so this is 48 million, and then, there's grants. some of them are substantial, but this represents more than 50% of our activity. >> supervisor mandelman: great. thank you. >> and -- we're always open to questions, too. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. let's open this up for public comment now. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, can we have a motion, please? yes. >> supervisor mandelman: i will move to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, supervisor mandelman. i think we can take this without objection. thank you very much. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call items one and two together? i see kathy widener from the san francisco airport is here to present today. [agenda item read] [agenda item read].

>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. we have kathy widener from the san francisco airport. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors, kathy widener from the san francisco international airport. the items before you seek new concessions in two terminals. these two leases were part of a request for proposals processed for retail concessions in terminal one. each lease will pay either the greater of a minimum annual guarantee rent or a percentage rent and have lease terms of seven years with two one-year

options to extend. terminal one is currently under going renovation and will be opened in phases. the mag rent proposed with these two leases are the marshall group, $440,000 a year, and paradies lagardere, $700,000 a year. based on previous sales, airport staff estimates that both outlets will pay on the higher percentage rent formula. the budget analyst has reviewed the -- both leases and recommends approval, and i would be happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor fewer: i think there's a b.l.a. report on this, is this correct?

thank you very much. >> yes. these leases -- these two leases are part of a package that the airport is presents. there were seven leases all together in terms of the original request for proposals. two are pending and will come before the board for approval. so the lease with marshall and the lease with paradies and marshall, they were the two highest as part of the competitive process. the rent is set at the minimum annual guarantee or a percentage rent. the airport expects to get percentage rent, but if you look at the percentage rent minimum annual guarantee on page five of our report, the leases, they're being phased in due to the construction in the terminal, so they won't reach initially the total minimum amount guarantee, but our estimate is about 4.3 million over the seven-year term of the

paradies lease and 3.8 million over the term of the marshall lease. we do recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, do we have a motion? >> supervisor stefani: i'd like to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation, items one and two. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor stefani. can take that without objection. thank you very much. [gavel] madam clerk, can you please call items number three, four, and five together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read].

>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe kathy widener from the san francisco international airport is here to present on this. >> yes. thank you, chair fewer and members of the committee. kathy widener from the airport. this seeks approval for electronic concessions in terminal through, two, and 1. all three locations have a ten-year term with varying mags depending on their locations and square footage. the terminal one location has an annual guarantee of

$405,000, $500,000, and the international terminal location has a minimum annual guarantee of $340,000. as with the other leases that you've seen, the tenant pays on the greater of either the minimum annual guarantee or a percentage rent based on their gross sales. also in this case, airport staff estimates based on previous sales from these locations that the tenant will pay on the higher of the percentage rent formula. the budget analyst has reviewed and recommends approval and i can answer any questions that you might have. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, colleagues, any question are for miz -- miss widener? citying none -- seeing none, let's go to to the b.l.a.

[inaudible] >> -- and other activities, but they did consider in motion to be responsive to the r.f.p. the minimum annual guarantee for each -- for these three total leases is 2.2 mil -- 1.2 million or 12.4 million over the five-year term. the airport is expecting to receive the percentage rent which is higher than the minimum guarantee, and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public wish to speak on this? i see none, so public comment is closed. colleagues, do we have a motion? yes, supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i'll move we forward these agreements to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: yes. thank you, [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: madam

clerk, would you call item number six? [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. miss kathy widener of the san francisco international airport to present on this one. >> thank you, chair fewer, members of the committee. kathy widener for the airport. in -- one in terminal three and one in the international terminal with a ten-year term. each less again will pay either of the greater proposed minimum annual guarantee rent or the percentage rent, whichever is higher. the mag rent associated with these three locations with terminal three -- oh, i'm sorry. that's not right. i'm going to let -- this is not accurate, so i'm going to let the budget analyst give you the minimum guarantee, but as the

other leases, we do expect the tenants to be paying on a percentage rent based on previous sales. these leases were all part of a request for proposals process with spa b.r. s.f.o. ranked as the highest bidder. this concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any questions for miss widener? seeing none, let's go to the b.l.a. >> the b.l.o. is being asked to approve these leases. they're for massage and other services at the airport. spa brsfo was the highest scorer to an r.f.p. process. we show that on page 12 of our

report. the less is for 12 years. the minimum annual guarantee is 250,000 per year or 2.5 million over ten years. the assumption by the airport is that they will be paying the higher percentage rent rather than minimum annual guarantee, and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, do we have a motion for this? yes, supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: yes, i'd like to forward this to the if you mean -- full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. at this time, i'd like to call . >> supervisor fewer: we'll combacome back into session. we'll start with our last item on the agenda today, which is item 12.

