any other questions on the task force? >> i don't think so. in regards to telematics, i don't know if you can answer this question or not. but we've implemented the telematics on most of the city vehicle fleets and i was just wondering if there is any data to show any improvement of behavior for drivers, our city employees. >> my colleague will be the right person to answer that question. i apologize. if i could come back with an answer to that one, that would be great. >> i have heard positive reports in regards to reducing idling and things like that which would save a lot of fuel emissions. but i haven't heard a lot in terms of are we driving safer? are we slowing down? now that we sort of know who is going 80 miles an hour in the city. >> i think if john were standing

here, he would say the number 1 goal of the telematics device his deterrence. when people have something in their car that says we will be recording your. >> speaker-02: , that people tend to behave in a safer way. i will let him come back and talk about that next quarter or we can send you an e-mail or follow up on that one. >> all right. thank you, very much. did i ask for public comments on this? >> not yet. >> any public comment on this item? >> hello again. my name is, ending the policy and program director at walk san francisco. first i want to thank sfmta staff and d.p.h. for this approach and this outreach they have been doing for the action strategy. the vision zero coalition last year as a group that walk s.f. help support. it is 35 communities and organizations that advocate for vision zero. we did not have a lot of opportunity to have input on last year's last action strategy

we mentioned that and the m.t.a. and d.p.h. really listens. they have been sitting down with us and have been holding all the great meetings that she mentioned. the amount of community input on this strategy is phenomenal. i really want to thank city staff for doing that. will not get to vision zero if all of our voices aren't heard and part of the process. i am excited about some of the things that are in the draft items in the action strategy. especially, i'm not sure if she mentioned it, but i think i heard recently a commitment to put improvements on every high injury corridor before 2024, even just short-term temporary. that is how we will get there. but i share your concern about the boldness and about -- not even the boldness, but what do we know? instead of just having a plan that gets us a two years and a few things and may be five years , i want to know is what will it take to get us there? not what you will do by 2024 but what would it take us to get to

zero deaths and zero injuries? and then we can work back from there and figure out what we need to. i agree with you and i would urge the city to produce that report of what has worked so far and what remains necessary to be done. i would like to see that too. the vision zero coalition has been pushing for a five year plan. a plan that takes us all the way to 2024. it is not a long-term goal. the city makes long-term plans that are much longer. this is a 50 year plan. if we can do a 50 year plan, we can do a five year plan that is details -- detailed and gets us where we need to be. i urge the city to really continue to do that. another thing we asked in this next action strategy is a focus on transit as a central part of a vision zero strategy. we know communities that rely on transit have fewer crashes. and so we want to see transit to be a bigger part of the strategy not just transit priority but

transit frequency as well. i am out of time but excited to see what this next action strategy is. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> i would like to have you also include in your strategy, also the bidding and overseeing of construction sights. you have one construction site at the terminal and the west portal station where a white skinned coloured mail lost his life because thorough background checks and prerequirements of checking a background of a contractor was supposed to be done and city officials claimed it was done and it turns out that the company had a history of fatality and serious injuries that took place on the job. so i think that should be part of your strategy as well.

and also, we had a latino, hispanic, mexican female who too lost her life on a construction site in the streets in the city and that should be part of your strategy to oversee background checks of contractors as well. this contractor who too cause the death of this female also had a history of mistakes and licensed -- licenses had been provoked. i thank you and your strategy should combine what the bidding process and interviewing and backtracking these contractors who are slipping through this loophole which is supposed to be a safety to prevent these fatalities that you claim you want to prevent. also, my next demonstration, which is going to be more detailed under item number 7,

when you talk about fatalities, i will be in more detail and more on what took place on these locations. also, you caught me off guard. there was a hispanic male who worked on a construction site who was buried alive because the contractor didn't follow procedures when digging a trench it took 11 hours to find him. >> thank you. >> any other public comments? singing on, public comment is closed. i have one more question. sorry. i have four questions. one thing -- i came back from a conference in a child friendly city and a lot of this discussion was about the streets and what they could do to make it more attractive for people to feel safe on the sidewalks and streets. and part of it was, as you know, when we engineer what you call

