fact that earlier, we're direct are more traffic on howard to accommodate sixth street. i just want to point out this is all going down without a lane closure. this is more of an impact on traffic than it is on -- >> yeah. it's flip-flopping where the parked cars are and the lane closure. >> the question i had was related to the businesses. there are a lot of businesses that have loading needs and k h concerns, and how do we work with them to ensure, and if we have any sort of, like blinking lights that will go in the bike lane or any way to alert a rider or cyclist that a driver is coming, sort of like when you're in a parking garage, notification to the person coming out. maybe you can talk a little bit about that. >> sure. so wup one of the things we

learned about folsom is it would be better if we had a wider striped buffer. so you we've widened it by a foot or howard, so just provides a little extra spags for people getting out of their cars, have a little more room to make sure they look around, see cyclists. that's something that we heard through the folsom near term evaluation. this is a near term project, so we really want to be conscious of cost and how quickly we can roll this out. i think for the much longer term project that we'll hopefully be bringing to the board next year, we're thinking about those types of designs and those treatments. >> for curb cuts, i think it's easier if you're pulling in a parking space, that's one thing, but if we're talking about a bike lane, we just need to work effectively so that we don't

create new conflicts, and people are alert today both activities in a way that they need to be. thank you. >> thank you. >> one thing, mr. 2kgatti is he. hopefully, he knows and you can confirm that you're that person that simply because the project has been approved by the board doesn't mean you give up on it and someone on staff will be able to work with him to make sure that his business can bet get the deliveries for him in a way that's safe for the cyclist, and that is ongoing. >> yes. we've met with him two or three times at this point, and we have a whole other process >> to our guest, if that's not working, you're free to come back, but from what i've seen in the past, i think that will for you. >> thank you. directors, anymore question? >> this is more general in that

the bus placement tends to be far side opposed to near side. that makes a lot of sense when the bus has to pull over and pull back in. but in many cases, people say they're following the bus, and then, the bus stops, and they're stopped in the intersection. so with this theory, you could put the bus far side or even smack dab in the middle of the street and lessen that issue. i'm just wondering if that's something that's come up. >> that's going back to some of the other near term projects, it's something that we've heard, as well. in some cases we've moved that bus island a little burt down the block so there is a gap for a car that may be following a bus and immediately needs to stop. so either moving the island down the block or over so there is a little more space to wait behind the bus. >> questions?

no. i'll just say howard street is such an important part of the bicycle network. so many people travel it every day. anything that we can do to make it safer in the short-term is great. we'll continue to make sure we work with mr. gatti to make sure his concerns are addressed. i have a motion. do i have a second? [voting] >> all in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? [voting] >> thank you. [agenda item read] >>clerk: and then just while staff is getting setup, directors, just be advised that

we have cancelled the closed session for this evening. that will be continued to the next meeting, so following this, we'll return to general public comment and then the beloved director's report. >> very long. >> great. >> hello. my name's nick smith i'm a transportation plan in movable streets and a project planner, and i will be very quick lower grade highway is the most -- western most residential street in the city. is runs for two miles, from lincoln way to sloat boulevard. it's directly east of the great highway trail of upper great highway, the ocean beach, all of which are big trip generators. the project was born out of concerns about the m.t.a. and supervisor tang's office, heard from residents of lower great

highway. these resolved around crossing at places other than the crosswalk, and speeding. [inaudible] >> today, we are just talking about the near term project and later in the year, hopefully, we will come back with a medium term project, there have been four pedestrian collisions in the past fewive years. the near term project has three major elements, pedestrian advisability zones, also known as daylighting to ensure visibility when patrons are trying to cross the street, painted zones, as well as back and angled parking on the block between kirkham and lawton streets to gain back some of the parking reduced by the previous

two elements. so taken together, these three elements over the entire two mile corridor would result in a net reduction of just 14 parking spaces. the project was initiated earlier in the year. since then, the project team held two open houses, two public hearings and attended multiple community events and meetings, generally, the concerns fell into two categories. those who do feel that crossing the street is uncomfortable and agree that this project would address those concerns but also those who -- who are concerned about the impacts to parking, and we actually modified the original proposal to reduce some of the parking impacts, and we added in that back end angled parking and that's how we arrived at the just net reduction of 14 spaces over two miles. just to wrap up, if approved

