decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to

youth -- hospitable to youth playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for

getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received

a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay.

good morning everybody.

welcome to the rebirth of west side chords which was the second oldest housing development in san francisco but also one of the most stable communities in san francisco and we're here to celebrate today a new life and you're going to hear more about what that's about today my name is bill witty i'm chairman and ceo related california and on behalf of our partner tabernacles cdc who you'll hear from and related. we welcome you. without further ado i'm honored to introduce someone who in fact needs no introduction the first african-american american woman mayor of san francisco but more importantly a person who is of by and for this community. leader not only of this community but of the whole city are once and future mayor honorable london

breed applause everyone. thank you all so much for being here and first of all i just want to say to the people who live in west side courts congratulations this is truly your victory and i know we're gonna be swearing in the resident council here today and mr. street is not able to join us. the president but we have the resident council here so we'll get to that in just a moment. i i just want to start by saying you know this is this is pretty amazing. i grew up as many of you probably know in the western edition community and it. i grew up in housing and plaza ease and the conditions of plaza east for over 20 years of my life where i lived? were similar to the conditions that exist right here in west side courts. before this

renovation and when i first became supervisor i met with mayor ed lee and talk to him about housing and why we weren't meeting our obligation as a city to invest in housing in a way that would allow people to live in dignity it was very personal for me because of my own personal experience in frustration and so nothing was more important to me than trying to focus on making the kinds of changes that will better the conditions of the people who live here. merely agreed him. we worked really hard and the rad program is something when awesomely was director of the mayor's office a housing we brought that idea to the community and a lot of folks were apprehensive of course because commitments had been made in the past but the follow through has has not happened but because of that work. i'm so really proud that we are renovating

over thirty five hundred housing units all over the city and changing really the conditions of how people. live and again some of the basic things that so many people take for granted because i understand what it feels like to live in a community where sometimes a windows are broken and the heat doesn't work and the water doesn't work in the toilet is stopped up and we never even had showers at plaza ease and the roaches and the past and all the stuff that really frustrated me to no end. i know has frustrated so many of the residents who lived here for years so this is really about keeping a promise a promise to change the conditions of a number of housing units throughout san francisco so that the residents truly feel not only respective but they know that they are truly an

important part of the city and county of san francisco as a whole. so so many people help to contribute to making this happen and i know that one of those person sadly is not here with us today michael palmer who work for the mayor's office a housing was a real advocate for something that i also cared about and that was making sure. that we weren't displacing the residents while we did the construction work so that people felt like we weren't trying to push them out and his work around understanding construction and combining that with his understanding and love for people really made a difference not only in this project but in so many projects throughout the city. that we are rehabbing and so i know michael's family is here with us today and i'd ask you all to please stand and be acknowledged thank you for coming applause this this place belongs to

the community and i just wanted to also take this opportunity to thank. so many people who made this possible and in fact i'm glad we didn't give top clatter a heart attack because he was the one who with the tabernacle along with reverend mccray who spent so many hours working with the residents in this community and i want to thank tabernacle i want to thank. related. the project manager for this project i want to thank bank of america not only investing in this project but continuing to invest in other rehabilitation projects throughout our city and i want to thank the mayor's office of housing so much. this was really a partnership along with our spiritual leaders in the community reverend arnold towns in and reverend amos brown thank you for continuing to make sure that the community takes front and center in any of these projects that we have worked on to rehabilitate and

i also like to acknowledge our new california state treasurer fiona mom who is joining us here today. thank you so much. owe her office provided the tax credits thank you so much without those tax credits we wouldn't be able to do this project and again it takes a village it was a lot of hard work. and i think about on today along with so many of the projects that i've been able to attend a lot of these events as soon as i'm ask i'm right there because i'm so happy i feel like this is happening to me. i feel like you know this is something that i would have liked to have happened to me when i was growing up. you know in plaza ease but at this time i'm so grateful that it's happening for the residents here at west side courts. it means a lot. and it did take