that, dieting? you always try to lose something you are trying to lose speed here. it is dieting to lose speed. is there any -- was there any overall strategy discussing the possibility of reducing speed overall in san francisco? i know m.t.a. and caltrans is a little resistant to that in the past. i don't know about now. it took me two or three years to get monterey boulevard slowed down to 25 miles an hour off the freeway and originally for two years they said it couldn't be done. so i think things can be done. any strategies? >> strategies around speed reduction? the first one, i will say is automated enforcement again. and we also -- speed limit reduction roles are set at the state. again, that will be part of the

conversation of the state at zero traffic fatalities task force. that it is convening in july. but it is definitely part of the conversation. those two are the biggest tools we would like to talk about and we really need the state to be on board with those items. we are not starting from square one. we have done a great job advancing that conversation. hopefully we are taking that good work that we have done and we are moving it forward through this state legislation. probably a less than satisfactory answer. it is in our strategy. >> ok. thank you. we will can to new pounding on that strategy. thank you, very much. ok. we will go ahead and finish with this item and we will go to item number 7. >> item seven is update on 2018 fatalities. this is an information item.

how are you doing? >> hi, doing good. there you go. >> hi i am the captain for sfpd 's traffic division. today i would like to talk about the fatalities so far for 2018. and i will quickly go through the slides and i also have an expansion on some of the items that i was told to highlight. if we look at between 2016 and 2018, we are currently at 18 fatalities. this is slightly higher than last year but significantly lower from -- i went back as far

as 2014 and we were in the thirties and right now it is just slightly higher at 2018. so if we look at the fatalities and look at the travel modes, 12 for pedestrians, two more vehicles, three were bicyclists and one motorcyclist. so far, 33% of the people that have died were 65 and over. seven of those people were hit and run. i can expand on that in a little bit. one of them was a t.n.c. going to the hit and run, out of those hit and run out of the seven, we have made three arrests. one was a detention

investigation and that was the t.n.c. out of those, we have three open cases right now and out of the three, we have two that are active and have leaves that we are following today. and i will go to the next slide. if you look at the areas of what they look at as concentration of poverty and rural population, 56 % of the vision zero fatalities occurred in these areas and 44% of them on the high energy -- injury network. you can see the diagram up there if you have a closer copy, it will show you which of those areas people were walking. which were bicyclists and which were riding motorcycles and vehicles while driving. the yellow area is the

vulnerable populations and communities of concern. the red network is the high injury corridor. and our unit focuses on enforcement on the high injury corridor. out of those 18 fatalities, the seven hit and run, if you have any specific questions regarding those, our team, what they do is they go out and investigate and i have an investigations unit and a forensics technical unit that go out to every fatality. not only the hit and run and they basically treated as a crime scene and we interview all the witnesses and all the involved parties. we look at a forensics of not only the car but also the

roadway and we look for cameras and video and individual video. we develop leads that way for the hit and runs. for the drivers that remain at the scene, we investigate it and we work closely with the district attorney's office to identify which cases lead to prosecution. which are majority of them. we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. and we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. on every single fatality to troubleshoot the area to see how it can be improved and they work very closely with m.t.a. on that. and that is all for my presentation. >> i have a question about one of the fatalities. what do you call that, the moped

think we the one along embarcadero. >> that is the pedicab. >> we don't have any leads at this point, right? >> we do. we are looking at leads on that. we have been all over the bay area investigating that collision and we have interviewed people. we have examined cars. it is still an open investigation and we are still investigating it. >> one of these, i'm curious about. especially the area where there are a lot of t.n.c. they will have their cameras. was there any attempt to reach the t.n.c. that happened to be around that area so you can actually get more footage possibly of the vehicle that cause cost a fatality? >> yes.

