>> this city is part of the state of california. speak out. the city's crying. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> as a sports fan, the most

difficult thing for me to root for is when my favorite team is led by ownership that is blatantly racist and greedy. but when my favorite city cosigns these acts of greed and racism, i see a classless act of governance. last week, an arbitration judge ruled the golden state warriors must pay oakland the $40 million they owe oracle in bond debt. warriors sued oakland and alameda to avoid paying the debt in a ridiculous technicality. just because they felt they were leaving they didn't need to pay their bill. when i wrote proposition i, i

had this in mind, this lame excuse in mind. the measure stated that san francisco would stand opposed to all professional sports teams owners who tried to avoid paying public debt. 98,000 san franciscans and an arbitration judge agreed with me. but 131,000 san franciscans, including every member of this board, disagreed with me. what did they say? it is okay to dine and dash, as long as we get the warriors to come back to the city we sent them from. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker.

>> good evening, supervisors. mayor breed has announced that she is addressing the problem of homeless young adults and internships for these young adults. rapid rehousing is the model currently under study for the housing and internships with young adults that are forth coming. one of the keys to this action being successful jobs. having accessibility living wage jobs assures that the mayor's ideas will have a chance of being successful because they have choices. make them shine is a social enterprise with a green bottom line. we are a green certified lead finish floor company, and he with put the shine back into floors and lives. all of our surfaces and products are green, and i've been -- [inaudible] >> -- that all buildings in san francisco aspire to, an environmentally clean building. our platform allows nonprofits

that have job metrics placements in them the ability to connect with us and help fulfill our hiring goals of 300 people in our first quarter. the training and orientation period for this job is ten days, and that vetting will be done for san francisco residents only. we will be paying a living wage at $20 an hour with full dental and medical and assistance with child care for single parents and incentive based pay raises. any way, my reasons for being here in this chambers is to connect with the nonprofits in their districts that can meet up with us to meet our job goals and for the nonprofits to meet goals with their clients. i am particularly interested in working with people of disabilities because our ease of application allows us to offer jobs of that community of people

and other disen frfranchized an marginalized and people of color. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> all right. so the deal is, this homeless hate has just got to be recognized. i'm telling you that the language that's out there in the paper, it's like homeless people and all the homeless people, in other words, leave trash. all the homeless people make messes. and now they are starting to criminalizing and decivilizing mentally ill people that have drug and alcohol problems that are homeless, but not the ones that live in houses. gays have a lot of alcohol issues, a lot of mental health issues, housing issues, should we force them to get help?

no, just the homeless. i'm contacting all these world organizations. maybe they'll care. maybe i'll start my own organization, or maybe god is going to care. i'm cleaning twin peaks, still, and people are pigging backing off of me. i don't get enough to eat, and i'm poor. the tour company doesn't pay a penny, you don't pay a penny. i'm picking up the trash, i'm going hungry. i've restored tourism before. tourists wouldn't come here because the city was filthy. it wasn't the homeless people, the city didn't clean. i have evidence of this. it's the scapegoating the homeless people, shame, shame, shame. you' you're like picking on a little sissy girl. i want you to pay me what i need because people aren't paying me what i deserve.

my name was been trashed by you. i want a retraction by you. you're going to be sued or something's going to be happening. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. [inaudible] >> i don't have quite the mojo that some of the other speakers have had. i come here to point out that this november 11 is the centennial of the great war, armistice day. the only member of that board who sat in this room who got a congressional medal of honor is

philip katz. further, there are two more members i want to point out. they are memorialized. one was daniel callahan that stood up to the japanese tokyo express in november 1942 at guadalcanal, and the other is richard schoenman who was also on that ship, and he taught at st. ignatius. i would point out that callahan was a graduate of that institution. i would like to wish some supervisors the best of holidays. i know some of you are retiring. i would like to invite you to

the irish pub, drinks, god bless you. >>clerk: thank you for your comment, sir. next speaker. >> hello. my name is nicholas reynald, and i am a conservative jewish man, and i would like a moment of silence for all the jewish folks that were killed this past saturday at shabbat, so can we have a moment of silence, please. thank you. >> thank you, everybody. i also want to publicly acknowledge that i have been a person who has said hateful things in these chambers. i think supervisor peskin said

