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renney project structural engineer. bryan sellers for fire protection engineer. john libby. okay. major project contractor nancy goldenberg. mark cunningham for historical preservation architect. members at-large. eileen dick, jonathan rodriguez, residential projects contractor. zachary nathan for small project architect.
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we have tom huey, dan and i think that is it. we have three year terms for all of our renewing members. if i had you in the wrong category, i do apologize. we appreciate your service. >> i will call the question then. >> we will do a roll call vote to approval all members of the code advisory committee. (roll call). the motion carries unanimously. would you all please come forward.
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foe the oath of office i, state your name, do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domest domestic. that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. and the constitution of the
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state of california. that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and fate fe fully discharge did duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such times as a hold the office of a member of the code advisory committee. state your seat. of the city and county of san francisco. thank you all very, very much. [applause.]
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>> if anybody wants to say a record, you are more than welcome. thank you. >> commissioner walker. >> i want to thank all of these volunteers, both on this body and the board of examiners, who advise us so much with your specific and vast knowledge of code and construction. it really helps, especially those of us who aren't necessarily builders and have that knowledge, it is extremely important as we review these policies. thank you. it is really important to all of us. >> thank you very much. next item is item 6.
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discussion and possible action to make recommendations regarding current membership and reappointment goes to the board of examiners. term goes to expire september 15, 2022. manuel flores, patrick, bradley sugar man, sam, dan, james reed, michael, jeremiah, randy collins and michael robins. >> okay. i move that we accept all of these reappointments. >> second. >> we have a motion and second to accept all of the members of the board of examiners. i will do a roll call vote on that as well.
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any public comment? none. (roll call). the motion carries unanimously. are there any members of the board of examiners present? come forward, please. >> once again, thank you all very much for your service. please repeat after me. i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united
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states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of di the united states and the constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion, and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such time as i hold the offers of a member of the board of examiners, state
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your seat. of the city and county of san francisco. thank you again. [applause.] >> if anybody wants to make any comments, you are more than welcome. that is item 6 as well there. before we close i want to thank commissioner and commission mere lee for the outstanding job. i don't think we ever had so many new faces. i really appreciate that.
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we know what work goes into that committee to get people's participation with all of the code stuff on the tall buildings and the earthquake and code. it is incredible part of this big cog of the wheel that makes the world go around. that is great work you are doing. thank you so much. did you want to say any comments or just sign your life away. appreciate that. with that, madam secretary, we will go to the next item. >> thank you. congratulations to the board of examiners members. item 7. commissioner's questions and matters. a inquiries to staff. at this time commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policy, practices and procedures
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which are of interest to the commission. commissioner walker. >> iowa like t -- i would like e an update about the cover program. a couple years ago supervisor weiner and i worked on a focused financial assistance program for landlords with code enforcement issues and couldn't afford to do the work. it took forever to get it up and running. i would love to get a sense from the folks in the mayor's office of housing and community development who managed that and maybe some of the code enforcement groups involved with referrals, it would be good to revisit that. i always intended to try to expand that because there is such a need for helping around code enforcement and getting
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things done especially around seismic. it would be great to have an update to be able to see the path forward, if there is one, that we can move from here. thank you. >> thank you, ms. walker. commissioner lee, please. >> commissioner lee: i would like if this can be on the agenda or some way to review the complaint process and be the issuance of novs on problems that involve two or more properties. i am not saying that i am critical of anything. right now it seems like we need to find a way to get multiple properties together and resolving some of these issues. i am trying to see if there is some way to get in front of it, have a third-party involved before it gets to the abatement
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process then to us. i don't know how. i wonder if we can review the process of how we do business, how we issued the novs, how the departments try to resolve this with the owners, then how it gets resolved. >> commissioner washall. >> is last meeting was with the planning commissioners. supervisor peskin presented a broad sweeping proposal for the first hearing with us, and many of the elements of it were in dispute and i know much more work is going to be done, but in
