, katy tang. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. as i was telling some people here today, the only thing that will take me out of retirement from attending press conferences is something to do with animals. i am so excited to be here and explain a little bit about how i got involved with animal care and control, and really wanting to see this facility rebuilt. aside from the fact that i grew up with a mother who was a vegetarian, at one point in our life, my dad said, i want a dog, and we were shocked that he all of a sudden in his life, in his early fifties or so wanted a dog , and so we went to animal care and control every weekend for four months straight to search for the perfect dog for him. in that process, i saw the facility first-hand at a.c.c., and it was heartbreaking to me, and then of course, working in

the city took additional tours and learned that there's not enough space for animals being quarantined when some of them have diseases or illnesses. i mean i saw that animals had to be strapped to some of the banisters as they are doing intake, the elevator, i mean, don't even talk about that. just the conditions that the employees had to work in where animals need to get x-rays as well, and there was improper shielding of the radiation in those rooms, so it is not just about the animals, but all the people who work at animal care and control and those conditions i think the conditions are really sad, and i'm so excited that we are standing here today to hopefully, and a very short amount of time, you will have a new building. but also the other thing, even to this day, a lot of people when i talk to them, they actually don't know that we, as a city, have an animal shelter. they are familiar with the different organizations and nonprofits that help with animals, but a lot of them -- you all know because you were

all here, many of you don't know i think it is really important that in a city where we have an estimated more dogs and cats and other animals than we do children, that we really do have a world-class facility for them and their families. lastly, i will say that a.c.c. and the staff there, you do all that work, and you take in the animals that other organizations , or whatnot, might not be able to take in. you take exotic animals, you take the wild strays, you also, yourself have to handle those that get killed on our streets, so you handle so much, and you are really deserving of a world-class facility. i'm excited to be here today, and thank you to every single person and department that made this happen. i'm looking forward to the ribbon-cutting. [applause] >> and of course, i have to introduce the next person who doesn't really need introduction , mohammed nuru.

[applause]. >> thank you. it is always great to see you. i hope you are enjoying your life outside of city hall. i know that is how important this project is to you, and i'm so glad you're able to be here with us today. good morning, everyone. i serve as your public works director, and just like everyone else, i'm very happy to be here today, even with the wet weather , seeing how many people are out here shows as how important this project is to so many people and of course, the animals. today is an exciting day for our city, and an exciting day for san francisco animal care and control. we are celebrating the start of unique project, and it brings me great pleasure and joy that public works will be overseeing the design and construction of the project. it is not every day in san francisco that a modern structure more then a century

ago. that is what is happening right here. the new animal care and control facility. the new shelter will be built with the original brick warehouse behind me, the building was constructed in 1893 and served as the original market street railway corporation. it is eligible for listings on the state national registry and historic basins. it served as a maintenance facility for the sfmta overhead lines. the reuse of the building will be an elegant nod to the city's pass that serves the needs of the 21st century san francisco that historic brick face and wooden frame windows will remain intact, while the interior will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, multilevel facility billed to serve the needs of san francisco for many years to come.

as mayor breeden said, we must think about the future of san francisco today, and there's no better way to do so by investing in capital improvements to our infrastructure. public works is proud to be working with clark construction and the many people who will be working on the projects. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. we are going to do the ceremonial gravel shovel thing, and then we are done. there is tons of delicious food that clark brought that is right outside, food and drinks, and we hope you all stay around for a bit and enjoy each other. >> five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause]

>> there we go.

>> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy

dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is

interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits

and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days

a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest

dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit

longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. buying your first home is a big deal. for many of us, it's the single largest asset that we'll own. that's why it's really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. a typical question new homeowners ask is what is a supplemental tax. so understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to a 2% growth peryear, but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we set a properties assessed value to market value. the difference in value between the previous owner's value and the new value is the supplemental assessment. how does the supplemental assessment translate to the tax you need to pay? supplemental tax is calculated by applying the tax rate to the value and then prorating it for

the amount of time that you owned it in that tax year. in generale, the tax rate is roughly 1%. let's walk-through an example together. here dan is the original owner of a home with a prop 13 protected value of $400,000. with a tax rate of 1%, he pays $4,000. dan sells his home to jennie at a market rate of $700,000. in this case, jennie's home will be reassessed to $700,000, and jennie is responsible for paying property taxes at that level from the time she first owns it. many times, people might have already paid their property taxes in full by the time they sell their home. in that case, dan has paid $4,000 in taxes already for the full year. jennie would likely payback dan through escrow for her share of the $4,000, depending on the proportion of the tax year she owns the home. however, she's also responsible

