information, the city and county of san francisco will have an official memorial service, i believe, if service is the proper semantics, on monday, march the 4th at 11:00 am here at city hall. may i have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> may i have a second? >> second. >> this meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at

met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop

shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. my favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me and i heyi welcome and thank you so much. thank you for that beautiful too hard to stop dancing. but we have some wonderful dignitaries here today who want to speak with us and share their wisdom my name is dr. ellen hammersley i'm the vice president of the client services at catholic charities. and it's my honor and pleasure to

introduce to you today our ceo hilmer vanessa's she is a light of inspiration to all of us at catholic charities her grace and servant leadership is an inspiration to all of us and we hope she will inspire all of you as she does all of our staff thank you. welcome film. what a wonderful crowd. we have today. well this is beautiful. first of all i want to extend a very warm welcome and thank you for participating to our interfaith leaders bishop william justice rabbi best singer. mom neil shekau and i also of course extend our warm is welcome to our dignitaries honorable mayor

of london breed. reverend dr. aim is brown was also the president and double acp danny glover or civil rights leader in distinguish actor. jeff brzezinski the director of homelessness and supportive housing division of the city of san francisco captain matthews. one of the very few african-american women captains in the force. so think about we thank them for their leadership and helping solve some of the most difficult problems in our community. and of course i want to thank all of you are neighbors are community partners our guests are staff who are here today in the sacred heart choir and the shipwreck crier we're going to sing for us a little bit later. this is the first

anniversary of this program here. here at the bayview where we put our hands and love around some of the most vulnerable populations and you're going to meet some of them today. of course you know the catholic charities service over thirty five thousand people across san francisco san mateo and marine counties some of the most vulnerable populations of all faiths and walks of life we commemorate that today but we're also commemorating black history today as the black experience in san francisco has has shades of darkness and shades of light. i want to tell you a very important very short story but very important story that is very emotional for me because it's personal when i asked dr. reverend james brown whether he could join us today. asked a little

bit about me and i said reverend brown i tend to burnett elementary school in the country's point and he looks at me and he says. madam can you hear him say that he says madam do you know about. burnett elementary school do you know who is named after mind you i had been gone for three years and i went to elementary school there in the 70s so frankly i didn't and that's very important history and he proceeded to tell me that in 1840 to a missouri lawyer. by the name of peter burnett moved to germantown oregon which is now portland oregon we're actually i've been for the last 30 years. 1842 he moved there when he passed a law that said that any black people who live there after

six months would be flawed and following that he wanted to also exterminate native americans and chinese. and not only that he then came down here in 1849 this man named burnett and he became the first elected governor of california that's the same burnett now he tried to pass the same law here in san francisco african african americans would be exterminated if he had his way. right or at least you thought but i didn't pass however although the law did not pass friends he was still distinguished in some of the community here in san francisco. so much so that he his name was put on the schools many schools around the state of california in mind you it wasn't one hundred and seventy years later because of the heroic efforts of

doctor reverend. amos brown. that burnout elementary school and child and burnett child development center. were changed and in fact burnett child development center is now called instead of peter burnett it's now called leo harvard child development center. after an african-american another hero an african-american woman who was the first african-american principle in this area again. it was a one hundred and seventy years later due to the heroic efforts of our beloved doctor. amos brown that's a history. so what does that mean. that means that we need to keep that history alive. we cannot forget it. right. we cannot forget it. and we've got to pass it on to our children because otherwise it will be forgotten even i who came to

school year didn't know that. so with that. we're gonna have a wonderful blessing today. i want to ask. bishop justice and i'm a mom no shekau and rabbi singer to please join me. and they're gonna do a blessing for us. oh yes ages are developing i thought on this suspicious occasion this. fits after the dramatic story the helmet told us to reflect and share.

from paul christian in his letter to the corinthians if i speak in human angelic tongues but do not have love i am a resounding gone or clashing symbol if i have the gift of prophecy in comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge. if i have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love i am nothing if i give it away everything i owned if i had my body over so that they may boast but do not have love. thinking nothing love his patient love is kind it is not jealous. it is not pompous does not inflated it is not rude. is nuts. it does not seek its own interests.