madam clerk, can you call item 12. >> clerk: yes. resolution approving a vertical disposition and development agreement between the port and a joint venture between tmg partners and presidio bay ventures for the sale of parcel k north, located at 20th street and illinois street, by the port and adopting various findings. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i believe we have christine maher from the port of san francisco to present on this item. thank you. >> my name is christine maher, and i'm here representing the port on behalf of director forbes to present on pier 70, which is parcel k north. before getting into the details of the parcel k north transaction, i'll start off with just a brief overview of the larger pier 70 project. in the fall of 2017, the board approved several pieces of legislation authorizing the pier 70 mixed use district project, including approval of

the 35 acre pier 70 special use district and a disposition and development agreement with four city covering 28 out of the 35 acres in the special use district. last fall, the board also authorized a financing district for pier 70. just a reminder, the pier 70 s.u.d. covers 35 acres adjacent to the dogpatch neighborhood. it provides for approximately 1600 to 3,000 residential units of which 30% must be affordable, up to 1.5 million square feet of office space, and nine acres of open space. the project also has a robust public benefits package. it includes more than 470 affordable housing units, sea level rise protections, nine

acres of new parks and open space, the historic rehabilitation of buildings 2, 12, and 21, and a new arts building just to name a few. now i will turn to specifics of parcel k north. parcel k north or p.k.n. is a parcel at the corner of illinois and 20th street. it is subject to the s.u.d. which provides us to 260,000 gross square feet of residential and 13,000 gross square feet of commercial and residential, 240 to 270 residential units ranging from studios to three-bedroom units and.6 parking spaces per housing units. p.k.n. is not one of the options however, the d.d.a. does require the port to sell

parcel k for condo development by february 19, 2019 and then to use the proceeds from the sale to pay down entitlement costs for the larger pier 70 project. consistent with all market rate condo projects in the pier 70 s.u.d., the project will be required to a pay 28% in lieu fee rather than provide on-site inclusionary housing units. i'll now turn to the buyer selection process. in 2017, the port approved the broker approved sale at or behalf fair market value. five buyers ultimately responded to the solicitation, and the port in consultation with the real estate division and collier's selected a join venture of t.m.g. partners and presidio ventures along with

westbrook as the highest qualified bidder. now onto the terms of the sale. over the last four months, the port and the buyer have been negotiating the terms of a vertical disposition and development agreement for the sale and development of parcel k north. some of the major terms include paying a total consideration to the port of 25.35 million, constructing a public plaza at the corner of 20th and illinois, and the one-block stretch of michigan street and the future 21st street, subject to reimbursement from public financing sources. complying with certain sound proofing measures to minimize conflicts with the american industrial center located across the street from the project. payment of a 1.5% transfer fee due upon the sale of every condo unit after the initial sale, compliance with the city's first source hiring program, local and minority hiring requirements, and

completion of the close of escrow by the end of 2019. finally, this last slide summarizes the financial benefits of the transaction. as previously mentioned, the port will receive one-time revenues of 24.35 million in sale proceeds and estimated annual revenues of 474,000 from the 1.5% transfer fees from the resale of condo units. as required, the port will use the fees to pay down the cost of the project. the city will receive one time tax revenues of 720,000 and one time estimated development fees of 1.29 million. finally, itthat:concludeds the presentation. myself as well as elaine forbes and brad benson from the port,

claudia gorham from real estate, amy and carlos from t.m.g., kabir and miles from presidio bay are all available to answer any questions. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: through the chair, might i ask you a question? thank you for the presentation. i do have a few questions about this -- just some of the underlying thinking around some of the business terms and wants to have a -- wanted to have a conversation about a couple of things. the first is this is a for-sale transaction, and one of the things that's somewhat unique

about the port compared to public agencies is almost everything the port has done i think has been on ground leases. and i know some of that is because of public trust, but there's also a principle, which is that it is good to have land in public ownership, and it is going to give it back at some point to the public new future even if it's being developed now for some private use. so i wanted to ask the port to talk a little bit about the thinking on why this particular parcel should be sold rather than transferred pursuant to a long-term ground lease. >> supervisor mandelman, through the chair, brad benson, director of special projects for the port representing the port team and director forbes. happy to answer your question. you're right. the port has land granted that