we have a multiple investigators that went out, not only the primary investigator that was involved on the investigation, we also have a video team that went and looked at different routes that this person might have taken. we do have video of the vehicle that we put out and we put it out to the media including a shot of the car. specifically for the t.n.c., what we did is when we go out to the media, we ask for any kind of dash cam footage from anybody not just the t.n.c. that can come forward to. we have had a a lot a phone calls both anonymous and people who have identified themselves. it is an open investigation. >> ok. i appreciate that. hopefully may be in the future, i would like to see possibly

working in agreement with t.n.c. and companies. because right now we are just asking for people to volunteer their information. wouldn't it be nice if you could say to them, this is where it happens. can you get the footage of your fewer just your vehicles that are around sterically if someone refuses, or they might be a lot of people who don't want to do it, then you are at some disadvantage. >> i have actually discussed that specifically with my investigators. t.n.c. do not require any type of video for operation. so that would be up to the individual driver and those are generally considered independent contractors using an app. but it's definitely a lead that we can look at. >> one more related question.

in this -- has ever been where you had notice from t.n.c. or any driver, with t.n.c. in particular that has been useful for investigation and finding the perpetrator? >> we have some that have come forward as witnesses. i would have to actually look at the case fall -- case file to look at that and look at each individual case file. >> i will go off-line with you but i think my intent is there are some that i would love to highlight what they did that was so positive. >> ok. >> i just have one quick question. is there any reason or have you looked at why the fatalities spiked in august and september? >> we do look at those

fatalities. again, and arrest was made on one of those out of the three arrests. and that one was a d.u.i. on the other ones that were both pedestrians walking, one of them was a real late at night and that was the hit and run. at this time, there was nothing trend -wise that stood out. i have discussed that with my investigators. >> ok. thank you for your report. any public comments on this item >> i spoke to you earlier about hispanic latino and mexican female dissent who lost their life in a fatality in a construction site.

she is a historical female by means of breaking through the glass ceiling barrier that was done by a predominantly male employees in the construction field. >> i'm sorry. this item is on -- >> fatalities. >> vehicle fatalities. >> this is a teagle dish vehicle fatalities. the vehicle caused her death. i like to start my time and give me back for the seconds that were lost here. this e-mail here is working on -- this female was working on a construction site. she busted through the ceiling of an occupation that was controlled predominately by a male and she was struck by a vehicle that slid off of a tow truck and the contractor had a history of numerous rule violations and didn't have a license during this timeframe. this correlates with my earlier

demonstration where you are talking about strategies. i believe your strategy of overseeing and being present during this contract bidding situations could help prevent this type of situations from happening. her name was leanna. she was a plumber. she busted through the ceiling and went through the training in school and everything. she had a toddler that was only about two or three years old. as a result, she was asking her grandfather, where is her mother and the grandfather told her that her mother is in heaven. as a result, she wants to go to heaven too to see her mother. the second demonstration pertains to a male that was hit at west portal station. he too was killed by the negligence of a contractor. the contractor was checked and prequalified and passed all the tests, which is a boldfaced lie.

he lost his life too on the job site. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, the public comment is -- public comment? >> sorry. public comment is now closed. do you have -- i might have to skip item a and go to item nine for now. because we have two drop our time -- we have dropped dropdead time at 4:00 pm. can you call item number 9? >> item nine is update on plan for pedestrian signal retiming. this is an information item. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm here with the sfmta. i am the city traffic engineer. you had asked us to provide you an update on what it would take or how long it would take for us

to the time the entire traffic signal system based on our previous discussion that we had developed a new crossing time for pedestrians. a slower walking speed of 3 feet per section -- per second. and your inquiry led to some productive work that we tried to see what projects we had pending and what projects were likely in the next few years and we have concluded that we can retiming all of the high injury network in five years and to be completed with the entire traffic signal system by the year 2024. the high injury network is about two thirds of our traffic signal so we think that based on existing projects and staff capacity we can do the work in five years and i will be part of our strategy that they discussed prior. and the locations that are not on the high injury network, we would finish them in the year after that five-year period. six years total.