you can't fight hate speech with hate speech, and today, i acknowledge that that is true, supervisor peskin. i want to apologize to kathy -- katy tang for all the vile, ad hominem attacks that i have perpetrated on her for close to 18 months. i have never intended to hurt or scare or make any board of supervisors or any staff member here ever fearful. i can only say i let myself righteous indignation justify saying disrespectful things, so i respectfully apologize to all the asian community, to the supervisors and to the asian community that was here on other

issues. from the bottom of my heart, i apologize, and i hope that at some point in time you can accept my apology. thank you so much. >>clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker. >> thank you. >>clerk: overhead. >> tim gilberti. an old neighbor of mine. she was born in south beach minimal apartments, and the day she was born, her mother went back in the emergency room,

ambulance, to the hospital. touch and go for a few days. and they're a happy family. a lovely family, and we would have loved to have them stay. but they got a full -- $400 rent increase, and the next year, they got the same. before i could snap another pictures of the baby that was successful, mother and son survived pleasantly, they had to leave. i couldn't even get a photograph. another neighbor, south beach apartments. she was there, living with her daughter, mid50's, worked at ucsf. lived there about six, seven years. they got a $600 rent increase mostly because we could

accommodate an admiral at the america's cup. both of these groups of people just wanted -- would have loved to have been part of our neighborhood. we need to change market rate rents in this city. they need to be come down to where you can live, you can raise a family, and you can die in your place and keep the fabric of the society whole and healthy. it's up to you guys to make some moves. the same is lame. i saw that on a jacket just recently. thank you. >>clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> my demonstrations today is

going to further demonstrate a misappropriations of funds. there's approximately on or about $400,000 spent on a report that was bunk, okay? it was fraud and put together by the department of public works, claiming that the city is in near cleanliness and one of the better cities in the overall united states, okay? the findings cost the department of public works $408,745 with j.b.r. partners which began in 2014 and expires in 2018. these are examples of the streets of san francisco are not up to code. in fact, in 2017, you had a cleanliness score in 2017, the san francisco services had 58,819 complaints about trash across the city. complaints of trash

>>clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you, madam clerk. my name is wynne chip hilliard. as you know, the response to the 9-11 attacks, the patriot act basically gutted the foreign intelligence act of 1978, allowing

9-11, and an average of 40 filings per week after 9-11. this cannot be accounted for by lpsa involuntary commitments through 5150 or related code sections because the san francisco mental health code system did not increase in capacity by a factor of 19 in one month. they can also not be explained by laura's law. laura's law wasn't even passed until 2002, and it didn't go into effect in this city until

2014, which is not even on that graph. these -- these, i believe, are involuntary incompetency to stand trial determinations arranged -- well, i'm out of time. madam clerk. >>clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> i just wanted to say, i've removed several truckloads of weapons from the latino community in a deweaponization attempt under u.n. authorization. there is a new customs and immigration facility in ciudad hidalgo. there were buildings that were 25, 30 years old, so three

months later, they received those buildings. i let the u.s. embassy know there was a glitch in the system. [inaudible] >> i used to know the military patrols that patrol the borders. recently, two individuals lost their lives in unnecessary and preventible deaths while participating in approximate a caravan of illegal immigrants. press reports have stated that bay area press organizations have helped to organize this tragic spectacle, and i believe that one nation can only have one immigration policy, so you guys should try not to encourage law breaking. >>clerk: thank you for your comments.

next speaker. >> madam president, it happened to be the case that there was a killing a few years ago at northern illinois university, and my sister was the head administrator at the hospital there. she had to -- she had to cleanup the mess from that, and myself, you know, i live a couple blocks from the dalt shooting a few years ago. only thing i noticed out of place was a gun man on top of a building a couple blocks away. it was a police officer. i think we're heading into troubled times, and the dismissal of the president and the failure of the federal authorities to do anything about this. you know, it's almost like they're part of the problem. you know, the other thing that was said at this meeting that

struck me was a few years ago, my campaign staff moved up to the little town of bidwell, and we were walking around, and we thought we saw these big fish in the water. and no, bidwell creek is only 2 feet deep. but it turned out it was trout, it turned out it was salmon, chinook salmon, and we went up to a different part of the creek, and we saw more of these fish two and 3 feet long. the interesting thing is the last time we saw them are 30 years ago. some people might say these are disconnected, but i think they are connected. we're heading into hard times, and i think we should think about broad solutions. >>clerk: thank you for your comment. madam president? >> president cohen: thank you very much.

