or august 12? >> no. >> okay. seeing none, do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on our minutes from july 22 and august 12? seeing none, public comment is closed. just do we have a motion to approve? >> move to approve the minutes. >> all in favour just say "yes." >> yes. >> any opposed? motion passes 6-0. next item, please. >> clerk: item 5, director's report. update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> good evening, commissioners. i am the director of the office of small business. i am happy to announce the streamlining legislation that

you heard in march has finally passed the full board on its second reading last tuesday, and the mayor is going to have a ceremonial signing on this wednesd wednesday, september 11, at 11 a.m. i've provided you with the information in terms of where it's going to be. so if you're -- i know that i've heard from several of you that you're going to be able to attend and thank you. the accessible business entrance program, december 1, 2019, is the deadline for all categories to submit their checklists. as a concern of having a low response rate, a notice was sent out last week from the department of building inspection that now says if you do not get your checklist in, we

will begin to issue notice of violation. that was sent out to 9,000 property owners. so we are now -- we're seeing the results. we're unfortunately having hearing -- the results the plus and the minus is we're fielding quite a few calls, but that means this particular letter has garnished the attention of property owners where they're now calling for immediate action and response from them. >> i've been getting a lot of inquiries from merchants in my neighborhood, and they're all just very alarmed and don't understand it and so where should they go? >> if it is a business -- is it a business that's also a property owner or just -- >> the one in particular and he passed the inspection, he's had a lot of things done, so he was concerned does that not count.

>> so ria aldenaldo is the point person for businesses who are also property owners or any business that is being required by their property owner. so ria's extension is -- or her phone number is 415-554-6408. she won't be in until wednesday, but she is the person who is handling all of those cases. i just wanted to bring it to your attention because you may be, again, hearing from businesses. and, of course, if there are property owners who are beginning to talk to their businesses in regards to this, please direct them to our office and to ria. city build has been operating

for almost a year with an acting director, ken nim and the mayor just announced last week that she had officially appointed him as the new director for city build. legacy business, so the business assistance grant, the current one for this year will be closing at the end of this month. rick and i are working on designing a new assistance program. so our goal is to have that done and completed working through the mayor's budget office and being able to come and present to you probably early january. and then the part-time staff that was funded through the add-back system, i am working with our finance department to be able to get that fully funded

and to be able to post the position at the beginning of october. so hopefully we will be able to have that position hired and be able to start processing the grants by mid-november. we've had some substantial massage policy work come up in the last few weeks. so active space, the legislation passed and is fine by the mayor. our office along with the planning department have met with the property owner. we're pleased to say that the property owner is taking the primary responsibility of processing the buildings through the -- establishing the use, so that each of these individual businesses are not going to have to go through that process. we're still having some

discussions about how the office space which is required by legislation to go through the d.r., so we're still working through that. in terms of all the other business types, the property owner is going to handle that responsibility. any business that does need a license to operate from d.p.h., such as the massage or body work, tattoo artist, they still have to go through that standard licensing process. but this will cut down a substantial amount of work and cost for those businesses. and then week before last, over 220 notices were sent out by the department of public health notifying massage businesses that they may not be in compliance. this came from a complaint and it's actually the same complaint that was filed with the active space complaint.

the department didn't have the bandwidth to handle it all at the same time. so these notices were sent out. this was sent out city-wide, not necessarily to a particular location. so as a result, supervisor brown did want to call for the drafting of legislation and she did so at the board of supervisors last week. dominica has been working on a policy paper to help guide the direction for where we need to go with the legislation. so supervisor brown used the preliminary findings of the paper that dominica is working on to use for her calling for the legislation to be drafted. dominica will soon be done with completing the policy paper. you will be receiving a high-level report on that. we will also be -- dominica will

be providing that. and along with the resolution that will accompany it to the mayor and the board of supervisors and department suggesting that they review and consider the topic of the paper. so i just want to give an early shout out to dominica for the great work she's been doing around the policy paper. we had hoped we would have a little more time to complete it, but the nature of it, it's presented itself with the violations. so supervisor brown is definitely interested in moving in the direction. if you recall in 2015 the commission spoke very strongly that massage and body work should be considered as the same as health services. so supervisor brown is in agreement, so that was the direction. most of the work will need to be done around the planning and the zoning changes.

