doesn't seem to be the best source anymore. and then the other big one is identifying these collaboration projects to help share in the burden of undergrounding >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you. actually, that was one of the things i was going to ask about the collaboration. as you know, we are putting in also pretty extensive new water systems, sewer systems, those types of things and seems as though we should be coordinating it at the same time so we don't keep ripping up the streets. colleagues, any comments or questions? if not, this opens -- thank you very much, i appreciate it. let's open this up for public comment. ilene bovin, richard kordelo, mark snider, david banroft, jill fox, steven edwards, and then mr. phillips. every speaker will have two minutes. thank you.

>> i'll be using the overhead. >> supervisor fewer: oh, the overhead, please, mr. carroll. >> ilene bovin coalition for san francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf. on the overhead is the proposal for the 2019 building code update. it was presented at the capital planning committee on july 22 of this year. in its presentation, the department of the environment stated that 35% of the city's emissions today is from private-sector natural gas. to reduce these emissions, the proposal is to encourage all electric design in new construction. the timeline for this proposal is for review by the department of building inspection and code advisory committee in august, the board of supervisors land use committee in september, and the full board in october.

while not in the department of the environment presentation, the capital planning committee members expressed concerns. with increased reliance on electricity, the issue of reliability was raised. the response was possible use of battery storage for electricity. although not specifically related to this presentation, the issue of undergrounding was raised. with the risk of blown transformers and downed power lines, the undergrounding of utility wires should be considered as well. with pg&e in bankruptcy, i would urge the sf puc, and the board to replace storage batteries and the undergrounding of lines on the table. in response to pg&e, the west side has lots of gophers. the sand dunes are their native habitat.

we shouldn't put in undergrounding without concern for the gophers. district 1 -- district 4. >> supervisor fewer: yes, i know i have gophers in my back yard. >> does the committee want a copy of this? >> supervisor fewer: yes, thank you very much. >> okay. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. next speaker, please. yes, next speaker, please. >> can i have the overhead, please.

thank you, supervisors, particularly stefani for showing up and fewer and stefani for proposing this legislation and supervisor walton. thank you very much for hearing this important safety issue today. my name is richard cardello. i'm a board member of russian members and a long supporter of the san francisco coalition to underground utilities. really, thank you for bringing this up and i've learned a lot today. thank you for calling the speakers. sadly, we're all too aware of the recent devastating fires contributed to downed power lines which resulted in a great loss of life and property. the existence of the very many remaining overhead wires in san francisco makes the ever-present

danger of an impending earthquake that much more ominous. i wonder if all these wires are still in active use or if many have been abandoned. i learned what the definition of "abandoned" means now, it means nothing. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. >> i'm also concerned about the potential interference with fire safety and if the fire department is unable to use their ladders in some cases because of the interference of overhead wires. i was first attracted to the cause of undergrounding for esthetic reasons. i've grown to appreciate that the tangles of wires above our heads also represent an extreme hazard for residents and visitors to our city. please move to remove this danger over us. thank you so much >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, sir.

>> i need three hands. oh, dear. wait a minute. thank you, supervisors, for hosting this hearing today. i am the chairman of the san francisco coalition to underground utilities. in addressing the proliferation of wires, poles, and equipment in the 45% of our city that is endangered by its existence, it is only right to point out that you address today only a portion of the city's residents, as more than half the city enjoys

undergrounded utilities and it's paralleled increased safety. it is therefore doubly important to bring parity to the rest of your constituents. as telecom saddles every single american pole with new equipment by order of the middle class tax act of 2012, pole heights are being raised, increased 4 to 7 feet, changing the relationship of existing wires to both poles and adjacent properties, creating swinging, sagging boxes and wires which then are blithely controlled with duct tape, if at all. this duct tape was applied in february of 2016, pg&e

