i started, one was of african american descent, the other hispanic. they left. i said i'm not going to leave. look at my face every single day until i'm ready to go somewhere. i reported to e.e.o.c. last year, nothing has been done about it. so i have a daughter who is 27 and 3 grandchildren. that i have to stay for. because if i leave, they lose. and the perpetrators win, so i'm not going anywhere, i'm going to stay there and i'm going to fight you until it stops. >> supervisor kim: thank you miss brown. >> i want to thank you you -- >> i can't let you speak again, public comment -- >> i can't say nothing again, i wasn't aware of that. even if it's one minute? >> no. >> why not?

>> we have to afford each speaker the same amount of time, if the -- if you would like to speak, i'll start a time. >> read that right there. >> speak up. >> i filed an e.e.o.c. complaint after 180, after 180 days. i followed up weekly after three weeks. they administratively closed my claim without further investigation. the department stated earlier that -- earlier they have dismissed, 5% of black workers for cause and he is right. the cause is because -- the cause is because we are black

and we are black and that is unacceptable. i understand here -- i stand here with my head held high to ask you, the board of supervisors, please don't turn a blind eye. it is time to take action. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. [applause] you can also submit for mr. bryant all the letters. thank you. >> hi, tandra, very short. i just wanted to say houston, we have a problem in san francisco. i'm tired of getting look at a research and experiment as a project. i was the one that left that miss brown was talking about, been trying to get a job with the city and county since 2012. got an opportunity for a year and a half, left my kaiser job to come, got dismissed.

after that, try to pull boots with the straps, applied for welfare, they knew me so well, they would not give me that. i had a strategy to get into the p.s.p. program. out of the four interviews, three tried to hire me, they would not hire me, somebody sid said -- i don't know what they said. i'm ok now but discriminated against the city and county. went to make a complaint, went to brandon lamb, he did not see nothing. hally albert, she didn't see nothing. went down to do a complaint last august, august 2016, just got reply from michael brown signed by mickey callahan saying they did not see a problem, but i believe we have a problem and i'm here to fight. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> hi, my name is cindy wong.

i did not come prepared but as i watch, i want to bring up my case. something about bullying at the workplace. so, i work at a health center in the department of department health, and the nurse manager, you know, very subtly does things to bully me. and highly value assistant, she can look at the situation and become a poor employee. so, i went through the chain of command, i went to medical director and also i call the d.p.h. -- d.p.h. director and then we have conversation and said you know, talk to the union. but the problem is, i did not have any union representation. so, my case started 2016. and because of all this bullying

and, so i came down with a very serious illness. and i just returned to work back in june, and the manager throw me, you know, first remove me from my position, from working with medical director, and from the patient, going on serving them over five years and after removal of the fourth day i've been trying to work, she just like gave me assignment and said everybody does five clinics so you have to do five clinic. although the doctor said you know, it would be advisable to work in a less stressful environment. anyway, i just want to conclude that you know, this situation has not been resolved. and i got a letter from mickey callahan, and saying that you know, my case is not grounded, but there was never a meeting, you know, for me to --

[microphone cut off]>> supervisor kim: thank you for speaking. next speaker. mr. wright, i'm -- i'm so sorry, but i have to go to the next speaker who has not spoken yet. >> mallory branch, i want to say i think it was wrong for the city of san francisco to fire her, she got injured on the job and it was not her fault. so, there. thank you. >> mr. wright, i can't -- you already spoke. i understand. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i -- i understand, mr. brown, i wanted -- i --

so, we have 15 minutes remaining for the hearing, and i did want to give supervisors the opportunity to actually ask some of these questions that's come up. unfortunately, only 15 minutes, i will lose -- i have to adjourn the meeting after that. we did extend and i got them to stay additional hour and a half than we had slated for the hearing, thank my colleagues for staying for that. i just want to first of all start off by saying that yes, we will have staff come up. that this hearing was incredibly disturbing and deeply painful. and to hear that so many members of our -- of our city and county and our employees have similar stories to share, i just think speaks to a deeper trend and pattern here at the city and county than honestly i had even anticipated today. i do want to thank seiu 1021 for