it holds in trust for the people of california, and typically, the port does not sell that land. it's the 7.5 mile band from fisherman's wharf to heron's head park. the only times that the port can tell the property is when it has the authorization of the state legislature or where it's done a trust exchange, and this is the case with pier 70. pier 70 had some lands in it that were never subject to the trust, uplands, not tidelands, or were being required prior to the birdland act. the port commission could have

sold all of the parcels freed from the public trust but for the very reasons that you're indicating, the port commission decided to lease most of the property in pier 70 for nontrust mixed-use development. it's a mixture of ownership housing and rental housing, including the affordable housing that christine mentioned. for condo sites, you really cannot do condos on a ground lease. port staff researched that option. the problem is there's risk for both the port and for those future condo owners at the end of that groundless term. what happens to their property when the lease expires? so we didn't think that was possible, but the port commission did want to see

ongoing revenues and benefit to the trust even after the sale. so you'll notice on christine slides here, if i could put that summary of financial benefits up, line two shows annual transfer fees. this -- this site is going to generate perpetual revenues to the port that we estimate starting out at $464,000, so there is an ongoing benefit. also, the c.f.d. annual revenues of $4.5 million. we expect those to go on for 120 years, and that's only true for the for-sale sites in the projects. so that's a very long winded

answer, but we hope that there's an ongoing financial benefit to the port. we know that there will be. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. i'm torn. i suppose i think if i were on the port commission, i would have pushed all of it to be rental and to keep that in the public trust, but i know we're not exactly there in the conversation. the other -- the other questions i wants to ask relate to the fact that this property is going to be sold it looks like without the typical conditions precedent to a sale. typically, on d.d.a.s, it wants to make sure that all the conditions that are going to need to be met have been met

prior to transferring that property to a developer so you know you're going to get the thing you want there. my understanding is the sale is going to happen. it's a market rate sale. the developer is paying what the market will bear, but there's no -- there isn't the certainty that we would have under an atritional d.d.a., that the development we're anticipating is going to get built there within a particular time frame or any time at all. am i getting that right? >> you're right. there's no -- we call this a schedule of performance to build, and we didn't think that there was one that was necessary in this case. we're in a market that has some uncertainty compared to the past couple of years. construction costs are going up. we thought that we would gain moreland value if we did not have a schedule of performance, and there is -- there becomes a carrying cost to this land, so these annual c.f.d. revenues,

they kick in whether or not a building has been built starting in the fiscal year that is three years after the vdda is signed, which would be in it a couple of weeks if the board acts. so we think there is a strong financial incentive for the developer to build on the site, to be able to have revenue on the project, to be able to pass on those future c.f.d. taxes to future condo buyers, so that's why we did not include a schedule of performance. >> supervisor mandelman: what are the risks to us if we go ahead and sell the property to the developer and for whatever set of reasons, the developer doesn't begin the project, and the property isn't developed? >> we think we'll get the financial benefits of the c.f.d. revenues, which is the thing that we're really looking for from this site to be able to help payoff other 28-acre

site costs, horizontal costs of streets and utilities and infrastructure whether or not a building gets built. so once those c.f.d. special taxes come into play, we're in a position to issue bonds if approved by the port commission and board of supervisors to pay those costs. so we don't see a harm to the site not being developed for a period of time. we think that it's very unlikely that we would go more than five years without seeing development on this site. and we're being patient with pier 70. it's a big site. it's a 35-acre special use district. we expect it to be built out over 15 years or more, so we think that the risk of a particular parcel not moving within that period is not a big risk of the overall project. >> supervisor mandelman: but i assume we don't have any buy back options? >> this does not include a buy

back option, no, it does not. >> supervisor mandelman: okay. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, anymore questions? seeing none, let's turn it over to the b.l.a. >> the board is being asked to approve the vertical disposition and development agreement between the port and t.m.g. presidio bay. miss maher detailed the process. the port would sell the property to t.m.g. presidio bay for $24.35 million. the actual purchase price is 24 million and then another 350,000 where the developer would assume the port costs -- the buyer would assume the port costs. this is consistent with the appraisal and the appraisal review of 24.3 million for the property. some of the other items, in

table two page 37 of our report, some of other specific conditions or terms of this, mr. benson did talk about this transfer fee, so this is 1.5% participation fee that the port would receive for subsequent seals of the condominiums. it's not on the first sale, but on the subsequent sales. one of the other key provisions is about the community facilities district. this is actually subject to future board of supervisors approval. it's not yet been approved by the board, but that it would be -- the port would be able to make the decision that there would be a c.f.d. formed on this site. the special assessment on the levies is already put into the vertical development agreement to account for that for the future.