other commission updates just to give you -- i mentioned this last time. so the bis portal is transitioning over to our office officially this week. we are making headway on your request regarding tablets. in and amongst all the work -- >> [ indiscernible ] -- >> yes, we will. so dominica, the first step she is doing is taking a look at the various software -- potential software that is out there for use for your kinds of needs, for meetings and agenda packets and we'll want to assess what will work for our commission's needs. and then once we get that determined, then we'll start working on testing it out before we do a full investment on the

tablets. we're still targeting sort of end of october to have a good sense of direction in terms of where we're going. and then the construction mitigation hearing we are targeting for october 7. just to remind you that because it is october and we have the meeting the first monday of the month instead of the second monday of the month because of the holiday. the economic mitigation working group will be starting at the beginning of october, and that will be going on for the next six months. then we have listed out the two pieces of legislation that is slated for the commission to hear at the next meeting. then october 7 we're tentative at this point with supervisor peskin's office to hear the promotion of reusable foodware which includes the $0.25 for

compostable cups or -- recyclable cups. and then requirement of reusable foodware around food takeout. just to assure, i did forward you an announcement, but to state it publicly for the business community watching. the harassment in the workplace training that's required for all staff for businesses that are five or more employees has been extended one year. now the completion date is january 1, 2021. so that's a bit of a relief for i think some of our small businesses who were relying on the department of labor to have the training set up. then i lastly just want to report out. so we do report numbers to the

controller's office and just to give you our end of the fiscal year report which is on page 3. the total number of pieces of legislation and policy items that the commission has heard, the number of outreach events the office is engaged with. what i do want to highlight is the number of small businesses assisted. so it was essentially an 8% increase over last year. we've been continuously going up. so we are fairly at capacity in terms of options. we do have two to three individuals waiting to be serviced. so this will likely be something that i'll need to be discussing with you further in the fiscal year. so that concludes my report. one last thing.

on behalf of scott howgie and paul pendergast they asked me to close the meeting in memoriam of angel carrera. he was initially appointed to the position of business program development manager by govern scwharts -- and he worked tirelessly to get disabled veterans and small business contracts through the state contracts. paul asked me to provide a special note that for the last few years angel has been working closely with paul to develop a state-wide lgbt business organization that brought

together the seven lgbt chambers. so they were just about to launch together what they were going to call the buildout california, which is a capital o-u-t for a small program for lgbt small businesses to promote for the state to do business with lgbt professionals. thank you. take any questions if they have any. >> do you have any questions for the director? okay. seeing -- oh, commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you for the report. it's duly noted the big items that our staff and dominica are going to be prioritizing, but i also was interested to see if we

had a list of new business and if that was going to be prioritized as well for next steps and at least to have a visual kind of the the cumulative new business. >> yes. and at the last meeting i highlighted what was going to be over the next six months. so we will be able to convene in the next couple of weeks just to sort of chart out -- >> oh, that's right. >> -- chart out the rest. working with supervisor brown's office, they asked us to work very closely to project manage this piece of legislation through. so it will take up a fair amount of our time. i mean, once the legislation is drafted and written, it will open it up for us to work on the remaining items. but at the next meeting we'll present a timeline that takes that into consideration. >> thank you. >> okay. commissioner lauana.

>> maybe a longer-term project here, but thinking about our website. i was having conversations prior to the hearing -- >> clerk: can you speak into the microphone, please. >> sorry. thinking about our website, wondering whether or not we can budget some time to discuss t t that, waying it could be better, easy to update, more informative. this is all sort of keeping in line with kind of my push to improve communications. >> yes, we can have a conversation with that. we are -- the city is undergoing department by department some changes. so -- or they're working to reformat the entire city's websites to be more mobile,

friendly, and usable. and so i will get back to you and to the commission on what that timeline is. if we're a ways out, then we can figure out what is the next step. >> i think we should engage with that process so that we get something that's optimized for our needs as possible. because if we're not engaged with that process, we're just going to get whatever, right? >> and i don't want to say we're not engaged. it is just a triage of the city's budget and where we are with it. >> yes, okay. >> commissioner dooley. >> this is actually the first i've heard about the economic mitigation working group, something that i know many of us

are really interested in. who -- is there some way that some of us on this commission can become involved? >> and i apologize, it's the e-cigarette working -- the mitigation from our resolution. >> oh, okay. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> also in line with the commissioners being able to better understand what the office is doing and support that wo work, because we field questions from businesses all the time, i'm curious if there's an incident log or some kind of best practices for questions that we can be shared on to help coordinate exactly our responses to people and kind of streamline some of the process that gets to you, the one-on-ones and be able to assist with that.