for paying taxes at the higher market value from when she begins to own the home. how does that work? let's say jennie owns the property for nine months of the first tax year, which is approximately 75% of the year. during the escrow process, she'd pay dan back 75% of the $4,000 he already paid, which is $3,000. on top of that, she would owe taxes at the higher rate for the proportion of the year she owned the house. in this case, she owes the amount not already billed through dan or $700,000 minus $400,000, multiplied by a tax rate of 1%, and multiplied again by 75% to reflect the time she owned the home in that tax year. here, jennie's supplemental tax is roughly $2,250. going forward, jennie will be billed at her new reset prop 13

value. are you still with us? if this isn't complicated enough, some new owners might receive two supplemental tax bills, and this has to do with the date that you transfer property. but before we get to that, you first need to understand two concepts. first, what is a fiscal year? in california, local government runs on a fiscal year. unlike the calendar year, where the year begins on january 1, a fiscal year begins in the middle of the year, on july 1. property tax follows the fiscal year cycle. second, state law requires property be valued as of january 1 every year, in other words, new year's day. the value as of january 1 is used to calculate property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year. this means property value as of january 1, 2018 will be usedtor fiscal year 18 -- used for fiscal year 18-19 covering

july 2018 through june 2019. similarly, the value of january 1, 2019 will be used for the fiscal year covering july 2019 through june 2020. now back to whether you should expect to receive one or two supplemental tax bills. the rule of thumb is that if the property transfers happens in the first half of the fiscal year, in other words between july and december, then you should expect only one supplemental tax fill. if the transfer happens in the second half of the fiscal year or between january and june, you should expect two supplemental tax bills. here's the reason why. using dan and jennie's example again, dan's $400,000 value as of january 1 is used to set the tax bill for the following fiscal year beginning july through june of the next year. jennie buys the property from dan in october. the taxable value is reset to $700,000 as of october, but the bill issued still reflects dan's lower value.

in this case, jennie would expect to receive one supplemental or catch-up bill to capture the difference between her assessed value and began's fr began's -- dan's from october through june. because of january 1 we already know of the sale, we would have used the following year to set jennie's property taxes and no other supplemental bill should be received. however, if dan sells the property to jennie in march, instead, jennie should expect two supplemental bills. like before, jennie would receive one supplemental bill to cover the time in which she owned the home in the current tax year from march to june. but because as of the next january used to set the tax base for the following tax year, dan still owned the home, the following year's entire bill still reflects the values not updated for jennie. in this instance, jennie receives a second supplemental for the following year covering july through june.

after the supplemental tax bills, new owners should receive only one regular tax bill peryear going forward. remember our office values the properties, but billing and collections are handled by another organization called the treasurer and tax collector's office. if you'd like to learn more, please visit our website at sfassessor.org. thank you for watching. friends, residents. ladies and gentlemen, friends, residents, stakeholders, community leaders, good morning and welcome to this historic grand opening of 1101 potrero.

[applause.] this is a monumental moment for the residents of potrero hill. we are excited to have you here today with our honorable mayor. i would like to first bring up a fourth generation san francisco resident. fourth generation potrero hill resident. [applause.] >> i had a speech prepared. it blew in the wind. it is gone. i will go off the top of my head. the spirit moving me. before i do a prayer for us in this beautiful space, i want to say welcome from my family, the blue family. i consider myself a po a nativef

potrero hill. i went to missouri street after two days of hospitalization. i want to first honor and acknowledge the ancestors that came before us shared our mothers, mothers and fathers, fathers came to san francisco. some of us came to san francisco from the south trying to avoid atrocious cities, trying to better their lives and moved to potrero hill. they didn't know they were going to unknown territory. this is what they called home. i still consider it home today. i want to remember those people. i want to remember the people that came before those, the native hurricanes that this was their land, their home and that we don't often knowledge that

but we feel their spirits on the hill. this is a beautiful space. it is a beautiful space and the homes that reside across the street and up the street and up this hill and down the street. those will be one day another transformation in physical form. we are talking about more than a physical form. my people believe in spirits. i am 90% of what you don't see my thoughts, beliefs, mind and spirit. i want to honor and acknowledge those people that came before me to acknowledge that they gave and they sacrificed in ways we will never know. i want to say thank you to the people that made this possible. this is only one of many phases of transformation in the physical. this is one of the milestones in the spirit and emotional.