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particular for the building inspection commission, i think the very first issue that we would love to see is that a good statement jointly issued between the staffs of planning and building to resolve any differences in our definitions of demolitions come to fruition as quickly as possible. while the supervisor's office was excellent at reaching out to each staff individually, i think that it would be very, very constructive if we made a concerted effort to work with the planning staff and try to get a proposal on resolving this confusing and conflicting standard that then the supervisor can choose to either
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accept or modify and bring forward so that we at least as a first step on these issues get that dilemma finally resolved. >> commissioner walker. >> i totally support that specific focus, but there are also as brought up by one of our members of the public, there are many issues that we as commissions came together around. it would be nice to -- if we can do it. we had one meeting to set up the next meeting which took a year and a half. it would be great if we had a working group to help facilitate this and set up the agendas for the next meeting. our departments are moving in together, hopefully, at some point to be defined later, we
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will have a permit checking system to bring our departments together. to that end maybe we could include that as a second agenda item, more expansive process. >> i couldn't agree more. all of the items were under discussion should be reevaluated and moving forward on as many of them as possible is good, but a first step is really what i am proposing around this one where there is complete agreement, we need to clear up the discrepancy. i absolutely applaud the idea of working more closely with our colleagues and as you point out before our meeting a year and a half ago, we had a very long gap
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on joint sessions. we then had a year and a half gap as we were waiting for the supervisors draft to be heard and i share your feelings that the joint sessions can be very useful, effective and build our relationship with our colleagues. i would very much like to see them regular into annual, semi annual and special needs whenever required. moving forward with some effort to work with our colleagues to normalize the joint session and regularize it would be something i would welcome as well. >> thank you, commissioner. the feedback from the hearing was quite positive, i believe.
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i think from regardless where you are on the issue, i think everybody felt it was a needed and transparent conversation about a piece of legislation trying to work the way through. i am not sure where it is right now. i am hearing it has gone back to the drawing board on a lot of issues. i haven't heard any conversation. has staff reached out? maybe they could give us an update next month with the planning and supervisor peskin's office on what is happen of course. i do concur this should be more consistent on a regular basis. i think we start off every year trying to get that. a year and-a-half is probably better than four years. >> commissioner walker to your
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point, i do agree. on the other aspect if i was looking i am seeing a lot of legislation, and i know one is at planning tomorrow in reference to making buildings more dependent on the carbon footprint and the city determining how we are going to get our buildings more efficient. i see a lot of legislation. there is one on commercial buildings over 50,000 feet tomorrow. i know there is another hearing on monday at the land use which is a discussion on the future of how we are going to get the pretty much how the city is going to move the energy needs and its green policy and procedures. it has to do a lot with buildings in the future. i wouldn't mind a close eye on that to see how those conversations with going and give us input what is expected
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of the department as the legislation will grow and develop over the next year. not necessarily next month but please if we could get updates on that, i would really appreciate it. >> next item 7b. future meetings. there will be future meetings anagenda. the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and/or derm those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting. it will be august 21st, 2019. is there any further commissioner comments? public comment on items 7a and b? >> thank you. good morning. i am jerry drantler.
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i share the positive statements of intention regarding common definition of demolition. i would like to see the positive statements move forward towards something more actionable. my suggestion is to clearly define the problem and propose the solutions in a reasonable timeframe. at some point there be a motion toward that end. thank you. >> any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, item will discussion and possible action regarding the san francisco amendments to the 2019 california building standards code, including the building, existing building, residential, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and green building codes. >> i am michelle with the
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department of building inspection. throughout this year we worked hard with the members of the d.b.i. as well as the subcommittees and cac to review repeal the 2016 san francisco code amendments and adopt the 2019 san francisco amendments in conjunction with adopting the state amendments to the codes. i bring forward a proposed packets of six drafts what the codes will be in 2019 and will be effective in 2020. it will be the san francisco building code amendments 2019 alongside the san francisco existing building code amendments 2019 edition proposed san francisco electrical code
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amendments 2019 code. plumbing code amendments 2019 code addition. and proposed san francisco mechanical code amendments 2019 edition. for your review, when we are providing this draft for you, the shaded do you see that? it is the unchanged language in the national code or the california code. then if they had made changes crossed out or underlined and we have incorporated into the san francisco amendments that are shown here. some of these are shaded to let you know this is what the state has and the unshaded is what is the changes that san francisco made to them. i just wanted to give you an overview of what we did.