apparently reviewed these poles annually. this duct tape has been there now three years. by dpw permit requirement, telecom must attach its new equipment in a "neat and orderly condition without excess loops." but with no requirement to refrain from making existing wires worse. an interim solution prior to undergrounding is obvious to me. telecom -- [ indiscernible ] -- [microphone not activated]. >> clerk: the speaker's time is concluded. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for having this hearing. my name is mark snider. i'm a resident of district 8 and a member of the san francisco coalition of underground utilities steering committee. we're a city at risk for

earthquakes, and a strong earthquake will certainly topple utility poles. residents and tourists alike will risk injury and death from falling poles, but the wires on the street will also present a risk in that fire and emergency vehicles will not cross wires that they cannot pass without -- knowing that they're safe to pass. the solution clearly is undergrounding. it's not rocket science, but it does involve engineering. there are some updates in a localization of underground facilities and utilities, and there are also updates in creating conduits without trenching. both of these have potential for cost savings. undergrounding will help our city become safer and more resilient, more beautiful, and it's an investment that will be spread out over years and recouped those reasonable franchise fees on the utilities that share the conduits. here's what i think has to be done. i hope you will assert your

authority into the removal of non-functioning wires. i hope you legislate the dig-once approach, so there will be more undergrounding when streets are dug for other purposes. i hope you will look at the franchise deal with pg&e now that they're in bankruptcy and look at a municipalized system. fully fund the master plan for undergrounding and support changes to the rule 28 program that have been discussed. thank you very much >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is steven edwards. i'm also a member of the san francisco coalition of underground utilities. i live in district 8. i wanted to point out what seems to me a huge discrepancy between the -- what we heard this morning in this hearing and what

we see on the streets. the speakers from the telecoms and from pg&e this morning emphasized and went into considerable detail about the protocols that they use in order to coordinate amongst themselves and how they ensure that each of the various steps are taken to make sure that things are installed on poles, that they're safe, that they're earthquake safe and so on. and yet, the reality before our eyes that you see over here, this is what it really looks like. this is not what we heard. all this stuff, the tape, you see the cut bits there that you see hanging down, they're using these not poles, but the wires themselves to store large heavy coils of cable. i heard no one say that any form of academic or scientific study has been done on the risks of

these hanging things swinging in an earthquake. so my question to you would be: would you be able to find out what would happen in a 7.0 earthquake with all of this swinging material? thank you very much >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is david bancroft. i'm a resident of district 2 and i too am a board member of the san francisco coalition of underground utilities. i want to talk about two things. first i want to clear up sort of a little bit of fog that we generated today about rule 20, to make two essential points. number one, that obviously what is going on here -- by the way, rule 20 funds are generated by a

charge to our utility bills, so everybody. so essentially what's been going on here for the last 12, 14 years is we, those who don't have undergrounding, have been paying for -- paying out of our utility bills for those people who have undergrounding. this drove our coalition to not try to find certain sections of the city that would get undergrounded, but the only equitable thing to be done is to have city-wide undergrounding which is the master plan. on the issue of is undergrounding better to leave the wires up, 100,000 frenchmen can't be wrong. san diego is doing this at 12 to 15 miles a year and have been doing it for the last 10 or 12 years. santa barbara is doing it. berkley has commissioned a study

to underground if they're going to be doing it. i mean, the proof in the pudding is very much in the knowing here. not only as supervisor mandelman pointed out, is it common sense, but the techniques are available, the cost can be controlled and we urge you to push for a master plan after telemon reports on its initial overview for a master plan. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, sir. thank you for covering this issue. my name is lindsy phillips. i am a member of the san francisco coalition of

underground utilities. i live for the past 30 years in a 100-year-old building on russian hill. there are six poles on my block. i look at them out my windows with the recently added extensions holding all of the gear for the telecom industries, some of those poles are now four storeys high. they tilt if you look at them from the top of our block. i'm on a hill. one of them fell two years ago when a tree that was weakened by the drought and have not been trimmed back from the wires fell over in a wind storm, knocked down the pole which totalled two automobiles that were parked on the street and blocked the entire street. luckily this happened in the middle of the night or someone might have been badly injured.