if you can bow your heads at this time and i want to say to made god, my heavenly father and those praying to your god. i am talking about one god. the spirit muffs among us. it is someone that is bigger, stronger than us that knows this right here was going to happen. i share with you earlier today walking in the building the young woman said do you remember me? do you remember me? my name is faith. i said what? my name is faith. it comes to me transformation is happening. if you believe, if you have faith that change is going to come, i want to say today change has come. i want to say thank you, lord, for the people that continue to move through even in the midst

of darkness. thank you to the people recessient in midst of pain. thank you for those that gave their lives when they didn't know that they were. i want to say continue to bless the space that these new residents reside in. may you continue to put your loving protective arms around the space, the place and the people that reside in this place. may you continue to remember that there are a group of 90% people that still need to move into a new space and those putting up the spaces and places. remember these are people that have memories and places and spaces that are yours, lord. so may we continue to bless this day when we continue to bless this space and the people. may we continue to be resilient

and still remember there is heaven in the middle of some of our hell. may we remember beauty among the ugly. we ask this day continue to be flowing. may we remind people to be responsible and accountable for the people we are in charge to move forward. forgive us for things we may not know that we have done. amen. >> thank you so much. a men. can we say amen. you are due for a treat. you have a powerhouse group of speakers, you have the distinguished mayor, supervisor district 10. in our community we know if you feel us, if we hear you back. now we are ready to do this

work, to build a set of 100% affordable housing units in the community for the first time in a half a century. it takes a mission-driven developer. the leader of the incredible and extraordinary partner who is behind this incredible building cynthia parker from bridge housing. [applause.] >> thank you. i appreciate that. what a crowd. you know, i am so impressed that so many people came out here to help us dedicate this building, but particularly i think what is so wonderful we have had so many people from the resident community who are so excited about this. last saturday we had an open house for the residents to allow them to come through and tour the building and get a chance to

see it. they are just so jazzed and so are we. last week we had our first resident start to move in. i have to tell you it makes my heart so glad to see this ham. i have been at bridge for nine years now. it is hard to believe. it went by like a second. i have to tell you this was the first project i got involved in. we had been awarded this development awhile ago, two years before i got here, and we had a very lengthy entitlement process. a lot has changed in san francisco during that time. the housing situation has become much more acute but we also have leaders like mayor breed who have said we are going to step up to speed up the process to make the development of affordable housing a priority in

the community. we have seen that happen. we are now seeing permitting and entitlements under expedited process happen under senate sb35 which senator wiener introduced which allows us to get things developed in a quick fashion. we see those entitlements by right go through in 60 days as opposed to nine years. it really makes a difference when the community when the leadership of the city says we put this first because we need this kind of housing. i would like to give a couple shout outs to people who made this happen, you know. we have our residents, on you mayor, we also have maria. thank you for all of your support. i remember going to your office and you were right there with us. i thank you for that.

jeff sparks is the district director for senator wiener. thanks. we have a couple bridge board members who are very supportive. dennis o bryan is in the crowd and ron is our board chair. we also have folks from obviously hope sf and the mayor's office of housing. thank you, kate, for all you have done. you have been an awesome director for the office of housing. i also want to acknowledge dan aldoses dams. i accused had -- dan at dams -- dan adams. he is still helping us out. thank you, dan. just a real quick compilation. this is going to end up going

over 1675 units of housing. we would like to squeeze in a few more because we need the housing in the city. it will have affordable development across the street and market rate development which we want to see in the next year or so. there will be 15,000 square feet every tail, 25,000 to 35,000 square foot community center open to the neighborhood, daycare spaces and three and a half acres public space. this has 72 affordable units. part of the problem is people are living in public housing. i know they are anxious to get out. we want to help that happen. we have to build the units in order to move them out. that is going on. this space was created first. next spaces will carry things down and move people in. there are spaces for resident

services and programs. this is a leads gold building. we are pursuing that. it shows our commitment to suggestion stain ability. -- sustainability. it takes a village. you are our village and you helped make this happen. i appreciate it. [applause.] are you going to introduce the mayor? i don't mind. i would love to. i would like to with this introduce or beautiful and lovely mayor of san francisco, london breed, who has just a tremendous appetite to make things happen for afford annual housing. thank you, mayor breed. [applause.] >> i can't believe how cold it is in potrero hill. usually it is warm.

