accessory use. part of our purpose of this not only was to change the debate and the conversation about the cafeteria and the impacts positive and negative, but also what is the scrutiny and the level of concern. so that's -- i don't want to keep saying the same thing, but we purpose in here, moving to conditional use. we'll work with the planning department. it will be referred back to the planning commission staff. many of the things you are talking about, supervisor tang, will come out in the conversation. i think some of them did come out last time. but now that we're moving to -- this was found to not even conform to the general plan by the commission. which is kind of funny, but that's okay. now we're going to conditional use. i'm sure it will find a way to conform and there's a slew of recommendations that will be made. we'll also address some of the other issues of permitting and

review. >> supervisor kim: i would love to see a unified permitting process akin to restaurants. i'm not saying that -- because restaurants have so many requirements and we probably should reduce that process for restaurants, because i think it's overly arduous, but there should be an evening of the playing field. i don't want to see employee cafeterias have unfair competitive advantages, where small business owners have to put a lot of capital and risk at stake to provide the same services that employee cafeterias don't have to undertake. as we examine the process, we should look at streamlining the restaurant process. if you can permit kitchens on other floors, it's not clear to meet why we can't do that for

restaurants. i did eat at a restaurant on a second floor. on divisadero, there's a restaurant on the second floor. >> supervisor safai: it's the kitchen itself. it's not -- >> supervisor kim: i think it's important for there to be a more level playing field. i'm not saying, make it as difficult as it is for restaurants, but i think it should be a level playing field. and maybe we should look at making it simpler and easier for our restaurants to open up as we look at the permitting process. i do think that the cafeteria should have a baseline above and beyond what is required today. >> supervisor tang: on that note, supervisor kim, there is staff that our office advocated for, somebody that examined what

a restaurant needs to go through to open. it was probably 30 to 40 pages back and front. so, you know, i think with the new, i guess, permitting center opening in the next year or two, to get that shrunken down. i remembered one other question i had. are the smaller kitchens without exhaust ventilations allowed without a c.u. in these companies? >> supervisor safai: what do you mean? >> supervisor tang: aren't there two distinctions? >> supervisor safai: there's more of a break room. that's what public health refers to by h85. >> supervisor tang: not a break room, but not a full-service kitchen, but maybe they stock -- i mean, some of these companies have, i guess, food throughout --

>> supervisor safai: i'm using the word break room but it's a fully stocked light -- it has a sink and doesn't have a stove. it has tea, snacks. >> supervisor tang: kombucha bar. [laughter] >> supervisor safai: someone making drinks. there is no one -- you guys are really excited about this. [laughter] >> supervisor tang: we work in a building where we don't get that. all right. any other questions or comments? >> supervisor safai: i will say two more things. i don't want to get lost. i think the concept of -- and i think oewd and concept of local hire for those that might be working in the kitchens and employee cafeterias is important. we'll work with the office of

work force development. maybe put that in as a requirement. i don't want to have lost in the conversation what i started out saying, we have a host of network of small businesses that will have the opportunity and we want to encourage the opportunity to work in partnership with the large companies that have the employee cafeterias where they could do catering, where they could bring in small businesses in to work in partnership. one of the groups in the working group was la cocina. and they talked about the opportunity to bring in small businesses outside into the companies, as well as the existing small businesses, restaurants, cafes that would have an opportunity to work in partnership with any of these folks going forward. all of that will be part of the conversation. 5 wanted to highlight both of those things. i've taken down many of the things that you have highlighted. all employees access, janitors, no two-tier.

applicable packaging rules and environmental rules should apply. plastic draws and bottles. local hire. trained work force, working with oewd. permitting review and other things in terms of the location of existing businesses as well. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you for taking that all down. any other questions or comments from colleagues? otherwise, we will -- diego sanchez? >> yes. i want to provide the commission's recommendation from october 25, to be on record they voted to disapprove the original ordinance as proposed and sought to explore alternatives, which this new iteration is doing. they were not in favor of a ban and thought that regulations on employee cafeterias should consider geographic considerations, size considerations, enhanced

entitlement process and other alternatives yet to be defined or realized. >> supervisor safai: there was no conversation about conditional use? >> i think it was mentioned, i guess, in an enhanced entitlement process. that's how i would interpret what that means. >> supervisor safai: that's why i was wondering about referral back to planning. it was my understanding the enhanced entitlement process, but if they don't use the words conditional use, it has to go back? >> i'm happy to look at this more, but my understanding is that it wasn't discussed in the context a c.u. the planning commission didn't discuss the potential c.u. factors. generally a prohibition with different policy options attached.