i would like to say there are also poles behind my house. now, as i said, i live in a very old building. these poles were probably put in 100 years ago. they're poorly maintained. if it rains, i have no telephone servi service. the wires until about a year ago were sheathed in paper, which is 1920s technology. i really think -- we have linemen that will not even climb those poles back there, they're so dangerous. so i don't know who's inspecting them. i certainly haven't seen anybody. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, commissioners.

thank you very much for this meeting. i've learned a lot. my name is lucricia row. i live on russian hill and i'm on the board of russian hill neighbors. i've lived in my building for over 30 years. it's on -- i don't mind saying it's on the corner of chestnut and levenworth. there used to be four utility poles on that corner. there's now seven. that's why i was taken aback when the man from pg&e said they're trying to reduce the number of poles because we have three more. plus, not only that, the new poles -- the old poles were replaced with much taller ones so they are almost 4 -- i'm on the fifth floor and they're almost up to my windows. but the point i wanted to make is that -- from what i've heard is the tenant and owners of these poles, obviously these

owners of poles are getting revenue from the tenants, tenants are leasing the space on the poles. so needless to say, they have little motivation to limit the number of tenants they have, unless there is some other regulatory agency that takes care of that, because it's seemed like for a while every week another cable company or net company was coming by with big spools of cables and installing more and more and more. needless to say i am for putting all these horrible wires and equipment underground. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> hello, i'm jill fox. i'm here today as a community volunteer as a member of the san

francisco coalition for underground utilities. i live and vote in d 10. while i encourage you to fund a master plan, i would like you to consider the specific issue of large new developments. i live a half a mile from the shipyard. the shipyard is fully underground utilities, electric, fiberoptic cable, they advertise it. it looks beautiful. however, these utilities get to the shipyard through the established neighborhoods. all they did to power their fancy new high-tech units was run wires on existing above-ground poles in the old neighborhood, poles that run on both sides of innis avenue and were installed in 1941. there have been fires, explosions, poles have collapsed. it's really not safe. so now there are hundreds of homes and eventually there will

be thousands of homes basically running off an extension card past my home. so i have two suggestions: have these larger developers pay for putting the utilities underground through the neighborhoods that feed to their projects, so that would be the shipyard and the candlestick side and several other large projects. have the city establish a percentage per square foot fee on new buildings that go into a city-wide utility undergrounding fund. in our zeal to build, build, build, you need to consider the people who already live here, especially those of us near these big developments. with my suggestions, you will help assure while we add more homes and offices, we also make this city livable for all. thank you >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please.

>> the cost of undergrounding has variously been estimated at $1.3 million to upwards of $13 million, that shared funding through collaboration would increase project costs through decentralization and the subsequent increase in the number of stakeholders, as opposed to concentrating the present data. is there a data reference with existing thumb notation of maximum load capacity on a pole stock basis with the present load volume expressed as a percentage as a labor-savings measure and in the interests of maximizing utility to suit potential requirement. so in between the poles do they keep a running number or tally

of what the capacity is on the pole and between the poles? so we have also heard, if i recall, two or three speakers mention pole mapping and restrictions on information related to homeland security issues. so i imagine the same is true in terms of the operation of laying underground fiberoptic cable which we can all appreciate. i'm wondering then if at&t and pg&e require that field operation employees verify their identities in the employment document and whether both agencies promptly comply with state and federal investigators on request, particularly given the laxity of rules regarding membership adopted by trade unions over the past decade. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. no other speakers. public comment is now closed. chair?