there's also some development impact fees that would be paid. the estimate on the affordable housing in lieu fee for this site would be about $14.6 million. i think the one other -- well, a couple of other key terms. the developer's expected to develop some of the public improvements to michigan street and a couple of public spaces. the estimated cost is 7.7 million. there is a bit of a risk to the port, to the city for this, to the extent that the developer puts the money up front and then gets paid back the moneys from the infrastuckture district that was previously approved or the facilities district. at this point, there isn't revenue coming in from those, so if there's either delay either in the tax increment from the infrastructure financing commitment or the tax levy from the community district, the cost of those projects are going to increase by about 4.4% per year because

that's the developer's return on their costs, so there is a risk there. and then, i think mr. benson has already talked about that there is not a specific schedule of performance in this d.d.a. and has already talked about that piece of it here. we actually are recommending approval of this because it's consistent with the documents from the board's prior approval of the pier 70 agreement. this is in the financing plan, but i'm available to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor fewer: transgender very much. colleagues, any questions from miss campbell? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, this is a huge project, and it's been in the

works for a while. i gave you a copy of the amendments that i would like to propose. item six, striking lines 9 through 19, adding in on page nine, line one through four. and i will read aloud the amendment that i'm adding, further resolve that the board of supervisors urges to the executive director the mayor's office of housing and community development to return to the budget and finance committee with a proposed plan to extend affordable housing fees generated by the development of parcel k north, and i am calling for that to come back in two weeks to this board. so i make a motion to approve those amendments. can we take that without objection? thank you. and then, i'm making a motion to send this out of committee

without recommendation to the full board. can we accept that without -- i mean, without objection? thank you very much. [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us today? >> clerk: there are no other items on this agenda today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. this meetings adjourned. -- this meeting's adjourned. >> the hon. london breed: all right, folks. how you doing today? i'm london breed. i'm the mayor for san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and i am really excited to be here because we got something

actually accomplished in the city and county of san francisco by working together. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i want to take this opportunity to recognize members of the san francisco board of supervisors who are joining us today, including the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee, supervisors vallie brown, ahsha safai, and gordon mar, and matt haney. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: now i know that it took us a little while to get here, and one of the things that i am so excited about is the fact that we are here. we are here because the building and construction trades, some members of the board of supervisors, some of our department heads, like phil ginsburg and mohamed nuru, they all came to the table, and many of our l.b.e.s, wanting to make sure that we came up with an

agreement that was fair, that supported good wages, that provides opportunities for people in san francisco, some of whom have never worked a job a day in their life, providing real opportunities for them to be part of the building and construction trades, making sure that our l.b.e.s, who -- especially those who are struggling to do business in the city and county of san francisco have a real shot at growth. and this agreement i think is a fair and balanced agreement that is going to help lead our city into the future. we know that prying to negotiate a project labor agreement started many, many years ago under the leadership of larry mazzola, sr. [applause] >> and it's -- it's only fitting that we actually deliver it with your offspring,

larry mazzola, jr. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: it started with the leadership under the labor council with tim paulson carrying on that tradition with rudy gonzalez who is now head of the labor council here in san francisco. so many amazing people. it really did take a village to get to this place, and i'm honored to be with you here today to sign this important legislation that is really about building strong communities, create opportunities that providing opportunities for growth and making sure that no one is left behind. so this is the beginning. we know that there is still work to do. i also want to recognize josh arce, who's our workforce director. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and thank you all so much, again, for just all of your hard work, for coming to the table, and doing what's necessary to

arrive at what i think is a fair and balanced agreement. and miguel, thank you for being here today. miguel with the l.b.e.s, the person who led the negotiations and made sure that he expressed some of the challenges with a number of the women and minority contractors so that this was a fair and balanced agreement. so i want to thank each and every one of you for being here today. we know that it was a tough road, john and vince and others, and tony. there was some yelling, there was some cursing, that was some really crazy conversations, but you know what? that's how you negotiate. that's how you get things done. you've got to be willing to have the hard conversation. but what i appreciate about everyone who participated in this agreement is that everyone was willing to stay and sit at