asking me to call this hearing in june, it's been a pleasure to work over the last two months. and for u just the beginning, and it was incredibly important to get all the stories and i know two minutes was incredibly short for the years of experience people have been encountering. i do want to give -- i had a very long list of questions being that we only have 15 minutes remaining. i wanted to give supervisor brown and fewer an opportunity to ask questions but i have to limit the time. so begin with supervisor brown. >> i just want to say that an hour and a half -- hour and a half -- >> supervisor kim: i only have 15 minutes. >> nothing compared to years of racism and discrimination that we have -- >> supervisor kim: you could not be more correct. i completely agree. >> supervisor brown: thank you, chair kim. i'm kind of overwhelmed by all of the different testimony here

today. and i just want to let you know that i hear you. i feel that we really, it's kind of the tip of the iceberg. and i think we need to open this up more. i think we also need to open up how people are being trained to deal with disputes, how people are really looking at them and looking at them fair. i also agree everyone can go to a bias training, but does not mean that changes them a lot of times. and so we -- i just feel like we really need to open up how things are working and really what's not working. i think that's the big thing. what's not working. and that's it. so, i think this definitely needs to go forward. >> supervisor fewer: so, thank you chair kim. and thank you everyone who came

out and gave testimony. yeah. so, this is pretty disturbing. i just think that you know, it's -- a lot of questions, actually. and i don't think there's enough time to really address them and actually i think it's going to require sort of a really a lot of data. so, but what is disturbing, i want to say off the bat, is that it is not an isolated incident what we are hearing from a single department. it is -- the district attorney, d.p.a., general hospital, laguna honda, sheriff's department, police department, medical examiners, m.t.a., rec and park, we are hearing it throughout all of our departments in the city and county of san francisco and i have to say it's extremely disturbing, when i hear of an isolated incident i see that sometimes as an isolated incident and i get it. but when i hear repeatedly about

the lack of investigation on some of these complaints, that they have no merit, that people are being harassed to the point of physical deterioration, when i hear it's not possible to go back into the workplace because of the hostility in the workplace, i agree with some of the speakers that this is, these are issues that actually people marched and lost their lives over in the 1960s and so it is -- it is concerning. i also think that it's probably time that we actually looked at, you know, i guess i want to say the solution isn't just that we hire more african americans because clearly we are hearing here from people who have already been hired by us. so, i think it goes back to some of the questions i had about retention. i -- i have a list of data points that i think that would be important for me to really understand the full context of

it and the city. i also want to talk about the salary discrepancy. and when we talk about race and talk about racism, then we must definitely have the data that shows disparities between racial groups, and i have, i think i would like to see that type of information around promotionales again when we look at who is being dismissed, do you do an exit interview, is there any information that you can give us when people are actually severing their ties with the city employment with the city and county of san francisco. are we capturing that information. and where is a safe place for folks, we are hearing about retaliation, retaliation quite frankly is a very real thing and i think some of the stuff that we are talking about is subtle. and also to address the issue that san francisco claims to be the most progressive city in the united states, racism here is

very systemic. but it is very sophisticated. and so because it is so, and so well designed, that it takes actually i think a lot of looking at the root causes of it, and also dismantling some of of the policies that we have that are racist and inequitable, and how do we know that, because the out comes are racist and inequitable. i will be sending a list i think to, around some data points and it's unfair to put that on you today. i think in order for us to tackle this problem, and i do believe the city and county of san francisco, that there is the desire to eliminate this type of racial bias and discrimination within our departments, i think is really about do we have the moral fortitude to do it. it may mean breaking down some

systems that we have used and rework them in a way that weeds out inequity and the loopholes in a system such as ours. as serving the city and county of san francisco you are right to bring this to the attention of the elected officials to the city and county of san francisco, but be sure, these are systems that have been in place for decades here and i know and supervisor kim knows from the school district, that undo them, we wrote the resolution to restorative practices after looking at the disproportionate amount of african americans students disciplined for things like disobedience or not jumping to a command, and so we recognize that, i think the city and county has a desire to be a better employer for everyone, but particularly for a group that is much more vulnerable because the population in san francisco is already diminishing and there isn't a cohort i think