>> supervisor walton: any more comments from colleagues? >> supervisor fewer: i think we learned a lot today. i want to thank colleagues for holding this hearing. i think public speakers bring up good points about the overhanging of wires and i look forward to calling for an additional hearing about the study, but actually i think there are still some open issues about what is on those poles. and now i am being alerted that the pole heights have been extended, which is something i didn't know about. so, chair, i'm respectfully asking to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> the motion has been heard. let me check in. >> i want to briefly say i appreciate all the folks that came out today. i know that there's a lot of people that have been pushing this conversation. it's interesting when you leave san francisco and you look at other areas all around it's not

as -- i want to use the word polluted the wires everywhere in our city. the argument about not being able to do it, transmission lines, these are factual in some ways, but in other ways you can argue they're not. if you go around the bay area you don't see the same level of congestion and wires and other localities. the other frustration i have for our part of town is we essentially have no undergrounding. so same in the richmond. so there's just not much as all or any in our part of town. then when you do, people will get messages or get a letter from a utility saying if you'd like to do this, you can pay $30,000 or $15,000 to have this done on your street. each individual household -- our part of town are working families, they don't have that money. i know in the past $170 million was spent to do this. it was through a grant process. the communities organized were

able to get it done, but it was not in the southern parts of the city or the southwestern part of the city. so we want to do this. i think it's important. i think that scientific studies have shown that energy efficiency is increased when you put it underground. safety is increased when you put it underground. overall, quality of life is enjoyed when it's put underground. so i think there's some good points made today. i think we should further in conversation and bring folks back, but i want to voice that today >> supervisor fewer: i think it's exploring our jurisdiction of the lines, not so much the poles, but the lines also. >> supervisor walton: i think it's interesting that cpuc hasn't conducted a study of whether or not underground is safer. but yet we have new developments that are required to use underground utilities. it's interesting and we will

have further conversations of course to understand how that could be the case in this point. to your point, supervisor, i want to thank you and supervisor stefani for calling this hearing today. this is happening in other cities. it's definitely happening on new developments right here in san francisco. so we're going to continue to work hard to make this a reality, and you have a commitment from us to do that, which is why we're here having this hearing today. with that said, there's been a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. i don't think we have any objecti objection. without seeing any objection, we'll move this item to continue to the call of the chair and we seal take this with no objection. with that said, clerk, is there anything else that we have? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor walton: seeing as there's no further business, this hearing and this meeting is

adjourned. [adjournment]

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that in and of itself would be a michiganiraculous thing to selc but frankly we're secelebratingo much more this morning. i believe that we're putting another mark er i eer and stake ground in support of this mission, and that's why we're here today, to secelebrate. [ applause ] it. >> it's certain dserendipitous projected opening of the building on this project in 2020 aligns with our 50th anniversary of our founding. [ applause ]. >> so today we are absolutely secelebrating five decade s of service here in san franciscaning san francisco. we're secelebrating a mission tt started with a handful of people 50 years ago who recognized they had neighborhoods who needed help and were elderly elderly and needed food. they volunteered to cook food

and morphed into an organization that today is one of the largest meals on wheels organization in the country and definitely in my opinion is wumone of the best ig services in san francisco and in the country. [ applause ]. >> we're also secelebrating sin that founding count leless vo volunteers, board members, staff members who have carried that submissi mission forward and creatueach made it stronger and bigger and more responsive. we' we're secelebrating partnership with adult aging and county services in the city of san francisco to make sure that we can do what we need to do and we're currently grateful to our current mayor and board of supervisors to seasocontinuing mission and seascontinuing to d that. we're secelebrating thousand s doe scenarinors and foundations allow us to realize 50% of our budget each other year. we secelebrate the restaurant sd

vit answers tha s s -- vintners. i want to call out chef in nanc oak for your leadership and that effort. we're secelebrating also that w have embraced our responsibility to affirmfy the emphasis voice of seniors and make san francisco all it can be for t m them. all of us together have embraced some very important and simple values of san fran siciscan s. no considsenior or no person sh ever go hungry because they are home bound or without the resources and support that they need. number two, no senior should be in vvisible or alone. number three, that all senior s have the right to live in their community and neighborhoods that they helped build, they raised their familyies in and have the right to self-determination and ha to live with dig nity. lastly, that cityies and