that would be really helpful, whether it's a soft story question or a d.p.h. question. i'm curious if there's an incident log or something like that. >> we do not have what you're thinking as an incident log. we have our sales force. so sales force, every single substantial client transaction, so those would definitely come into the counter e-mail and substantial phone conversations where people are willing to take the time to share their information, get logged into sales force. so i think probably in, let's say, the situation of this last situation with the massage, just on friday in trying to figure out -- for us being in the situation of being able to field these calls, working with the supervisor's office, just last friday we sent out an announcement to all the supervis

supervisor's office saying we're recommending as these practitioners are contacting you now that the supervisor has made an announcement that she's calling for the drafting of legislation, please direct people to us. we'll help them on a case-by-case basis as we can and just to provide you with that information. i think if -- so i think maybe what i'm hearing is that if there's certain sort of project things that perhaps we can communicate to you how we're communicating to the business community that contact our office. >> totally. thank you. >> any other questions before we go into public comment? do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. any other questions? item 5 is closed. next item, please.

>> clerk: item 6. commissioners' reports allows president, vice president, commissioners to report on small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> commissioner ortiz. >> i have two things. first i want to give a shout out to the geneva steakhouse, they just recently reopened after a remodel. it's an example about where the owner was about to sell. he sold to the neighbor up the street. i was with the owners and it's just cruel to see that that legacy, even though he didn't have family members to pass on, because he opted for legacy as opposed to cashing out. so that segues into the second part of what i want to report on.

we have mission pie and the other piripiri on valencia. it's because the owners wanted more rent out of them. that also leads to these owners rather than have a vacant storefront because that isn't punitive. they'd rather not continue to a least successful company. piripiri just shut down. that comes to the lack of legislation. we're really not doing anything. by the time we catch up, we might not have these little cooler restaurants. not every restaurant that comes to san francisco is going to be some chic $5 million build out. so i don't know what we do, but

i do definitely want to go on record so one day we don't look back and say what happened? >> i have to go back to that geneva steakhouse. >> yeah, it's old school. >> commissioner dooley. >> i just wanted to mention that i've still been in frequent contact with the tenants at active space and following their path, i'm still hearing things they're anxious about, but i'm happy to hear something is moving forward for them. >> the other thing i have to report is i'll be attending the renaissan renaissance entrepreneurial center event this thursday night. that's all i have. anything else? >> nothing. >> do we have any members of public who would like to comment on commissioner reports? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item # 7, new business. allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for

future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> do we have any -- would anybody like to speak? okay. do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: please show the office of small business slide. >> it is our custom to begin and end each small business commission meeting with the reminder that the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your stop when you have a question about what to do next. you can find us online and here at city hall and best of all our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the

economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. >> next item. >> clerk: item 8. adjournment in memoriam of angel carrera. >> i move that we adjourn this evening's meeting in memorial of angel carrera. >> second. >> all in favour? >> aye. >> meeting adjourned. thank you. [♪] >> i moved into my wonderful,

beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the

whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and

continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy. >> so good morning and welcome. i'm jack gardner and president of the john stewart company. on behalf of our related partners in california, san francisco housing corporation, and ridgepoint non-profit housing corporation, it's my great pleasure to welcome you to the grand re-opening of hunter's point west and westbrook. give it up. [ applause ]. >> hunters point east-west in westbrook are two of the city's

rental assistance demonstration projects. the overall program consisted of transferring 29 of the housing authority profits to local non-profit and private housing organizations for recapitalization, renovation, and private management. more detailed information is available if you're interested. this mammoth city-wide program which included almost 3500 units of affordable housing throughout san francisco required the collaboration of a host of public agencies, developers, consultants, contractors, funders, and, most importantly, the residents of hunters point east-west and westbrook themselves. the program demonstrates the city's commitment to leaving none of its residents behind and we are very proud to have been part of it. none of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of our local elected and appointed officials, many of