of support that is political but also that has power in the city. so, i will be sending a list of data, i am asking the chair to continue this item to the call of the chair so that maybe we can continue this conversation once we submit hard data and i'll call it out that it could be time that the city of and county of san francisco actually has an office of racial equity that we can actually have data that is collected and is held in-house. so, anyway, thank you very much for coming out, thank you to city departments for coming out also and thank you for supervisor kim for chairing this. >> thank you, supervisor fewer and we look forward to getting the questions and happy to respond. we heard our citizens, heard our

employees, and their concerns, it's loud and clear and evident we need to do more. we are committed to it and meeting with the labor partners, and also meeting with community members and other stakeholders. thank you. >> supervisor kim: so, unfortunately, the supervisors on committee were not able to ask all the questions that we wanted today, so clearly we have to continue this hearing and hear it again. it's more than a three-hour hearing. as supervisor fewer said, we are talking about decades of systematic discrimination and racism and i'm concerned around what we heard today around gender and other categories that i see through our settlements and closed session. i'm glad to see that mayor breed has issued her executive order. there's clearly a lot of work to do beyond the executive order but i would like to work very closely with seiu 1021 to come up with a portfolio of proposals

of what we can do to change the systematically, and i know many members of the public could not stay and took time off from their own work schedule to be here because it was so important to shed light on the experiences of what our employees are facing. so, thank you for coming and spending that time on educating the elected officials on what is going on here through our employment practices. i agree that videos are not enough, as a supervisor, that's required to watch some of these videos. i don't think that they really actually change behavior or practices, and so we have to do a lot more than that, and there has to be a 0 tolerance policy and i have not seen that. and certainly have not seen that in our settlements that we get here. when mayor breed was supervisor and supervisor peskin sat on committee with me, i can't tell you how frustrated we were at

every single settlement we read about and the facts of what many of our employees were undergoing, and there are some here today at committee that are deeply, deeply disturbing. and so we have to change, you know, we have to be a role model employer for the private sector here in the city and county, and we know that government jobs frequently are better at hiring a more diverse work force and this is true throughout the country, in fact. african american middle class jobs throughout the country have been government jobs and so if we can't figure out how to create an environment that is welcoming to all members of our community, then we are really failing and the city is really one of the last vestiges in the city of middle class jobs for any group, and one of the last institutions that support organized labor, so ensure we

are taking on the issue. thank all the departments that came here today, and i want to thank you for listening. i think that's incredibly important that you all were here to listen to the public comments. so, i will continue this to the call of the chair. i know that supervisor brown and fewer want to be actively engaged with our union and our departments on actually moving forward with some action. so, seeing no other closing comments, there was a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair and we can do that without objection. again, want to thank all the members of the public for coming out today. [applause] >> mr. clerk, can you please call item 7-14. >> clerk: agenda item 7-14, 8 ordinances settling, authorizing the settlement of lawsuits against the city and county. >> supervisor kim: for the sake of time and i just talked with supervisor brown, we will not take a motion to convene to

closed session, neither of -- well -- why don't i say this. i think we can pass items 7-14. >> clerk: madam chair, we should take public comment on the closed session deliberation. >> supervisor kim: we will take public comment on these items. if any members of the public would like to speak on item 7-14, please do speak now. seeing none, public comment -- oh, ok. >> i want to speak on this closed session that you got with the city attorney. and while you are back there, executive director of the department of public health, barbara garcia, embezzle one had you been $100,000 a year and not reporting the income from her female married companion, and by the same response, she get

caught, you let her retire and keep her benefits. she should be fired, and should not get not one penny of benefits from the city and county of san francisco. that's called tax evasion, and money laundering, and fraud. by the same response, all the blacks that's complained about complaints in the health department, to the union, that was up here today, all of them, 98% are black. you hear me, all black people complaining about barbara garcia in the health department. had me fooled thinking she was doing a good job, and she get caught embezzling $100,000 a year for the past several years, you let her retire and act like she did a damn good job. that's not cool. so, ain't no way in the world she should be allowed to retire and get benefits and you treating her like she did a good job. is that clear? and then another thing about your discrimination. disgusting that you let rules

and regulations of mission where you are supposed to have 15% of those 1,500 units for low income and very low income people, who you campaigned about. when you get hired, people you say you are going to help you refuse to help. sit up there and say they are supposed to be for low income by the people, and said the requirement about their income. so, in violation of your own rule and regulation, and it's going to come back to haunt you. [please stand by]