communityies should be judged b how it treats the elderly and we need to work every single day to make san francisco the number one age-friendly city in amer a america. [ applause ]. >> so today we secelebrate a mar milestone, but this day has been a long, long, long time in coupcom coming and we secelebrate the hd work that's kind of led us here. the path has been extensive to say the least, but one mietric that led us here is simple. in 2007 as an organization we decided that no senior should have to wait longer than 30 yda s to receive our service and we partnered with the department of aging and adult service s to mae sure that anyone who is in emergency is served within two to five days. that simple commitment has driven us to the growth that we've seen that's brought us to this need today to build this new kitchen. in 2007, just to give you an

idea, we served 523,000 meals in the city and delivered them, and this year 2 # -- 2.1. think about that growth. we were touching the lives of about 2,000 individuals u unduplicated in the city. now we're touching over 5,000 a year. that growth has been predominantly in seniors, but we've also in that ten-year period worked with the department of aging and adult services to serve those people who are under 60 represents about 50% of our population and also we're partnering with the food bank to deliver groceryies to about 500 people a week in the department of aging and also working with this mayor and administration to make sure that people in inactinavigation cens have meals. we're very grateful to be a part of that effort as well. it mabelibecame quite clear abo years ago that we needed a plan to deal with this. we first conducted a full-scale operation ental review.

is there any way that we don't need to build a new kitchen? is there anything else we need to do? that plan basically was pretty simple and straightforward and said, hey, you need to get out of this kitchen pm . so that began the process that we're committed to the fact that we need to build something new, and we designed the kitchen with the help of kitchen concepts ionic that ionic -- inc. that will carry us forward for 30 years. that's the second step. then we got to the hard work. where the heck can we afford to buy a piece of labbed -- land in san francisco and where can we find that. we originally wanted to keep our operations in one place, but un fortunately that wasn't in the cards. we have an amazing plan b. we will build our kitchen and distribution center and keep our site three minutes away on the other side of 3rd street in the bay view as our office production facility. so we're going to have a tw

two-campus operation. so we purchased this site from l luxor cap. does anyone remember this as that site? we're about to make it differe t different. at the end of the day the price tag is going to be about $41 million and we'll tell you a little bit more about how we're doing in that goal in raising, but you can rest assured that we've done well enough that we're here today and we still have some work to do and so forth and we'll secelebrate tho ha who have carried us so far. here's what we're building and the great features we're building. on this site will be a 34,700 square foot facility, slug including a state o-of-the-art cook chill area, freezer, storage, assembly production, distribution yard and receiving docks. this is the big news in this construction.

we're going to move our daily constructi production from # 8,000 meals a day to 20,000 meals a day. [ applause ]. >> it will be one of the only facilities in the region and we think in san francisco that use s this cook/chill equipment to produce bulk food and used in meals. the other thing i'm very excited about is where we are. we're in the middle of the san francisco wholesale product district. we're food. we're great partners with th s e michael gentlemjanice, and loo forward to partnering with these businesses in this neighborhood and working to continue the efforts that are here in the neighborhood. it also will have a test kitchen that will help us improve the quality and choice for our clients and tailor meal s as we look to improving our service s for clients. maximumly ally we're doing solar

on the building so we can save the planet. isn't that a great facility? [ applause ]. >> so we're excited to have with us this morning mayor london breed. before inviting her to speak, i just wanted to take a moment to recognize a few other elected officials who are going to be here shortly or are here alre y already. hope fulfully soon, supervisor gordon mar from district 4 and supervisor waltshamann walton f this district will be with you and hope fulfully you get a cha to chat with them. we want to welcome the form er district 10 supervisor who is now chair of the board of equ equalization, malia, and representing state isn't that right scott weiener is rose gu i guiliano and representing is n kenneth chan. thank you for your service.