>> supervisor safai: if there's wording akin to or synonymous with -- i'm serious. i'm not trying to be flippant. just for my own understanding. i got a lot of questions from people and my understanding is that because they didn't specifically talk about it in that context, it's -- >> the commission would want to deliberate over the proposed findings, if nothing else. >> supervisor safai: i'm fine with that. >> supervisor tang: all right. thank you very much. seeing no other questions, comments, we'll open up item 5 to public comment. any members of the public who wish to speak, come on up. >> hello. here representing golden gate restaurant association. thank you, supervisor tang and members of the land use committee for hearing this item. golden gate commission believes

that a conditional use process provides the best vehicle for the necessity or viability of a nonretail-free cafeteria in the city plan principles. we also support changes in the codes for them to be full-service. or perhaps a food service operation term versus a kitchen that may be used for cooking and preparation. it's important to make the distinction. we're speaking of full-service operation. and the definitions should not impact the use for carrying-in food, we're in support of that. some key considerations as to why it makes sense, i can provide to you. commerce and inventory represents 65,000 jobs with 10,000 accounted for by food

stores. this represents 60% of the jobs in the retail sector, generating $5.5 billion in retail sales and taxes. local sales and use taxes are lost. restaurants pay first in the sale and then the final project. we see in the general plan as we know that neighborhoods thrive with restaurants on the street and creating a more economic vitality in the neighborhoods. we also speak to the planning code requirements for fairness for restaurants. we have a lot of additional layers. >> supervisor tang: thank you. thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to comment on item 5? okay. seeing none, public comment's closed. thank you for entertaining all of our suggestions and further considerations of this

legislation. >> supervisor safai: i want to make a moment to accept the amendments as proposed. >> supervisor kim: second. >> supervisor tang: without objection. and -- one minute. one note about your current amendment about the abandonment or reinstallation, maybe need to finesse the language. it would require conditional use if it was a full service kitchen. >> supervisor safai: i was asking the city attorney to get clarity on that. we might not -- we might want to keep the second part but may not be reinstalled if abandoned but strike -- they will look into the clarification on may not be expanded, but if it's abandoned, they would have to go through the process all over again. so we'll get clarity on that. >> supervisor tang: okay. so the item has been amended and

you can make a motion to continue to call of the chair. >> supervisor safai: right. that's what we need to do. >> supervisor tang: we'll do that without objection. item 6, please. >> clerk: a resolution receiving rural housing dollars report 6 dated may 10, 2018, and report 7, dated september 30, 20018, section 103. >> supervisor tang: this is a housing report. we have teresa oheda. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm principal planner policy planning section. i'm here to talk about the housing balance reports that you received in may and september, particularly going to be presenting on the report number 7, which is the latest. this is only for your

information and no action is required. so what is the housing balance report? the board of supervisors approved ordinance 5315 to add section 103 to the planning code. this new section directs the planning department to monitor and report on the balance between new market rate housing and affordable housing production. the housing balance is a proportion of all proportional housing units to the total number of net new housing units over a 10-year housing balance period. the ordinance requires a bi-annual reporting. and i will talk to you about the 7th report that covered third quarter, 2008, to second quarter of 2018.

one stated goal of the ordinance is to ensure that data on affordable housing targets citywide is an approval process for new housing development. there are three housing targets cited. the housing balance report gives context to the three different housing production goals. the housing element mandated by the state to be updated by the article set a production goal of about 28,000 new units to be built between 2015 and 2022. this is regional housing needs allocation goals. 57% should be affordable to low- and moderate-income

househol households. there is an annual report and the goal to the state housing and community development. proposition k passed by san francisco voters in 2014 set a goal that 33% of net new units be affordable. this is the goal that the housing balance report will be aiming for. there is also a goal of 30% affordable units. there is a weekly dashboard highlighting progress towards meeting the goal. it should be noted that the housing element and 30k by 2020 have their own reporting requirements. what is a 10-year affordable housing trend? if we are to look at just new

