and if other people from other countries hear about our subway station, they wouldn't want to come here, so i speak sincerely from my heart, please don't name the subway station after rose pak. thank you, every official here. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> hello, board of supervisors. my name is susanna, and i live near chinatown. i strongly oppose naming the station after rose pak.

chinatown is a name that represents the chinese people and the chinese people who have settled down in america. chinatown represents the past, the present, and the future. i hope everyone can support this name chinatown station. thank you. [clerk speaking foreign language] >> yeah. so good evening, board of supervisors. my name's cathy zhang.

i live in district 9, near chinatown, and we just came from the m.t.a. board meeting, and what i show you is the overflow room. you see that's early in the day, so there are a lot of red t-shirts, but they are gone just after maybe 30 minutes or one hour. you know why? let me tell you. so the board of directors told me, you know, they will never just bring a determined mind to hear an issue, they always have an open mind because that's what our representatives are supposed to do. so let's step back and to think about it. who would be hurt if we don't name the subway station after rose pak? nobody, really, seriously, right? but who would be hurt if it's named after rose pak? many people, as you have heard

all afternoon. so it's a very simple equation to solve, actually, right? but why it's become such a big issue, such a big deal? why some supervisors so determined, you know, really? we don't have the real answer, but what we think is it is because some people is trying to benefit politically with a known agenda. so if the supervisor or official thinks by naming this, he's going to get more votes from chinatown, he's miscalculating because it's not a popular thing in chinatown, chinese community at large, actually. if he or she think can benefit from the power of chinese communist party, just like rose pak did, f.b.i. is waiting there, okay? so if the board of supervisors would really wanted to

commemorrate the chinese community -- >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is kylie. i want to ask who is rose pak? based on all evidence, she just is a chinese communist party spy. and what she did was just persecuted a lot of kind americans and a lot of kind chinese in america. they all include many in san francisco. so she totally did things if go against americans' freedoms. but i wanted to ask mr. peskin,

i wanted to ask you why your support -- >> clerk: please direct your comments to the board as a whole. don't single anyone out. >> okay. why just support a person who goes against american spirit? so i think you all are making history. so i don't want you to become a history -- [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisor. my name is andrea. i want to say something. on may 14, during the board of supervisors meeting, supervisor peskin admitted that rose pak

was a complex person, but then, he stated that rose pak contributed to the chinese subway station and should be commemorated. i think that's overstated. hitler built railroads and fridays in germany, including the world's first highway system, the autobahn. if you want to name the subway station after rose pak, it would be like naming a jewish community center after hitler or his first official. i'm here to oppose the naming of the chinese subway station for rose pak because she undermined the fundamental values of america. i'm opposed because she will

bring permanent shame to the city. [please stand by]

>> good evening. i want to share one thing. we come here. we express our feelings to protect america's value, freedom, really, because we think america is a great

country. everyone here, you are working very hard. lead work together for our community. we're making our community beautiful. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. public comment is now closed seeing no other public comments. lead movlet's move on to, madam, items 27-33. >> these items were introduced without reference to committee, a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today. any supervisor may require a reading go to committee. >> item 31, please.

>> i would like to sever item 28, this is supervisor walton and any other items? supervisor ronan. >> 27. >> motion passes for all these

items. >> budgets in using excess education, revenue, augmentation. >> supervisor ronan. >> at a previous meeting, i introduced cooperative living opportunities for people with mental illness. this model, which is a noninsubstitutional communal based households with case management has been effective for long-term stability for people with severe mental illness and substance abuse. as we come together for mental health crisis, i'm hopeful you will join me in supporting this legislation. along with the ordinance, i

introduced this resolution to jump start this programme without delay but now that the mayor has presented our budget, it's no longer timely and i will make a motion to table it, but i am looking forward to continuing to work with colleagues on the budget committee and all of you to include funding for the fiscal years 2019-2020 to this endeavor. with that, i make a motion to table item 27. >> motion made, seconded by supervisor peskin. can we take that same house, same call? then item is tabled. supervisor walton, i believe with 28. >> item 28 is a resolution to support california state senate bill 38 authored by jerry hill to restrict sales of ecigarettes and all flavoured tobacco use by youth.