a village and so i want to thank you know i know royal and the folks who painted from from this neighborhood and so many other incredible people who came together to really provide you know this community with a place that they so deserve and we know that there is a lot more work to do and when i think about today i really think about mayor ed lee. something he would always say it's not just about making new promises is about keeping oh promises and today we keep a promise to this community to not only invest in the place that they live but continue to provide programming and resources and other things that will not only support this community but we'll make sure that this community thrives so at this time on behalf of the city and county of san francisco i would like to honor the members of the tenant association. and thank you for your commitment

and your leadership and i want to also say to all the residents here they are volunteers working on your behalf and at this time we would like to swear them in. so come on up. as so jonathan street is not with us today unfortunately he's he's the new president and he's not feeling well. but we have joe blocks. . am i saying you're right name right joe and cassandra bennett randy walton and mary jones they are gonna be sworn in and really excited to administer the oath of office. so let's do it at this time. michael all right. are we ready so

please raise your right hand and repeat after me and i and state your name. do solemnly swear to uphold the office for which i have been elected. i promise to be committed to the rules and policies established by the united states department of housing and urban development in conjunction with the san francisco housing authority the west side courts lease and housing rules and the west side courts. tenant association bylaws to enhance and increase the quality of life

to the residence and to the work. in a cooperative manner with the san francisco housing authority. the city and county of san francisco and the west side courts ownership and property management as well as other community partners i take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation. or purpose of evasion or and swear that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter.

congratulations applause all right. congratulations. thank you all so much for being here today this is the new tenant council and they will serve this community. let's give them all the support that they need to succeed thank you all so much applause good afternoon my name is randy walton and

the treasurer of the ways that 10 association he joins me now. i was the vice president. but today i am the treasury and i welcome you all. and i just want to let you know that this is a journey that we're on. and we all take it highly seriously and i want to save him. my. i didn't have a chance to do. think about this writer species anything because i was actually do this at the last moment and some speaking from the heart to let you know that. west i of course to me he's like it is. it's amazing because when i first came here it was nothing like this and i came from southern california this my first member living in housing project. when i came to san francisco and i had a lot of fear and a lot of apprehension about it and manage. there was a bit here at the time told me they changed a lot. it wasn't the same valid placed at it

suppose it once been and i've seen it grows from that point on. and now you know this is really state and a great place to live. you know. the council here behind me we've all had our struggles here and we just we've been we bind together to make things happen we have a lot of plans that we want to put that out there for the residents and to make this a great a place for the kids. we have plans for that. you know we have a lot of things that we've got hope to do and we can't do it alone. we need the residents have in order to do it so we put it out there. we just want to be for everybody. for the kids for the adults in everyone including think the management here at west side for working with us. todd and everyone else. and so as we go along. journey year just be patient with us and know that we're working funding for the residents in thank you have a blessed day.

as no excuse me hello everyone my name is cassandra bennett i am the secretary of the tennis association known at 10 it. i've been here for 15 years and as far as part of the council i want no more than to see the tenants advance and have our property management and the people that are over west side courts just treat the tenants with respect. and together. just the tenets come together and in love each other and embrace each other and the gap with one another. you know without a team effort we have nothing close together

we standard divided we fall so i just want to state and i'm thankful to be able to stand before you today. and hope stated tinnitus will appreciate the new over face that we have a new facelift because it is a facelift. and it looks beautiful. i must say that looks really nice you know but you're still work to be done and as low as a tenets take care and work together we can make things happen. i look forward with the rest of the team to make things happen around here here and away from here you know i i embrace change not only hear web site courts but outside of what cyborgs. there's nothing matters in the quality of life your rights and privacy rights to respect your rights period so with that. i just want to say thank you. as well i don't

think i could say any better than our last couple of speakers did. as mere breeds said though this is a partnership. owners residents in the city and our partner in owning this development now and hopefully pretty much forever tabernacles cdc led by someone who first was just a partner now has become a friend. the reverend dr. james mccray who himself has a longtime history is a pastor in the western addition reverend mccray as

mr. waiting thank you very much for that very kind introduction. and i noticed that he introduced me as reverend that that change is what i was going to do. just a little i would like to ask all of the related team if you're here. stand up. and there are others are all of the tabernacle team if you're here. stand up. as all of the fdr h t. would you stand up. reverend banks. come on

come on down their work. i think the others have that i wanted to thank have been thanked the city. the bank. the community but i would now like to ask all of us to stand up. and i'd like to ask the leaders to come back and stand right here a minute and turn around and i want all of us just to extend our hands towards these leaders in our community. just in our own way wish them strength. courage and then my favorite piece. because of to have peace they can extend hope

and what we need. today is hope. what this project and the others in the community are about is extending hope. this the first african-american built facility primarily in san francisco for our african-americans waiver has been brought over into the 21st century hope. related in the city and the community and the bank said found a way to put together a package that will enable such a venture to come to reality. hope. and along the way organizations have been created like tabernacle like f our age that now have a unique quality and ability to carry the whole bomb.