it is not quick tempered it does not brood over injury it does not rejoin silver wrongdoing every choices with truth it bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things love never fails so faith hope love remain but the greatest of these is love. that is our challenge that is something the world seems to fail in so often but we have hope. because we work together is god's creatures as brothers and sisters. to love to love to change what a

great honor to join you on this day to celebrate the anniversary of the catholic charities bayview access point. thank you for bringing such a diversity of faith leaders to this stage in addition to imams shekau and bishop justice. i'm so happy to be here with my colleague dr. reverend. amos brown. to those who organized today's event. thank you for recognizing the power in bringing an imam a rabbi and a bishop together if a rabbi a priest in any mom walk into a bar. the bartender is going to say what is this a joke. we are not a joke together we are a prayer this moment will not make the front section of any newspaper in the country because apparently what sells papers is discord but we are

a reminder that each of our fates commands us to provide for the most vulnerable in that vein i joined with all of you in mourning the incalculable loss of defender jeff a dodgy who is one of our greatest partners in the religious work of providing quality defense to all of god's children what with endemic racism anti-semitism islamophobia and homophobia. not to mention hatred against homeless people. we need more of this. so standing side by side with your mom shekau bishop justice and together with reverend brown i offer these blessings from the jewish tradition at an irish more effort. may god bless and protect all of those at catholic charities

in the historic bayview and it access point who care for our most vulnerable. may god's light shine on and through everyone who will utilize the services at this access point made they feel loved cared for and valued may god's light shine on us all. and when we look to our left and to our right. may we see the face of god even in those with whom we may disagree and especially in the faces of those who suffer. i'm in good morning. first we want to thank god for this opportunity for this wonderful opportunity to the first to just be present to be present and two to witness word river death. just come at it on in reference to people of our

tradition was coming together for a common purpose and that purpose is to recognize the efforts and the work of those who do what needs to be done to reach out to those who need help the most. in the bible says we read that jesus was asked a question in the course of i asked him teacher which is the great commandment in the law? and jesus said you shall love the lord your god with all your heart along with your soul and without your mind this is the great and first commandment and the second is like it. you still love your neighbor as yourself and islamic tradition is reported

that mohammed the prophet peace be upon him say none of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself? and he also said none of you want it to happen unless he or she is a believer. and none of you would become a believer unless you practice loving each other. and he gave them some advice as to how to practice loving each other and there was a simple a simple in face of the greetings. greetings of peace. so to my brothers and sisters who are the christian faith and is traditions we say. peace be with you two are jewish brothers of the jewish tradition we say shalom into those who are muslim we say. aleikum and what that we offer this

prayer or god's name the merciful benefactor merciful redeemer the god of occupation or has given us scripture in the form of reveal books the torah the bible and kiran and other sacred texts for reading that which is true and established to express an advanced the life of all systems that support creation. and help us to manage our responsibility as the custodians of the earth wherever thankful to you and your mercy your god and ever trusting you and your guidance and even aware of your loving presence. oh god you are the creator of all things that exist that had existed and will exist. you are without physical form or shape to be seen but whose presence permeates throughout the heavens and the earth you have given the order for establishment who maintains the order with your mercy which is the first rule. you wrote for yourself to be extended to all that you did create especially to all of

the human family we are eternally grateful to you and we come forward with words and phrases to acknowledge our love our trust independents upon you for our lives and to offer. thanks for the blessings that you have made and have given us we praise and glorify you and your majesty. were you alone are worth it to be warship you who are the merciful benefactor the merciful redeemer and the master of the day when all matters and values of truth and justice will be restored. when the scales would be balanced indeed. wait. with regards to the right and wrong good and evil and the merits of what i've been earn will be determined as either rewards of punishment we thank you for a life you have given us when we asked if you help us to make the world that we live in today our world is better off all we sincerely ask that you favors with the means and the human we ought to help create better conditions for all who may

suffer from any injustice of any kind. and let our good fsb continually born with each succeeding generations as we are still stand on the shoulders of those who preceded us we acknowledge their contributions and honor their sacrifices and as we stand together in the face of times. trouble and disturbed me in this great republic. the united states we ask that you will guide us all along the path that leads us to you that your favor will sustain us especially our youth. the ones who will come behind us to inherit that what we have produced and what we have lead. well we have left as a legacy we pray that will become better as we go forward we have that you continue to allow those who serve the needs of others two agencies and organizations. that provide aid and resources to the weekend the poor the age of the infirm motherless and the fatherless we ask that you make their work easy and

not a burden for them and grantham success in it we accept the charge. we have taken as people of faith and ask that you make us better service today than we were yesterday as we work to serve the needs of those and the greater good of all man a man. thank you and now i have the pleasure in the honor and resenting you. the honorable mayor wonderfully applause thank you. good morning bayview hundreds point. such an incredible honor to be here today to not only