>> thank you, mr. clerk and mr. gibner, our city attorney will read out the outcome. >> deputy city attorney john gibner. during the closed session, the committee voted 3-0 to continue item eight to the call of the chair and to forward items seven through 14 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you. and we will take -- we will take that motion and pass that and colleagues can we take a motion to not disclose our closed session? we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. [gavel sounds]

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the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for

medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365

days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of

a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a

solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you to be flexible. you will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. >> you have to be willing to work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the afternoon. that's like the toughest part of this job. >> we need every person that's in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and

do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job and how to apply follow the links below. >> all right. good evening, everyone. first of all, good evening, everyone. welcome to compass family services. [applause] >> my name is chris wagner, and i'm the board chair of compass family services, and i promised myself i wouldn't get choked up, but today, by far, is the

proudest moment of my volunteer career. i'd like to acknowledge our distinguished guests, mayor london breed, supervisor jane kim, who i think is my supervisor. [applause] >> rafael mandelman, assembly member david chiu, and representatives for senator's feinstein and kamala harris, abigail and june harris. thank you so much. so today, we celebrate the official opening of our new service hub for homeless families and families at risk of becoming homeless in san francisco. [applause] >> we are really thankful for so many of you who have been here with us every step of the

way and to create what we see here before us. this facility represents our commitment to san francisco's homeless and vulnerable families, telling them we see you, we are committed to serving you in san francisco, and we are investing in your future. securing a permanent home for compass is a perfect example of private public partnerships and how they can benefit our community. one partner has been the city of san francisco. the city itself was one of the first to recognize the importance and significance of this project with a lead grant of $1 million. [applause] >> i'd like to thank and express our deepest thanks to

joaquin torres for the office of workforce development for not only their strong support, but for their lead support in this project. [applause] >> we gratefully acknowledge the let's make it happen spirit of our partners and the compass board for getting this project off the ground. our next very important step -- you knew this was coming -- is to raise the funds we need to pay for this project. we will be out in the community, you can rest assured, shortly with a major campaign to seek the help of the philanthropic community and all to assure our service hub is here to stay. he can assured we are part of the solution -- you can be assured we are part of the solution. it's my extreme pleasure to introduce and welcome our

city's honorable mayor london breed and invite her to say a few words. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i have got to say i am truly honored and excited to be here today. what an amazing, beautiful facility, a welcoming environment for so many families that we all know struggle with homelessness, and that should not be the case. a kid should not have to do their homework in situations that sometimes are not the best. when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and visited our family shelter in our district, i was really heart broken at some of the scenes that i saw and some of the frustration that i had for many of those kids that they were in, many of those kids attend schools right here in san francisco. and one of the things that i'm most proud of is working with

our late mayor ed lee is to give $2 million to the housing authority to remodel 179 unit to place 179 formerly homeless families in units to call home. but we didn't do it alone. we did it with organizations like compass point because it takes a partnership in order to help our homeless families who live on our streets in san francisco. as mayor, addressing this challenge is really important to me, finding solutions, finding partners, trying to figure out the best ways possible. when we developed our coordinated entry system, compass point has been there for us, helping to lead the way so that we can produce the

types of services that we truly need to make a difference. so i want to thank each and every once of you for being here today to support this great new step. a $1 million grant from the city, and i, of course, deserve $1 million more for the work that you continue to do. thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm looking forward to opening this building so that we can get started on this very important work because we have people who need homes. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. oh . so last fall, erica and i had the pleasure of meeting with supervisor jane kim, and we presented our plan and our vision. i'm delighted to welcome back her -- or welcome here to see firsthand what we've done, and