today, this project would be implemented later this year. thank you. >> excellent. thank you very much. good presentation. i know we have at least one public commenter on this who has stuck with us all evening, so i'd like to go directly to public comment, please. thank you. two minutes, please. >> hello. my name is deidre, and i am an opponent of this. i have been unaware of my 39 years out there of any significant pedestrian problems, accidents, fatalities or anything. it's a two mile strip. i know that people paspeed. i think that's the biggest issue. i've brought along a photograph from the m.t.a.'s website -- put it face up. >> which will show a very

typical intersection, where i failed to see any problem with visibility for pedestrians or drivers, and this is a very typical intersection out there. i'd like to point out that these are dead end intersections where somebody coming from the avenues either turns right or left. there are, for the most part, stop signs at every intersection. we really don't want to lose every 14 parking spaces. this is a major public beach, lots of surfers. on a nice weekend, honestly nobody can park anywhere close to the beach. i think every parking space is real really important, not only for beachgoers, but people who want to use the paths, everything. the things that we like in this project are crosswalks where

they don't exist, stop signs at the avenues which dead end, and we really appreciate the angled parking proposal. we think that the money that -- used for this project can be used elsewhere to better success. thank you. >> thank you, miss galani. directors, do i have questions for mr. smith? oh, do we have another public comment? oh, i'm sorry. i thought that was our only one. >> i'm not here for myself on this item, actually, 'cause i live nowhere lower great highway, but i'm here for a friend that thought this was going to be at, like, 2:00 or something, and had to leave. i'm a dad of two young children, and i live on 40th avenue. i'm here to speak on behalf of the 240 folks on the west side, best side. it is difficult to say that we are in support of the

significantly watered down of the pedestrian safety improvement. of course we support these, but they do not go far enough. so what's the problem here? the completely hysterical resistance to parking removal led by a couple of neighbors. [inaudible] >> what's the issue here? several times we've ask the sfmta to provide us how much parks was available at the any time of day. i never got any answers so i did my own surveys. last night, i went on the highway and counted how many actual spaces it represented.

around 10:00 p.m., everyone was home and parked. [inaudible] >> so you tell me where's the urgency to save working here? it's same the sfmta realizes that what you're up against are car idealogues. stop negotiating with them. start making our lives and our children's lives safer. thank you. >> thank you, roland. i appreciate you waiting and speaking tonight. anymore public comment? okay. no. seeing none, public comment is closed. directors, comments? i've got a question and a second. all in favor? [voting] >> any opposed. [voting] >> thank you. i know staff will continue to work with you, and thank you again so much for waiting all this time. >> general public comment.

[agenda item read] >> roland, followed by taylor, and tarik. >> okay. two minutes. roland, taylor, tarik. >> this is a great way to endear yourself to -- >> hi, again. thai tailor algren. yesterday when the scooters launched, i'm excited for the scooters to be in san francisco because more two wheeled vehicles moving through the green lane means less cars on the road and less chance of me and my friends getting hit by a car? however, i know the

latinodemocratic friends -- [inaudible] >> -- because they had quite a great equitiable proposal. when i got to the app, i downloaded both the apps and registered yesterday. there was no way for me to discover how -- how to access the low-income program, and nor -- i actually ended up having to, like, send e-mails to the support to find out how to do it? and it was, like, a really confusing process. and so i don't know what the expectations were for the low-income program, but the low-income program should be available on the first day of launch. when we put low-income program as a second -- a second after thought, we are putting our -- our citizens under just an

unfair situation, and so i'm disappointed with the launch of the scooter program. i'm not sure if it was -- how the contract was designed, but right now, the access to the low-income program for my neighbors who wanted to sign up is basically not there. >> i know that tom mcguire is in the audience, and i know that he and his friends will look into that. next speaker. >> while i was in this marathon meeting that someone had tweeted that they made this request for a corral near their house. so the response that he got was thank you for your bike rack request, could you please tell us more about your request.