and lastly, i think that the new captain of the bay view district is here. i want to just give a shout out and a welcome to captain troy dangerfield who has taken on as chief of the bay view station. hope fulfully we'll get chance meet with him. i was one of the lucky people who last year on july 11th was at a historic event where this city welcomed its first african-american mayor in the city's history, frisk nati sfri san francisco native london breed. it was an absolutely beautiful day and i have only one regret. i should have worn a big hat because it was sunny and it was a long time out there with a lot of fun. it's hard to believe it was only 12 months ago that that occurred because this mayor has hit the ground running. it feels like years of work has been done.

she's out there with laser focus trying to tackle the issues fa e facing our city, tackling the home leless crisis, adding more beds, expanding mental health and substance deuabuse programs creating more housing for all san fran sciscan s and keeping city streets safe and clean. it is my sincere pleasure to introduce and welcome to the stage lamayor london breed. [ applause ]. >> . >> mayor breed: thank you so much, it is great to be here and i want to recognize alex ran doff, thank you so much for joining us today. i've got to start by staying ths is probably one of the most organized and neat ground-break s ings i've ever been to. just the gravel on the ground, the need and structured system here. i mean, this is absolutely i

indecreed able because i've been to a lot of ground-breakings and you know, malia, how many gro d ground-breakings we've been to. this is probably the nicest one we've ever been to. thank you all for creating this wonderful environment for what i think is one of the mobest programs we have in san francisco. i want to start by thanking a ashly and all the people who work for meals on wheels because you do the hard work. i know from experience how amazing the employees at meals on wheels are because they served my grandmother for so many years. they did it with kindness. they always asked how she was doing today. they can tell maybe when she wasn't having a great day. so they would spend time and put forwa forth effort and talk about the food they were bringing over. it really for seniors who are living in isolation, how amazing

to have at least if no one else is coming to see you, that person who's delivering those meals sometimes is the only contact that so many of our senior community has when that feel meal is dropped off. this program and what it has done since 1970 has been absolutely amazing. this analyticfacility, to go fr meals a day to over 20,000 meals a day will make sure that we get rid of that wait list once and for all so that no one is left off the list moving forward in the future. you all, the contribute entor s people on the board, the folks who have supported this program over the years, the investmens s that you have made have had a pro foufound impact on so many indecreed able lives and you know this because that's why you support this program. i had the opportunity because i visited over the years since

i've been an elected official various clients for the progra s and have had great kfingss, including the one i just had with mrs. lee earlier this year. she was just so grateful and so excited and so happy and just talked about her experience and how she probably wouldn't -- honestly she said i probably wouldn't be as big as i am if meals on wheels didn't deliver these programs. she was not big. she was a tooiny laidy, but shes so very happy and food really brings people together. we help and support our senior communities in this way. and another way we're going to be supporting our senior community is the housing bond, a $600 million housing bond without raising property tax es with the largest amount ever dedicated to senior housing and this is the largest housing bond we've ever done in the history

of this city. so i'm really proud of the investments, the deliberate investments that we are making to support our senior populat n population, our dis ababled population, and also again thank you to meals on wheels for supporting our inactinavigationr s because we know that home l s homelessness is one of the -- the number one issue that we face in san francisco. we have a lot of people is it truing ling sw mental health and substance abuse dis ororder. we are changing how we provide support and services and it involves making sure we have i indecreed able partners and whee meals on wheels has been pushing the envelope and doing the great work for years and this facility that will be absolutely amazing is just one step forward in it happen ing continuing the great work they've done for decades. i'm so excited to be here and can't wait to cut the ribbon when we open. thank you all so much. [ applause ].