we'd love to hear your thoughts. [applause] >> supervisor kim: actually, you are welcoming me back for the space because for those of you that don't know, i spent six months here in this space back in 2016, and so i'm very familiar with this site. and so i was truly delighted when you both came to my office to say that there might be an opportunity to turn this vacant retail site into a hub for so many of our families and those that are needing services here in the city and county of san francisco. mayor breed talked so much about the importance of this work and also the initiative that mayor ed lee had begun during his time as mayor, which is for san francisco to end homelessness in san francisco in the next five years. and we talk so much about

homelessness as being an issue of single adults but for those of you that are in the field, you know that families are often the fastest growing demographic in homeless counts in cities throughout the country, whether it is san francisco, new york, and l.a. it is the silent demographic that we don't get e-mails from our constituents about, asking us to solve that is often one of the most critical in the issues that we must address here. we know that children who are homeless are more likely -- five times to be more likely to be homeless as adults. we've seen what it means for children to be able to complete their homework, having a place to call home, calling in sick regularly, having a place to shower. i have to tell you one of the most heartbreaking stories that i heard from some of our young mothers is actually having to

bathe their children in a sink at their local church because they have nowhere else to take their children before they get ready for school. and compass family services has been at the forefront of ensuring that we are providing these critical services to families to so many of our clients that need it the most. in order to provide those services, it's critical to have a home and a space to walk into. so i'm so excited that compass family services will be opening here in this district, and i really want to recognize the leadership of the board chair, chris wagner, and of course to our wonderful executive director, erica kisch, who's been running this century old organization so critically in san francisco. we are making a dent, we are

finally reducing the immense wait list that we are reading about in 2015 for families that are sleeping in shelters, sleeping on the streets, sleeping in our cars and making sure that we are addressing this issue. when the l.a. times said that the new face of homelessness is single mothers and children, we heeded to that call. we need to get women and children off the streets, and i am just so proud to be a strong partner along with mayor breed and assembly member david chiu. this is an issue that we all care deeply about. we can end homelessness, and i'm so glad that compass is going to have a seat in the middle of our city that they can provide the services. i just want to take a moment to thank the staff at compass family services. this work is so difficult to do. [applause] >> supervisor kim: and you are at the front lines of doing

this work, and it's always amazing to ask staff members how long they've been at this organization. and i think it's pretty astounding, the tenacity, and the faith of the workers in the field. i was pretty touched when one of our compatriots used to serve, when the chronicle asked him if it was incredibly depressing to work in the field of homelessness over 40 years because it doesn't get better, and he said i don't view hi work as ending homelessness, i view my work as ending homelessness in the lives of people. for those of you that have viewed the moment, i've been lucky to watch an individual walk into their permanent home for the first time or a family

to walk into their permanent home for the first time, we are ending homelessness in their lives, so thank you for all doing this incredible work, and congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor kim. as you know compass works with the city as a partner in our comprehensive continuum in care of homelessness or to help end family homelessness. for families that are already homelessness, and now i'd like to welcome jeff kosinski, the director of family homelessness to say a few words. jeff? >> thank you so much for being here today. you know, just a few years ago, one in every 20 students in the san francisco unified school district was experiencing homelessness. it's one in every 20. every single school in the

school district had at least one homeless family. some schools had over 10% of the families in that school were experiencing homelessness. but thanks to the hard work of many people including compass, we've reduced family homelessness by 15%. by the end of this year, our goal is to have no unsheltered families at all, and we're very close to achieving that goal, and by the end of 2022, our goal is to have no family experiencing homelessness in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you. we're not going to do that without organizations like compass. compass is one of the anchor institutio institutions in our homelessness response system, and this facility is just absolutely amazing, and what's really -- i came by to visit a few weeks ago right when it