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basically the changes you may see in here have to a lot of it has to do with section no. changes. we go through the numbers and the section numbers changed with the national or state code. another item that we made sure we are ensuring that we don't duplicate the language either in the state or national code. the great thing about some of it the national or state code has caught up with san francisco. the fact we are very diligent in our building safety and environmental impact of the housing and building stock in san francisco. the state has acknowledged that and the national level and state level. sometimes they have taken that language and put it in the state code. therefore in the san francisco amendments we don't need it any
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more because the language is incorporated already which is great for us. the other thing that the last thing we made sure we caught a lot of the ordinances that have passed that may not have been incorporated in the building code yet is in the processor it has passed -- the ordinance has passed maybe the publishsher has not put it in the code. we don't want to lose that. when we repeal in 2016 it doesn't get lost in legislation. as you see it we have the six draft of the code here. i would be happy to answer any questions you have unless you want to go through item by item. i know them now because i went through all of it.
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>> thank you. hats off to you. it is a lot of material to learn and to know and to be smart about, and it is well-done. thank you for all of that. >> thank you very much for coming up today. is there any public comment on this item? if not we will do a motion to approve. >> so move to approve. >> second. >> the code amendments. >> there is a motion and second. i will do a roll call vote on it. (roll call).
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it carries unanimously. >> madam secretary. >> our next is item 9 update on sf permit, accela person mitt and project tracking system. >> deputy city attorney. i want to caution there are some on the advice of council we do not advice going to any issues with the contract with the accela system. we will leave this to a factual discussion of the work thus far and hope to have an update on other issues at the next big hearing. >> i am with the department of technology working on the implementation of the sf permit for the department.
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in terms of current status, we started the end to end test round. in contrast to the previous test rounds. end to end is designed to exercise the system as it would be used in live production within d.b.i. so we are testing the hand-offs which are very critical in the processes as permits go from intake to plan reviews to issued and inspections conducted. the process plus the hand-offs are the focus of end to end. that began a week ago monday. we are into our eighth day of end to end testing. we have out of the end to end testing as of this morning, we
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have logged 92 -- well one severity one and 91 severity two issues. the amount of issues that we have amassed halfway through the test cycle is concerning to us. within the project team and with the executive committee we have taken those discussions up with the appropriate parties at acella to ask them to come to the table with ideas to improve things so we don't have these issues coming out of the test cycles this far along in the program. in terms of total number. there are 122 total. since the last update on may 15, there is 170(1) issues completed and closed. we have asked acella at the end
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of the plan a week from today to come back to address the current issues we have. as the city attorney had given guidance, we plan to be able to provide an update to the commission after the meetings have taken place. that is all my comments. >> thank you, henry. just so i understand. stop me if i cross that line here. when you did the test and i think you made the comment that you had one severe and 91 secondary severe concerns when you did the test, is that correct? >> the difference between severity one and two. one is what we call the critic
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criticallish shoo. it is a major issue. twos are major. they are problems we cannot go live with. it stops the process or part of the process. >> when you are launching a new system it is the stage that these would start raising the ugly heads because you are doing the test. up to this point you would not have known about them until you fire up everything, is that correct? >> we have had a series of test rounds since june or july of 2018 when we started the first test rounds. in the nature of a software product in the early rounds you find more things. it is the first time you have the users in front of the system so you expect to log more issues. as the things are getting fixed
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it should be maturing for the stability of the platform. we expect less and less issues out of each subsequent past round. the pattern we are seeing not satisfying in that regard. >> thank you, henry. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none. next is item 10, director's report. update on d.b.i.'s finances. >> good morning. i am dan, the finance manager, deputy director is out today so i am here to present the may 19 finance update.