all right. madam clerk, could you read the adoption without -- excuse me? public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, could you please read the adoptions without reference. >>clerk: [agenda item read] >> president cohen: thank you. is there any member that would like to sever an item in supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: sever item 41. >> president cohen: thank you. are there any other colleagues that would like to sever any items? all right. supervisor ronen would like to sever item 41. can we take the remaining items same house, same call. all right. we'll adopt these unanimously. >>clerk: item 41 would be a motion for the board of supervisors to sit at as a

committee of the whole to consider the marriott workers strike in san francisco. >> president cohen: supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. i want to thank those who signed on requesting a special meeting, and a special thanks to president cohen who's not going to be able to be here that day, but who helped us facilitate this process. as you know, 2300 workers have been on strike now. they walked out alongside thousands of other workers. this goes to the heart of the economy, it raises questions about the kind of jobs we will support in the coming years, and these are questions that i think the board needs to hear about firsthand. therefore, i have called a hearing on the strike. the motion before you is to have this hearing heard as a committee of the whole as a

special board meeting so the entire board can hear testimony about the strike, its causes and its effects. this strike touches on every subject that everyone in our committee deals with, and i understand a similar hearing during the hotel lockout in 2004 played an important role in bringing that dispute to the resolution. i hope not only workers will come but marriott executives, as well. i have formally requested that ann sorenson, president of marriott international attend this board meeting. again, i want to thank president cohen and my colleagues and staff for working with my office on scheduling this meeting. i would like to make a motion to amend the motion to include the date and time of the special meeting which will be november 2 at 12:30 p.m. in the chamber. i would also like to add the date the clerk of the board received the special meeting request, which was october 20,

2018. >> president cohen: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i just wanted to announce that unfortunately, i will not be in the city and county of san francisco on november 2 and will be unable to attend but did attend the 2006 special meeting on a friday when the lockout happened. >> president cohen: all right. we'll give you extra credit for that one. any other comments, colleagues? all right. so supervisor ronen has made a motion. is there a second to her motion. supervisor yee has seconded supervisor ronen's motion. can we take this same house, same call. >>clerk: we need to take the amendment without objection. >> president cohen: take the amendment without objection. okay. as amended, what do you say, colleagues, same house, same call? okay. without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. madam clerk, i think that brings us to close to our end of our agenda. >>clerk: yes. >> president cohen: is there

any other business? >>clerk: we have our in memo memorials? >> president cohen: all right. please read them. >>clerk: on behalf of the entire board for the following victims who lost their lives in the pittsburgh synagogue shooting, irving wax, jerry rabinowitz, joyce fienberg, daniel stein, richard gottfried, cecil rosenthal, and david rosenthal. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, i just want to say thank you to our friends at sfgov tv for assisting us in this broadcast, and our meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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>> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪] >> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now.

it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪] >> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate

national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in

san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music

which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood.

but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager. in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years. we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a

kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly.

i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [♪] let's get started. we've got some ice cream to serve. good afternoon.

my name is phil ginsberg, and i am proud to work for the mayor and be part of the one of the best park systems in our country. as president of the rec and park commission, mark buell often notes that victory or success has many parents. today, we celebrate an incredible community and city agency partnership that is giving this neighborhood what it most deserves, a win. the civic center neighborhood welcomes people from all communities: from little saigon, hard working local merchants, visitors, museum and library goers, to the children who visit our family playground does. if victory has many parents, victory also loves soft ice

cream. and if that's true, we have our children to thank. will celeste step forward? celeste drew plans for this playground, and at the end, when we asked her if it needed anything else, she said... >> soft ice cream. >> soft ice cream. so we owe a huge thanks to the kids of the tenderloin for their mission. all right. we have many people to thank, and a few different speakers, and we're going to get through the program as quickly as we can, but to celebrate with us today is our mayor, london breed. i confess, i don't know her favorite brand of ice cream, but

we'll find out. she is here at civic center every day, and it is my great honor to introduce our mayor, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: wow. what an amazing community. thank you all for being here today. we know we face many challenges in our city that i am trying to address as mayor with so many people that we are addressing today. there is one thing that i am kmipted to doing, and that is making sure that civic center and this area is a safe, fun, and happy place for children and parents alike. so i'm excited for these parks and as someone who's looking for a good place to have lunch and a good place to have lunch close

