and the reason is, we have one of the most engaged communities in the entire country. they don't just accept the status quo and let things continue to happen when 10,000 latino individuals and families are displaced for the community, they fight and they fight, and they fight to make sure that we we build affordable housing again, and if there is not enough affordable housing in the market, they fight and they fight, and they fight, until there is enough affordable housing in those projects. and it is not just affordable housing. when there's 260 people living in tents in the street, they welcome navigation centers into the neighborhood and say there is a better way, there's a kinder way, there's a more dignified way for people to get their issues figured out until they can get stable housing, and we will not let them die on the streets. we will bring them inside.

[cheers and applause]. >> when vendors write down the street are trying to make a few extra bucks on the weekends and neighbors are complaining and the police come to criminalize them, the mission builds up and gets permanent from the safety to get a dignified alley and tables where people can sell their art center crafts of the extra things that they find to make an extra buck. this is the most incredible neighborhood because all of the people in this neighborhood that were born and raised here, some who moved in and just want to be part of the magic, like myself, they make it so special. i want to say, congratulations to bridge and mission housing. congratulations to the mission district, but really, congratulations to the bad ass

mission community, and you know who you are. we are looking at your faces in the crowd for making the magic that you make happen in this neighborhood all the day -- all the time. now i have the pleasure of introducing one of those rock stars, what do you call him, white boy? white boy, sam. [applause] >> i want to thank all the great people at mission local for calling me that in the rating. thank you, i appreciate that. i don't know what to say. roberto took michael. >> speaker-10: now, okay. so five years ago, i was driving to my hometown of fresno, california. i was driving there because i was supposed to go down and convince the city council to let mission housing out one of about

four or five projects in many years. we're on the brink of bankruptcy , and i was naïve enough to think that i wasn't in over my head, and i definitely was, and i would not be here now , we would not be here now if it wasn't for marsha and our team and the mission housing board of directors then and now, for believing in us, and believing that nothing was going to get fixed overnight, but that it was going to get fixed, and so today we stand on this ground for -- on this acre of land in the middle of san francisco that represents so much, it represents a place where 156 low-income families are going to live, sooner than later. we stand on a site were low income artists will have studios , where there will be a gallery to sell their wares. we stand on a site where mission neighborhood center is going to provide head start and early head start to the low income

kids of this city. [cheers and applause] but most importantly, at least to me, i guess, we stand on a site that represents mission housing develop into corporations delivering on a promise and i don't mean a promise we meet i mean the one we made in 1971 when mission housing was created. we promised to be an anchor to the community and we promised we would have support for everyone who needed it, and this is what that looks like, and so today we stand on mission housing delivering on that promise and being the community development corporation that the mission deserves. and so with that, i just have a few things because we wouldn't be here without a bunch of help on -- along the way. first and foremost i would like to thank and.

[cheers and applause] >> i love you, i love being told i don't know what i'm talking about by you all the time. you are usually right. her leadership with the project goes back so far, seven, ten years. the program and the community driven at low income income artist studios and gallery, and i think what is the most important about her, not just her leadership and vision for these things, but she is not just going to go away when we build the building, for better or worse, she will be there with us along the way, and it is good to know we have the community supports. i really appreciate it. i am really excited to announce mission housing is partnering with success centers.

roberto, not only will we be hiring latinos and locals who have lived here, what we will be having youth build programs at all of our sights for the first time in 20 years. we will get these kids the works thank you. [applause] there you are are. i see you over there. a former director before that. i am not an easy executive director to manage, i am sure. i see things publicly that i probably shouldn't. there is all of these projects with -- products with twitter. i know that i have your support, and i know that you connect -- believe there is a message of the method to the managers madness.

there is no way we would have come this way if we hadn't known if the directors had ever back. you are not going to track things, you will not strive for something that might be out of your reach unless you know if all people will catch you. thank you very much. [applause] >> last and not least, i want to thank you so much for being there for me, i honestly don't have any words about how much i appreciate what you have done for mission housing. and with that, without further ado, i have a great honor of introducing santiago from mission neighborhood center. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, brother sam. thank you.