celebrate this amazing access point and the work that it continues to do to provide support to families who are struggling with homelessness but it is so great to be here. to celebrate black history month in the city and county of san francisco and i know that the reason why i am able to be the first african-american woman to serve as mayor of san francisco because i to stand on the shoulders of so many incredible people many leaders from the baby hunters point. community a place that has a rich history a rich tradition of african-americans who have basically made their homes here whether it's working in the shipyard like my grandfather did in the work that focus did to build this city and the advocacy that went into building this city and making sure that our voices were heard. the folks

in this community played a critical role to my success and so i would say thank you but with that success comes a incredible responsibility. it comes incredible responsibility to make sure that even though i serve as the first african-american woman in the second african-american. mayor. i have to make sure along with so many of you here today than i am not the last. we have work to do to change some of the things that we know existence san francisco yes we celebrate black history month and we celebrate some amazing accomplishments like the bayview opera house which is a landmark where incredible world renowned actors like danny glover got his start yes world renowned mr. glover famous and you are native son of this city? we celebrate those things. so we

celebrate so many amazing accomplishments but we know that our population is less than 6 percent in san francisco. we also know that this access point serves almost 50 percent of the families that they've served. are african-american families who are struggling and need help and support. and thank goodness that we have an amazing community willing to wrap their arms around these families so that we can ensure their success. the work of the access points that serve families in san francisco have helped almost sixteen hundred families sixteen hundred families who were struggling with homelessness and they've been able to help almost 160 of those families transition into permanent housing. and let me tell you it's not easy and an expensive place like san francisco a big part of what i am doing is pushing to build more housing and this

community help to make sure that a couple years back. remember that miss tatum when we got neighborhood preference legislation passed? so that 40 percent of all the new units developed in the baby hundreds point community go to the residents who live here first. as and that by it wasn't easy well we got to build more and we got to build more faster and we have to make sure that the next generation. they are prepared for the opportunities that are provided when i was growing up in housing in the western edition i never knew what was possible. i didn't know what was going on downtown in the financial district with all these incredible opportunities but because i had an opportunity to participate in programs and things that existed in the western addition because of leaders like reverend amos brown. i was able to be given an opportunity. a school in

the baby hunters point named after gloria davis are you familiar with that school that was one of my mentors that will i didn't even know that woman and she decided she was gonna take me under her wing she was gonna help support me with my applications for school. my applications to get into colleges and scholarships she helped me with my essays and everything. and i didn't know who this woman was i i was introduced to her by a lady named laura lester we have to get back to some basics here in this community if we are going to ensure the success of the next generation those families who are being helped by the access point they need our support they need our encouragement. they need our love and our commitment to ensure that we get every last family into permanent supportive housing. again here's the good news and why we're here to celebrate because again we know

prevention is the key and trying to provide people with the support they need to not end up homeless in the first place is so critical. but once they end up in that place then it's our responsibility through our coordinated entry system are access point to try and figure out a solution to get them on the path to permanent housing and in fact we set out a goal to in family homelessness in san francisco and to make sure that no family is unsheltered and we have an option for them when they ask and every single night we have at least 30 shelter beds for families that are empty and that is progress? there was a time two years ago where families were turned away and were left to sleep out in the cold in the streets in our city and that is not happening today that is progress and we know there is still more work to do. and we're going to get the job done. so i need your

support the 300 million dollar affordable housing bond that's going on the ballot in november i need your support to build affordable housing as of right so that we stop with the people who are saying no you can't build in my community yes to housing in every community especially one hundred percent affordable housing we have got to get the job done. those families and the people struggling in this community are counting on us to make the hard decisions and do what's necessary by any means necessary to get the progress that we deserve in the baby hundreds point community. as so yes there is much to celebrate and i am excited and honored to be here with each and every one of you. but yes we still have work to do. so let's continue to work together to get the job done.

and make our programs even more successful so that there is never a time in the city and county of san francisco where one family one child is suffering from homelessness we can do better and we will do better. thank you all so much for having me here today. an honorable dr. robert. amos brown. an good morning to moving spirit

behind this incredible enterprise just a joke. to the members of the board of catholic charities. reverend clergy madam mayor my good friend danny glover all of you fellows san franciscans you know is on july the 4th 2010 the day of celebrating. the declaration of independence. i lost my

independence. terms of my mobility to a stroke but thank god. god spare my brain and my mouth i'm privileged to be here today to say to you that the prophet isaiah rabaa singer. some very much apropos works. in that six differs chapter. the profit spoke these words. spirit of the law is a modern mean

because the lord god have ordered me to preach good tidings under the me he had sent me to bind up the broken hearted to reclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that about. to proclaim the acceptable year other law at the day of the vengeance about god to come put all that morning. this third vs. the one that i've really find instructor fast today to put onto them that mourn in zawiya given to them beauty. for ashes beauty. for ashes it was during world war two.