housing production, affordable housing made up 24% or 1/4 of net new housing units built in the last 10 years, which is the third quarter of 2008 to second quarter 2018. i would like to add that disproportion has been more or less consistent in the last two decades or more. it's just a tad higher than the last housing balance report, though, by one point. i'm sorry, but the slide shows not market rate units, but actually a net total. the market rate units is about 21,420. the calculation looks beyond new housing production, in addition, the balance calculation looks at

aquisition and rehabs completed, public housing completion. it stands for mental assist answer demonstration and the older housing projects and entitled and permitted affordable units, minus units removed from protected status. these are rent-controlled units that are removed, either through act, demolition, and owner move-in evictions. this is the net affordable housing stock for the purposes of this report. the affordable housing stock is seen as a proportion of net new housing units. the figures are for the 10-year reporting period. the presentation covers the

report the period q3, 2008, to q2, 2018. the net affordable housing stock over 4,631 is about 26%. this is the cumulative housing balance in the near period. it's the one percentage point higher than the previous housing balance report published. the ordinance requires that the housing balance is calculated by board of supervisor districts and by planning department districts. the housing balance for districts range from negative 277 in district 4 to 72% in district 5. negative balances are due to larger number of units removed from protected status relative

to the net new affordable units built. most of the districts have positive balances, except for four, which have negative balances. this next slide shows the distribution by planning department districts. the districts, by the way, are consistent with the boundaries used in the housing inventory reports, which has been in existence for over 50 years. again, this is a range of balances from negative 286%, roughly same geography as the board district 4, to about 137% in bernal lights and western addition. the positive balance is due to a

program in the district. it projects a housing balance as a proportion of new units and projects that have received entitlements and yet to receive building permits. the slide shows the balance at 16%. it's in the same time as the previous reporting period. the housing balance is provided at board district and planning district levels. the housing balance ordinance specifies the projects entitled but not yet to have building permits not be included in the housing balance. all together, the remaining basis of the projects will provide 21,570 net new units of

which 23% will be affordable. i would like to also note that there are other entitled projects that are multi-phased like pier 70, mission rock and home-sf that are not counted here, as these have yet to get permits issued. affordability range from 25% to 40% affordability. also not included are projects under review. 17% are in 100% affordable housing. and 95 market rate projects, will be subject to the

affordable housing requirement. that could bring 1,900 affordable housing units. i will now talk about miscellaneous housing matters. the report will come out in april and october. there is also an annual hearing to be conducted before the board of supervisors and planning commission each april. the newest office of housing and work force development, department of building inspection and city economists will present strategies for achieving and maintaining a balance consistent with housing goals at this meeting. should it fall below 33%, mohcd

will determine the funding needed to bring the city into the required 33%. i would like to acknowledge the presence of amy chan and robert collins and they will be available for -- to the board if the supervisors have questions. the planning department has a website for the housing balance reports as required by the ordinance. the current report can be downloaded from the site. that's all for now. i will be here for questions the supervisors may have. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you for that presentation. this is a report where i always cringe because as you documented district 4 does pretty poorly in creating new housing in our district. so i hope that it will change over time and a more positive

upswing of seeing the negative 277% is disheartening. >> supervisor kim: i want to thank the planning department for conducting the bi-annual reports on housing balance. we first introduced this back in 2014. and while it does not build more affordable housing or get us to a goal, it's important for us to have a clear and transparent lens for the board of supervisors, mayor and the public to understand how we're achieving our goals on building more affordable and middle-income housing, which represents at least 60% of our residents, as we know, that are under 120% of a.m.i. so we clearly continue to have work to do. but i hope that this report is being utilized at the planning commission to push commissioners

and staff to help us address meeting our goals every single year. but i do just want to thank the commission and staff for their work in putting out this report. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. seeing no other questions or comments, any member of the public that wishes to comment on item 6, please come on up. >> corey smith, san francisco housing coalition. i will probably share the same sentiment that supervisor tang stated. it's disappointing across the board when -- and a fantastic job to the department and staff. it's interesting and useful to know where we are and where we've been, but we've failed. so looking forward, we can we do to increase housing production at all levels of affordability?