[speaking spanish] >> you took me back years, wrapped school. this place, this land has touched so many lives, from a public school, to community alternative school, and now in the future, it will be an early head start and head start facility for 42 children. but before i say anything else, i would appreciate it very much. i would like to clarifies one thing. mitchell chris bell, you mentioned everybody that will be here accept mission neighborhood centers, and you forget the most important thing. that mission neighborhood centers is a codeveloper. we don't develop plans, because we don't. we develop young minds to do better in schools. [applause] , to succeed in school, to go to college, and to graduate from

college, so let's be clear about that. we are co- developers. we couldn't be codevelopers if it weren't for an amazing team. that team is with us this afternoon. i would appreciate it if you could please stand up, please. [applause] >> these are the talented, committed, dedicated, knowledgeable, skilled skilled, amazing folks that give mission neighborhood centers head start. the reputation, the great reputation that we have. thank you, staff. thank you very much. i want to say that every dream, whether it is this particular development, or any other development that our city will be introducing in the years to come needs a champion, a team of

champions, it needs an architect , it needs a developer, but has to have one fundamentally the individual onboard, without that person, nothing will happen, so in this instance, i have to insist that the individual responsible for years to come, and for the city to benefit from affordable housing is none other but may or london breed. [applause] may or london breed mayor london breed. >> it starts with you. so far, i have to say, what i have witnessed is a steady hand on your behalf, strategic thinking, indefinitely a true advocate in identifying how the city can in the future build additional affordable housing. it starts with you and then the rest will follow. we will dream. [applause]

>> i also need to identify one individual and make a correction there just isn't in the mission community -- [speaking spanish]. >> we forget there is -- [speaking spanish] >> i am appointing her as of right now, it is none other than and cervantes. >> she has so skilfully, and detailed, just mastered to be able to design many of our new facilities, so she is not just an architect, per se, academically speaking and professionally speaking, she is also an architect in identifying and working with community issues, and of course, more than anything else, community politics, i just love her. don't we all do that.

so thank you for being by our side, by being our true partner, and then lastly, we will introduce 42 slots to this facility and we will provide infant preschool services and i am hoping that just like most of our sights were read provide family resources that we will be able to rely on the family resource center to extend their services on-site and there is at least one of the board members here who is nodding his head yes i look forward to developing an m.o.u. before i retired to mission neighborhood centers. everyone, thank you very much i will now introduce the executive

vice president and group head for wells fargo. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you very much. is a pleasure for me to be here this evening. to be part of this small project that has a big impact. at wells, we try to be involved in affordable housing throughout the country and especially here in san francisco and the bay area, given that we are headquarters here. to think about this project that really touches me is not only we are providing affordable housing , but his touching kids when they are really young, to have a head start, to have childcare, to have all the wraparound services that they need, those are the type of projects that we really like being involved with, when we had the opportunity to get involved with this project, with bridge and mission, we jumped at the chance and we were very

fortunate to be able to be partners with them. and as the mayor and others are trying to get more things built here in san francisco, we want to be part of that as well. it is important for us being based here and employees working here that we be involved with helping to solve the problem. we are involved with affordable housing throughout the country. and it brings something special to me when i'm able to be at projects like this that are having an impact, because as a person who grew up in a single-family household, i lived in the projects. i lived in the projects like this when i was young and a small town in virginia. these are things that are crucial and important to me. it is my pleasure to have the opportunity to be part of this. i will not repeat all the wonderful things that have been said, but most of all, i want to say thank you to mission, thank you to bridge, thank you to the

mayor and everyone else who has been involved to help get this project done. it is our pleasure to play a small part in helping all those folks to bring affordable housing here as well as all the other services that will be done here, and with that, i will keep it short and sweet. i would like to introduce -- are you going to take over? [laughter] okay. [applause] >> we would like to thank everyone who joined us today, but before we end, i would like to have our mission housing staff raise their hand, please, really high and proud, and please, want to say thank you to all of you for making this event successful. we would like you to stay. we will take an opportunity to take a photo opportunity in the back to celebrate our groundbreaking, and please stay and enjoy -- join us for food and refreshments. thank you for being here. >> get together. dig in. thank you.

