eligible to apply because their income is below these two arrows where the income bracket starts. these are the very low and low-income bracket incomes of the people who all of you want to help, but yet, when you have the housing opportunity, you always start the median affordable housing at 100%. you set 100% affordable housing, and then, you claim that the median is the starting price. and that's 80,700 a year. people in the low-income brackets are not making this type of money peryear and don't even have the housing opportunity to apply. and a good example of that is mission rock. it's supposed to be 15% for low-income and low-income bracket people. that means 225 of those

apartments are supposed to be for low -- [inaudible] >> president cohen: thank you. seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: the matter is in the hands of the body. any questions, colleagues? i think this is real straightforward. all right. i'll make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation. i'd also like to note that i'd like to send it as a committee report? >>clerk: madam chair, would you like to accept the amendment proposed by miss chan? >> president cohen: yes, as amended. do you have a question, supervisor? okay. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: thank you. item four. >>clerk: item number four, resolution declaring the intent of the city to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of future bond indebtedness and authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit an application to the california debt limit allocation committee to permit the issuance of residential market revenue bonds in an aggregate principle amount

not to exceed 7 million for 411 eddy street. >> item before you is for eastern park, located at 711 eddy street. this is a project that the northern california presbyterian homes and services will be acquiring and rehabbing. this consistents of 2 -- consists of 212 units, and the rehabilitation work will include window replacement, mechanical heating system upgrade and rehab of the units and common areas. this authorizes the mayor's office of housing development to execute up to $95 million in multifamily revenue note to finance the project. this is conduit financing that will not require the city to pledge any funds for the repavement of the bonds -- repayment of the funds, and

we're asking the committee to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. appreciate that. let's go to public comment, item four. >> this is another example of the discriminatory practices and tricking devices that i'm demonstrating before you for a long period of time. now she just testified that the new republic built complex which is in the tenderloin area, the lowest income is 50% of the area medium. that means in order to be a tenant in this building, you have to make -- can you focus that a little clearer so you can see? that's not coming in too clear. >> president cohen: we can see it clearly. >> 40% of the median is $40,350, so that means that all the income brackets that are between these two area points is not

being included in the conclusionary rule to be a tenant in the building. that's discrimination. okay. so you're deep and involved in your discrimination that you discriminate against people that's the same narcotic on yourself. i can't get you discrimination based on race, but i can get you on constitutional law pertaining to due process and equal protection under the law. that's not equal protection under the law, price fixing. the requirement to be a tenant in the building to start at an income bracket that you know good and well, the most vulnerable people in the city don't have that income and can't even put an application to be a tenant in the building. and this building that you're proposing is in the tenderloin area, and you call it gentrification. it's not gentrification, it's discrimination based on geographical location and you're harming and displacing people of color. you did the same thing in the western addition with that justin hermann pulling that

nonsense. you tried it in the mission district, and you're doing it again. then, when you get concrete information claiming that the low-income people supposed to be part of the program like at mission rock, you call about 40% affordable housing, but yet, you make the lowest income will require to be a -- [inaudible] >> president cohen: thank you. any other member of the public? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. colleagues, i don't know if there's any discussion. okay. i have no questions. i'll make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee report. thank you. without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: please call items five and six [agenda item read] [agenda item read]

>> president cohen: okay. so we've got supervisor mandelman and mayor breed as sponsors of this legislation, and bill present. bl [agenda item read] >> president cohen: mr. blum. >> would you like me to speak first? i'm actually speaking on the care site, item number six, would you like to do that -- >> president cohen: both of them have been called together, it doesn't matter which goes first. >> okay. i'll speak to six, and my colleague, john can speak to five. first of all, good morning, good to see you all supervisors, fewer, cohen, and stefani.

so i'm asking you to approve a resolution for a grant for hiv or hiv funding for the ryan white part a. san francisco has applied for on a yearly basis and received this for about 30 years. we're one of about 60 geographic areas around the united states that apply for it. as you know there's over 15,000 people living with hiv in san francisco, slightly less than half of them, about 7400 actually touch our public health system at one point or another, and well over 3,000 get primary care services. the amount requested is 105% of last year's application, which is the maximum we're allowed to apply for. over the last 30 years, we've received some cuts, some big, some small, with occasional flat funding. i want to thank all the supervisors current and past.