thank you san francisco i'm so glad to be able to go around this country and say i'm i'm a native we got a lot of problems but we are struggling to keep hope alive as the changes of this 21st century bombard us. leaders thank you because your job moves the whole bar and thanks to each and every one of you. as i am now really happy to introduce your supervisor valid brown. again someone who doesn't really

need an introduction in this community who's been active in this and the communities and desperate 5 4 really decades bringing a level of experience and commitment that you don't frankly often see in city hall. among other things while our mayor with supervisor and valley was her top aide they pushed forward a policy that enabled residents who are already here to have a priority to stay here and new affordable housing. so please join me in welcoming supervisor valley brown who we have to help stay as supervisor remember that in the next year as hello everyone and thanks for being here. and i just reminiscing a little when then supervisor breed had won the election she said i need you to come back down in this

office and worked for me. and i did and what was interesting. is she said we all said what your priorities supervisor breed at the time she said my number one priority is housing. he said what your second priority housing. what your third priority housing and after the third time we all like we get it. housing is your priority and soon after that we were out knocking on doors in housing. we came over to west side courts. you know it's the second oldest housing in the city. we walked to we talked we talked to residents about their situation here what they were thinking how that they you know how do they feel about living here. lot of everybody was grateful but also we realized this needs work this

complex needed work and needed rehab and when then mayor. ed lee came in. he talked about rad and one of the things that i was really passionate and so was mayor breed is if we're going to rehab and we're going to completely change and make it better that when we build housing a rehab housing. there is no displacement and that was something that really we felt strong about no displacement when you're building housing or rehabbing housing because as we know and many people that live here this community here is at the heart of this area they're the ones that have been here have raised and made this community what it is this really strong heartfelt community so there was no way that anyone could move or could be moved out and displaced. and when i

come when i became supervisor. that was one of the things first places i visit was west like courts to look at what was happening to the rehab to talk to residents because i felt we have to make sure that we save this wonderful asset. and we have to make sure that our residents are safe and so i'm just really proud to be here today as your supervisor and say that what's what are my priorities. housing yes. so thank you everyone and i hope you get to walk around and just look at this it's absolutely beautiful. thank you. as a mere breed made

reference to all of the partners the mayor's office of housing kate hartley and her staff are here today provided a lot of money and let's just say moral support. but bank of america has had an outsized role in this red program not only in west side court but in every development in the city providing virtually all of the debt and equity financing i think the total of financing is up in the seven or eight hundred million dollar range which is really pretty remarkable when you think that one institution has been responsible for that. so with that i'd like to call to the podium lives minnick an executive with bank of america and the bay area about thank you and good

night. there we go. thank you and good afternoon everyone i can talk really loud i could probably do about it. all right okay thank you so much. and bank of america is so please i was actually two point two billion dollars and financing so when you think about the rental assistance demonstration and the redevelopment of our housing within this amazing city of san francisco. bank of america was so excited. to be able to step up and again and provide that commitment of the two point two billion just to put it in perspective we refinanced 4.5 billion around the country and two point two of it came right here in the city where we were founded. it is so amazing to be able to be in developments like this beautiful west side court see the rehabilitation. meet the amazing residents there we go. and again we are so

very very happy to be a part of it we'd like to continue the thanks. with the mayor's office with our supervisors with kate and her team at the department of housing and all of our wonderful bank of america teammates that made this possible. thank you so much. as how often does a state official come to a local event like this. fiona ma has a long history as a san franciscan of serving this city is a supervisor and the state assembly and the board of equalization and now as the recently elected treasurer of the state of california and just so you know it's the treasurer who allocates all those tax