[laughter] mick we did it. [speaking spanish] . >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco.

i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery.

there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis

that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪

>> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste

because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery.

it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole,

as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much

homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have

church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is

a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation. >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's

journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really,

really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so

they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in

relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i

got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well,

testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as

much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never

occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go

through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities

must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100

years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for

a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along

these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community.

and we're willing to help people in any way we can. >> welcome. i am the general manager of the recreation and park department. welcome to our fixer-upper. in all seriousness, we are pleased to welcome you today to the future site of what is truly going to be an amazing space, a space of health, a space of equity, a space that connects neighborhoods, a space of place, a space that respects the cultural history of the bayview,

india basin park. i am thrilled to be able to introduce someone who is committed to equity, to environmental justice, to housing for everyone, to livable and healthy communities for everyone. it's been absolutely invaluable to our project. we thank her for her leadership. we thank you for being our parts champion. you're mayor, london breed. >> thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, bayview hunter's point. i am so excited to be here. at this time, i also want to acknowledge some of our elected leaders who are joining us here today. our treasurer, thank you for being here. our new public defender, thank you so much for being here, and i know -- there you are.

schumann in walton, supervisor is here. [cheers and applause] >> i'm so excited about this project and what we are doing to support this community, because for so many years, many of you who live in this community, you have lived here, and often times , he probably felt as though you were being neglected, that this community was being neglected. it took us so long to get the work done at west point, but we got the work done -- joyce armstrong. it took us so long to really focus in on this particular area , and to address what we know has been environmental injustice in this community. we know that there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and we know it takes a lot of money to get that work done. the city and county of san francisco is committed to transforming unity, not for the

people who are going to move here, before the people who live here. [applause] back in november, i signed the legislation for the india basin development agreement, and part of that agreement is, yes, 1500 new units with 25% of those units below market rate. yes, it is 200 square feet of possible commercial space, transportation and infrastructure improvements so that our people who are walking the streets and biking in this community can feel safe, and of course, 14 acres of public open space along our waterfront. finally, the rest of the city is seeing what we know has existed for so long, the beautiful views of the bayview hunter's points community. but this project is more than

just about building buildings. it is about creating a park, supporting and sustaining the existing community. it is about a complete community , and as our city grows , we have to find more ways to make sure that all of our communities are equitable. that all of our communities are diverse, and that we don't continue to make many of the same mistakes that we had in the past with the western edition community where we lost the thriving african-american community. part of the restoring of this open area is to make sure that the neglected -- the neglect that has occurred for far too long is remedied, and doing so, we can ensure that all of our residents come together and to be part this amazing community. there are thousands of new homes that already exist that are

planned within miles of this area. this open space will serve them first and foremost, along with the residents from across the city. there are so many benefits, as we know, to have an incredible -- to have incredible spaces like this. safe spaces for residents to gather, to exercise, to enjoy one another's company, create better communities. we will restore our environment and protect our natural habitat in this area, and at the same time, plan for sealevel rise. this space will preserve the rich history of the bayview hunter's points community, which is one of san francisco's oldest and most culturally significant communities. it will provide job opportunities for the residents who live here, we are going to prepare them so that they have access to work on this site. [applause] >> to reach these goals, we need community involvement, which has

been strong and supportive from the beginning, but we also need funding. so that's why today, i am so thrilled to announce that we have secured $25 million as a result of a generous, generous contribution the john frisk or family foundation to kickstart this project. these funds will support the initial phases of this project, including design and remediation , as well as community engagement and a portion of construction that was chosen as a place to give one of the single largest gifts san

francisco project is completed, so we have to get started sooner rather than later, and there is still more work to be done, with a view hunter's points community , i have to tell you, i can't tell you how happy i am that the work that went into this a reality, it means so much , and i want to acknowledge the hard work of the san francisco creation and park department.

thank you to the leadership of phil ginsburg. thank you to the president of the commission for his tireless work on behalf of the city and the recreation and parks department i am just so thrilled so excited, now it is time that we get to work and make this the most incredible, beautiful waterfront anywhere in the city and county of the school. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> that works for me, because i was going to say, we don't just want breed to be alive when this project is done, we want her to still be in office when this project is done. [laughter] >> i would next like to introduce someone who has been such a champion for open space and equity, even before he took office, he is actually a member, was a member of the india basin open space task that worked with us, and the india basin

neighborhood association, and the myriad of community groups to help us design and think about this space. his predecessor on the board, who is now the chair of the board of equalization, a former supervisor, malia cone was one of the chairs of the task force, and now supervisor walton is picking up the mantle and running with it. it is my pleasure to introduce supervisor shimon boulton -- supervisor walton. >> good afternoon. welcome to the southeast sector of san francisco, welcome to bayview, welcome to india basin where we have always known that the sun always shines. what you see here today is one of the most amazing gems that we have in district ten, and for the next four years, next eight years, next 20 years, next 13 years, we will continue to highlight the beauty of district ten, the beauty of the southeast