to city hall, i am so excited for birite here. i want to thank captain of the northern station, captain engler, who spends a lot of time here making sure people are safe. i want to thank hunders point families for the work that you continue to do. i spent a lot of time, as some of you know in this area, trying to address some of the challenges, and i want to thank the homeless outreach team as well as the department of public works, it really does take a village of people to try and help many people that we know are struggling. and part of making sure that you all have an amazing experience at civic center has everything to do with activating this space and keeping it available for everyone. our goal is to make sure that everyone feels welcome in civic center. and so let me tell you two

initiatives that were as a result of birite opening here on this corner in san francisco. first of all, birite is going to be partnering with the san francisco libraries, so kids who visit the children's room and a teen room are going to get a sticker where they can basically redeem pieces of fruit. now i know they were thinking ice cream. it's free pieces of fruit. we're trying to keep you healthy. and let me also say this before i bring up sam, the owner of birite. so when i was supervisor in district five, and birite moved into the divisadero in the neighborhood, in the nopa neighborhood, his company spends so much time working in the community, hiring from the community. they really invested in the

community, so when they decided to come to the community, the community welcomed them with open arms, and they became a natural part of the community. this was their second store, after their store in the mission district. we were proud to welcome them here, and they are very much committed to hiring people who live in this community, which i am so excited about, and they are people of their word because many of the people that they hire in the western addition are still working at birite and in some instances have been promoted. so i just love the fact that they love san francisco and they're committed to making sure that the opportunity here to be in civic center is an opportunity here for all of the residents in civic center. so with that, i'd like to bring up sam to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you.

thank you. she said it all, right? there isn't much more that i need to say. i did want to thank you, mayor breed, and phil, and jackie, for everything you did to make this happen. i mean, this has been an extraordinary project. i also want to give a huge thanks to the birite team. you all know who you are. you've all worked so hard, i couldn't have done you all. i want to thank my wife and our two daughters for putting up with me i am, like, especially excited to have my father and uncle here, along with my mom and my aunt. they started birite in 1964. i reluctantly inherited it back

in 1998, and it's become something that's had such a community impact. as a native san franciscan. any other natives out there? yeah. to be here, in front of city hall, in the heart of our city, it's kind of a dream, right? it's -- i'm excited. i'm excited to be partnered with everybody on this project. super excited about the alignment of vision and how perfectly, you know, our cafe being right here on this corner lines up with our community for food. i saw the impact we had on our community. that block, when i took it over, had storefronts that were covered with metal grates. we took those grates down, and all of a sudden, we saw things happen. 300 jobs are created in that

1800 block of eighth street. things had happening in the divisadero, and that's why i'm excited to be here now. that's the power of good food. it brings people today. it slows us down, it allows us to communicate -- except when your mouth is full, right? i'm excited to feed kids, to partner with this library with the program that we're going to have with the main library. we're going to continue working with the same businesses that we've worked with the same dozen years in this community, but we can't do it alone. we need you to come back tomorrow, come back the next day, come and hangout, eat, share the love. thank you all. [applause] >> thank you, sam. one other person deserves a very, very, very special

acknowledgement before we move onto our next couple of speakers. under president obama, sayery jewel was the secretary of the interior, and she said excellence is the foundation of education. a heard felt thank you to you, jackie, who serves as the president of her family foundation. for those of you that don't know, it is jackie's gift thats helped us build both these playgrounds and this amazing cafe, but even more is her transformational vision to take a chance on all of this, and for believe in the community, private sector, and public-private partnerships, and using the community for good.

thank you so, so, so, so much. if sam could come back up -- jackie, we want you to have this on us. sam, i was going to say your business is just about perfect, but it's missing that. i now want to bring up phil batali representing the trust for public land. the trust works with us in nine partnership projects across the city over the last decade, their most recent endeavor, partnership with us is this, the new helen diller civic center playground. they have done more for this city than many people know, so i'm proud to bring up phil batali, the senior manager for

t.p.l. >> the trust for public land is excited to be here, celebrating with all you partner. at the t.p.l., we make sure that everyone has a quality playground within a ten-minute walk of these playgrounds. over the past several years, we've partnered with the tenderloin and civic center communities to improve the parks and their densely populated neighborhood. we've heard it through the design and renovation of several playgrounds. the community brought up the idea of having a place for seating and a spot for the community to come together and enjoy a stay in this amazing plaza, and thanks to the