we don't typically site bike racks in neighborhoods that -- [inaudible] >> -- but mr. kapur was surprised, to say the least, that m.t.a. said no we're not going to go out and single-family neighborhoods and put racks in. >> i'm sure if staff can get more information about the request, that's a block by block decision. i have seen racks in front of residences. again, you're sitting next to the right man. next speaker, please. >> tarik mahmoud, director heinicke --

[inaudible] >> -- 7% on credit cards, and she lowered that money to hundreds of dollars instead of $100,000. when i spoke again director heinicke, you admonished me from here and i'm here to tell you, get some integrity for yourself. if you would have worked for me, i would have fired you today. going back today, somebody called you a liar, and that lie, you accept it, and you pass a proposal that's not fair. director kitterean is a total liar. she told you in approximate one of hur notes she -- i give her physically signed 64 pages against what she said. and signed in the office. and i sent you also e-mail with that pages, so she gave a wrong

data, not talking about -- against that, the driver signatures, and this is what you guys accept, the liars. sorry. >> do i have anymore public comment? anyone? seeing none, general public comment is closed, and i think the last item is our director's report. >> just to be brief, just three quick things that are, i guess, time sensitive. just want folks to know this weekend, san francisco trolley lines will be on the n-judah line. we are hosting a workshop for the bayview community based transportation plan, so we urge folks to attend. again, that's george davis senior center, tuesday night, 5:30. finally, we will be having an opening house for the embarcadero enhancement project

next thursday from 5:00 to 8:00 at the ferry building, and i will spare you all the rest of what i had to tell you about. >> thank you very much, director reiskin. do i have any public on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam chair, that concludes the business that we have today. >> we are adjourning in memory of jerry robbins and milton james. all right. thank you all very much. very good presentations.

>> the hon. london breed: all right. wow. we clearly need a bigger room. well, i just want to say thank you all so much for being here. i'm london breed, mayor of the city and county of san francisco, and i am excited to be home at the african american art and culture complex. thank you to our codirectors who are managing this beautiful facility. you know, this program is one of my dreams. it's my dream because i wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for an opportunity when i was in high school. when i was 14, i signed up for the mayor's youth, employment,

and training program. it was my first job where i got my first check, first paycheck, and i see jeff maury, he signed my first paycheck. he always remember the signature on your first paycheck, and i was really fortunate because i grew up in this community and of course there were a lot of challenges, and there continue to be a lot of challenges, and i was fortunate because i was given an opportunity to work at the family school where i learned how to answer the phones. and one of the first days that i started, i answered the phone, hello? and the person who was in charge of the administration at the family school said no, london, that's not how you answer the phone. you need to say, hello, this is london breed, you're calling the family school. how may i help you? what a big difference, right? and i thought wow.

what a big difference. the thing is like mignon, and cal, there were people who were incredible mentors, and they supported me and encouraged me, and i ended up going to college, and i ended up going to college because they told me i could do it. me provided me with an opportunity. and i'll be honest. it kept me out of trouble because at that time, my grandmother was raising me, i lived in plaza east, public housing. we didn't have a lot of money, and it was basically easy to go down to the tenderloin and sell drugs. and you know rudy, from united players, exactly what i'm talking about. the point is, i was given an opportunity and things turned out okay with me. but too many young people in our city are not given that same opportunity. some of you all know my story about my family, and i wish some of them were here with me today.

my brother, unfortunately, wasn't given an opportunity, and he's still incarcerated, and i think what a difference a program like this could have made. i think about my sister who had an opportunity to participate in this program, but unfortunately, she lost her life. and so when i think about what i can do better in the city, it's not basically continuing to allow the experiences that i had growing up in san francisco to be normal. we are here to change what is normal for young people in san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so when i served as the after man american art and culture complex executive director, yes, i paid our kids. not because i was trying to bribe them or anything to stay in the program, but it's because i wanted to open the doors of opportunity for them. i wanted them to know what the center was about, i wanted them to be a part of the center, i

wanted them to be safe, i wanted them -- to expose them to incredible opportunities that exist all around san francisco, and i'm really so proud of so many of them who are now adults and doing their own thing and working hard. i know some of the kids from project -- i keep saying kids, but they're adults, from project level, are here, and you're going to here from a couple of them. the point is it's about making sure that what is normal and what we've experienced in the western addition and places like the bayview, we want to change that. do i want to be the c.e.o. of this company, or do i want to start my own business, making my own products? do i want to go into marketing, do i want to create commercials? do i want to be mayor? do i want to work for the city? i want this to be normal opportunities that people -- young people in this city look forward, so we have to open the