you've done a great job of supporting us. of that funding, about 92.5% will come to san francisco. we are what's called an eligible met poli metropolitan area, which means that three counties are grouped together by the feds. that includes marin and san mateo, so i'll stop there. >> good morning. my name's john melicar, and i'm with chip. chip is a branch within the population health division that is primarily responsible for h.i.v. presentation funds -- prevention funds. we've received funds for this for about 30 years. these funds are only offered to help departments through funding opportunity 181802. it comes in two different components.

the first component is one that is in a grant form, and that we were -- we did not have to apply for, we just had to explain our services. it's changed in two ways from previously. the c.d.c. has made this an integrated epi and prevention grant which means that we plan and report to the c.d.c. on both of those activities. operationally for us, it doesn't make a lot of difference because we've always worked very closely with epi to get the information to do our planning. the other changes for component a is that it represents about a 22% decrease from the previous funding cycles, which c.d.c. has been decreasing over time. we'd like to thank the board of supervisors, the department, and the mayor for their ongoing backfills of this. component b is a competitive

part of the grant, and san francisco was one of the two jurisdictions in the country that received this. because the health outcomes and h.i.v. rates for the homeless and injection drug uses have plateaued or decreased, we are pledging outreach to street medicine or other linkage efforts. >> president cohen: thank you. i actually have a couple questions. annually, the ryan white funding is always cut or we don't receive as much as we anticipate. and we certainly have -- certainly i've been on the board eight years, so to the best of my knowledge, we are always asked through the best of our budget process, to do a backfill. can you explain to me the reason why this happens all the time? >> sure. you know, ryan white act actually has expired.

they don't work to reauthorize it because of the danger that it wouldn't actually pass. so at the federal level, they continue to fund it, but what they fund it as at flat funding, and as time goes by, funding is determined by incidents of or prevalence of h.i. vichv. or ai a given area. cases are expanding most recently in the southeast united states, most recently, southwest, so there's different areas competing for the same pot of funding. >> sounds like there's no relief until congressional seats change and there's a little bit more progressive minded folks occupying in the white house. >> correct. >> okay. so we should -- during our budget process should just plan to set aside -- what exactly would be a fair amount? >> you know, it's fluctuated. we had a really, really big cut

about seven years ago, i want to say, when pelosi was unable to secure additional stop loss. i can go back and provide you an exact number, but i think if you annuali annualize it, it 's been about 1.5 to 3% cut each year. >> president cohen: thank you. i'm just looking forward in anticipation. we've always been fortunate to have the resources, whether on reserve -- well, they come from the reserve, is that correct and i'm looking to the budget director. perhaps she can opine a little bit about these particular cuts. i'm grateful we always have the resources to backfill them, but i'm fearful if there's ever a day that comes to us that we won't due to a severe economic downturn. i'm going to pivot back to the budget office director, kelly

kirk patrick to answer. >> thank you, director cohen. yes, we work closely with d.p.h. staff in the spring to understand anticipated potential cuts to both ryan white and c.d.c. related funding. and we've been fortunate enough, as you stated, to backfill almost all of those over the last five, six, seven years. and so we work very closely with the department. we will keep the board apprised as the information comes through, but it is always top of mind as we work with the department on the budget in the spring. >> president cohen: can you give me a range as to what -- >> we have an analysis. i don't know offhand, but we can get that to you. in coordination with d.p.h., we work with them on that. >> president cohen: okay. one more question related to the ryan white funding. what's the level of grant funding that we've received from each of the two grants that we're talking about today? what's that level of funding, and how does it compare to what

we're approving today? is it less? are you noticing a trend where it's decreasing, are you noticing a trend where it's increasing? >> these are great questions, and actually, we are -- we sit in two different branchs, and we work very closely together, and so we are -- we are kind of one, but we're also a little bit separate, different application processes. so in terms of the ryan white part a, you should know there's ryan white part b, c, d, e, and f, so this is a piece of the pie. but i think the question that you're asking, is that this amount represents the bulk of the federal fund we get, and it's slightly less than half of the total amount we get. the rest is general fund. have i answered your question? >> president cohen: yes. okay. that's all i have. i appreciate your time. colleagues, do you have any questions? all right. the b.l.a. has no report. all right. we will go to public comment on

items five and six. seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. i'll make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you. without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: please, item seven. >>clerk: item seven, resolution proofing an afmta contract with all top for vendor management transportation to manage parts for the fleet for a total term of three years to commence upon approval by the board of supervisors. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. we've got this legislation before us is sponsored by supervisor tang and it's got mr. john haley from m.t.a. to speak to us on this. >> good morning, chair cohen, supervisors. some seven or eight years ago, we came to this body with a proposal to overhaul the rail and the bus fleets for the

