come first. we have to matter. we matter to us and we should matter. if they can come up with a better way like the shipyard. the shipyard was cleaned but it turned out not to be clean. we knew that in the beginning. you can't leave all the chemicals in the ground and take off the top dirt and say it's clean. it doesn't work like that. i didn't know nothing about this i didn't care but now i know something i care about the lives being lost in bay view hunter's point. >> i don't appreciate what's going on either and i'm trying

to stop this. thank you. >> my name is pokey and i'm a bay view resident. my parents and i grew up and never knew nothing about my dad is or long shoreman but didn't know what was going on back then. from my fathers and me, we used to hop fences, go and we never paid attention or whatever. my thing is this is health. we need -- we have a sewage dump over there and we have what's going on what we're seeing out here. it's not about building. because like this man said there's plenty of jobs for everyone. if we can get along and try to get this going on with our health situation because it's hard to get medication as well.

please work with us. >> i have a daughter and she's 12 years old and i'm afraid the leaders right now are not thinking about the future. they're just thinking about right now. so please think about mother earth, the environment, everything we do now deeply affects the health, mental, physical, spiritual of everyone, the animals, the sea levels. everything we do affects something or someone else. so your decision today will matter. please, think deeply about green lighting all of these corporate actions and it's not trickling down to the people who really need it. there's a homeless population, high cancer rate, diabetes, we

need to open up health and wellness centers not expensive 14-level corporate offices. please, take in consideration the heartbeat of third street and the families that need to survive and don't move them out. we do not need gentrification. we need unification. >> next speaker please. >> i'm with green action for health and environmental justice. i'm going talk about air and i'm here to talk about life and i'm here to talk about a mixed development project that sits in bay view hunters point when developed that sits in a community that is already burdened by pollution. it is a care community. you can look it up.

in the 90% to 98%. when we talk about the impact of air and life, if you can't breathe you die. there is not one person that i have not spoken to in the community of bay view hunter's point which includes in the basin that does not know someone who has asthma or has died from asthma and i have been to a funeral of a 10-year-old who died from asthma. it's not just a decision. we need to think about life and the environment. i have spoken on this project more than once and a have witnessed the decision that has been made between beautiful views and the life of a community that constantly gets impacted by these decisions. and yet, here we are. the same decision making and what have we improved in our

decision? and when has the quality management control ever said no? i want to know that. i don't want to go to another funeral for a community member who does not deserve to die. thank you. >> i'm here to speak for my friends that have already spoken and have been working with green action for a year and a half. about a year ago we had a resident by the name of lisa who used to come to all the events an was in the community and came out and sported and came out against the environmental use in bay hunters point and she stopped showing up and i asked

my colleagues, what's going on with ms. lisa. the response i was given was a hand wave to the sky. look around you, what do you think happened to her. of course i know. we all the. the pollution, the issues. so there's a u.c. santa cruz study that talked about the residents of bay view hunters point live less. how are you going support us? thank you. >> before we go into other dispute i want to caution you you're liable criminally by causing wrongful death and the dumping of hazardous materials. the explosion that took place

that caused the radio active material ta took place in the shipyard in an area that's predominantly black. one of the ships in the sea had to be towed to the docks and you can see it's annihilated and the sailors themselves put keep clear danger, very radio active materials. here's one of the buildings where radio activity and laboratories were taken place at the hunters point shipyard and here's a proposal in an area of blue and you propose equal opportunity and housing. here's further review of that area enlisted in red and each and every one of those areas is contaminated with radio active material. is that clear? i want to be sure you're clear on that because when you get reports you won't be able to say you don't know nothing about it. these are buildings that are in red that are full of radio active material and you want to

jeopardize people -- and it's not only black people who you've already annihilated and fixed the income for the majority of white people will be living in the building and they'll start dying off like black people. you got that? i want you to be clear because i'm speaking up for all nationalities and this report demonstrates all the tests that were done out there is contaminated. is that clear? here's another building, 253 that was also involved in that radio active material. so for you to get up here and say that area is safe to build is an insult to my intelligence and everybody here and demonstrates the people are not dealing in good faith and you never had intentions on reaching a legal agreement on this matter. >> thank you for your comment.