i am so excited to be here today. this is a long time coming. i often go back to my experience of when i lived in plaza east in the western addition. at that time during the hope six project, we tore down 300 units of housing and only built 200. we made mistakes and moved people out of san francisco. sadly, a lot of mistakes that i am glad that today we are not repeating those same mistakes. we are making sure residents of potrero hill have a place to move in directly in their communities. that is a big deal with all of the challenges that existed in the past. the breeds have history in potrero hill. the breeds -- that is my sister for those who don't know. my mother lived at connecticut

and i spent a lot of time in potrero hill for so many years. eddy and brenda were a sustain in the community. we are grateful they were like mommy and daddy in the neighborhood. get in the house. it is too late for you out here. this is an amazing community. it is filled with so many incredible people who deserve to live in better conditions than what has existed for far too long in public housing. you know addressing the challenges with public housing is my number one priority. when you have had to live in the kinds of conditions where you had no control and no money to make any changes, there is nothing else that would be more important to you than changing those conditions when you have the ability to do so. i won't get into the details of the challengeses. don't get my started on the mold and pipes and roaches and drama

and calling a number no one would find out and you had to pay somebody $5 to pick the toilet so you didn't have to use the neighbor's toilet. i can go on and on about the challenges that existed. today is significant. the work we have been able to do and this happened when supervisor now board of equalization member was on the committee. they worked together to make sure we addressed those challenges by investing in this community and not displacing this community, which was so critical to the success of this project. i am reminded of the thing mayor lee used to say. it is not about new promises, it is about old promises. today after years afternoon years and years of struggle we

are fulfilling an old promise. one building at a time, one family at a time, joyce. we are doing it. we are changing the face of public housing, not the people but just how these places look, how they feel so that people can live in dignity. some of you know i have been on a mission to make sure we build more affordable housing in san francisco. part of the work along with supervisor walton are duing. when there is extra money we carve out money for public housing to address the conditions that continue to exist all over the city. a couple days ago we introduced a $500 million bond including $150 million for public housing. (applause). we also know that in order to make sure that communities are

able to afford to live in the communities as we build more housing, neighborhood preference is a critical tool to making sure that as your kids grow they have a shot of being able to live in the community they were born and raised in. we know there is to much work to do. today is an incredible start at a great future in this community. i am looking forward to breaking ground on more buildings. i am looking forward to moving faster and getting red of the red tape that makes it difficult to build 100% affordable housing in the city. look out for the charter amendment to allow for 100% affordable future housing projects to be built as a right. no more delays, no denials, let's build it and build it now. [applause.] this is honestly a dream come true for me because as i said

when i think about my own childhood and growing up and living in public housing for over 20 years of my life, i think about my grandmother and the conditions we suffer through, my family, my friends not with us today and the conditions that we suffered through, and i am so hopeful because now as a result of this work that so many of you contributed to making this dream a reality the next generation of young people in public housing will have a completely different experience. that gets me excited. i want to thank the community for their patience, delays don't mean denials in this case. i want to thank bridge housing for their work to wells fargo to the mayor's office of housing and hope sf and the leaders who

continue to fight to make sure so many places in san francisco especially out east which supervisor cohen knows the battles and now supervisor who is taking this over will be there with everything to make the changesness so that communities can live in dignity throughout the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause.] >> thank you, madam mayor. i have a dirty secret. downtown in city hall not everyone cares about potrero hill, lets be real. having served under multiple mayors. this mayor come in a short

period prioritized hundreds of millions of dollars for public housing. i want you to give her a proper thank you to mayor london breed for all of the support to this community. [applause.] thank you. thank you. she is not shy. as mayor breed mentioned, this is all about the residents. i have the highest honor to introduce a resident who has lived in this community a decade and who now calls 1101 connecticut home, mr. johnny ledbetter. >> thank you. first, i would like to thank everyone for coming out and i am

one of those promised. god is first in my life and my world. i am johnny ledbetter, a san francisco housing authority. i just transitioned to bridge housing. i want to tell you how i got here. i was a single father raising my daughter, homeless, living in the shelter in 2010. i got a phone call from san francisco housing that said i was approved. i was overwhelmed with joy but scared at the same time. also because i had never had my own apartment. being a sick el father raising a

-- single father raising a daughter is challenging. being homeless is worst. through my challenges and being blessed with housing i have built a strong solid community with my neighbors and with san francisco housing authority and staff. also with other organizations such as public housing association, and this i never had before. also, i am blessed to seek employment or keep a job. i had again been blessed to work with a nonprofit organization that helps residents from san francisco housing authority transfer over to bridge.