sfmta, and with your support, we have made tremendous strides in improving our maintenance and the reliability of our fleets. the action in front of you today is a request to make permanent a contract that results from a very successful five-year pilot program which i renewed twice, and which we appreciate that has led to a tremendous improvement not only in our day-to-day reliability of our old cars, which many are older than 20 years, but also our historic vehicles. so just briefly to highlight the importance of this program -- go ahead -- one more, please. okay. thank you. i just want to point out that prior to the introduction of a vendor managed inventory, which fills a key void in the city classification and personnel

systems because there's -- what this contract does is give us an individual that manages the inventory on a day-to-day basis. as a result of that, when you go back to the times before this contract, what you had most importantly was not only sometimes inspections and repairs being done and not having any parts, cars being on hold for parts, but most importantly, we have virtually eliminated at this point a practice where we took parts off of one train to put them on another, referred to as canniballizing parts, and that needs to not happen. we've moved beyond that in this contract. i think this allows us to better plan and forecast. this is a major business improvement for us. it's also increased our reliability of our fleet. the biggest customer complaint we have remains crowding.

this contract has been a vital management tool to help us improve maintenance on our older fleets while we introduce a brand-new fleet to deal with our growth and expansion. some of the results, just specifically, we've got our car availability. that means we're putting cars on the street 20% greater. another one i would point out is the parts consumption over a five year period. that's one of the best indicators that we're doing our maintenance on schedule, we're replacing the parts that the manufacturers say we should replace. that's a commitment we made to this body several years ago and we'll continue to honor that. and having this management tool has been a key element in our fulfilling that commitment. i'd just point out here again, this is an improved business practice. it allows us to better plan and

operator inventory, reduce our inventory. here's a shot of a nearby warehouse where we have access to parts and get them down once we're there. or -- our ask today is that you approve this contract. we appreciate the work that the budget analyst has done. the contract would be for three years with two two-year options for an amount not to exceed $64.5 million. it's been a key element in helping us improve the reliability of the fleet, and we intend to use it even more aggressively going forward. so with that, i appreciate your time, and certainly available to answer any questions you might have. >> president cohen: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: did we

discuss how long this contract is for? oh, i see that -- did we -- this is from 2018 to 2037, is that correct, the contract? >> it's a three-year with two two-year options, so starting right now, in 2019. >> supervisor fewer: in 2019. okay. thank you very much. >> president cohen: thank you. we'll hear from the budget legislative analyst at this time. >> yes. this contract was selected through competitive process. it was the highest ranked proposer, and as mr. haley said, it's a three year contract with two two-year extensions for a total of seven years. our budget is on page three of the report. it shows a total budget of

64.5 million. we recommend approval. >> president cohen: thank you for the recommendation. we will go to public comment on item seven. any member of the public please come. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i see no names on the roster, so i'm assuming there are no questions. i make a motion to approve and send this to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we can take that without objection. thank you. [ gavel ] cope co [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, is there any further business before us? >>clerk: no, there's no further business. >> president cohen: thank you. we are adjourned. coseen

. >> thank you to all of you for being here. to the mayor's office for dreaming this project up with us in the first place, to supervisor kim for showing us how to do it, and to the mayor today for sharing the space with us. and especially to the community here in the tenderloin who have welcomed us over the last two years. we're here because we know the power of community owned businesses to create opportunities for asset generation in low-income communities and for everyone. my first informal meal in the bay area was at a small table in a one bedroom apartment at leavenworth and hyde. they took orders from myself and ten strangers, delivering some of the most delicious mexico city style food in the business. the tenderloin, like all communities that faced economic barriers has a really vibrant economy. we've worked with low-income and women entrepreneurs across the

bay for 13 years. although cocina has won numerous awards, their air of mothers that cook in s.r.o.'s that cook for each other. there are sidewalk barbecues nearly every day and the best bay areas that gauadalupe's goig to tell you about in a bit. this represents not just the soul of this city but the soul of other cities. this project aims to celebrate all. it's a public space fuelled by women entrepreneurs and focused on equitiable place making and

economic opportunity. i saw an interview with mayor breed the other day where she noted some of her favorite places toet were eddy's cafe and pancho villa. food businesses are obvious the first step a family can take towards economic freedom. their physical claiming of space in our neighborhoods and cities, and they're representations of the places that we live. when we run up against road blocks in the two years that we've been considering this project, we've wondered if we can't do this, and then, who would want to live in a place that doesn't make opportunities possible? this is the risk, the crisis that our cities are in. we believe that all cities can do what we are doing here.