there's been so much built in district 6. that makes sense. there's an apartment ban in the majority of the city. if we can't build apartments, we can't build subsidized, affordable housing. city of minneapolis set the model for a progressive agenda. and they removed their apartment ban citywide. for a city like san francisco, to let other cities beat us to that punch, i particularly find disappointing. it's not easy and there are a lot of difficult situations. if we're serious about the scale and mass of this problem, we need to take radical solutions and putting things on the table like, it's okay to build 4- to 6-story apartment buildings. it's okay to build low- to

middle-income buildings, will get us to a fair and equitable city. it's not easy and we look forward to continuing the conversation. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. i'm fernando marte, community of housing organizations. as the previous speaker stated, we have a long ways to go and this report makes it clear. not only are we not producing enough affordable housing is for every two new affordable housing units we produce, we lose an affordable unit. two steps forward, one step back. and i think it leads to several directions that the city could go in. what the previous speaker said and supervisors tang and safai did around home-sf, that's one

direction. it created something that a lot of people came together to support. but we haven't seen it actually make that difference yet. and i think it will take some time before the market starts to move out to the outer areas. in the meantime, we keep losing and losing the affordable housing that we have. and it points to the other direction of what we need to do, which is a real preservation policy that puts permanent funding at the scale needed to buy buildings before they are lost to the speculative market. before the tenants are kicked out and buildings transformed into t.i.c.s or condos or three demolitions and made into mega houses, but permanently kept for affordable housing. we have a program that rolled out some years ago, but it's

underfunded. and this report puts it before the city to figure out how to fund programs like that that can really make a difference in those neighborhoods that are seeing the negative housing balances. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter cohen, also colleague of fernando's. and just real thanks to the planning department for sticking with this and the commitment to doing this type of deep dive as they say every six months. i know this kind of stuff makes our eyes glaze over, but it's incredibly important and thank you for pointing out that just the transparency and a reality check on what is happening is not important, but it's a straight data and tells a story.

so thankful the planning staff has invested the time and smarts to do it. we have to remember, we argue a lot over how many housing units we need total. [please stand by]

>> one of the issues we need to work out with the city his how we use the public sites to prioritize the type of middle and low income housing we are not getting, and how to find the funding to make this happen, which we can't get because you do not have private funding capital. thank you for sticking with it, good work to the planning department. >> thank you very much pick any other members of the public who wish to speak on item six? public comment is close to. thank you to all staff and the mayor touch office of housing for that. with that, colleagues, clerk, are there any other items for us today? >> is there a motion on the item cost. >> we should continue or file the hearing. >> while it is mandated to have the report. we had it and heard it so you can file it. >> we can file this? okay great. motion to file the hearing? >> so moved.

>> we will do that without objection. are there any other items for us today? >> thank you. we will see you in 2019. . >> happy holidays, san francisco. hundreds of festive lights are illuminating san francisco

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>> you guys ready to light a tree? it's that time. all right. so good evening, everyone. my name's phil ginsburg. i'm the executive director of your san francisco rec and parks department, and i want to

welcome you to the 89th, let me repeat that, 89th annual tree lighting right here at mclaren lodge. so let's start with a big round of applause for the young teen people musical company, and its director, on their recent first place win at san francisco's youth arts summit. they are an amazing, amazing organization, and i'm particularly grateful for the hanukkah song. so i'm so honored to be joined tonight by our amazing mayor, london breed. [applause] >> and our rec and park commission president, mark buell. [applause] >> and so i want to start by acknowledging all of the special people who are here with us tonight. these are folks that make this event happen that makes your parks the best park system in the united states, so they

deserve some acknowledgement. let me start with senator -- state senator scott wiener, who's here. state assembly man phil ting. city college -- they're on their way. if not, they should be behind me. city board of trusties, john rizzo, chanel. on their way are trent rohrer, and the department of environment deputy chief jennifer katz, and a very special shoutout to a person who's come to every tree lighting since i've been

general manager, but this is her last tree lighting at our fire chief, a big, big, big round of applause for our fire chief, joanne hayes-white. [applause] >> our amazing rec and park commission. i mentioned our president, mark buell. also here are commissioner cat anderson, gloria bonilla, tom anderson, eric mcdonald, and commissioner larry mazzola. i want to thank them. they -- the citizen members of the park recreation open space advisory committee. they help you make our park special. our president, stephen franz is here. i want to thank our amazing partners who make this possible. supporting us today is kaiser

permanently, illuminate, our conservatory of flowers. all right. let tease talk about the tree we're supposed to light. mayor, we've been liethsing tre -- lighting trees around the city, but this is our official industry. this is a cypress that's over 131 years old, and despite losing a limb or two over the years, it stands super tall and super strong, and tonight, it's supporting over 550 lights. let's give it up for uncle john's tree. [applause] >> and then a few special