>> and in regards to the timing of it, did you say three years? >> five years for the high injury network and six years total for the city. >> ok. i thought you said three. so the question here is what is preventing us from speeding that up? what would be the bottleneck? >> there are various bottlenecks there are some issues about how to properly read time some of the signals. for example, we are undertaking a retiming of the downtown area which requires not just going on and retiming the signal by gathering data and doing traffic analysis to make sure that we update other things and need to be updated with the traffic signal system. those kind of cases, we need to do a more thorough signal timing there are issues in terms of implementation and we have other priority projects including vision zero projects and transit projects that take up staff time

in terms of implementation of projects. i am trying to be realistic in the sense that the past ability to deliver these types of projects and the capacity both at the m.t.a. in terms of engineering and our traffic signal shop in terms of implementation. and that is the best we can do at this point. >> with the resources you have? >> with the resources we have and we likely will have in the future. >> but the state will probably past something that is similar. do we want to read time all the signals in california? san francisco deserves another 50 million to do this. can we speeded up? >> that would be possible. it would require a process by which we would have to step up staffing. it is an issue in the sense of retaining an engineer his -- it is a tight labor environment in

terms of hiring electricians. staffing up along just beyond the stuff we have no, and retaining the staff that we have is a possibility. at this point, i'm not assuming anything to come out of the sky. i am assuming what is known at this point and being optimistic in a sense it in the future we would be able to leverage some state funding or some other resources to finish the work. in the past we have not retimed all our traffic signals every five years. we have taken much longer. to do the project in five years is to be aggressive on our end. >> i appreciate it. i am sure what you are giving us is realistic. but it is always the what if? by the way, we have families who are street members and we heard what we need to. let's advocate for it and may be we could get it.

>> i think -- i'm excited about doing traffic signal timing. it is one of the things we can do with minimal construction or other type of work. i think it is one of the things that we want to do throughout the high injury network as, mentioned. i share your belief that this is something we should work on. but we are trying to proceed in a measured manner and i think that this is my realistic assessment at this point. if we can do it quicker, we will aim to do that. >> commissioners? no questions. i really appreciate your effort. the two things that we really find helpful is reducing speed and changing the time. any public comments on this item >> yes. the five-year commitment that he came up with that really equates to more than 100 people losing

their lives. on this current toll the city of san francisco is experiencing right now. we have to get more aggressive. lives are at stake. families are losing loved ones. families have to deal with the fact that they have to bury or go on category at whatever else they have to do with when it comes to losing loved ones in that manner. so we have to get more aggressive. we have to more creative. we have to be more available to make this happen. we can't wait any longer, coming from me. those measures were in place for my sun, may be. he may be here today to even breathe. for me and for the city of san francisco, and for the bay area and for this country, we need to be more aggressive and more creative and we need to consider

the lives that will be lost. not may be but will be lost if we are on this current course. thank you. >> thank you,, very much. next speaker. >> i think the best way to timeout all of these signals is to have our senior citizens behind from one section of intersection and how much time it takes for them to cross the street and use that as the major anchor point instead of just setting timers based on speculations of traffic. because the pedestrians are the ones that are losing their lives so by taking the measurements of a slow walking senior citizen that is moving at full capacity, which is very slow, is the best way to measure the timing and set signals on these light signals for traffic. instead of driving -- trying to

move traffic from point a to point b without causing a traffic jam. i was watching one educational show about two nights ago that halloween night is the highest percentages of kids dying, and fatalities on trick-or-treating night. so that is an important factor that should be included in your calculations as well. but the best way to get a measurement on the time signals is to have senior citizens be timed and crossing the street on busy intersections. the street is so wide. that has to be taken into account too. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? public comment is now closed. i really appreciate your comment about speeding it up and how many lives could be saved if we were to do it quicker.

i share your sentiment in regards to my own incidents where one more mile an hour and i wouldn't be sitting here. there was not a time like they're there. if there were, i probably would not have gotten involved with that particular collision. ok. we are finished with item number -- what is this? nine. could i call item a and continue go ahead. item a. >> item a is a vision zero ramp study phase two. this is an information item. >> can i have a motion to continue this item? ok. with no objection, we will continue item a. i'm sorry for the presenter. any other items? >> item ten is introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> ok. no introduction.