>> my name is derek morris. i'm working at the city college. what i find is that every issue some many people don't like it and if you do what many people don't want you to do nothing. now, i've had free education and somebody has to pay for it and it seems the city or the state or country is trying to get money to take care of business. i leave that up to you. do i what i got to do and try to do something else. take care of my business. gentrification in my view seems to be illegal. these individuals deappreciate the building over time and that's one time in the books and it's valued zero but with the

depreciation they have trips and all that. now they come and spend money and the building wants to charge it off to the tenants. i think it's wrong. they've already gotten the money before and shouldn't charge anybody because they have to fix the building because in the depreciation scheme they received all the money in advance. the building is zero and fixed up and perhaps the state should say, the depreciation money should go to a fund so when the funds are needed have you the money to you don't have to get people out of the living situations. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, i've worked in green action for a long time. and i think part is we keep

inflating the issues when we think we shouldn't. in some ways i'm surprised it's continued with the drama and the new proposed measures of mitigations it's not clear to me how many are being accepted or actually happened and maybe just one or a couple out of the half

dozen >> i don't have two minutes to list all the toxic sites in bay view. but as long as we consider this project by project, we're condemning the neighborhood to continued pollution and continued degradation even as we grow. so supervisors at some point, when do we say we're going to work on this. when did we say we'll try to clean this up and help people's lives. is it today, is it next week or next month or after someone's term in office? when. for many years it has always been pushed off and at some point we have to be serious about what we're doing to the people at bayview-hunters point. >> my name is julius coleman. i'm a long-time bayview resident and have been in san francisco

for 55 years and my mom died of cancer. i say no to the building and i say no to gentry -- gen -- gentrification. >> >> president cohen: i want to remind people not to clap in the chamber. if you want to support use hands like that. >> i'm jesus flores. i've been coming to the meetings over and over again even land and use committees. this project is not nor the community. this is for the pockets of those to make more money. the air quality measures introduced last week would just fix one mitigation measure the maq1a to reduce the on and off-road usage of vehicles to

renewable energy. you have particle matter with cancer risk and you're introducing high buildings. if you create higher buildings you'll create a significant and hazardous wind to the area. do you think the wind will just stop in the bayview. you don't think it will go to district 9 or other districts around you? it will go all over san francisco. it won't stop there. you guys are here to benefit the lives of the people of this community. you shouldn't get us more sick. you guys should take care of us. you have to remember we're the ones that put you on this board and we can easily take you off of it. you should be taking care of this community. we don't need higher cancer risk in the area. we don't need more respiratory

illnesses. you are here to vote and vote no on this issue because we need to have better lives and better health. please protect the people of the community. the whole e.i.r. should be redone and meet california state standards to be can at a good healthy level because this project is just going to endanger more lives than you're going benefit. thank you. >> i'm a resident of the shipyard and live there with my wife and two children. i'm sharing a picture from the navy and the pink buildings is where the navy has identified

probable nuclear waste and this was not identified as having radiation and it was recently tested and radiation was found. the red area is the plot that's going to be developed which is directly next to an area the navy has identified as having radiation which is a radio active dumping site. there's no border between these two properties. there's a chain link fence. it seems inconceivable given the information we've gotten since the draft e.i.r. nine -- to the fine e.i.r. that this could release radio active particles in the area. i'm not 100% behind how this revision to the e.i.r.'s happening. i don't think it follow city rules. the planning commission has the responsibility for reviewing all mitigations and referring that matter to you recommending it or

not. in this situation, the planning commission has been bypassed with the mitigations an the planning department has come to you to augment the e.i.r. i don't think that follows procedural rules. it should be sent back. all the mitigations should be reviewed by the planning commission. the planning commission should be able to independently recommend them or not and you can approve or reject that recommendation. it's inappropriate to bypass the hearing and notice that is part of the planning commission by bypassing them and having the planning department directly change the e.i.r. at this stage. thank you.