exempt bonds and low income housing tax credits that finance this and other projects like it so she's like a really good person to know. so it's my pleasure to introduce a very good friend state treasurers fiona mom. applause thank you so much it's my honor to be here some of you know i sat like i started out as a district representative to john burton back in 1995 and back then you know i was just learning and many of the people that i was working with are still here the reverend mccray reverend townsend reverend amos brown todd clatter as well as gerald green are still here and we are. still here all right still here. and then to the new leaders are dynamic mayor london

breed as well as our supervisor valley brown thank you for continuing to lead us here in san francisco and i've been living here in san francisco for 30 years. but bill witty was actually here longer and he was one of the senior consultant advisors to dianne feinstein when she was mayor and his commitment to low income housing. bar none is like one of the best examples of what developers should be doing could be doing and need to be doing more until the west side courts tennis association. welcome to politics i'm just telling you you are going to get so busy everyone's going to be calling you lining up sending you text messages and emails complaining so welcome welcome. and you know my

prior job was. i was the tax collector on the state board of equalization nobody likes this tax collector nobody wants to call me and when they do they have a major problem now that i am your state treasurer i have money. and i have grants and bonds and a loan programs and i am just so honored to be here today working with all of you. i have to tell you are t calkins saddleback because of folks like bill witty we are going to revamp those two agencies we want to be proactive and forward looking and also constituent oriented and i had a meeting with them yesterday and we talked about the conditions that some of these properties and how some of these management companies are not doing their job. well we're putting together the list of the good actors and the bad actors and those that are bad actors are not going to get any more tax credits moving forward until they clean up their act we

also talk about displacement when these applicants come before us at t calkins did lag. that's one of my questions if you were going to renovate and rehab these units where are the tenants gonna go and that also is important. and then also you know making sure that we are a one stop shop. so when developers come to us and they have projects we want to help we want to put together the deals with you. instead of thank you very much. you don't qualify. click. right we want to say you don't qualify for 9 percent but how about 4 percent. how about if you put housing along with the daycare or food co-op or or a senior clinic right all these things we have the money for in the treasurer's office so i just want to say i am open for business. call me anytime. we want to be part of the solution thank you very much alive there was of

course a lot of work done to get this development to the condition. it is now and today we hope to keep it that way. and there is a bricks and mortar side and there is a people side. on the bricks and mortar side i want to acknowledge a few people first of all our own staff at related particularly lisa grady or a project manager lisa applause and our property management team. one of the good ones i like to think. our regional director danny rivera and site manager shoemaker rochelle applause into people that we've worked with a long time on a lot of developments and are going to hopefully continue to work with a lot more. first of all bob ney be the president nimby brothers the general

contractor bob as they had to work with the community with some local subcontractors to get to where we are today. and mimi sullivan inside a solid and the architect who labored with us. we were talking earlier about making sure we hopefully got just the right colors on the new building and hopefully the residents will tell us. maybe we need to fix that. so thank you mean me as but it's not just about bricks and mortar and early on working with tabernacle my friend of one hundred years reverend arnold towns and who you'll hear from in a moment and his partner gary bags it was about this has to work for the residents and i say to you today that i hope and expect that five and 10 years

from now. you will hold us to this standard this isn't just about finishing the project this is starting the project. so gary arnold todd and everybody. thank you for that. to conclude the program. now i think it is particularly fitting that my friend reverend arnold townsend come up and lead us and maybe a little bit of prayer. i mean i don't know that anybody who speaks for the western addition better or longer than arnold. arnold about thank you. and it's just wonderful to see everyone and let me say a couple of things real quick. i know that you all and sitting looking at me and that what you're really thinking you know i've been

last on the program before and when your last on the program. you know that everybody not just really just want you to hurry up shall i show. i am gonna do my best to hurry up let me shakeup but a couple of things. i'm glad you mentioned a bill to staff here because now i don't have to. i was going to do it. it was some outstanding. work going on we had to be tough to get it done but everyone did their job played the role of building i like you should we go back a very long ways he's not quite as old as i am but he's close see he's close and really you know we knew each other around the times the feinstein days in the mosque only and agnus days but where we kind of really got to know each other we actually played basketball together a few times and whether you know it or not or whether you think he looks like enough bill used to have pretty good little point