>> item 11 is general public comment. >> general public comment. >> my next demonstration is further concrete the reasons why your overall strategy plan should be included and to the beddings of construction site projects to make sure all safety and reference checks are checked viewer, please. i talked about the construction worker who lost his life. he died at the west portal station. the california occupational safety and health administration has a history of violations including a november 2016 accident which a worker operating a forklift died after

losing control and going into a trench. ok. the san francisco transit officials who oversee the beds and the contracts for the work said that the construction met all the requirements of prequalifying for the bid. i want to refresh you on the hearing that you called because of that accident how several departments came and testified about all these procedures that they go through in order to prevent accidents like this from happening. and it proved how they are not doing their job. if they were, accidents would never have took place. as you can see right here on the section where they make their demonstrations, they talk about prequalifying packed by different departments in the city. it is a bald-faced lie. if they did, the accident would not happen. on one of the questions they were asked have you had any history of fatalities in the past ten years and they deliberately said no.

and then by the same response, a history check demonstrates that a person lost their life by being crushed by a construction vehicle and resulted in a fatality. that is why i want the organizations to check the situation. >> thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> item 11 is adjournment. >> meeting is adjourned.

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and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge

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- thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. wa >> the hon. london breed: all right. good afternoon, everybody. my name's london breed, and i'm mayor of the city and county of san francisco, and i'm truly excited to be here on this festive occasion with so many city departments and so many community members who made this project possible. i want to start by thanking president of the board of supervisors, malia cohen. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: she has been working on this project since she became a member of the

board of supervisors, and thank goodness, president cohen, that you're able to complete it on your way out. doesn't it feel good? today, we celebrate this project, a project that will bring almost 1600 units of housing, 25% which will be below market rate, and 200,000 square feet of commercial office space or space in general, 14 acres of public park open space, and we will, of course, be increasing transit options with pedestrian and bike lanes and improving our city streets and infrastructure in this particular neighborhood. this is all as a result of an incredible partnership between city departments, as i said, and the residents of this community. because as our city grows, we need to make sure that all of our neighbors -- our

neighborhoods are equitiable, sustainable, and diverse. i'm very proud of the effort that's been put into making this project an inclusive project by making community and housing spaces for people and families of all backgrounds. and thanks to everyone who's here today, we're doing just that with 394 affordable housing units that will be constructed through this project, and they're all -- and 40% of these projects are eligible for the landmark legislation that president cohen and i worked on a few years ago to ensure that the residents of district ten have right of first refusal for this housing. this program is so critical in keeping our communities intact as neighborhoods, like india basin and bayview-hunters point

experience rapid growth and expansion. and with the public open space, the child care facility, the new growth restorers, the markets, and everyone in the community will have access to jobs and outdoor activity, and, of course, an important grocery store, as i mentioned. you're happy about that, right? i'm very grateful to the hard work and dedication of all of you here today, including the office of economic and workforce development, the rec and parks. clearly, the staff -- go ahead. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you all for your work and your leadership, thank you all to the rec and parks department, the port of san francisco, the india basin neighborhood association and build, particularly, the principle and managing director, lou vasquez, for your hard work on this project.