according to a writer. william golding that a plane carrying some british choirboys and then that novel the golden rule. unfortunately when the plane crashed? oh let the choir boy was survive the pilot was killed. many you know that that incidents was transformed into a novel and

title lord of the flies. you also maybe saw that movie and in that movie these pristine area not scholarly well straw well-behaved british white boys. the longer they stayed on that island by themselves the port of discipline. access to resources they could afford to becoming savages and the last piece of meat that they were able to come by. was that while pig. over they stayed on that island they began to destroy each other. well you know

unfortunately a man who emerged at sixteen sixteen hundred. number four. who hl make has tried to warn us in 1920 that is the american did not use its head for more than i had read. but people other than we'll get there. horses i had a down right moron what adorn the white house press corps? that prophecies come true we have that moron at the white house and that more wrong made a statement the other day.

chicago illinois was a bad image of platform and ask us what do we have to lose. where we had i didn't have to lose because what he said about black people he would not have said it if he had read lord of the flies when he was in school and i've been up to mischief. for the point and lord of the flies is wherever you take away from people opportunity they will the farm to becoming they are worse angels? god no we must make the statement that black people and san francisco can be will be. oh god and tell them to be. if we would just

give us the opportunity to have access to education. have access to health care to have access to celebrate our culture to have some good quality schools. we can do it and we've come the day you say thank god. catholic charities who want to demonstrate and black history celebration like people in our brains blind people out skills black people have knowledge and here we all would look at that history those of us who have other christian tradition you will discover the first organize expression of christianity will not in europe you will not in latin america not in united states of america. but the first organize expression of christianity was a coptic church in egypt and ethiopia

where i eat him in ethiopia all the mother continent of africa we all came from africa league in the greatest paleontologist said. our first home was in africa there in the rift valley where they found that fossa sister lucy. sorry about that man. and consequently says we left home since we left home since we left in africa and moved around this questioner wherever we stopped on the bank of the river. we lost our manners and fail to behave. and to respect people and we've created different cultures wherever we stopped on a beach on the pace of our river but in san francisco we have come to our senses and we're turning. beauty into ashes giving ashes rhythm and

the beauty that giving people a home where they can be comfortable well they can take care of their families where they can read what they can celebrate. that they all god's children and wouldn't god made black folks and homeless folk car didn't make no mistake so let's celebrate today that we had turned. those assets a disappointment those ashes of denial of opportunity in the beauty and here and baby. how is what we are seeing a new day? a new opportunity for those who have been under sir thank you for coming. as he is a

postscript when i was recovering from that stroke. i was reading a book san francisco from 18 90s early 1940s and i read in that book but there was a man named peter burnett who has jamila has with reference was a bad felt he didn't like blind people. he made sure as she stated that up in oregon if a black face was found in germantown they will be beaten every six months until they left town. and you know

what when i discovered that and also that peter bernie ebbers that first governor of california i call willie brown. i said well it. have you ever heard of peter barnett is there no arguments as here let me take you from a hospital bed and i say that grand rascal didn't like black folks and that's a school open bayview on this point. name. burnett early childhood school and i said says he didn't change his mind about black folks. and about native americans and chinese we are going to change the name of that school and from my sick bed i made phone calls and own 2011

the board of education voted unanimously to change the name of burnett school to the leila have up early childhood education school. and then one more thing. we have in this town there's a bernard street over there. not far from juvenile hall at mount a map immediate needs to get together and change the name of that street because there has to be understood the person who is a racist. in a person who is the show business should not be on our in our society but we should all see every human being has been of infinite worth and dignity we should make sure everybody's treated fairly. and when we do that

well we changed the name of these national us the names of these racist the day will come as i always sad tiffany. and we will be able to say i'm black and i'm proud i'm brown on them sound. i'm yellow mellow i'm white. and i'm all right. i'm rich but i ain't dead i'm a woman and a wise i'm got it i'm an immigrant and i'm industrious i'm straight and i'm sensible. that's what america all to be about and it can be glad when we give everybody. access to equal opportunity in these united states of america god bless you keep on keeping on. turning ashes into building and making sure

that we become a beautiful city all god's children will say i am somebody. thank you very much. and now i give you free this world citizen humanitarian phalange hubris and seven other human family. the one and only danny glover as you first of all one thing me charities give you access