door. we have to make sure no young kid is left behind. it has to be something that we make mandatory in san francisco, so that's why one of the -- this is drk-i'm so excited, i don't know what to do right now. but we have about 5,000 slots now for paid opportunities for young people in san francisco, and today, we're announcing that we're increasing that to 8,000. we're adding another 3,000 slots. [applause] we have still a long way to go because in our high schools in san francisco, we have about 16,000 high school students, and i want to make sure as soon as a high school student hits 9th grade, that they have an opportunity for a paid internship from 9th grade all the way to 12th grade. that's what this program is about. [applause] >> the hon. london breed:

opportunities for all means that we leave no kid behind. and here's the thing. 1,000 of those slots will go to some of our most challenging kids to work with. as sheryl davis and i, who worked in this community with some of those young people, we know what it is -- oh, we got some of them here today. you know, sometimes -- and let me just be clear, not everyone has a mom and a dad at home. not everyone has even a support network at home. i was really, really lucky. even though my grandmother was older, she didn't still mess around, but so many young people when they would come into the african american art and culture complex, they didn't even have lunch at school. they didn't have access to things. they didn't have that support system, somebody telling them they could be anything they wanted to be. if i can come out of o.c.

projects, out of control projects, live there over 20 years of my life in some of the most challenging of circumstances, and no one came to my neighborhood. if i can come out of that and be mayor of san francisco, these kids in this city can do anything they want to do. [applaus [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so i am putting companies on notice because this is not just the city, this is not just going to be just the department of children, youth, and families and the mayor and ucoming up wih funding, these are going to be making sure that all cities in san francisco provide financial support, provide slots for our kids, they have to open the doors, the doors to opportunity. everyone has a plan of what they think should be done, and i'm putting down -- i'm putting down the -- the plan that i am

pushing forward today that i know effectively can work if the doors are open. and so sheryl davis who is the director of the human rights commission here in san francisco who i -- again, we worked with young people in this community for many, many years, and i'm really proud of the work that we've done. because now, those young people appreciate us, they appreciate the work that we did, but it was really about making sure that when they became adults that they were living good, productive lives where they can take care of themselves and hopefully eventually give back and support others and lift others up in the community. that's how we are going to change the normal. that's how we are going to make a difference. that's how we are going to make sure that we are going to more college graduations than funerals. that's how we are really going

to make san francisco a better place. you know, yesterday, i was down in the tenderloin, talking to some folks down there, and i ran into a lot of people who i've -- i've known for so many years when i was a kid -- friends, friends moms, and other people who are struggling, and i don't want that to happen to the next generations of san franciscans, young people growing up in this city. so i am committed today to adding these opportunities so that no child is left behind. and i am looking forward to the work that i know we all are going to do together to make sure that every hol studeigh sc student in san francisco has a paid internship. that is the start of this program today, and i am so excited in partnering with so many people to make this possible. lastly -- i can go on and on, as

you know. politicians. i just remember when i was fortunate enough at age 14, which wasn't that long ago, when i was fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to work and to get a paid internship opportunity, i remember so many people who i worked with that didn't have that same opportunity. i was lucky, i was glad to get a slot. so we want to do summer, but the reason why i felt empowered is because the place that i worked, the family school, they really liked me, and they decided to keep me year-round, and they got -- they figured out a way to help get it paid for. so yes, ultimately, we want summer internship opportunities, and we want to support young people with these opportunities, but we want to make sure that year-round opportunities exist. we want to continue to work with our school district and shamman

walton, who's with the school district is here today. i want to make sure there's a way to work with our school districts so young people get credit for these opportunities, as well. i want to continue working with city college to kids get college credit in high school. again, this is about providing opportunity, changing what is normal because if we don't start now, if we don't start working and fighting for young people now, then we only have ourselves to blame when they don't succeed, and that's what today is about. so i have everybody here. a lot of great people to talk. the workforce -- economic and workforce development director, joaquin torres is here. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: the department of children, youth, and families director is here, maria sue is here, and the guy that's going to make sure that

everybody in the city, grownups and kids get jobs, is josh arce. so today is an exciting day in san francisco. it is really a dream come true, and i can't wait until we turn no child away from an opportunity to work, to learn, to grow, and to be successful in the city and county of san francisco. with that, i'd like to introduce sheryl davis to talk a little bit about what we plan to do as it relates to this program. [applause] >> first, i'm just going to ask everybody to give another round of applause for mayor breed. [applause] >> i will say the work that i do and i've done in community, i blame it all on mayor breed because every time she comes up with an idea, she's like we've got to do this, and she means we, like let's do it together.