whom are here today and we'll do some shout-outs a little bit later. thank you for celebrating with us. let's get started. it gives me special pleasure to introduce our first speaker. i'll tease you a little bit here, see if you can think about who that would be. she's a native san franciscan. a former redevelopment agency and fire department commissioner. former executive director of the african-american art and culture complex in the western addition. president of the board of supervisors. you might be getting it. presently our current and future mayor. so a steadfast champion of affordable housing, community empowerment, and the creation of a more just and equitable san francisco for all. great pleasure to bring to the stage our very own mayor london breed. mayor. [ cheering and applause ]. >> mayor breed: thank you. hello, everyone. i am really excited to be here

today because this is a long time coming. when we first set out on a path to just reenvision public housing throughout san francisco, it wasn't easy. i remember when i first became a member of the board of supervisors and i went to our mayor ed lee and talked about our priorities, i made it clear that public housing was my number one priority. he supported those efforts. in fact, i grew up in plaza east in the western edition, where i lived in public housing for over 20 years of my life. those conditions were very challenging. it wasn't just sadly the poverty and the violence that existed in my neighborhood. it was also the actual physical conditions of where i lived. the mold, the bathroom that basically had a number of challenges. we never even had a shower in the public housing unit that i lived in.

the roaches, the lack of support that we got from our facilities crew to actually make the kinds of repairs where we could live in a place that was safe and live in a place that was the way that it should be for any resident of this amazing city. it was important to me that we made a change in san francisco because the same conditions that i lived in are, sadly, some of the same conditions that still exist in public housing today. so we set down this course to try and make changes. no, we didn't have the resources completely to basically start all over from scratch, but we did have an opportunity through the r.a.d. program, the rental assistance demonstration

program, to really make investments now so that we can change the conditions of where people live now. that was so important. there were people who were concerned, including the residents who were skeptical about whether or not what happened in the filmore would happen in the bayview hunters point community. i too was concerned about that. in fact, the public housing development i lived in had 300 units and after it was rebuilt through hope 6 which was a whole other program before hope s.f., there were only 200 units built. so clearly, everyone was not coming back. that's why when i first started as a commissioner on the san francisco redevelopment agency and we set out on our path to try and rebuild double rock and other places, it was important to me that we did it differently than we did in the past, so that residents played a critical role in not only deciding what

fixtures and windows and how they wanted their community to be, but they remained a part of their communities. so that's exactly what we did. it did require a lot of patience and moving around and a number of things. yes, again, i know that people were a little uncertain as to whether or not we would get this project done because promises have been made over the years and promises not kept. but today a promise is kept. 439 units of affordable housing for people, for families, for this amazing community. through the r.a.d. program, we have already been able to rehabilitate more than 3,000 public housing units in san francisco. no longer are we going to treat our residents, who happen to live in public housing, differently than we treat everyone else. that's why this investment is so

important. not only in rehabilitating something as simple as making sure that the windows can open, that the heater is working, that the showers are working, that there isn't opportunity for mold or other things to impact the living conditions, but free wifi. free wifi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. so i am really happy and excited to be here because this is a new day in san francisco. part of what my goal is to not only change the physical conditions of our community, but to make sure that we take care of these communities and we take care of each other. because we are one community, we're one san francisco. sadly, we have lost so much over

the years due to violence, due to hopelessness and frustration. part of my commitment to communities all over the san francisco that feel neglected, that feel like they're forgotten and not necessarily a part of san francisco is that i'm coming to your neighborhood. i'm coming to make sure that we make the right kinds of investments, that we provide job opportunities or opportunities for you to start your own businesses, that we make sure that we are taking care of kids in this community. in fact, our investments in our public school system has been one that's unprecedented. over $80 million of investments, including additional teachers' stipends so that we can focus on teacher retention in schools that serve this community. making sure when our kids are dealing with trauma, that we have mental health experts in

our public schools. my commitment is to make sure that there are wellness centers in every public school in san francisco. it starts with our kids. it starts with taking care of each other. it starts with developing a new generation of hope for san francisco. so this project is so much more than just rehabilitating units. it's really changing a community and making things better now and for the future. it starts with us and we're in this together. we're going to get there one step at a time. i want to thank the john stewart company, mayor's office of housing, bank of america, and who else was part of this project? related. thank you. it means a lot to have incredible partners. we don't do this work alone. but most importantly, i want to thank the people who live here,

who trusted us to make this happen, who work with us every step of the way. it means a lot to have the support and trust of a community in order to get things done. that's exactly what we were able to accomplish through this amazing project together. so congratulations. this is just the beginning of i know more that's get to come. thank you. [ applause ]. >> that's what i'm talking about. mayor, you're so good at that. you're just flying without notes. i'm hanging on to these things for dear life. we do the work, but that's the leadership that gets it done. thank you also for the $23 million in local financing and rent subsidies that made this effort possible. [ applause ]. >> and your unwavering support for affordable housing and ending homeless in our city.