the table and work through the differences that we have to come up with a compromise where no one is actually happy about everything, which means we did something right. so today, i'm really proud and excited to sign this agreement. i also want to recognize my deputy chief of staff who helped lead the negotiations, andrea bruss. thank you so much. i don't know how many complaints i got about andrea, but in the end, she was great for leading these negotiations on behalf of my office, and we really couldn't have done this without some dedicated members of the board of supervisors. which included a team -- a tag team of supervisor ahsha safai and supervisor aaron peskin. they really led the negotiations, and supervisor sandy fewer came in with, you know, just some extra oomph to

the conversation which really created, again, a fair and balanced agreement, one that we all can agree is best for the future of the city and county of san francisco. with that, i'd like to introduce supervisor safai to say a few words. [applause] >> supervisor safai: thank you, madam mayor. i can tell you probably this time last year i would not have been able to predict that we would be standing here, ready to sign this agreement. and that's just the truth. i think if you ask anyone that was involved in it, there were a lot of fits and starts. but one of the things that changed was the election in june of this mayor, and this mayor -- yes. [applause] >> supervisor safai: we -- when london breed was the president of the board of supervisors, we had engaged on this topic. we had reached out, started

talking with larry and john and everyone involved, and miguel and juliana, and said this is going to happen. this is going to happen because it's the right thing to do. and many people said, why do we need a p.l.a.? what's the reason for a p.l.a.? we have a good contractor. why do we need this. but when you think about this, it's not about what can happen today, it's about what can happen in the worst times. it's when we have a recession, when people aren't thinking about what can happen in the future and when things turnaround, because at the end of the day, it's about protecting workers, it's about the advancements we've made in city build and local hiring. it's about protecting the advancements we've made in our l.b.e. community. it's about expanding the opportunities for everyone and

ensuring that we lead not only for california but for the rest of the nation. this is a historic framework. i know that larry and the city administrator and all their team and l.b.e. community are going to come together, and they're going to negotiate in the next year a wonderful agreement that's going to advance us. but i have to say when mayor breed was elected it was a game changer. within since months of her being in office so many things have happened for organized labor that had been talked about for decades that had never happened. we negotiated a citywide m.c.o. agreement. that was a commitment on the magnitude of millions of dollars. we have negotiated the framework now for a citywide p.l.a. larry, sr. told me on the way in that he's been talking about this for 20 year. this mayor, and her leadership on the board of supervisors, we got this done in the first six months of her being in office.

[applause] >> supervisor safai: so yes, there were a lot of people that were under the radar. i want to give a big shout out to massoud from the p.u.c. the p.u.c. also helped in these negotiations. the city administrator, we had negotiations, i was sitting in my robe in front of the fireplace at 1:00 in the morning on the phone with these folks. i'm sure on the other end of the line, they're thinking how are we up at 1:00 in the morning, trying to get this done? but in the end, it was a unanimous vote by the board of supervisors, a unanimous vote, larry, and we did it, and we did it for every single one of these workers that are sitting here, the one that will follow them, and we set the framework for the city and county of san francisco. so thank you, madam mayor. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and with that, i'd like to introduce miguel galarza to

come up and say a few words. this guy right here is a real tough negotiator, but really, a great businessman in the city and county of san francisco, one who represented minority contractors and women contractors in the city, and he did a phenomenal job. miguel? [applause] >> thank you. i just want to say thank you to all the council members. despite our disagreements at the beginning, we came together and put together a policy that's going to make a difference for many of our city workers that are not in the building trades council or open shop businesses, that sooner or later will be part of the brotherhood that is the union workforce, so thank you all for making it happen. i also want to thank the mayor for her leadership. there's no doubt that she may say i'm a tough negotiator, but she held the line, and she made

sure that we stayed there for hours and hours and hours, and she calmed everybody down when tensions were high, and at the end of the day, we -- they wouldn't be high until we all had passion, and there's passion on the building trades for the right reason. they've made a difference in people's lives for a long time. and there's passion for those of us that own businesses. i'm a kid from the mission district. i started out as a carpenter back in the 70's, and now today, i have 70 employees. so all of you that are in the building trades now, shoot for the stars because ultimately, you will be the next generation of union employers and employees that will continue to make san francisco what it is today, the shining star of the nation. and with that, thank you for making -- again, for making it happen, mayor, supervisors, and enjoy your day.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: and there were tough negotiators all around, including the representatives of the building and the construction trades. i have never seen john get so red in the face on numerous occasions as someone who has a lot of passion along with tony and danny and vince and tim. they were all at the table just really with an understanding of the challenges that the workers, that they represent face, but also so many san franciscans in our l.b.e. community face, as well. and i really appreciate the fact that you all were so actively engaged in helping us get to this point. thank you to your commitment and passion to the workers of san francisco, and thank you to the person who led the effort, who basically was phenomenal in his work. clearly, larry, sr. has taught