through public support, private investment and community power, we plan to build the first all women led food hall in the country. those talented women will hire -- [applause] >> those talented women will hire and create pathways to wealth while serving the communities that raised them and creating a space where everyone is welcome. it's a place for families, workers, lunches, homework, and dreaming. we ask you today to imagine what that place could be while you're in this space, what this space could mean to a community. but also, have you to imagine what it might mean for places like that not to exist anymore. imagine a city without those dreamers, without those foods. we are so excited to show you how possible a better city is. thank you for believing in us and being here today. thank you to supervisor kim and a really special thank you to mayor breed, who joins us today.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everybody. i am so excited to be here today. i walked in the room, and it really smelled like my grandmother's house. ho now, my grandmother was a great cook, and people on the street that i grew up, on eddy and laguna, always knew they could come by at certain times of year to buy things. my grandmother made the best tamales, the best gumbo. and some of you may not know what hog's head cheese is, but hog's head cheese. she made them a lot of times with the free food we received from the government. she could make the best macaroni and cheese from the cheese that we received from the government.

some of you know what i'm talking about. part of our ability to survive had a lot to do with my grandmother being an entrepreneur in public housing where she offered up what she was able to do. what an incredible thing to do here today, to give so many amazing women, especially the support that this provides to minority women and women of our immigrant community who are looking for an opportunity to support their families with their talents, with their amazing food. and it means a lot that so many of you here today have worked to make something like this possible, to take a space that is going to be used for even more good when we are able to invest the necessary dollars for our much needed affordable housing here, to use it in this capacity, is going to make this an incredible space full of excitement, full of love, and yes, full of great food. so i just wanted to stop by and

stay congratulations for your efforts. thank you, caleb and supervisor kim for your leadership and having the foresight to see that you could make something like this possible. and also enthuse for being one of the few events that i'm able to attend where there is food, because food is, i think, something that brings so many people together. i was actually at glide yesterday, and someone who remembered me, she used to baby-sit me, and she said that my grandmother used to feed her as a way to pay her to baby-sit us when we were kids. i mean, i didn't remember her, but clearly, she knew my grandmother, my mama, priscilla. clearly, food is something that brings people together. it makes people happy, and what an incredible way to share your talents with the world and also make a lot of san franciscans

happy. thank you all so much for being here, and please, support these businesses when you see them out and about, get to know them, and use them for catering opportunities. what a great way to support businesses than here's a way to use them for ways in which they could actually benefit people throughout san francisco, and i'm looking forward to seeing this place come to life, so they are also, i know, looking for more donations. i know this was a partnership with the city, but we are definitely looking for more did he -- donations to make this dream for so many more women a reality. thank you for being here today. with that, i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the supervisor for this district, supervisor jane kim. [applause] >> supervisor kim: thank you, mayor breed for joining us in the tenderloin neighborhood. i always like to call this your

second district. it is so great to be here today. 101 hyde has always been a special place for our residents because so many residents live in single room occupancy hotels where they don't have access to mail. this was the space where people could get their checks, be connected to the world, and when the post office shut this site down with federal budget cuts, it was a huge loss for our community. and when we learned that it was sold to built market race housing, i think that was one of the more depressing news and updates in this neighborhood. but for whatever reason when the owner wasn't able to build, and we were negotiating, market street for the masses, they said

you know what? we really need affordable housing that our residents can afford, and they often can't afford the inclusionary housing in the market rate buildings. through that negotiation with many people that were here in the room, over the course of those weeks, we negotiated a deal where shore sea agreed to buy this property so we could donate it for 100% affordable housing. [applause] >> supervisor kim: however, we know that building housing takes time and randy shaw had the f e forsy foresight to know that that it may take ten years to build it for the community.

over the last two years, we have seen an up tick in activities with the closure of this site. so we want to make sure that the block was activated. randy suggested that we bring in a marketplace similar to the hall on market street where we could showcase our residents and develop a meeting that could be -- a site that would be a community hub, a place to eat, and of course a place where we can showcase our immigrant entrepreneurs. a little over 30 years ago, my mom was able to bring together loans from different family members and friends to open a small business, and through that small business, she was able to grow an income for my family and eventually buy a home. being able to incubate a small business for so many of our immigrant women, it's what allows our families to grow in our city, to contribute to our economy, but also raise our families here in the city. la cocina has been that incubator site, and i'm so happy they were able to come in.