first opened up, and the physical structure is really amazing, but what's really just so heart warming is to see all of the families here and all of the staff here using the space. it's just such a beautiful facility, it uplifts people's spirits when they're here, and the energy was just really phenomenal. we had families in here facing a crisis, i can't even imagine as a father or as a parent not having a place for my children to go that evening, but just the vibe here, and the way staff were treating people, and just the attention to detail is really extraordinary and very fitting for an organization as spectacular and committed to doing this work as compass. i've worked as a nonprofit executive director for many years, and i know that it's often challenging as an e.d. or even as a board member to come up and ask people to support your organization. no matter how much you're commit today it, it's a scary thing, but since i'm not a

executive director anymore, maybe it's easier for me to encourage you to please support compass, please support their capital campaign. this is really important work they're doing, it's really life changing work that they're doing, and we're so appreciative to everybody at compass and to all of you as well for being here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, jeff. it's now my pleasure to introduce, without a doubt, one of the most amazing and dedicated individuals i've had the pleasure to work with, the executive director of compass family services for the past 24 years, erica kisch. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thanks. this is such a great turnout, it feels very great to be celebrating with you all here tonight. about 400 days ago, i toured

this building. it was kind of a shell, and a former gym, and i imagined it as being the new permanent home for compass family services, a service hub for san francisco families facing homelessness. it was centrally located, easily accessible, just a block from city hall and very closely located to other locations in the city for other families facing homelessness. little did i know that 37 grove would turn out to be so much more. it's a safe and welcoming and healing environment where families experiencing the trauma of homelessness can access a myriad of interrelated and complementary services that address housing, support, stability, jobs, child care,

legal, and i could go on and on and on, all under one roof, and all with the ultimate goal of helping families to achieve economic stability, self-sufficiency and economic well-being. so we stand here tonight not in front of but beside so many of our friends, our partners, our colleagues, our supporters, who join together to help make this project come to life and who have been committed to this every den and committed to this effort to end family homelessness in san francisco. first and foremost, i want to thank nafir and namidi. they're somewhere way in the back. [applause] >> so they and the sun hill corporation, they had an amazing vision, amazing generosity, amazing vision, and without them, we would not have

this project, we would not be able to get it off the ground, and hopefully they'll make the way up to the front for the ribbon cutting. i'd also like to thank compass's board of directors who had the vision to address our real estate need head on in their 2015 to 2018 strategic plan. every one of them has been supportive in this project and has supported it financially as well. and on our board, i especially need to call out brian mcenerny, who's also way at the back. brian really spear headed and guided this project. he was here night after night for months, and without him, we would not be here today. i also want to thank especially

our board chair chris wagner and our board vice chair allison engel. [applause] >> both of them put in many, many hours over the past year, and i joked to chris over the last year that he was going to lose his day job because he was always at compass. i also want to mention equity community builders, opportunity fund, chase, and the low-income investment fund and our quality board. i want to thank -- [applause] >> -- first republic bank, the northern california community loan fund, the world's greatest real estate broker, paul pechani. [applause] >> our brilliant architects at t.e.f. design who turned this building -- as wonderful as it

is, it's a strangely shaped building. they turn it had into something really amazing. ken white of glazer wild, who always has our back, and our fun dl fun-tastic staff. we just heard tonight that j . jpmorgan chase has awarded us a grant of $25,000. most recently, chase provided the equity investment through our new markets tax credits deal for the building. thank you, j.p. morgan chase and mike kimball, who i think is here with us tonight. [applause]

>> so next on our agenda, we're going to cut this ribbon, and after that, we invite you to explore the building. you can go back that way, you can go down, you can go up, and we'll have staff that are wearing compass name tags that are scattered throughout the building who can give you more information throughout the programs and the services we offer here and answer any questions, and then we've got refreshments on the second floor in the conference room. so thank you again for celebrating this and it's time to end family homelessness in san francisco. thank you. [appla five, four, three, two,you.

>> today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers

and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that

will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better all

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have a lot of have a lot of few minutes in mr. mayor the san francisco play lawn bowling is in golden gate park we're sharing meadow for more information about the club >> good evening, everyone. i would like to call this meeting to order. anthony? >> clerk: good evening, this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment, date is tuesday, september 25th, 2018. and the time is 5:01p