>> i go to ibana for my health. it's the healthiest place in the world in terms of my cardio and respiratory health and i find it it will be ironic it will be impacted by environmental consequences. secondly, as a long-time resident of san francisco and someone who comes from a background of privilege, this community is not a privileged community and about to be impacted by a project which is furthering many corporate interests and has a massive budget. it's appalling to have environmental impacts at the last minute and not go through proper process. i feel this say -- is a chance for the supervisors to make sure the community residents if they don't get help to improve the project at least make sure they don't suffer. thank you.

>> i'm from golden gate university school of law. supervisors, this process stinks and you know it and planning knows it and everybody knows it. we get mitigations. we get them all completely written on october 10. today is october 16th. six days. the planning department has had two weeks to study this. when has the planning department studied anything in two weeks. they've done a completely inadequate job and i think everybody knows it. now, i'm a ceqa lawyer. when you violate ceqa rules, there are consequences. i suggest to you i don't have

the chutzpah to give you legal advice but i suggest to you you should think about whether you want to violate the rules of ceqa and suffer the consequences or do the right thing and let them study the mitigations and, by the way, the planning department missed all the mitigations for a year? a year and a half? two years? how do we know there are not additional mitigations? they have looked at this less than a month. maybe two, three weeks. they haven't had time to analyze. you cannot rely on what they are saying because they haven't investigated. you cannot rely on what planning is saying because they have not investigated.

do yourselves a favor and do it right. >> dear supervisors, my name is james faye. i've lived in the bayview two years and in my alarm i said everyone is a liar. i have three points. one, one newspaper said the land in hunter's point was sold to the navy by the city of san francisco for one dollar and then sold to the insider and this mean the insider or menar is responsible for the cleanup of the land. and nancy pelosi claims the land is still owned by the navy and therefore the navy is responsible for the cleanup. three, over $1 billion of federal money was fraudulently wasted on the cleanup as records

were faked and radio active land was hauled to various locations around the bay. two people are going to jail. i'd like to pose a direct question, who owns this land? if the u.s. government sold the land to the city of san francisco and san francisco sold it to lenar on an insider deal why is government money being spent on cleanup? it would help to have transparency on the issue. please tell us who owns the land they're proposing to develop? it is the city of san francisco, the navy or who is responsible for the cleanup of the land. if you don't know who owns the land especially not an insider, why are you allowing the rezoning? if radio active material is found on land, who is

responsible for the cleanup? please respond. thank you very much. >> tom gilberti. we're having the kavanaugh revisited. something stinks and we just need to get it through. how many of you are taken dollars, campaign contributions in deciding this issue? that doesn't sound kosher. i second everybody that was ahead of me. dust travels where ever -- everywhere. radio active cleanup. if you want to buy a house, this used to be radio active.

thank you. >> what is the rush here since we know as time goes forward in our culture and our society we get better and better technical improvements. our engineering gets better and our response to illness and pathology gets better. we get better responses so what's the rush? >> are there aany other -- >> are there any other members that would like it speak? seeing none, public comment's closed. i'll turn to the planning department at this time. >> good afternoon president cohen, members of the board. i'm lisa gibson on behalf of the planning department. i'd like to start acknowledging

the community they're concerned about the effect of the environment and the neighborhood has been impacted by air pollution and designated as a care community and the district has worked with president cohen and the board to pass legislation that reduces some of the main sources of air pollution. it's been a vital technical partner including legislation reducing the number of cars to and from new development and requiring cleaner construction equipment. year exploring and researching other measures through a comprehensive risk reduction plan and we'll have community outreach as part of the effort starting in 2019. today, the question is whether we have done our job in the e.i.r. by disclosing impacts an mitigating them as best as we can. given the air burden in the