generosity of jackie safir and the robinson family foundation, this vision has become a reality. there were many people involved in this project, and i want to give a shout out of thanks. first, i want to give jackie sefir for their vision and creation in the city. i want to thank phil ginsberg, and i want to thank the trust for public land, our board and our staff, the project manager for this project, who isn't here today but led us with graze and dedication. i want to thank our design team, and the contractors who did the construction as well as the many other consultants and contractors who were involved in this project. i want to thank sam and the entire birite team, and last but

not least, i want to thank the community members who were designed in this process. this project isn't the first nor the last that the land project is committed working with the community to improve this public space. we boast new swings, open space, and not only snacks, but snacks by birite. >> thank you. madam mayor, as you know, under the direction of director bowel, and commissioners francisco and low, san francisco is one of the few cities where every citizen lives within a ten minute walk of the park. the numerous agencies are a part of the success and representing

all of them and his own amazing department to talk about health and vibrancy is our fantastic police chief, bill scott. >> thank you, phil. just take a second and take a look behind you. isn't this beautiful? this is really beautiful, and this is -- this is what san francisco is all about, so first, let me begin by saying thank you to the community. at the san francisco community, we are part of a larger community. we know that, and it is our goal to work among the community and with the community to make transformations like this happen. and i want to give thanks to, first of all, our mayor, mayor london breed. with her leadership, her sense of urgency, we have seen just a tremendous amount of work and

collaboration in making this happen. phil ginsberg in rec and park. one of the things with the sfpd and the things that we have to do to keep this city safe is work with other community partnering. this has really changed the game at civic center commons, so phil and your team, thank you for that. so if you've walked around the area in the last month or so, you've probably noticed some differences. we have committed as a city to really take care of what i believe is the front yard of our city government. this is the front yard of city government. the mayor has made it a top priority, we have made it a top priority, of course, because the mayor made it a top priority. but even with that being said, it takes a community to make this happen. you did see san francisco police

officers in tenderloin district that starts right across the street along with a whole host of city departments, department of public health and city housing. department of public health, we know we have to work together to make our city safer, cleaner and really restore of beauty of what this city is all about. we have to be consistent, persistent, and we're committed to doing that. every time we increase the programming in an area like this, i think we have a better chance of sustaining our ability to make our city shine, and that is what we are committed to do. so i hope everybody's enjoying the beauty of this day. please enjoy it. return, shop at birite. i just met sam for the first time today, and i've got to say, it is just really, really heart are warming and impressive to

see all of this come together. i'll speak on behalf of all the men and woman of the san francisco police department. we are so fortunate to be blessed and a part of this wonderful community, so thank you. [applause] >> all right. just a -- a few thank yous, but sam apparently has said that his soft ice cream server that he hired to come out -- serve -- what's -- what's -- this is birite's newest soft ice cream server. he needed a job. what's your name, sir? ladies and gentlemen, willie brown. all right. some -- there are a lot of thank yous, and we're anxious to raise the curtain, but let me just do a few quick thank yous so the community leaders -- to the

community leaders and officials that are here today. i first want to thank -- i know amy cohen, executive director from oewd. tom temprano from supervisor mandelman's office. frances johnson from assembly member king's office. gary mccould i from nanny pelosi's office. i believe joaquin torres, the director of economic and workforce development is here. thank you to the building of building inspection for keeping our construction on schedule. thank you to hunters count family and downtown -- hunters family and downtown streets team. special thanks to sean roblin who introduced us to roblin

construction. and of course i want to acknowledge our staff, lexie sharma, who was our project manager. jackie ho, who was also our project manager. and all the people who keep this park incredibly build, the c.b.d., too many people to thank, so if i missed you, i apologize. now time is the time for the ceremonial awning raising, so -- oh, supervisor mandelman is here, not to mention tom tamprano. okay. ma'am, we're in the middle of a -- okay. yes.

okay. [inaudible] >> right on. okay. so mayor breed, mayor brown, you guys, the most important people here, will you join us, and we are going to count down. credits the y.m.c. after school program from tenderloin community school -- oh, oh, guys, actually, you know what? we're going to do it from over here because otherwise, that'll kind of hit you in the backside, so let's move it back even a little bit more, guys. come on back, mayor. if you could join us back behind these flowers here because this is actually a big piece of equipment, and we are going to count down. we're five seconds to ice cream. ready?

eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [applause] ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you all to birite civic center, the civic center playground. let's go get some ice cream. go ahead, you guys.