this was not easy to do. it took a lot of advocacy, a lot of fund raising, and also city support. and i want to recognize mayor breed and the office for committing additional funds to make sure that we could deliver this site in an affordable manner, and delivering in an affordable manner means that we can reduce the prices on the menus so that residents can afford to eat here, as well, and that's -- [applause] jane jac>> supervisor kim: tha commitment that la cocina and the city has made so that all of the residents can enjoy food her every single day. so i want to thank all of the partners that were involved. i'm so excited to come here and try the food of many prir

entrepreneurs. i think many of us would not be able to standup to the chefs that this neighborhood has, and we're all excited for its opening. thank you to everyone involved. [applause] >> hello. i am operations manager at la cocina. i would like to introduce you to guadalupe morena. she is owner of la cocina, and she will share her story. [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> i am now going to be translating that for guadalupe. hello. my name is guadalupe morena, and i want to welcome you to my neighborhood. i live here with my husband and three kids. when we arrived in mexico, we picked this neighborhood because the rents were reasonable and because the rest of my family lived here. we came to this area because my husba husband's sister, veronica salazar, also lives here. now i'm starting my own business at la cocina, it's called m mi morena. i love sharing my mexican culture with people. i cook for you like i cook for my family. we sell at the mission community

market on thursdays, and i'm really excited to think that next year in this old post office we could share our food to our neighborhood. i think it's going to be something wonderful for this area to have a space we can come to with our families, eat lunch and dinner and just relax and enjoy. we don't really have anyplaces like this, so the marketplace is going to be very important for my family. thank you for this opportunity that la cocina and the city of san francisco has given us. for me as a local resident, entrepreneur and immigrant woman, i really appreciate your support. thank you. [applause] >> and i'm now going to introduce karina mora. [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> okay. i have called the tenderloin my home for the last ten years, since i left yucatan, mexico. i am the mother of a

six-year-old daughter, raquel, who brings joy to my life. la voz is primarily a resource center but focuses on the economic and social development of our community. for this reason, i listened to the proposal of caleb and his team, and i'm happy to be part of the team in the tenderloin to make it a reality. on several occasions i have expressed my desire to make a radical change of this portion of market street. it's time for hyde street 101 to be known for its delicious and affordable food and not for the sale of drugs. i want to give you a welcome to la cocina.

[applause] >> karen taylor from central city collaboratives. >> hello, everyone. my name's karen. i'm very happy to be here. i have been a resident of the tenderloin neighborhood since 2005. this neighborhood is underserved. there are 11 stores within a three block radius of where i live where you can purchase cigarettes, liquor, cheap candy, and lottery tickets. there are no grocery stores. if you want a safeway or a target, you have to take a bus. if you would like the more economical options, foodco, food 4 less, you have to ride that bus even further. the addition of la cocina is filling a need in the tenderloin for fresh food at reasonable

prices. la cocina does bring additional benefits to this neighborhood in addition to the delicious food. i once derelict corner gets revitalized, becoming an oasis where people can gather and have a good time. the people who work hard to maybe this happen, neighborhood organizations, residents, entrepreneurs, get a victory, and well done, i might say. much needed advancement, another area where this neighborhood is underserved is broad here so that people who live in this neighborhood can have opportunities here where they improve their circumstances, where they serve this community and provide things that we need and where they build their futures right where they live. the quality of life in this neighborhood improves with the addition of the la cocina

marketplace. seniors, disabled people, young children, old people, all get benefits out of this. people that can't travel far can travel closer to home for healthy options with nutrition. people who struggle with illness now have a vital resource for staying healthy, good food. parents that work long and hard hours to keep their families housed in the t.l. will have closer options for feeding those families. this is a wonderful project, and it is a welcome addition to the tenderloin neighborhood. long live the market cocina. thank you. [applause] >> just another big thank you to karina, guadalupe, and carolina.

instead of a traditional ground breaking, la cocina has not done many traditional things. we thought we would be a little bit more metaphorical and invite mayor breed, supervisor kim, guadalupe, carolina up here for a ceremonial bread breaking. >> five, four, three, two -- [applause]