past, we used more health protective significance criteria than guidance to assist impact. the e.i.r. identified insignificant and unavoidable impacts and six mitigation efforts. our memo to the board explained should the board uphold the e.i.r. and concede consideration of whether to approve the project it could incorporaty -- incorporate a recommendation to use reusable diesel to measures maq1 and 1e. and the other four air district recommendations would be redone dan -- redundant for reasons in

the therein. my staff and i are available to answer questions. >> president cohen: colleagues, do you have question for planning? all right. next we'll hear from a representative from the bay area air quality management district. welcome. >> good afternoon, mad madame president. i'm a deputy air pollution control officer for the air management district. two weeks ago we expressed concern about the mixed-use project localized air quality impact. today i'm here to thank city staff for working with the air district to address our concerns. as stated in our october 10 letter, with minor adjustments we believe the e.i.r. reduce the localized impact as much as feasible. the air district supports mixed use to reduce vehicle trips and emissions. the air district is also

concerned about localized air pollutant exposure and identified bayview-hunters point under our health protection program because this area experiences disproportionate negative health impacts, increased vulnerability and exposure to air pollution. new sources of air pollution in a community like this is always a concern. the air district's role when reviewing land use development projects such as this is an advisory third-party expert and we applaud the work to protect venerable communities through the risk reduction plan under health code article 38, the construction dust control ordinance and others compared to other districts in the bay area and the country, san francisco say -- is a leader in health protection measures. there's a range of mitigation measures and within this context

of the conservative analysis and aggressive city health control programs we believe the project is sufficiently health protective. the district enjoys working with city staff and we continue to meet with city staff to improve our relationship and we'll soon collaborate with cities and others on an emission plan for bayview-hunters point. thank you. >> >> president cohen: thank you. at this time i'd like to invite up ms. mary murphy or the project sponsor. >> i'm not mary murphy though i'll try to be. madame president, i'm with build inc. a local developer. as you heard our last meeting, there were issues on the air quality mitigation ambassador.

i want to assure that you we will do whatever we can to minimize the impact the project has on air quality in the basin and surrounding neighborhoods. there are local regulations such as the dust control program administered by the wbh and d.b.w. requiring us to minimize dust and adhere to a minimization plan to reduce emissions during construction and once occupied the project must comply with the transportation management demand to reduce sole yo dorn solo car trips and builds infrastructure such as the dedicated class 1 bike lane through the project and signalized coordinated intersections to reduce traffic around the site. furthermore, building housing in close proximity reduces the main

source of pollution in san francisco automobile traffic. and there's a comprehensive sustainability plan for on-site battery storage and net zero public realm and leading-edge healthy building materials. stated in the october 10 lert the ceqa air quality analysis for the project was rigorous and highly protective of human health. i urge you to reject the appeal and approve our development agreement. thank you. madame president. all right. ladies and gentlemen, now it's time for public comment. if you'd like to speak in support of the environmental impact report come on up. you'll have two minutes to speak. welcome. >> my name is cathy per? perim

it it provides what our neighborhood needs in terms of housing. i know people want to focus on the air quality and it's very important but it does provide a lot of amenities as well like a grocery store, i think i made a list of thing it has. a grocery store, restaurant, gym, on-site childcare and what i think does speak to the air quality issue is an 11-acre park with lots of trees. you can have a park and i've spoken before saying i appreciate the beach but in light of the discussion today, i also appreciate all the trees they'll be put park. the class 1 bikeway is also a way to mitigate the toxins in the area. we have in the city bike to workday. we know transportation does mitigate some of the pollution. the project also creates what i call an affordable ladder in that the housing that they are offering to people targets

different income levels. that means if my children who happen to live in our three-generational household want to find a place to move out it will speak to them. we're not living in what they call a deeply sub sidized project. we're not intersection 8 but still in single-family housing and many community people do need to access some of this housing. they'll do transportation management by having signs telling you real-time when busses come by, i'm saying busses but that's not the wording they use. so when you're trying to go somewhere [bell ring]