>> thank you so much, mayor breed. you know, nothing this monument al happens without a lot of effort, gathering the skills and leadership necessary to make something like this happen. so we want to acknowledge how we've gotten to this day and acknowledge the team that's going to help us finish this up. first and foremost, i want to thank my board of directors and the many boards of directors who have been engaged in this conversation. i was talking to someone about this earlier. you know, boards by design are the kooerps of the mission and frankly very hesitant to take on risk. this group of people did their job. they made sure that we were taking on something that we could accomplish and the fact that we're sitting here today is a testament frankly that they xem pexemplify the type of leadp and stewardship we want on all our boards across the city.

let's give all these board members a big hand. [ applause ]. >> i mentioned earlier we went through the slog of trying to find something to buy so then we can figure out what we can build and how much it will cost. the first person who probably had to go through therapy after joining me on this effort was dan mckue our real estate representative and literally we worked for two and a half yeas s to get to this site and bewent through three pricing scoping and buying exercises and so forth. did you thank you, dan, for working with me and still being able to call me a friend. we also have identified an al all-star team to help us with this kitchen and build it. the first person i mentioned earlier but i want to call out specifically again is mike bal divrks dwin from kitchen

concepts. mike was chosen not because he's one of the best in the field nationally, but because he served for decades in the meals on wheels in anaheim. when i saw his work there, i said you're the right guy for s us. you're the person who understand s how we're different and uni e unique. thank you. we also want to thank that we have a local san francisco lve, local business entrerprise, ja k jackson and lyles architect uru is our architect. the architects could not be here today, but iron ically their parents are. welcome and thank you for being here. we also have engaged a really good friend of meals on wheels for years, an excellent general contractor ain plant constructin and we have an amazing team assembled under the leadership and the determination of don b

libby. we also have a great owner's p rep. this is the person that keeps our staff from having to deal with the mash nations and tell us what that means is keith d de-brian from skyline partners. keith, thank you. and an amazing three iio of peoe to make sure we build the best building. first is david who is under arrest our operations officer. frank scotted our director of facilities. an amazing asset to the organization. the guys that keep s me out of jail as well as making sure having money in the bank is the cfo. [ applause ]. >> even with the best-laid pl s plans, we would not be breaking ground today without an extraordinary group of organizations and people who've

g come together to allow us to move this process forward quickly and they have done there through this through the new market task credit process. for those of you who don't know what those are, you're blessed. [ laughter ]. >> but just for the sake of education, basically the federal government incentivize s throug tax credits investment s and stressed communityies, programs that serve dis advertistreasurer that serve dis advertistreasur s distressed populations. our propositiject definitely f t that. it aligns credit s that organizations manage to give to projects and they're aligned with these approved projects and then at the eback end take s a ba bank credit. at the end of the day that's going to deliver about $8.1 million to this project. [ applause ].

>> i just want to really acknowledge the team that really have pushed this forward quickly on this project. first of all , david wilkin sos has been our consultant from northern california community loan fund. thank you, david. thank you for helping me understand this weave of stuff and so forth. leading the way to make sure that we anchor the new market tax credit that we needed for the project is the city of san francisco and the san francisco community investment fund, or as we call it sfif. without them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i don't know if othes s would have joined as easily. we just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. along side of the sfif, san francisco sfif was california

loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. the group that put us over the top is an organization called community impact partners which is more of a national partner and they came in to push us forward as well. the irony is that two of these organizations are doing more than just giving us credits. they're actually funding our construction loan and that's community vision and community impact partners. we want to thank you for keeping us sane and giving us that option. we really appreciate it. i mentioned only the the back et a bank investor partner usually comes into a project like this, that partner is j. pvmentep. mo chase. we want to thank them to chase bank. lastly, obviously you know that in order to put together a complex transaction you have to