point two million hits me at a conference in december at san francisco state if i would participate in this one year anniversary celebration of the work that those who are in need of a service the work that's been done and those who actors agents for that work is being done. is a very very important thing that we must do it this time when i was asked. i didn't i realized that i was going to follow. first. on the bill maher debris i did not and i said well but to follow. amos reverend neighbors brown the esteemed rebel leaders

round is quite quite also quite. inspiring. i think we would find other ways. finance context and we are in the role that we play as citizens ordinary citizens greek word timor cracked chick tons of ordinary citizens making choices working on behalf of that simply their own interests but the interests of the community itself and here i have right in front of me today the pleasure and honor to be in front of ordinary citizens beyond race but ordinary people who believe that the city could be a better better. please please

that it is spiritually in doubt. to be this city. i remember my mother telling me my mother kerry made glover telling me this story about come in here my dad my mother and father that in new york. my mother after finishing paying college in 1942 teaching one year of school matriculated to new york which is the pattern. matriculation from georgia rural georgia where her her parents began sharecroppers and tenant farmers. so my father coming from the midwest from kansas city meeting there and falling in love and mary ann in new york. my dad was in the army

upstate new york and had come down to the deal to new york city with a friend of his and met this tall absolutely stunning young woman and and marry her decided that wherever the train was going. it's a smart for men have retained is going. you've got to be on that train. and he was stationed first in los angeles after every station in los angeles did then station in san francisco at the end of the war wants the war ended. my dad said to my mother carrie i've got to wipe job waiting for me in detroit let's go back to destroy my mother said. he was apropos in my family and

you know who made decisions in the family. you better find a job here we're not going anywhere. this guy. my dad always would say was the best decision. did he had didn't have to make i spent living here. going into a hundred eight point one that on his point to live on the hill. yes yes yes i lived you know i'm history projects third an army went to urging him scott somebody may have gone urban his scalp it's still there the buildings is still there. i'll make a boys club has this offices in revenue scott i graduated from daniel webster elementary school and debate in in portrayal hill. we lived in the housing projects until we were able by the grace of god. bye just

own passion for wanting to find another life and another relationship to we ended up. buying a home my mother when i was 11 years old. on central and hayes in the western addition all seven of us called in to that one. two bedroom and two bedroom and one some room home. and grew up here we had a home. the way in which we cherish and embraced at home it fit it was never figured it out but it was big enough with love and attention to keep it and sustain it. and the work hard. work overtime all of us. i can attribute at that point i danny glover who had a paper out a prolonged usf the universe's san francisco for five years. in that sense in an effort to

stay in that home my parents both postal employees working overtime those who have parents who worked in the polls starved noted that was an arms race space for so many parents who came here with home in the ideas and all those things or a part of what i remember i live 12 blocks from where i grew up. i remember when i had my first time my first home i was working out here and baby hundreds point for the model civvies program about my first home. you remember yes madam cities program from 1970 ones i decided to leave at the end of 19. 77 to pursue another life something else but i remember the in stores in the area and courageous people out here that i've worked with. when i

call in a period of organic democracy grassroots democracy the allied with westbrook espanola jackson for surely joe's all those who worked at those women that i remember work out of here. for a moment or two of my boss and used to always being willing to stick their hand right in my face or anybody else in the space even committee alioto things to say we need this. we need that. those are the lessons that i've learned from here and the lessons around being real citizenship. we know the crisis of housing. it's nothing that we're going to in easily. we know the crisis warehousing is more than just a political. i mean this is a moral decision is a political decision as well we know from our experience when it happened in the western addition when i went to those meetings in waco in 1966 i

was a student without those meetings at the western edition community organization as we listen to euro wabi. you're a worry yes you remember to all those men and women retired in young people who came and tried to comfort stand make a stand for justice programs came out of it. solutions came out of the incentives for tax. so those people who could invest could invest can vote they invest in low income housing a great deal of that housing in the western at issue is that low income housing that was came about as a part of the sand its citizens took in the western addition as they found themselves being on their being on the practice of being removed from there we know that they fall for that big fall for jobs. not only that. not only to be to have have a say in what

happened in book form for chances with those of the lessons that we have to learn to that we have to fight relentlessly in terms of serving those who are most most vulnerable the house i live in right now within a few bucks somehow tangi just to be a place where we play basketball when we were young people were became a shelter. the church became a shelter in the center to became a shelter for homeless families at one point in time these are the realities are now going in san francisco. the reality is that every metropolitan everything that you can go to you go into that you live in when i moved onto the street i live on. there was one. there was a family who worked for the post office of the family down the street who worked to the post office working people. there was another family across the street no those people got their care