>> president cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon madame president, cory smith on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition. the accolades of the project speak for themselves and a large amount of housing affordable creating housing stability for a number of folks. we've come to talk about this endlessly. on the specific aspect of air quality, it's been stated it does really need to be emphasized, the number one threat on a macro level to our plan et is global warning and the number one contributor in california is individual car use. when we don't build house close to transit it pushes the population density out. they're growing in sacramento, modesto and up and down the

central valley corridor and they continue to commute because we have jobs. so when the cars get on the road and driving two hours to work and from work that's destroying our planet. i know people want to look at it through a lens but the best thing we could do is approve the project and every other project in our city next to our jobs going forward. it's really the only way we can manage on our level as a city our climate goals. thank you madame president for your work on this and i know you care about the environment and i think approving the project is the best thing we can do for mother earth. thank you. >> >> president cohen: thank you, next speaker. >> i'm dwayne and a native and resident of san francisco. i've been in bayview my whole life since 1964.

my dad died of cancer. my mom died of cancer. reality is it's going to take billions and billions of dollars to clean that up. we'll probably be all gone. i think we should have something there for us. we need that. we have something there. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm jill fox. i've lived in ennis avenue across from this project for 26 years. i raised a family there. we're going to suffer during construction like every other construction project that's ever happened in the history of human

kind. but our long-term gains here, please, let's think of the long-term gains. we'll have house and a village where i don't have to drive four and a half miles to a super market and can buy food in my neighborhood. it will help with air pollution. when i can ride a bike downtown on a safe and scenic class 1 bike lane, that will mitigate air pollution in the long term. when we have more neighbors and more services, that will mitigate air pollution and importantly for the entire city. we are going to have the most beautiful park on the east side of town. we're going have a chrissy field of the south and we need that for our entire community. bayview, in the basin, the

entire city of san francisco will benefit from the new park that's going in as part of this project. i urge you to vote yes. thank you. >> i'm ron wilson the director of ennis family. i have three children in college and they're doing well for themselves through being outside. we don't have ailments. let's do something now. get your kids outside. let's do some things root now. currently we're doing that. we're having people getting outside. we don't want you in the house. start doing things supporting your families. and it helps with employment. those are the thing we have to start thinking about. thank you.

>> i'm also with bayview point family. we're willing to partner with park and recs now to get the project done. as ron said it would be great employment opportunities and create a safe and clean place for children in our community to play. similar to what we did over at helen diller playground. similar to what we're doing at park and recs and we're there with our boots on the ground. keeping the area clean and safe for everybody who wants to enjoy it. i'm with the initiative now to get this project started so we can see what we all can do together as a collective.

>> president cohen: please speak up. >> the area was in a state of crisis. this area was inundated with drug addiction, drug dealing. people used the area as a public restroom. it stank like most of san francisco. over the past year, we've cleaned the area up with the help of rec and park and san francisco p.d. we made it a nice environment people can enjoy, that kids can come down and play in the grass where once they were afraid to because of stepping on needles. women come down here and walk around and once they were afraid to. india basin is also in a state of crisis. it's an unmanaged property people are misusing.

moving forward the project would bring the land out of the state of crisis it's in and make it useful for the community to enjoy and would benefit the whole community. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello. i'm erica scott and i work with the renaissance entrepreneur and i'm a current resident in the bayview and always speak on behalf of families who are in need of more support and i'm supporting the project for a grocery support and childcare and everyday needs for families

where less driving and reducing of traffic congestion is a consideration. there's also the development and encouraging development in cities bringing a high concentration of jobs. the housing ratio into balance and fewer, shorter vehicle trips. there's the alternative transportation infrastructure that includes bicycling, walking and the discouragement of private use of automobiles in excess. building a class 1 bike lane to connect india basin with the bicycle network closing a gap for a continuous bicycle facility from candle stick point and shipyard to the water front and downtown san francisco. loading is a consideration. the build will have electrified loading docks and a dwell time

to reduce trucks entering. so the benefits of this project as a renaissance representative, we're supportive. >> president cohen: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is deborah tutson and i'm a volunteer with the april of randolph institute. it's helped with a lot of different events that have occurred in the bayview area pg&e plant removal and several other thing. there have been jobs offered in the bayview. there's housing in the bayview. there needs to be more. everyone has equal opportunities though i'm not a resident, i'm a strong supporter of the bayview area. they have been messed over, skipped over, jumped over.