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we are still closing the fiscal year. we should have the year end finance report in september. actual operating revenues $72.6 million. we project total revenues for the year $79.5 billion. this exceeds the budget by $8.2 million. actual expenditures is $62.7 million. we project total year end to be $78.2 million. that is under the budget of $81.2 million. on top of page 2 is year-over-year operating revenue comparison. the first 11 months the revenues are up over the same time last year. year-to-date expenditures up
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$6.1 million over the same time last year. the last section has on page 2 has information on the number of permits issued and related valuation. 33,000 permits issued which is 2% higher than last year. related valuation is $4.6 million which is 11% higher than last year. it will be available next month and we will share with you then. any questions? >> thank you for coming today. >> 10b. update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. >> good morning. bill strong, legislative and
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public affairs. there is a land use hearing coming up on monday, the 22nd, at d.b.i. with the department of environment and planning and possibly a few other departments will be reporting answering some questions. supervisor mandelman called this as president mccarthy mentioned to take a look how the city is doing to reduce carbon emissions. it turns out about 44, 45% of all emissions come from transportation and 42 to 43% come from building and construction. they are interested in moving the discussion forward, particularly in terms of talking about more elec electrification. this is to make everybody aware
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we are trying to move forward and take those kinds of things, incorporate them to the building and construction industry. >> i have a question related. berkeley passed an ordinance to not use gas in their new construction. they are going to all go to electric. curious if there is any discussion about that from here. >> that is among the topics that will be under discussion. the devil is in the detail. we have a lot of existing buildings with mixed fuel, including gas. with good intentions of wants to move toward electiontrification it is going to take time to move towards those goals. the other thing i want to mention is on thursday of this week there is a gao committee
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meeting where the mayor's office and board is bringing backna piece of legislation we talked about at the end of last year, beginning of this year whereby only d.b.i. selects fees for,tic particular fees would be waved as a pilot project applied to a.d.u. projects and 100% affordable housing projects to see if that incentive encourages more construction of both of those categories. we will be going over to the committee meeting to see if there are any questions. you may remember the commission did adopt and supported moving forward with this filot year project.
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auyou will expressed concern d.b.i. fees were waiver waved and others would have been stronger. that ordinance is back with us and will be moving forward based on what the city attorney has told me so far. they may change the retroactive date from february 26 of this year which it was originally to something closer to now or june to give a full year's opportunity to collect some data because three months before the actual end of that pilot year, d.b.i. will provide a report to the commission and to the board that will essentially identify how many projects took advantage of this and what was the total amount of fees waived and that
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sort of data point to give the mayor's offers and board an opportunity to see whether or not a reduction in fees makes a difference in terms of these kinds of projects. i think that is about all. following up from the joint hearing we will check in with the supervisor's office to see what kinds of steps so far we have not heard from them since the joint hearing. we will monitor that closely and get back and report to you when we have more detail. >> thank you, mr. strong. >> next item 10c. update on major projects. >> good morning. director of building inspector. not much changes there. any questions? >> thank you, director.
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>> next item 10d. update on code enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners. ed sweeney. i have the numbers. 5424. complaints 435. responses 428. complaints with first notice of violation 64. abated complaints 40. second notice of violations 33. housing inspections performed 926. complaineds received 384. complaint response 370. updated complaints 427. number of cases sent to
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director's hearing 35. routine inspections 162. code enforcement. number of cases to hearing 156. number order of abatements 48. number of cases under advisement 18. cases abated 113. code enforcement inspections performed 138. there was no litigation committee in june and therefore there was no case. well one case sent to the city attorney in june. code enforcement outreach programs. i believe they are issuing this quarterly. we will get the next update next quarter, next month. the numbers are before you. they haven't changed. >> thank you. is there any public comment on 10a through d?
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>> i am kevin chang. i would like to report on 2114 state street. the staff identified errors in the vacant building fines and have refunded those fees. i want to thank staff. on the monthly monitoring fees i have asked for a refund of the fees. i hope those will be granted, and i hope that the move to lien the property will be withdrawn and cancelled. i have yet to received documentation to that effect. you requested a status update on hopkins. i look forward to a future presentation on that. thank you very much. >> next is item 11. review and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of may 15, 2019.
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>> move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and second. any public comment? seeing none. are all commissioners in favor? any opposed. okay. the minutes will be approved. >> item 12. review and approval of the minutes of the special joint meeting of the planning and building inspection commission of june 20, 2019. >> move to approve. second. >> there is a motion and second? any public comment on the minutes. seeing none are all commissioners in favor? any opposed? thank you. our next item is 13. adjournment is there a motion to adjourn? >> move. >> second. >> you are now adjourned at 110 4:00 a.m. thank you.