you well in terms of being a fierce, tough negotiator in representing workers in the city and county of san francisco. ladies and gentlemen, larry mazzola, jr. [applause] >> thank you, miss mayor. so i'm not sure how many of you know this, but this started 2.5 years ago with a process, and it started with a phone call. phil ginsburg and mohamed nuru called me 2.5 years ago and said we want a citywide project labor agreement. can you get this done? i said i don't know, guys. it'll be a tough task, but i'll try, and here we are. like ahsha says, p.l.a.s are -- are great for workers. they're going to be great for the workers of this city, union and nonunion alike. a lot of people don't

understand what p.l.a.s do and what they are. and i wrote down a few things. they provide for workers in the communities. they provide uniform wages, benefits, hours and working conditions. they bar unions from striking, so it's like a peace agreement. they provide contractors reliable and uninterrupted supply of qualified workers at predictable cost. they ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget. they create career paths for women, minorities, and veterans. and the biggest thing is that they protect the workers, like i said, union and nonunion workers alike in san francisco will benefit from a project labor agreement of this size and this statute. like i said before, this happened over a number of years, but it happened -- the way it got over the finish line happened because of one person, and that person is mayor london

breed. and she took the bull by the horns, and she said right when we got in office, she said larry, we're going to get this thing over the finish line. i know you've been working with a lot of different people on this, and it's an important issue to you, it's an important issue to you, and it's an important issue to the city. she grabbed us at city hall one day. we were supposed to have a two-hour meeting, and it turned into a ten-hour meeting. she cancelled appointments and other things that she had to be at. she said we're going to finish this night, and she did that. she brokered a deal, and there's no one that i want to thank more than mayor london breed for getting this done. [applause] >> i also want to thank aaron peskin, who's not here, and ahsha safai -- did i get that right? ahsha had a lot to do with us and sat down with us hour after hour, days, weeks. we had conference calls at

night, 1:00, 2:00 at night. i really don't want to think about what you were wearing during those conference calls, so please don't bring that up again. but i do want to thank you very much for all the effort that i put in, and thank you for letting me have a drink in your office afterwards. you know, san francisco, the progressive city that it is is first on everything -- on a lot of things, on most things. we're a model for the country. i've been saying this since day one. san francisco should have done a citywide project labor agreement a long time ago. there's other communities in the state that have them. contra costa, lob, los angeles, santa clara, just to kna -- lo angeles, santa clara, just to name a few. this is a few that builds on those values to protect the workers and to protect the citizens of san francisco. so i'm glad that we finally got to this point.

there's a lot of work still to do. as the mayor mentioned, we have nine months or a little bit longer to negotiate and hammer out the rest of this. and i know the mayor's going to press on her staff to get that done by the deadline that we have, and we're going to get this thing done. and then, it's hopefully going to become law later this year, and it's going to be help for a lot of people, disadvantaged people. we have a great relationship with city build, and we're going to bring a lot of those people that may not have had a chance to get into the trades into the trades. it's important to all of us, and important, as well, to the city, obviously. apprenticeships have always been the backbones of the unions, and we've always had an open-door policy for our apprenticeship programs. we want to continue to do that and see our young people have another option besides going to

college if that's not their choice. i think this is going to be a great agreement that's going to benefit a lot of people. i just can't stress enough how much i can thank mayor breed for the leadership she's shown, for her negotiation skills, and for everything she's done for labor and building trades as a whole, especially. she's a born and raised san franciscan like i am. she cares about building trades, she cares about city workers. and i really appreciate everything you've done in your short time in office, mayor breed. thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: this is how all negotiations are going to go in the city, fingers crossed. all right. let's get this legislation signed. miguel, come on up. larry -- all right. we ready?

and then, what's the date today? >> 1-18-19. >> the hon. london breed: all right. there you go. [applause] . >> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪

we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water

marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too.

we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use

more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best

you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it.