all these other neighborhoods are having all types of renaissance of modernizing and the bayview gets dumped on. stop it. make them have the facilities an the needs they have, grocery stores, cars, places for the children to grow up. grocery stores, a park to play in. just something for them, education, benefits, tutoring, you name it. they need it. i have an aunt that passed away from cancer. she grew up and lived there for over 50 years and died of cancer on ennis. help these people. they need it just like all other communities in the city need it. your developing chinatown. develop bayview.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is michael james abercrombie. i want to talk about a solution. i grew up with asthma and i was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. the children who are susceptible need to be able to get out and get to work and play. it's possible to grow out of it. i did. interacting with the communities and teaching youth how to stand up for safe and fair housing and to have pride and respect for the neighborhood. with respect for themselves. they can grow up to be people of the neighborhood. that's what i think they need. that's a slougs to t-- solution the problem and what you can do for that would be appreciate. thank you.

>> president cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is joyce armstrong, i'm the proud president of the public housing association. i have with me the secretary for phta and the treasurer for phta. we have five developments under our jurisdiction umbrella. vernal dwellings, where i live, paterno annex and plaza east and firmingdale. we also have hunters view, valencia garden and -- my nephew

has asthma and lives on top of hunters point so i'm not coming here not feeling what others are feeling but he's working and graduated and is in school and so far so good. i have asthma and i live in paterno hill. no matter where you live, you can get asthma and wherever we breathe there's going to be some pollution. of course, we want to see it cleaned up as much as possible but we need this india basin to happen. we need grocery stores. you should see what we have to go through to get to a decent grocery store. we need the parks.

we need jobs and not just construction jobs. we're excited. do i like the height of the building? no, but if it's legal, i'm just going to have to be with it. with these developments we have almost 3,000 residents that we serve [bell ring] . >> president cohen: thank you. >> i'm jackie flin the executive director of the a. phillip institute. a couple weeks ago we heard someone describe bayview as a place of peace and safe haven. i hope for peace one day. for all the residents that live

there today but just last night with many of my community members i resourced a text about a shoot at third and thomas. a young man was injured so i hope one day we can call bayview our safe haven too. i'm here because our community needed leadership. someone who works well with people and would listen to community concerns and respond to their needs. someone who will inspire our youth to lead. a.p.r.i. is without a doubt an anchor in our community. i'm here because it's disheartening to hear from folks who want a better community but aren't interested in driving economic opportunity for businesses and our youth. you guys are all right. we cannot refuse to acknowledge young people are living and dying in your neighborhood due to sheer neglect. this parcel is vacant because of years of neglect. there are no jobs on the parcel or housing because of sheer neglect. prior to build offerings to

clean these offerings there was no plan to remediate the location. we asked community members to volunteer dozens of their personal hours participating on this project motorcro-- many had me today and have come from civic center and schools with peers to let everybody here know that in a world where climate change is happening now, they shouldn't have to wait 30 more years for a brown filled site to be cleaned. i know i'm getting the looks over there but i would have to say that i just want to make sure that we have a peaceful sanctuary too. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your present. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is chester meadows owner of green meadows janitorial

service here to speak on the project. i lost my son-in-law and friends have lost their sons in the last couple years over gun violence. that relate to lack of opportunities. people are concerned about the environment but what about the environment of all the violence going on in the neighborhood and lack of opportunities? i want you to strongly look at what's going on here. we have to change thing around. mr. lou vazquez, when i was 18, he embraced me and mentored me and that's why i'm here today to have a successful business and walk in a positive light because what he taught me to always do things right. you look at somebody and many people stand for what's right. i'd like to thank them for the