guard game back in today brilliant play you know east coast he played east coast style. they don't they don't do much outside shooting but they can go to the whole pretty good. he could go to do. pretty good show he called me and said arnold i'm doing some work in the west additional coming back to town to do some work and i need you to come help me. i said bill i'm flattered but the days of me coming into office at 9:00. that's all i'm an old man. and he said no no no i just need your help. you know and and really didn't tell me the truth because you kind of told me it's part time. you know you won't have much to do but what he was generous and that wrote me in. and so i came back and i'm really grateful that i did. i finally did something smart all these years of living i said you know i've gotten older bill and i don't do much heavy lifting. and i've got a

younger partner man friend and so should my younger brother and i need to have him come on the project and so he said. who you talked about i said gary banks. is your well we don't really knowing but we can tell. and gary came on and it is without question one of the most brilliant things that i have ever done i'm sorry what. gary put together here and that pitts plaza de services team which hasn't been mentioned a lot today but the people. who work directly with the residents dealing with problems they have and i mean things you wouldn't think of. but everything from child support help of people that it happens child support issues trying to get people very removal so people can get jobs and go to work helping with g d driver the life you name it. these people did it it wasn't necessarily what they came on and we're told to do but they put together a team danielle banks who kind

of managers things and then darlene was here and robin jackson and not guiana who are at this project he put together people who didn't look at the job description. but when a problem came through the door. they set out to solve it. and they have been absolutely brilliant and if i keep on talking about him i'm gonna get emotional. cause i love seeing people uplifted so let me just say this to the residents here. we can all come in all these people that have been mentioned all day and it before you. this development team we can come in and build you a house we can do that we've done but it takes the people insid but the point i'm making is do what you have to do so that you have a decent on the libyan and a doctor mccray was right your number

one priority for you children your children your grandchildren your neighbors. is peace you want peace at home because when i get tired of all the company out in the street i go home may not be anybody there but me but i'm not gonna have trouble out anyone so go there. so as we said as we adjourn and and there's food back there i assume i sure hope so. why don't we do this whatever your discipline may be whatever your culture requires your faith culture if you're not attached to anything that you believe is greater than you. then i'm gonna pray for you to my god. but what and whatever name you may call you want to do whatever name you may call guy. do it now. and let's just ask blessings upon this

event we think west for thanks for this event and blessings upon the food that we're about to receive that it will nurse shows but not only in body but it mind and spirit that it will. and that that spirit will not rest until it gets the amount of love. out of each of us that it needs and let everyone say a man. thank you. as the first of all or thank you for dating me but where i come from east coast style is a compliment. you're right about that. all you don't get the final word todd plater from tabernacle very involved in the bricks and mortar the people side and everything in between. he's been with us from

the beginning. he's helped keep everything together and is going to continue to do that. tom. as good afternoon. well i guess we're still in the morning so i'll make this quick so we can get onto the afternoon first off. thank you all for being here i want to acknowledge mayor breed supervisor brown and state treasurer fiona ma. for their remarks and participation in this momentous occasion well i had a whole thing. mapped out about who i was gonna mention and and and and you know we recognize this this morning and i've really become so

engage in what everybody else has said and their acknowledgements of the key players in this project that i'm not sure there's a whole lot more i can add what i will say is that this project has been a three year saga and it has involved many planning and community and teen meetings at various levels that have made it possible for us to celebrate today i liked it. refer to the history of this property as a world war 2 era construction. complex and while the mayor noted that you know it takes a village

to build a community like this. what i want to add is that it takes an army to modernize a world war 2 era concrete block set of buildings and grounds and we had a fantastic team to execute this task first off i want to. invite lisa grady up to the podium she's been the voice of reason when it comes to decisions around the redevelopment of this property and i have to say throughout our ups and downs together we been able to make the lives of the residents better and expect that this is not just a statement about

what we can do for today. it's a statement about what we intend to do for the generations ahead. and so what i want to. impart to you is that our relationship has grown not just from work here at this property but also at robert be pits oh it's been quite a journey and i want to. you know embrace lisa. applause i also want to acknowledge some of the ground troops that have made this project a success. in particular with respect to engaging the residents. i want to acknowledge the f our