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business partner, mike leon. on this historic day. i want to take the warmest welcome possible to the honorable mayor london breed, supervisor haney, supervisor mandelman. the greatest community, members of the leather and lgbt cultural district and the friends of eagle plaza. we're all here today after a long road. great accomplishments. eagle plaza started as an idea. six years ago my business partner and i met, built and have a conversation about
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breaking ground for construct, where we floated idea of the construction of the plaza. between the san francisco eagle bar and the construction. a plaza unique to the world that will honor the leather and lgbt communities, serve as a focal part for them to have events. and now this idea is about to come true. it's fitting this was elected for the first public plaza dedicated to the leather community. it's been the home for this community for decades. a special thanks to supervisor haney and mandelman for introducing and pushing forward the legislation to permit the construction of eagle plaza. [cheers and applause]
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without their efforts, eagle plaza would still remain as an idea. i would like to thank all of those who contributed financially to eagle plaza and to my eagle family for their support. and, of course, the most special thanks to mayor breed, who removed road blocks, constantly moved the project forward to where we're here today at the ground-breaking of eagle plaza. i would like you to extend the warmest welcome to our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] >> >> mayor breed: thank you so much. i am so excited to be here today. we're going to have one of the most beautiful plazas in san francisco. i remember when it first became mayor and i knew that this idea had started over six years ago
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when state senator scott wiener was on the board of supervisors and i know a lot of the work he did helped to get us to this place. but i was really frustrated over the two years of bureaucracy. we already had the support. we already had the plan. and the city bureaucracy continued to delay this project. so two years delay was just really unacceptable. so when i first became mayor, i made this one of my first directives and we got the approvals done in three months. so i'm really proud -- [applause] -- that we were able to work together to accomplish that goal. in addition to that, because this was such an amazing community-driven project, $200,000 from the community college grant was made possible to help fund this project. the work from build inc. and i
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want to thank lauren seguin for being here, as well as the folks from the park alliance and the friends of eagle plaza, you all came together to make this incredible project possible. and i also would like to say a special thank you to senator scott wiener who put $100,000 in the state budget so we can have the additional support that we need. but here's the good news. we know that there is still a $50,000 funding gap and so that we can focus on the work and not on the resources needed to get the work done, i work with supervisor mandelman to come up with the $50,000 that we need to get this project done. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: so to the folks of the leather and the lgbt
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community and this cultural district that was made possible for the purposes of celebration coming together. and in the spirit of pride month here in san francisco that celebrates inclusiveness and love and all great things we are here in our great city, i would like to say congratulations and thank you all for your hard work. i know when this plaza is completed, it's going to be used by so many people, to hang out, drink coffee, read, and celebrate and all the great things we do that make san francisco such a unique and special place for people to visit and live here. thank you, all, so much. [applause] >> now i'd like to present a very special award that the san francisco eagle bar to a very special person.