support they'd given me and that's what i can do to support them and create more opportunities for the community. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm a bayview resident and been there most my life. as someone who documents a lot of what's happening in bayview, despite the safety issues we're still dealing with, it's a buzzing neighborhood. there's a lot going on with businesses an all kinds of neighborhood activities. i feel like i'm seeing a lot of my elders finally come out of their homes who are been hanging out and not doing thing so a lot's happening. i feel what we're dealing with in the community is rough. we have a rough history but we deserve a quality of life that's wonderful like everywhere else

we see in san francisco. i hope you all consider supporting the project. i think it would be good for us. >> president cohen: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> madame president and supervisors, it's important to remain in dialogue surrounding environmental justice and remediation. historically many thing have impact the bayview hunters point community. the build has explicitly including various design methods to protecting the community from toxic and detrimental impact seeking to remain vigilant on the key issue. additionally, as a member for bay.org for conservation and community programs in close proximity to the india basin

project, my discussions have revealed synergies. there's areas which align well in consideration of air quality matters. relative to sustainable design, the project has a robust set of sustainability goals such as capturing solar energy into a semi-independent micro grid for park lighting and the goal of creating a net-zero public realm and deploying specific district sustainability design. additional design elements contributing to the environmental health and the proposed community include greening and a lush green 11-acre park who's foliage will help co2 offset. i express my support and

anticipate a future of the community that will learn how to adopt more environmentally conscious lifestyles promoting the health of the community and benefit from the conscientious vision set forth by build. >> greetings to the board of the supervisor. i'm lay na miller the founder and executive director of the hunters point family. i'm here to express my support of the project. the hunters point family has been actively involved in trying to remediate and heal the environment the last 20 years we've been there. we've been historically known for our youth development program and environmental programs. we had many community gardens and board president malia cohen was at the opening of our gardeners market a few weekends ago. another very important program that we have is our e.p.a.

funded workforce development program where we train young people in the community primarily public housing and we give them five certifications or six certifications an they go not union, hazmat, osha 10 and every year we have received this grant three times in a row and the last two times we came in number one in the nation, our pro-poefl w-- proposal was rate and we placed 20 folks all in union jobs where they're making an average of like $26 an hour and we're partnering with rec and park to do this work. what i have here with the program is an example of some place where it's working. and through that we want to create jobs for our people and we hope you will continue to reinvest in the community and allow us to create a better

environment for our youth and families. thank you very much. >> president cohen: thank you for your comment. >> madame president, i'm senior pastor in the church here and part of a development group representing [indiscernible]. the indian basin development, i decided to instead of getting the document that identifies the contributions that will be made to the indian basin area and i was excited when i saw bayview. i've been a pos for in that

neighborhood -- pastor in that neighborhood. because of time, the indian basin project is a little more than 38 acres. and participated in 80 meetings with stakeholders in the community. 22 public workshops to inform the 1,175 units will be 25% low and affordable units. the material pointed out approximately 500 jobs will be afforded so i really employ supervisors to approve the project today. thanks very much. >> president cohen: thank you.

>> tim paulson, supervisors an madame president, thank you. i'm here for a different reason but didn't realize the environmental impact report was still under appeal and felt obliged to come to the microphone and say some words and it's an honor to follow reverend walker an icon in the neighborhood, but the fact that this is on the eastern side of town such an important area of town we've been develop from at&t park to hunters point and there's so many different issues over the years i want to reiterate we're hoping this project moves forward.

as you know at one of our previous meetings the building trades council has signed an agreement with the build inc. to make sure there are going to be good jobs in the area with apprentice ship programs and pensions and what have you so the building trades council will continue to be partners with build inc. i think that's very important. i feel like we had to come and say a few words since we were here. that being said, thank you for hearing this and we really hope that we move forward. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is michael hammond. i'm a long-time resident of india basin. i'd like to preface my remarks today by urge you to compare the negative air quality impacts of this project with those of the