and when she said she wanted to do opportunities for all, when she said she want toded to do a this life, i asked him if she remembered that one summer years ago when channel, anjenette and four other young people -- she hobled together this group of young people, and she said, we've really got to make opportunities for them. channel went to san jose state. anjenett has be anjenette has been toiling and working in the community, and now she's working in the community. mayor breed is scaling that working in community to make sure it's not just that same group of kids, but that everybody has access and an opportunity. part of what i'm going to do

first is the call to action. there are young people in here right now. we need to have a better understanding of what you need and where the gaps are and what kind of experience that you've had. we're going to be surveying and asking people to step up and to apply and to form that. two, the chamber is represents -- i know laura and graeg here -- we're trying to ask businesses to actually commit to doing all the different things, whether you take somebody at the entry level who's never had a job, who maybe doesn't have the best attitude, but you give them space to work in there, but at the same time, we're asking you to put people on your payroll and give them a job. but that's one thing, if you can't do that, you can give money. you can pay for someone to work, and then, we really need or service providers to make sure we're getting young people ready, and if they're not ready to go to google or to go to a

law firm, or google, that we're creating safe places in the community, a network, where they can get a job, they can get a check. we need to be able to say san francisco wants to hire young people. let's get them ready. so everybody here, there's something for you to do after. just to speak to how this really works, and how beyond just doing it for a summer, i want to invite up the best example of this work. dethon jon deanthony jones is going to come up and talk about this. >> thank you, cheryl. i just want to say really quickly, i just want to thank you, mayor, for for leadership

in this process. i, too, had my first paycheck signed by jeff maury, and what i'd like to say is i now run that organization. the mayor knows that for many, many years now, i have implored this city to provide the opportunities that our young people deserve, and the very sad reality is that over the years, we've had to turn away thousands of deserving young people for the opportunities that could change their lives. so i just want to say thank you. we're looking forward to working with everybody in this room, everybody up here to make this happen, and we want to make sure that all the young people who need and want and deserve opportunities get them. thank you very much, mayor. [applause] >> well, first off, i'm definitely honored and blessed to be up here with the mayor and

with sheryl davis, one of my mentors, just to tell you a little bit about myself, i was born and raised in the western addition, in public how's. just having access to opportunities all my life and take them has helped me get to where i am right now, and i'm proud and honored to say that the mayor had put me on her team in august of this year. [applause] >> but it started as a seed. it took being exposed to progra programs and having opportunities in the community. when i was in my early years of

college and then being a youth commissioner of this district, as well, all of those opportunities culminated into this, and i'm just scared often where else i could be headed in my future, but that's neither here nor there. it took opportunity being opened up, doors to be opened for me to walk-through and to get cultivated by mentorship, cultivated by experience and cultivated by the stories of those around me. for me, it's an honor to serve because i understand the value of opportunity, and it is my mission in life to help other youth find those opportunities, as well, so i plan to make that my opportunity just as the mayor was a young mayor in the western addition -- she still is. and you know, for me, it's just

important to see other youth to get those opportunities. i was breslessed to be working h them, and i'm still working with them now. one of them is a woman beside me, who has a brite future, as well. >> hello. my name is keyare 2k5desuer. i had finished 8th grade and got a paid internship. c.s.f. has many cohorts. and i was in the community cohort which allowed me and my peers to learn about mental health and how it plays an important role. c.s.i. is important because it