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this is called the leather feather. and it's given in recognition of someone who not only has supported the leather community in a special way, but performed extraordinary service in doing so. so for making eagle plaza a reality, eagle bar is honored to present the leather feather to the san francisco mayor london breed. >> mayor breed: thank you. >> thank you so much. >> mayor breed: thank you. [applause] >> i want to have you guys now with bob, the chair of the leather and lgbt cultural district. [applause] >> i am proud to be here for this historic event and the leather district is delighted to
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have the eagle plaza in our district. and we look forward to its use as a gathering point in the district. i have the honor of introducing rafael mandelman, the district supervisor and native san franciscan. he supported the leather community even before he ran for supervisor and can be seen in local venues periodically. [laughter] now he's reaching out beyond his district's boundaries to take real action to help make spaces like the eagle plaza come into being. his actions to make spaces for leather communities will keep this neighborhood's historic vibrant which will help perpetuate the city as a city for tolerance and acceptance. with that, i present to you rafael mandelman. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: good morning, everybody. this is such a wonderful morning and as i look out at this crowd
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of gorgeous people who are doing amazing things in our city for so many causes and communities. i see race bannon. race always deserves a round of applause. [applause] san francisco is a city that does not forget its history. we build on our history. we celebrate our history and make new things happen next to old things and that is part of the magic of the city. and i'm so pleased that this plaza is -- as the mayor said, it took a little longer than would have been ideal, but it is now finally happening. i want to say just a few -- maybe a year ago, or a couple of years ago, we were worried about whether there even would be an eagle, right? more than a few years ago, but the community came together and city hall responded and now not only is the eagle still here, it's still a place to enjoy on
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sunday afternoons and all the time. and thank you so much, lex and mike, but now we have not only the eagle, but this amazing plaza coming here. so thank you, all, for coming out. thank you all for coming out. but have a very, very happy pride. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor mandelman. i now have the proud honor of introducing district 6 supervisor matt haney. i met matt when he reached out to the leather and lgbt district when running for office. he expressed support for our community then and is following through with his action. it's these spaces that form a community and those spaces for the leather and lgbtq communities are under constant
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threat in this neighborhood. matt haney is not only talking about preserving the culture here, he's sponsoring legislation to preserve the spaces that make soma a destination for people across the country and around the world. the fact that he is here today showing support for the eagle plaza is one sign of his commitment to the communities. with that, i present to you supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, bob. well, i want to say this one more time. this is going to be the world's first public plaza dedicated to the leather community. isn't that incredible? world first. and not only is it the world's first public plaza dedicated to the leather community, it is in the world's first cultural district dedicated to the lgbtq community. give it up for that as well. bob, tremendous leadership. i want to thank all of you who
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worked hard to make this happen. sf parks alliance, mayor breed, supervisor mandelman, senator wiener. this is an extraordinary effort that made this happen. far too often the things that make this city wonderful, the things that built this culture, created our identity, the institutions, the businesses, are the ones that are constantly under attack. and sadly that's been the case here in western soma as well for the leather community. and with what we're doing today, the city is finally saying, not only are we going to preserve those institutions and that culture, we're going to celebrate it, have a permanent home for it in our city and we're going to do it in western soma. there is no west soma without the leather community. i'm excited about the future of this plaza for a number of reasons. also because we need more open
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space in this part of the city. soma and west soma has some of the least amount of open space, parks, places for people to relax, to bring their dogs, hang out. and i know this can be an extraordinary open space. i may not have been to many leather events, but i have been here for the beer bust a couple of weeks ago. and this is a community that knows how to come together to have a good time. i want to give a shoutout to a group of people. i want to shout out to the construction workers behind us, who are actually going to build this thing. for all of their hard work, we're going to put on hard hats, but they do the work every day. thank you so much. t thank you all for being here. we'll champion the leather district, the eagle and the plaza. thank you, all, for being here.
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>> good morning, everyone. my name is victor, i'm the communications director for senator scott wiener. this is a project he has spent a lot of energy working with lex and mike for the last six years to make this happen. he was very proud to get in the budget $100,000 to help make this a reality. [applause] i want to thank mayor london breed as well for her continued support of the plaza, as well as supervisor mandelman and haney. the leather community has always played an important role in the lgbtq community. at the height of the h.i.v. epidemic, the community stepped up to raise funds for h.i.v. care, research and care for the entire community and continues to do that to this day. this plaza will serve to
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commemorate that and to continue to allow that work to happen. i want to thank you all for being here today and all of you that helped make this happen today. thank you so much. [applause] i'd like to bring up lauren from build inc. >> thanks. i don't know where to start. i mean, so many aspects of this are important. people think of us as developers, but really we're urban place-makers and this exemplifies the work that is important to us, every project we do. the neighborhood makes its place and has influence on what we can do there. so this is amazing. for my partners, on behalf of my partners, our whole build group, the team at the office, this is the work that is meaningful, rewarding and just makes it all
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worth while. so thanks to mayor breed, to supervisor mandelman, haney, lex and the whole community to help make this happen. it takes a village and this is our village. thank you. let's dig dirt and make it happen! [applause] we have shovels right here. let's go dig. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! turn that dirt! woo hoo! [applause] love that. that's a great shot. thank you.
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