>> supervisor walton. >> thank you. actually i want to table this item as well as 37 and the bill is now considered dead and state senator jerry hill announced he had it withdrawn because of a variety of amendments that were tacked on at the last minutes to this legislation and the original intent was to prohibit tobacco flavours with fruit, candy and other flavours to entice being sold in stores and new amendments will create unnecessary, harmful exemptions. >> seconded by supervisor ronan, without any objection and this motion passes. ma'am dmadam clerk, 31. >> the municipal transportation agency to name the chinatown

station, the chinatown rose p absoluter k station. >> i would like to expound on this issue that we've heard from the public for the last couple of weeks. i would like thank them for the way they conducted themselves, unlike where an early member where someone behaved in a less dignified fashion. so i want to thank you for petitioning this government in a way that is appropriate and your comments are heart-felt. i want to thank all of you

colleagues as i did in the past for spending your evening hours over an issue that as a matter of policy i'm not a big fan of. i'm not a fan of naming things and with a few exceptions, i've assiduously tried to stay away from that. as a total non-secuetor, i would like to say the buddha was born in lambini, sorry for that. i'm not a big fan of the policy and behaviour of the people's republic of china this was at

the full board of supervisors on facial recognition technology wherein i cited the pic's treatment of the weaker people in western china and how facial recognition technology was used to abuse that population. i knew rose pak. as i said today on the steps of city hall, i had a complicated relationship with rose pak and several of you cited that comment. we were friends at times. we were enemies at times. i think it was actually rather remarkable that somebody like me who is truly independent, absolutely independent of the prc. i was independent of rose pak, would find my way to believe

that she should be honored with her name on something in the city and county of san francisco. i said today briefly on the steps of city hall that i thought that rose pak joined the legions of a few rare names that many people do not know. a woman named wana brionus who was an early settler before it became the city of san francisco. she was a remarkably courageous and brilliant woman who could not read or write, who actually took her husband to court for spousal abuse. she managed do that and she went all the wait to the california

state supreme court in the year 1840 and she won that case. i associate rose pak with the memory of mary ellen pleasant, an african-american woman who came to the city and county of san francisco. she was a woman who actually worked to stop the slave trade in the united states of america and came to san francisco and file a lawsuit in the year 1866, wherein long before a different rose, rosa parks, she sued to stop black women from being ejected from public transportation in the city and county of san francisco. both of these individuals went down as remarkably controversial as characters in san francisco history. i knew rose pak.

i did not get along with rose pak all of the time but her attention to the needs of the chinese american population, not only in chinatown but across the city and county of san francisco were remarkable. the fact that ed lee became the mayor for san francisco for which rose and i parted ways, was something that rose was remarkably important in that. the fact that chinese americans and asian americans populated the command staff and ultimately fred lau became the police chief, i acknowledge these truth. the chinese population of coming of age, as powerful contenders

in the city and county of san francisco was enabled in part through the work of miss pak. i'm not doing geopolitics -- >> excuse me? >> excuse me? supervisor peskin. supervisor peskin. >> the reason i say my mandarin-speaking friends because the constituents i serve are cant --

>> to the members of the fallon gong organization, you preach the notion of tolerance. and i ask you to consider tolerating bachlon today. she was a profoundly important player in the city and county of san francisco. i would like to express my profound disappointment in the deadlock vote at the san francisco municipal transportation authority where my constituents, our constituents, spent their time today. i would like to express my disappointment with commissioners eakin, brinkman and rupky for not understanding the fine grain nature of the city and county of san francisco, from not understanding who are extents

constituents are, but i will not leave this alone and colleagues, i apologize to you, for this will continue. and with that, i commend this resolution to all of you. i thank almost every single one of you who have affixed your names to this instrument and i ask for your support. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. let me say a few words here. i actually grew up in -- i was born and raised and grew up in chinatown. i worked most of my adult life in chinatown in organizations to try to make things better for our children and families there. and in many ways, my road to community work started almost the same time as rose pak, when she started our activism in

chinatown. we were both from but didn't cross paths. so i don't know her as deeply as others, but i know her by reputation and so i can tell you what i saw from afar. and maybe sometimes not so afar. what i saw was that -- there were a lot of commentstt get into what's going on in different nations. this is san francisco. this is where i care about what happens. but for what i saw, because it was nonprofits, in different nonprofits, what i saw was a lot of professionals, chinese american professionals that started volunteering. there was a period where hasn't of them, lawyers, doctors, they

started volunteering to be on boards of nonprofits, to lend professional skills. the common denominator when i spoke to many of them -- and i'm not talking five or six of them -- but literally 40 or 50 people. the common denominator was they always said that rose pak encouraged them to volunteer. to help out the community. and i think the other thing that i saw, that was very impressive that supervisor peskin mentioned was the whole police encouragement of not only having more chinese american wants to e morphpolice officers but they sp there and please represent our community by going up the ranks so that when some of us and the

children, when they look at the police department, they see representation there. so i saw -- it's not just fred lao -- what was the woman, heather fong and so, i saw a lot of that. a central tunnel subway would not have been built without the force of rosa in this case. she was find pushing it, going to meetings and urging the community to support it to bring back the traffic we used to have in terms of people visiting visg chinatown in an easier way than stockton street.