and as i said before, the leadership of president cohen on making this a reality and providing a real community process with a very balanced project that will bring all of what's needed to india basin where it will be an important part of district ten and the vibrancy of the bayview-hunters point community. i'd like to, at this time, thank her for her hard work and also her commitment to finishing this project before she left the board of supervisors. ladies and gentlemen, at this time, i'd like to introduce president of the board of supervisors, malia cohen. [applause] >> president cohen: thank you. thank you, mayor breed. thank you, everyone, for coming out this afternoon. i feel so many things. just a mixed bag of emotions. first, being the first -- strongest emotion i feel is exhaustion, and the second

emotion is gratitude. gratitude is just filling me because this has been an incredible journey, an opportunity for me to go not only as a professional, but as a person, as a woman. i was elected when i was 32 years old and relatively young in one career, and projects like this have made me a woman, and i just want to say thank you, thank you to all of those that have touched this project. so many people -- i think i alone have had three legislative aides working on this particular project, so there are many people that i'd like to just recognize. you know, first and foremost, i want to talk about the bayvi bayview-hunters point community. this neighborhood is the beating heart of san francisco, hands out. when bayview-hunters point is thriving, you will find every

nook and cranny of san francisco will be thriving. it is my joy to standing certify celebrating the project through this area, the india basin project. we're talking about 1500 units of housing, waterfront habitats and restoration that are only a few of the highlights that this project is going to bring to the entire neighborhood. ann, don't go too far away. don't walk away from me now, ann. i have, as you heard the mayor say, devote eight years of my life to this project. i just want to take a moment to say how thankful i am to the neighbors of india basin, to the neighbors that have been so steadfast, paying attention to every detail. these are neighbors that i didn't have a relationship with

until i started campaign, and they took me under their wings and took me by the arm and indoctrinated me into seeing things there way. i want to recognize jill fox who's also here, who also works for the city, who has taken time on her lunch breaks to come and to advocate and to be in the chamber. and there are many members of the india basin neighborhood association that are not here today but have put in an incredible amount of work, and i just want to give voice to the neighbors that have been advocates from day one on this particular project. thank you. we are finally here to implement a strategy to maximize public benefits in the southeast part of san francisco through housing options, better transit, and open space. and i want to pause here and recognize the department of rec and park. r.p.d. has been a partner, a steadfast partner from the dinning when it comes to open

pace. not only are -- beginning when it comes to open space. phil ginsberg has been a partner in developing new open spaces, spaces that were not in existence, small space acquisitions. we have been through it, phil and i, and we haven't always loved each other. we have our moments when we bicker, but today is a proud moment. i hope i can continue to work with you as we continue to get this park bond to move forward, as we continue to work on building the southeast neighborhoods and build open space, through the southern and central waterfront, connecting the entire city, so there is a joule, an emerald, a jewel of green, open space that's walkable, and bikable, that's open and unobstructed, so that any and everyone can enjoy open space. thank you, philip. [applause] >> president cohen: and i really need to give a moment to

recognize the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. this is an incredibly awesome responsibility that this particular department has, and for this project, i want to up lift ann. this woman has been like a goddess. she embodies not only my fashion sense but my fitness goals, with arms like that. this is a strong woman, and i want to say thank you. ann, i want to recognize you have a whole team of people around you. you didn't do this by yourself, you've spent countless hours with the city attorney, as well. thank you to the see attorney's office for their time and billable hours that have brought us to where we are today. just a moment of gratitude.

thank you. [applause] >> president cohen: now, there are two other folks that are standing up here to my right, and it's so appropriate that they stand to my right because they have been my right hand through this endeavor. this is jackie flynn, who's representing the a. philip randolph institute. [applause] >> president cohen: and then, this is michael hammond, who is representing himself -- just kidding. michael is representing ibha, the india basin housing association. they have advocated for the project, but they have educated their neighbors, they have educated the youth around in the surrounding area, and that is how we continue to move forward so we are uplifting and not leaving anyone behind, and i

don't think that could be overstated. thank you very much. this is a dynamic duo that have put in a lot of work. i want to welcome the young people from apri, they have learned a lot about the inner workings of local government. thank you very much to kurt and sophia and the entire apri team. thank you so much. we couldn't do it without you. [applause] >> president cohen: let me tell you a little about jackie flynn. she's a native san franciscan, and we have a connection. that is her father, my god father, if you will, james bryant, who has been a stalwart in san francisco when it comes to labor and has been able to impress upon us the importance of labor, and with that, i want to thank all the labor leaders who are here in shaping this