people. i want to welcome the boys and girls for hamilton recreation center, who are here. let's give it up for hamilton rec. [applause] >> and none of this would be possibly without the hardest group of city employees. all my respect to our amazing department heads. madam mayor, your san francisco rec and parks department putting this on and they're amazing. i also want to give a big shout out to our tree toppers, all of our struck ral staff and deputy maintenance staff who make this possible. let's give it up for the rec and parks staff. [applause] >> we have the holiday train that is just over to my right that has been painted every year for decades and decades, and the last several decades, by our painting supervisor, joe

padilla. the theme of tonight's event is world peace. may tonight's tree lighting shine a bright light in all corners of the world and provide peace to those in need. and speaking of peace, leading the way and bringing peace to our amazing city, please give a warm welcome to our mayor, who's going to light tonight's tree, mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, phil ginsburg, and the folks at the rec and parks department for keeping our parks green and beautiful. thank you all so much for being here tonight. when i was a kid, i would get my toys from station five, the firefighters. thank you, chief hayes-white and the firefighters spags tiev fire department.

i used to go down to the emporium cat well. you remember the emporium cat well? tonight, as we light this tree, we are creating memories for the next generation of young people growing up in san francisco. it's something that i'm so excited about, and in fact, at city hall, in our front yard at civic center, we have an ice skating rink. we have incredible, beautiful playgrounds and activities and things for kids to do during the holiday season. this sunday, i hope you consider joining me in city hall. we'll have santa and face painters and hot chocolate and cookies, things that help create tomorrow's memories. so i want to thank all of you for being here tonight, and i want to ask for some assistance in lighting this tree. you guys want to help me out? come on over. come on, help me out.

all right. you guys excited? you want to count with me? going to hold the switch? all right. here we go. ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> the hon. london breed: magic! thank you, ladies and gentlemen and happy holidays. [cheers and i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so

gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160

acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and

walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come >> hi, everybody. we're going to get started. welcome, welcome, welcome to the last day of the old margaret hayward playground. that's worthy of some applause, i think. [applause] >> before i introduce the mayor, i just want to say thanks to all of the amazing community partners who have worked with us to pull this off. this was a complicated planning effort, and we have some really, really, really passionate community partners and stakeholders, who i'm going

to acknowledge in a second, and city agencies, and we have just an amazing design that is really going to serve this neighborhood, that is really going to serve the institutions around this neighborhood, the nonprofits around this neighborhood, and we're so excited about this project. so my special guest here to the right is a community member that grew up in this park, and that's what makes this so special. i've had the opportunity to talk to the mayor about her own memories, playing in this park. this was your park, right? and so we are so honored to be able to think about the next generation, so let me announce or mayor and park -- our mayor and parks champion, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. i am so excited to be here today, because i spend many years in this park. in fact, this playground structure that is here is not the playground structure that

is here when i was used to play. it was wood. it was made out of wood. we used to get splinters in that park on a regular basis. the swing -- the slide was really, really high. nisha, you remember that. the slide was really high, and we used to jump off the slide. i mean, we were -- we were -- don't do that. don't do what we did. i used to eat lunch here through the free lunch program, and i used to get snacks here. i played chess and checkers when kids played board games. i basically spent my entire childhood in this playground, and it was a place that was safe. it was a place that i loved to come to and language out, and i was so grateful that it was just in such close proximity to where i lived because it wasn't

a far walk. and so renata, who was the rec director here at the time, she was absolutely amazing. and you know, we miss her dearly. she passed away a few years ago, but anitra is going to be the new person to run this rec place with a lot of the kids that are standing here behind me. and it does take a village, and it does take a lot of support, especially for our young people, who deserve to have every opportunity that is available to them. and it was because of programs like what existed here at margaret hayward playground is the reason why i was able to grow and to thrive in san francisco. living right across the street at plaza east, which didn't look like what it looks like now, too, large towers of public housing, and my

grandmother, she raised me, and in order to get me out of her hair, she'd say go to the park to play. but it's amazing to be with all of you here because we are going to make this park, this playground, this rec center, we are going to make it into something that is absolutely incredible. in 2016, a plan began with so many community organizations began in this neighborhood to say what the people wanted, what the people who live here wanted, in terms of a new playground and recreation center, and how are we going to deliver to make this place an incredible place, not only for this generation, but for generations to come. so this $28 million project, $28 million -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: it's going to usher in what i think is absolutely incredible. i'm so grateful for the leadership of rec and park and