sector of san francisco, not only because we know how amazing it is, but because we deserve it , and we deserve to make sure that everyone knows that we are here. thank you for coming out today. [applause] >> i definitely want to acknowledge our board of education members. thank you for showing up. we also have commissioner richardson and i will be remiss if i did not mention a long-term resident geo- fox who worked hard to make sure that we highlighted india basin, highlighted its beauty, and thank you for being out here today. like mayor breed said, projects like this happen because we need the resources to get it done. of course, we want to thank our donor we want to say that donations like that allow us the opportunity to make sure we take care of all of our parks here in district ten. we will make sure that the

beauty of the southeast sector that we all imagined, that we have already known for so many decades and so many decades is realized, and we will do it quickly, and do it sooner rather than later, and i also have to, and i know she will come up and speak, but i want to thank jackie flynn for being a champion, not only for parks, but also for young people who have access to our parks. if you look around you, this is a connection to the water, and we don't do enough water activities here on this side of town because we haven't had the same level of access, even though we have the beautiful waterfront. is a lookout here is a seat more young folks here, this is a time for us to get excited about what is to come and what is here in the southeast sector. i want to thank director ginsburg for continuously pushing for this to happen, and i want to thank all of you for being here as we realize this dream together, a beautiful, amazing park right here in the

southeast sector attached to the water. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor walton. next i would like to introduce, a supervisor walton already acknowledged, an extraordinary advocate. not just for the bayview hunter 's points community, but for open space, for recreation, for health, for community, her organization ensures the neighborhood projects truly benefit neighborhood people. it is my pleasure to welcome jackie flynn, the executive director of the eight philip randolph institute. [cheers and applause] >> one of my fondest memories is this very shoreline. i was out here with my father. when i was a teenager, i was a little bit of a rebel, very independent, and a little stubborn at times, so to keep us out of trouble, me and and my

brother does, he would wake us up early every saturday morning and make us come work for a p.r.i. i had no idea how important our job was. i only knew that at the end of the day, he owed me $20 cash as soon as we were done. so one saturday morning, he took me up to northridge. if you drive across northridge, you guys will all see this view from above, so encourage you to go up there after this if you haven't gone. he asked me to look out and just see how beautiful the shoreline was, and imagine and dream about what this place could be in the future. at that time, i had no idea how much those moments would impact my life today, fast-forward 25 years, and i now serve as executive director of the fill randall institute. i'm very proud to stand alongside my mayor and my supervisor because we are the community leaders that you all dreamed of.

this project will create opportunity we could have never imagined 25 years ago, from jobs , to economy and local business ventures, to social and economic, as well as environmental justice that this community deserves. this project will give back what is way more than then past due in bayview. bayview wants space, beautiful, well-maintained parks and open space that allow all of our families to grow. this project is for all of our kids who dare to dream and all the families that may face challenges, but hold hope in their hearts. thank you mayor breed, thank you supervisor walton and phil ginsburg, special thank you to another true community leader that couldn't be here, but her team is here, and that his former supervisor malia cone. >> thank you, jackie. in closing, it is a wonderful

gathering, it shows how much depth and how much excitement and how much collaboration and community wants this project to happen. we can't thank each and every one of you, and we want to particularly knowledge some of the people who have been deeply involved in the project. we have a number of department heads here today. to all of my colleagues, thank you very much for your support. i want to acknowledge debbie, this is an environmental justice project. i want to acknowledge john around for being an executive champion, and the department of economic and workforce -- workforce development that has helped us every step of the way. a lot of electives have been acknowledged.

and then of course, our park partners, the trust for public. we will get this done. congratulations. to the india basin task force and all of the representatives who have participated in a. five years of planning, special shout out to hunter's point family, the neighborhood association, young community developers, literacy for environmental justice, project level, and morgan heights neighborhood. thank you very much. and no doubt, we are leaving folks out because this project has depth. finally, a very important thank you to the recreation and park team, a special shout out to stacy bradley who helped us acquire this piece of property. and to nicole who has taken this

very challenging project and keeps driving it and driving it and driving it and won't let it quit. and last but not least, we get direction from our mayor, from our board of supervisors, and from our commission. demark you will, tom harrison, cat tenders, anderson and the entire commission, thank you for your faith in us and your leadership. let's build a park. thank you very much. [applaus adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of

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