each team some who have moved on and some who are new to the property but as was noted earlier by remote towns and dani robertson robin jackson were very essential again in an enabling us to meet the residents where they are and to help them grow and embrace. change because this is a big change also i want to acknowledge alonzo tour is and the maintenance team their work is largely unseen until you actually come back to the property after they have made their mark it's really a statement to their commitment to this property i want to thank our relocation specialists that woman has had the probably most arduous

task of all helping residents relocate to temporary quarters and all of the preparations that are necessary to get them out of their old units into temperature units and then back into their. originally unit that's jessica garlic issue here today. maybe she didn't make it. but anyway kudos to her. yes as around there are a couple of key residents that i want to recognize for prevailing with us one is the former tenet association president emma casey. emma was really my voice of the community because she never fail to pull my coat tails and and to beat me down about what i

should do and what i need to do more of and so imus really a champion for this community and i and i appreciate all of her service. as i also want to recognize the work of randy walton who spoke earlier? he's now the treasure. he was the vice president and has been the coordinator of the food bank for these past three years that we've been here with this project and let me tell you having to move the food bank from one unit to another and coordinate deliveries and make sure that folks get food who aren't always able to attend the food bank when it. when it's open you know it's it's a it's a monumental task and

i have to say he has been steadfast in his commitment to seeing to it that people. have the food that many rely on you know for for their sustenance and and he continues at work and i'm looking forward to him and the council and community to improving on that. now that we have a new community room. we're looking forward to them moving the food bank there and operating well into the future. thank you randi. as so there are some some some design and construction full that need recognition this this morning as well you heard me me. sullivan. mentioned earlier and her crew it cites sullivan design design firm and i also want

to acknowledge the other design team members including dan morris of. moral morris our landscape architect who did a fantastic job as you can see you know. let's just say breaking up some of this concrete you know this. you wouldn't believe what a concrete jungle. this was but now it looks like like people live here. oh that's a tribute to a lot of the thought and ever that was put in by dan in his team. also i want to acknowledge alan burr with murphy burr curry our structural engineer. so listen if you've ever dealt with a world war two arab building you know his work was cut out for him because it's a lot of concrete that had to be penetrated and worked with and overcome over these years. then i want to also

recognize boy i tell you maybe contractors is one of san francisco is a san francisco treat. i just can't tell you how proud we are of of having them be our contractor they've been responsive they don't have not only been responsive to the developer they've been responsive to the resonance. i mean residents have stopped them in the middle of. you know away a hammer and and saw activity to help them overcome whatever little. you know nuance needed to be addressed and i i appreciate them and i want to just mentioned kieran daily. i think he's here. i seek care. there he is. he's a brand new dad. and so i'm glad he could make it. and then i also want

to recognize our. the guy you know who keeps all the contractors workers in line. jim galloway and jim is fantastic man. also the supervisor that work with us at robert be pits. and then of course kobe colby newell is kobe here. there he is. back there. oh escaped moorish that man you know has it doesn't go didn't go home. sometimes at night just keeping things going. and making sure things got done right. so then i want to acknowledge devon denman who was the construction management staff person with with construction management

associates and she she was the person who was looking over the contractor shoulder over these years. so thank you. devon and and her. partner our boss i should say harvey mendoza so with that. i just want to conclude with this is only the beginning folks we are continuing to transform lives here at west side courts we will continue with our computer literacy courses sponsored by the cities office of digital equity and we have alex on here who joined us from who heads up that that office to provide the not only free

internet access for our residents but also courses together with seat in the service provider who is is providing training to the residents on basic computer literacy internet access and advanced courses in in computer training so we're really excited about that and we are also going to continue to look to f our age and gary banks and joe antoinette hopkins and daniel banks. as they continue the work of providing job training and placement for our residents. this is about the holistic evolution of this community and this is the model that tabernacle and related. are now carrying

forward in our work in this in this city and across the state and while i got fiona. here sit in here you know whether rapt attention. yes we will be calling you. because this very point of adapting the rules to the folks out here doing the work that is music to our ears because that has been the impediment. if you got you know all these boxes that fit into certain protocols that's going to eliminate a whole lot others who are really capable and willing to do this work so anyway i wrap up with that and amos brown told me i said enough so that's enough. thank you. oh

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