phil ginsburg and all the work that you continue to do to be a champion for our parks in san francisco. i am so excited that rodney -- is rodney here? yes, rodney and the ymca, and anisha's here. i'm excited that they're going to be implementing great programs that the ymca provides, and i'm looking forward to being here in how long, phil? >> 15, 16 months. >> the hon. london breed: 15 months when we cut the ribbon of the new recreation center and playground. and hopefully, the swings are going to be strong enough to bold adults, too. >> both of us. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, phil. appreciate it. because we are still kids at heart, and that's what parks do

for all of our citizens. we want kids to get outside and play. we want adults and others to enjoy our basketball courts and our tennis courts and our rec centers and all that san francisco has to offer. so i just want to say thank you to the voters for continuing to support parks funding every time you see it on the ballot. thank you to the community of the western addition for not only supporting this and being actively engaged, but continuing to support parks in this neighborhood. and i guarantee you that even though this park is utilized, especially during the summer, this park, when it is completed, it's going to be hard to get into, i assure you of that, and i am looking forward to being here within the next 10 months to cut the ribbon so we can get to playing and swinging and enjoying ourselves. thank you all so much for being here today. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] >> did i say 15 months?

no pressure -- yes, i did. you know, the mayor talked about the importance to her of being able to walk to a park, or maybe it was the importance of your grandmother being able to send you to a park. >> the hon. london breed: yeah, that too. >> you know, mayor, you ged to preside over the first city in america where everyone in the city can walk to a park. it really is an extraordinary thing that sets san francisco apart. so it's worth noting. it's my pleasure to bring up our newest district five supervisor for whom community

is definitely first, vallie brown. [applause] >> ms. brown: thank you, phil. i remember when we were talking about this probably in 2000 -- and what was it? 10? >> it was a long time ago. >> i don't know. it's been a long time. but i want to thank mayor breed and parks and rec for saying that parks are important not only to this city, but this district. this district is very special to me, and the people who live around here. and i really am happy to see us keep moving forward with green space. but this process just wasn't a city hall or department effort. this was a community effort, and you have to remember, and all the people standing behind me, we have sheryl davis that used to be with mo' magic, and she was there, pushing for it.

there's james -- where's james? he was part of it, also. and then, there was kelley groves, and barbara, who started the process. i know judith cohen is here. rodney's here from buchanan y, and then, spencer, are you here? oh, well, boys and girls club has been part of this, but you know, they're busy with the kids today. but one of the things that i really always admired and truly respect in the western addition is that the community comes forward and says look, what's best fore the community, and they look at it as a whole. and kids have always come first in this community, and that's all something i think we all some strive for when we're looking at legislation or we're looking at things in this city,

what is good for the kids that are here, and i'm just really happy to be part of this, and i will be there in 15 months? >> you betcha. >> cutting that ribbon with mayor breed and everyone behind me, and kamaya from mo' magic. but thank you everybody for coming, and we'll all be back in 15 months. it's on my calendar. thank you. [applause] >> i should have said 17 months. supervisor brown started to introduce some of the community members, so let me acknowledge -- more formally acknowledge our amazing partners. judith cohen. you're going to hear in a second from chuck collins and rodney chin of the ymca. they've just been such amazing partners not just at this site,

but all across the city. bobbie sisk from bethel a.m.e. bobbie -- without bobbie's help and bobbie's support and encouragement for this renovation, it might not have happened, so thank you, bobbie, for really understanding the bigger vision here. a special shoutout to gary cannonand melinda schrade. they've made an incredibly generous gift that will enable us to convert the fields us us into athletic fields that can be used year-round. we're just going to get more kids playing on the fields because of their generosity, so thank you very much, sacred heart. the mayor and supervisor brown

gave a shoutout to sheryl davis, but sheryl deserves as many shoutout as we can give her. before that, sheryl running mo' magic was amazing. i was to recognize the western addition, prosac for all of their help. so many partners, and it just speak to see what the mayor said about the importance of this space. very briefly, let me just acknowledge the design and construction team because they are extraordinary. this is a design done by our very own department of public works. i want to thank mohamed and jen and the entire design team for their work. it is an extraordinary design. i want to thank the construction team, bachman. we ended up with a great, great contractor. they've worked with us on our

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