helps me and my community with regard to mental health issues. we got to go to mental health clinics, and homeless shelters. i think all kids deserve in opportunity, and all of -- all over the world, they should be able to get this opportunity because i know many places, they aren't allowed to get them. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so our final speaker is going to come up. i think deanthony and kiara highlight the beginning of this journey and what it can do when it's done well. i wanted to just bring up morgan. one of the things that mayor breed has been doing all along the spectrum is she was creating programs and supporting young people here, and when she became supervisor, she continued to advocate for that. i know maria can attest to

funding and making sure it gets to the folks that are often forgeten. the program that kiara talked about is modelled after what mayor breed did here. but morgan is up next, and i think her story and where she's going is just amazing. >> my name is morgan tucker. i work at collective impact. four years ago, i was leading a group of young ladies from different communities throughout san francisco, and we actually worked on a project partnering with the san francisco police department. very challenging. very challenging, but it created an opportunity for them to actually build relationships with the police department which was a great opportunity, and now i can say that a lot of those young women actually have relationships with officers. mayor breed was also -- she was very support him throughout the whole entire process.

i was actually able to meet her then, back in 2015, for the first time. we as the interns knew she was fighting for funding that helped youth get experience in programs in these jobs. after the first summer, i decided to become a police cadet. one, i made the decision because they were paying youth who were still in college to actually just support as police officers -- well, support these police officers, i was also hired as the coordinator for the c.s.i. program, which was a big role, but i was prepared for it. i had a lot of help, and i've actually been coordinating up until this past summer. my next role that i'm actually planning to take is interning the police department. [applause] >> but thank you to the continued support of not only miss davis, miss breed -- mayor breed.

i'm actually going to be entering hopefully by the end of this year. so thanks a lot to the c.s.i. program for giving me these opportunities, and i can see a lot of the youth participate in the c.s.i. program. again, kiara was part of one cohort. there are many different cohorts, it's a multitide of different cohorts. the program offers a lot of different opportunities to a lot of different career fields, just expose the youth to different ideas, which is really good, they can get exposure you are to a lot of different entities, which is why i'm doing right now. they also have a great retirement. so thank you again for you guys's time, and i thank you again, mayor breed. >> so again, there is some

information here. dcyf is going to begin convening some of our service provider. i know eric rice is here from the school district. we're going to be working with commissioner walton and the district to think about how to be more intentional around this work, and that we want to have more opportunities for all young people, and we're really grateful that folks showed up here today, but the next thing is to actually make it happen. mayor breed has the vision, and she definitely has the will, but we need to get on board with that. hopefully this is inspiring everyone to engage and participate. i just want to say i did tell somebody that was going to happen, and they -- i won't call them out, but they know who they are. ye yeah. >> the hon. london breed: and i'll just end it -- i know it's hot in here. illy skbrust end it by saying thank you for your dedication. i look out in the audience and i see so many people who are

engaged in helping support community, helping in support young people, and it really does take a village, because believe it or not, i was a handful. i know you don't believe that, but i was a handful, and my teachers never gave up on me, my grandmother never gave up on me. people in this community didn't give up on me, and we are not going to give up on our young people, and it's going to take all of us to be actively engaged if we are going to change their lives and their future. i'm committed as your mayor to do just that. all of the people standing here are committed, so it is time to change the future of san francisco and it starts with the young people in this city. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause]

bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing

insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. >> my name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to $10,000 a most. >> and chad of the arts project pursue. >> the evolution of the orientation the focus on art education between children and patrol officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space

for the program that we run. >> i'm the nonprofit manager for the mayor's office of economic workforce development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute technical assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. >> snooechlz is rob the executive director and co-founder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of san francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know they'll not renew our lease the last year's the city with the nonprofit displacement litigation program held over 75

nonprofits financial sanction and technical assistance. >> fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around $40,000 a year now $87,000 taylor's dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota street project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a nonprofit organization national anthem and turned out the northern california fund they accepted us into the real estate program to see if we could withstand the

stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is

a $946,000 grant that is provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern california platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property we're sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years we'll renting $10,000

square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. >> the loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the

sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. >> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit

mitigation program and the sustainability initiative and find their information through technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the [ gavel ].

>> all right. everybody welcome to our land use and transport committee meeting october 15, 2018. my name is katey tang, and i am the chair of this committee. to my left is supervisor ahsha safai, and i believe supervisor fewer is on her