have a good team around you and i want to thank liouise rodrige and also chris and brine and v novaradik our cpa. you're probably going like, gee, that's a lot of people, but it's not the end. we ultimately also have to bridge our pledges the jen ro generosity the people have pledged to make sure we don't have long-term debt. we need a bridge loan, we want to thank our piartner first republic bank to bridge that pledge loan and fragile for -- frankly for banking our loan. we'll mention again later, they also gave quite a big gift to the campaign. thank you. it's now my pleasure to really move us into thanking the other people who really put down

significant mark er s and donatn s and pledges to this campaign and invite other people who have really lifted for me so long to come up and thank people who have participated, that's russ flin and hjose allen. [ applause ]. >> thank you, ashley. good morning, everyone. i am hjose allen. i'm a member of the board of meals on wheels frisk san francisco, and along with russ flin, i co chachaired the 50th s anniversary capital campaign. us russ and i are proud to be part of this vital project and to be able to thank each of you for your support of meals on wheels. clearly to be successful in r e raising almost 41, dlr $42 needed for this project require s extensive jen rgenerosity for,

many support er s. luckily we have been successful in raising the funds necessary to move forward and have secured 80% of our goal. we have 20% left to go. now, it gives me great pleasure to thank the individuals. i call them our first responder s p who helped jump-start this campaign. first, there are two familyies who have been part of the meals on wheels family for over 30 years and have led the way with their lead gifts. the first is my he esteemed co f co-chair russ flin and his wife leigh. actually they didn't stop with just making their personal gift to the campaign, but they added to their gift by challenging their family and friends to join the efforts. so for that, we're very, very

thankful. [ applause ] sjts. >> the second family i would like to thank is the sanjakamo family through the yvonne and n angelo sanjakamo foundation. here today is the daughter to recognize her mom who could not be abowith us. thank you again and thanks to the sanjakamo family for their support. [ applause ]. >> next, while they could not be here today, i would like to thank our meals on wheels hon honorary board chair andy and a carrie good mman, who have led e way in this campaign not only through their financial contributions to the campaign, but through their in sigsight s un titiring deadication to meal wheels.

[ applause ]. >> now, there are 42 additional individual donor s thus far, bu our program schedule today doesn't allow me to call each of them out individually, but there are a few that i would like to thank. here they are. emily and sam glick, diane pe c pelaconi and susan sanjakamo, debbie and andy rat cliff, craig and maureen sullivan. rosemary and harry wong and lisa and todd zabel. we are truly grateful for these and other individuals who have helped bring us to the threshold of a successful capital campa n campaign. i look forward to being with all of you at our dedication in the

last quarter of 2020 when we will have an opportunity to memorialise all the gueift s toe campaign through naming and donor recognition. thank you sooch for your supp t support. [ applause ]. >> thank you, hjose. i'm russ flin. i would like to start off by acknowledging ashley and all of his hue mmility for having the leadership ability to drag this board, some of who left the board because they didn't feel this was a possibility that we could realize. ashley thank you sincerely for our efforts. >> now i'll get back on script.

hjose, thank you for all you've done. without hjose i wouldn't begin o know how to raise money. he's done this socio mamany tis. while i've raised money for political campaigns, i've rarely raised money for floirp -- p l philantropic. i would like to thank all the organizations and foundations that have contributed to this. the urps foundation, city of san francisco office of economic and workforce development, first republic bank, kooeizer perman e permanententy, crescent port ee hail foundation, walter and a s alise habb foundation, the bob ross fowks foundation, and our only one technology contributor,

usual -- uber, and that un fortunately has been a little bit of a shortcoming in our campaign. while we have the mayor here -- [ laughter ]. >> -- i'd like to challenge her to maybe open the door to a few more of these folks and give e jose and i a chance to see if we can convince them to make contributions. while we've raised 80% of our funds, we still need 20% fmore. so i'd challenge everyone here who has already given to re consider and think about just stretching just a little bit more and that can help put us over the 41.2 -- 41.5, $42 million that we need. thank you all for coming today and, ashley, it's yours. [ applause ]