project. i don't want to forget anyone. thank you so much to the plumbers, the pipe filters. i want to recognize jackie, a true dynamic leader. she listens, and she responds to what she is hearing, so when there are community concerns, her advocacy reflects those concerns, and there are few leaders standing before us today that do that. jackie, thank you for mobilizing the community, thank you for giving notice and giving feedback on this project. it has been invaluable. i want to recognize michael hammond, who is a long time bayview resident, an institution. i'm glad you wore his red shirt, because usually, you see him in the blue shirt. it's either red or blue with this shirt, but one thing that is true, he's leading with his heart, and he always has the community at the forefront of his mind. he's been an advocate for housing in the community,

playing close and careful attention to the developments, even developments that i don't want him to be focused on, but all of the developments, nonetheless, and he is serving on the bayview c.a.c., the bayview citizens advisory committee. once the redevelopment agency was dissolved, we saw there was a gap, that we needed to have community voinvolvement and inp on each and every one of these developments. thank you for serving on the c.a.c., thank you for serving on ibha. thank you. it's important that we have people that are committed, not only vested in ideology, but in practice. so madam mayor, and my colleague, supervisor safai, thank you for being here to recognize these wonderful neighborhood leaders, and again, to the project sponsor, i want to thank you for giving a gift

that would not stop giving in the 11th hour in the chamber. we should even give a shout out to jane kim, just to be nice. but lou and the entire team, i just want to say thank you for the countless hours that we spent in shaping the project, listening to the neighbors, and producing a product that will benefit not only all of san francisco but specifically the bayview-hunters point community. thank you, and with that, i'd like to bring up mr. michael hammond. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed, thank you, supervisor cohen, for giving me the challenge of a lifetime. they asked me to limit my remarks to one minute. so you know, when the planning commission approved this project unanimously, and that right there is a news worthy item, several commissioners came out and characterized this project as outstanding and exemplary, and indeed, in the years to

come, this project will be held up as an example of how to do a large project right. and the main reason this is so is because of the way it came about. the project you see before you today is the result of years of collaboration with the neighborhood. and -- >> president cohen: don't be nervous now. >> -- the project is inseminated with the ideas of folks, and it shows. this is going to be a star in the constellation of stars that we call san francisco.

thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed, and supervisor cohen. you are amazing. i remember about 15 years ago, my dad took me out to gerald and earl, and he told me to look out at the shoreline, and he told me one day, believe that one day, the shoreline is going to serve. about three years ago i was honored to serve on the task force, and i remembered every day that we came to the church about his vision and his dream, and today, you know, this is history. this is an opportunity to cleanup environmental contamination in our community, improve transportation that is so heavily needed on that side of town, create housing stock and make bayview more beautiful than it already is. we had a beautiful, wonderful event last night with all the families in bayview at the jolie rec center. and i know if we build something at this site, that all the

families will come together and really enjoy this space. so i also want to thank everyone who worked on the project who worked to bring a vision and plan to the shoreline. i want to thank the people and families and remember that i'm asking you to pour in your time and effort, but it's because of how much time and love we have for our community. i'm looking forward to really pulling up our sleeves, getting some work done and activating the site, and we want to make sure that we're moving forward, so thank you, everybody. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and jackie, the job is not done, because when we build it, we need to make sure we're in the bayview-hunters point community, and we've got folks applying for the housing, so we can make sure we get them in the housing. that's the next step. and with that, ladies and gentlemen, let's sign this

legislation. [applause]

[inaudible] [applause] >> i have been living in san

francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much.

we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot.

it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful, and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed.

>> good morning. good morning, everyone. i'm timothy fu, chair of the board of trustees for the san francisco skefconservatory of m. on behalf of the board, thank you all to be here for the breaking ground on the ute and william k. duboce center