i would like to thank mattie, elizabeth, for guidance through the trying but fulfilling time especially as i glare out my window. that is a blessing. my new spot in my new 1101 connecticut street, you know. i want to thank everyone and you, too, mayor london breed, for your effort. thank you. i am that promise. [applause.] >> thank you so much. next we are going to bring up a community leader, fighter the

supervisor of district 10. mr. walton. >> good morning potrero hill. we are energetic. this is important. good morning, potrero hill. there we go. this is very personal to me. missouri and turner terrace. 1720, 25th street. all of those potrero hill addresses are very personal to me. the first address is a family resource center where i became the director in the early 2000s where we worked to provide services for families to make sure basic needs were met, where we had a food pantry that served over 100 residents every

week with the grandparents group here. i see eddy here, joyce is here, i see a community of folks that worked hard to serve the community. the second was the address of the food pantry where so many families. as you know we don't have grocery stores in close proximity in the southeast sector where so many families access quality food from the food bank so they were able to get through the week to support their families and feed them and provide nutritious meals. we focused on making that happen. the third address 1720 25th street is where i lived at a young age with my aunt, cousin, mother right up the hill. we rode bikes with no brakes.

i would hospital to go to west point where migrate mother and you cancle lived and where i lived as a youth. this is exciting to be here to witness the rebirth, to witness the beautiful homes on this side of potrero hill. i also want to say that i remember having conversations at the family resource center and when bridge first started bringing on community connectors and bringing folks in the community and we started having conversation about revitalization of potrero hill, what it was going to look like. like mayor breed said it is a promise. i have had many conversations with residents. nobody believed it was going to happen. we have our first 75 units at

the. i want want to shout out to malia for her hard work not only on this project but for all support for hope sf and everything we are doing with public housing in san francisco. her dedication, work to get the financing to blink the community together is very important in this fight as we continue to do everything we need to for our communities. [applause.] i want to end with saying there is more work to be done. we have four communities just on the southeast to make whole. things are not perfect right now, but we are going to continue to work hard to make sure that we do the best job to bring everything this community needs, not just housing but grocery stores, activities and

things for young people to do. things are not perfect. in the words of janet who sung the theme song for the jeffersons. we are moving on up. [applause.] >> leave it to supervisor walton. moving on up. amen. if you look around and see the finishes, the courtyard, the views, the landscaping, this is first class. this is not public housing. this is for our people in potrero hill. it takes a lot of money to do this. it takes investors, funders, folks willing to commit to the principles of hope sf. the senior vice president of

wells fargo investing daniel pearl. >> do i get to wear the hat if he left it here? i am here on behalf of a group in wells fargo called community lending. there is about 200 of us around the country including many in san francisco. i want to start by thanking the long-time residents, leadership council, bridge housing who brought us here, mayor's office and the mayor and hope sf for leadership. we provided low income housing equity. we participated in the construction loan and it is an honor to invest in the community. we are lucky to be part of the hunters view and made the tax credit investments in the bay you and other neighborhoods in

the city. one personal connection for me. i moved to the bay area about 11 years ago and i had a friend at that time working at bridge housing. he knew i didn't know many people and i had time on saturdayen. he said we just started working on this development out here and having a barbecue would you come? i didn't know what bus to take now, i know it is 19. i spent the afternoon here. little did i know that 11 years later i would be here. we are ready for phase two and thank you to everyone who made this place what it is today. thank you very much. [applause.] >> thank you, daniel. you passed the pest. my also daughter is the only one who can wear this hat. i tested you right there. last but not least i want to

bring up one of the partners at bridge, the project manager. i want to acknowledge mr. fred blackwell, chairman of the san francisco foundation here with us who is such a partner along the way. we mentioned the esteemed director of the mayor's office of community development who made this happen. barbara smith is somewhere around. thank you, barbara. samuel. >> i have been given the job to give the last thank u.s. i want to thank the residents of the annex and terrace. this project is more than 10 years in the making. thank you for making this happen. iit is a process. here we are today. also, i want to thank the

residents from park view down to those down. it is months of almost years of inconveniences with traffic detours and construction noise. i hope this is an improvement to what was here previously. i want to thank our financial partners apartment city bank and wells fargo as well as the mayor's office of housing and community development. our contracting team that including matt, mike, jim and matt. our team of fred, michael. our landscape architect tour team justin and gary. civil engineer mark hail. i want to thank faith and phillip at city hall for keeping

the wheels greased and our bridge team. stacy and damian. i want to thank everybody. i hope you enjoyed the event. now if you are here to take a a look at the units. we will do the formal ribbon-cutting ceremony right here. [applause.] >> let's do this. five, four, three, two, one. (applause)

>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is may 22, 2019. i'm chair of the budget and finance. our clerk i