at some point i saw that rosa was pushing and urging people to run for things and you know, whether she helped them with other things, from what i saw was -- a lot of us that didn't want to run for it. she didn't have to urge me, but a lot of people in the chinese american community would make great leaders, but they don't run. and she encouraged them and testament was from a lot of mayors. i remember they would ask for some advice. i never did, but what i recognised, a lot of people did. and because of all of these things and again, this is from my vantage point of seeing who has done what in my community, i

am very supportive of having that -- is it metro station -- be named chinatown rose pa connection. k. are you still speaking supervisor peskin? >> no, i'm done. >> so madam checker clerk, roll. >> on item number 31? pai(roll call).

>> are 11 ayes. >> so the resolution? >> this resolution has passed unanimously. >> madam clerk, is there anything else? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf o of the municipal beach employees whose lives were taken on may 31st, by who's lives will always be remembered. >> any other further business before us today. >> that concludes our business today. >> we are adjourned.

[♪] >> coming to san francisco on june 11th, the earthquake safety his fair from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. as the auditorium at 99 grove street. meet with contractors, design professionals professionals, engineers and architects, along with city agencies and hundreds of booths on the main floor. attend one of the workshops at 11:00 a.m. the seismic safety strategies study. what you need to know is the city strengthens buildings 240

feet high and higher, and to get ready to the next -- for the next big one. 12:00 p.m., changes in the updated citywide vacant commercial storefront ordinance. 1:00 p.m., comply with the accessible business entrance program to enable everyone to enter your business. 2:00 p.m., home modelling process made stress-free, meet the experts and understand the permit review issuance and inspections process. 3:00 p.m., making the best use of the accessory dwelling unit and legalization program to at affordable housing. learn from these three workshops at the june 11th d.b.i. earthquake safety fair, and begin to get ready for the big one by taking immediate steps to protect both family and property we hope to see you there, so register now. [♪] >> my name tom hewitt.

first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. this safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. >> hi. my name's ed sweeney. i'm the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of san francisco to come down and meet all the experts. we've got engineers, architects. we have builders, we have government agencies. >> well, we have four specific workshops. we have the accessible business entrance. >> my name is leah, and i am the

assistant manager with the department of small business. i am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. so all buildings that have places of public accommodation in san francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. >> the a.d.e. was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. >> one of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. >> and it's really to help the public, the business community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. >> so on this workshop, we're going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what

business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. we'll also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the mayor's office on disability. >> hi. i'm marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. today, we'll cover the meaning of a.d.u.s, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. we'll talk about the code and permitting processes, and we'll also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. >> this is the department of building inspection's residential remodelling workshop. my name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at

this workshop, we're going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when i'm upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and what's involved with the coerce process? we're going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in san francisco. there's always questions that need answers. it's a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors they're working with and the product they're getting in the results. if you have questions that aren't addressed in this workshop, you're always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and we're

happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. >> the program is very successful. the last piece is already 60% in compliance. >> well, we have a very important day coming up. it's sept 15. last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how they're going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. >> i'm francis zamora, and i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in san francisco. and so that's really importantiimportant. in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country. there's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we

don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. if there's some kind of an emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and

your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. >> my name is fernando juarez, and i'm a fire captain with the san francisco fire department. we have a hire extinguisher training system. you want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. if you're too close, the conical laser that comes out, it's too small, and the fire won't go out on the screen. if you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. so it can tell when you're too close. >> my name is alicia wu, and i'm

the director of a san francisco based nonprofit. since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. today we're doing c.p.r., controlling external feeding and how to do perfect communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. >> on any given day in san francisco, we're very well resourced in terms of public safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the public safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. there's websites. we have a wonderful website

called 72hours.org. it tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. we can't emphasize enough how important it is to be >> hi, i'm corn field and welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an

earthquake. i have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do? both structural and maybe even important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the

structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours.

here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and

your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that

the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask?

>> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on >> president yee: good afternoon and welcome to the

june 4, 2019 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president yee: thank you. ladies and gentlemen -- give me a second to standup. would you please join me in the

pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president yee: okay. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, colina and leo, who record the proceedings and maymake the transcripts available on-line. i want to take the privilege before we begin today's meeting to ask everyone to join me in yet another moment of silence to honor the lives of -- to

honor the lives of the 12 dedicated municipal workers no different from any of us who were killed by senseless gun violence in virginia beach on friday. thank you. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: there are none to report, mr. president. >> president yee: all right. colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from april 23, 2019 board meeting

and the april 23, 2019 special meeting at the budget and finance committee meeting which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors. are there any changes to these meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? motion made by supervisor fewer, seconded by supervisor mandelman. those minutes will be approved after public comments today. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 1 through 4 are on consent. these items are considered routine but can are removed and consider separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would you like to move to sever any items?

i see supervisor mar on the roster. >> supervisor mar: mr. president, i would like to ask that we sever item 3. >> president yee: okay. we sever item 3. madam clerk, would you please call the roll on items 1, 2, and 4. [roll call] >> president yee: okay. these ordinances are passed on first reading and the resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 3. >> clerk: item 3 is a proposal

to settle the lawsuit involving a challenge to the environmental impact report prepared in support of and in approval of the 2009 housing element of the san francisco general plan. >> president yee: okay. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: president yee and colleagues, the president has requested that we send this back to the g.a.o. for a hearing on the advisory committee. >> second. >> president yee: okay. second? without any objection, this motion passes. madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda. please call item 5. >> clerk: item 5 is an amendment to the administrative code to the procedure on the bei acquisition of surveillance technology. >> president yee: madam clerk,

please call the roll again. [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes, one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. >> president yee: okay. this item finally passed with a 10-1 vote. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. [agenda item read]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 6 -- [roll call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. this ordinance finally passed on first reading unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 7 is an ordinance to amend the housing fund for the purpose of funding land acquisition and production of new 100% affordable housing

and acquisition and preservation of existing housing to be permanently affordable. >> president yee: okay. supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you, president yee. colleagues, today i'm proud to be voting on this legislation to create an affordable housing preservation funds from excess eras funds from the state. this board of supervisors understands that producing more affordable housing should be our top priority. in april, all ten of my colleagues signed on as cosponsors of the community opportunity to purchase act, which will give qualified nonprofits the first right to purchase multifamily apartment buildings on the market in order to preserve them as permanently affordable housing. today, we are putting our money where our mouth is. in addition to funding copa, this will fund tens of millions

of dollars every year for new affordable housing with the goal of providing geographic investments across san francisco. we are falling well short of our goals for very low, low, and moderate income housing. he city has already produced 96% of the goal to meet our goff for the above market moderate housing by 2030. for every two new units of affordable housing the city created in affordable housing, we lost one unit due to ellis act evictions.

this illustrates why it is so critical that the city invest more in production and preservation of affordable housing in order to increase our affordable housing stock so we are no longer taking two steps forward and one step back. if we are serious, we cannot continue to rely on market rate developers fees to fund our affordable housing. through this legislation, we are committed to pledging 50% of all eras funds to the affordable housing fund so that our ability to add to the affordable housing stock is not tied to the volatility of the market. i am also proud of the voters passing a $600 million bond this november, but with only $30 million outlined through

the legislation, we all need your support. i would like to acknowledge the hard work of my aides, ian and chelsea for their exceptional work on this legislation. thank you. >> president yee: supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes, thank you. today, i just want to thank supervisor fewer for bringing this forward to us. i feel it's so important. when we talk about the housing and the housing crisis, we also usually focus on new construction, and that's critical, but it's also preservation, and this strikes there balance. up to 60% of this legislation will be used to acquire land and develop now affordable housing units. we all have sites in our districts that we know would be great for affordable housing, sites that the city should acquire, and sites that we own and want to see develop

november you. in my district -- and want to see developed now. in my district, i have 730 stannion and a property on hayes that's waited for years to see affordable housing. but it's important that we don't lose sight of the fact that the majority of san franciscans live in homes that were built decades and decades ago. most of these are rent controlled, and there's a great deal of pressure on this housing. the small sites for rent is one of the best programs we have for preserving this type of housing and helping stablizing our communities as we continue to build new affordable housing. just last week, with the small site program and the available money through the eraf, we were able to buy a seven unit building in my district. now these