>> [ indiscernible ] -- >> i'm about to do it. okay. that's what i was going to say. most recently the leadership, in the form of the proposed $600 million housing bond, which we are going to pass in november, okay. [ applause ]. >> thanks also and a shout out to our current supervisor for his ongoing leadership around the housing issues in district 10. thank you. supervisor walton. our next speaker is bill witty, chairman and c.e.o. of related california. one of california's largest developers of affordable and mixed-income housing. since founding this company 30 years ago, bill has overseen the development of 16,000 residences, including over 12,000 affordable housing units and he has more than 5,000 units in development. he is a busy guy. earliest this year also completed the rehab of another

r.a.d. cluster, 300 units. it's my pleasure to my friend and colleague bill witty up to say a few things. bill. >> thank you, jack. it's a pleasure to be involved with a company, john stewart company, who has not only been a stalwart provider of affordable housing for years, but close friends of mine. i'm particularly pleased that john stewart is here because i'm no longer the oldest person in the room. cheap shot. sorry. i have to tell you, i've been involved in affordable housing in the public and private sector for 40 years. i'm pretty familiar with what's going on around the country. there is no mayor in the united states who has spent more energy and effort to ensure that public housing is given new life and upgraded and become part of

the community than mayor breed. we should acknowledge that. it doesn't get the attention that it should. you heard why, but we don't read about that so much. it's really a story that needs to be told. i just want to say that this is great. i appreciate the residents' patience in letting this process unfold. but we expect to be judged not just by how it is today, but how with jack and david sobel, how we are as long-term partners and owners. so the story is, as the mayor said, just beginning. i can assure you that it will remain a good story. this housing, just so everybody is clear, is permanently affordable. it's not just affordable for 10 or 20 years. this will always be high-quality

affordable. [ applause ]. >> i want to thank some people who were operating in the weeds to make this all happen, starting with under the mayor's guidance the mayor's office of housing, dan abrams and his staff who have been involved in all of these around the city. mayor's office of housing technically didn't used to be around public housing. they've taken over the task and done a remarkable job under the guidance of the mayor. the contractors who spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we got the rehabilitation right. nibby brothers, cahil construction who worked on east-west deserve a lot of credit.

mimi sullivan who is the architect. while you couldn't change the buildings that much, a lot of time and effort was spent on designing the interior of these buildings so, as the mayor said, these would be market-rate quality units, not just for the short term but for the long term. then our own staff at related. our project manager andrew sccofar in the back and our northern california affordable group. as i said, this isn't the last you're going to see or hear from us. i expect to hear from you if you think that there's something that warrants attention. finally another prop a plug. don't just clap. you got to vote. show up and vote for prop a. thank you. [ applause ]. >> show up and vote, bill,

because i think your call to me involved a very large check as well. donate as well. he left that part out, but feel free. bill, i hate to break it to you. when john arrived, you were not only the oldest guy, but not quite the funniest guy either. john, we're going to give credit where it's due. bill, thank you, very well said. next up is another of our co-developers and the lead provider of supportive services for our residents here at hunters point east-west in westbrook. david sobel is the c.e.o. of the housing development corporation. a 31-year-old community-based non-profit located here in bay view, hunters point. over the last six years david has assembled support and staff. under his leadership, the organization has grown from four people to a staff of 30, which provides housing development, preservation, financial empowerment, counselling,

supportive services, economic development opportunities to over 5,000 low and moderate income residents every year. also well-known, at least to me as an accomplished jazz, blues, and rock keyboardist, but you'll have to go to their annual gala to hear that, please help me welcome david sobel. [ applause ]. >> by the way, the board of directors did my performance review last night. it would have been great if you were there. good morning, everyone. we are indeed proud to have partnered with such an auspicious team that others are mentioning in name and i will save time and not repeat everything. it has been extremely gratifying to take part in and witness a transformation of extremely dilapidated housing, turning it into safe, comfortable homes for families that remain affordable in perpetuity.

but it is also about more than just the housing here. the city has the great foresight to ensure that there was workforce development and onsite service connection to make sure residents have at their doorstep access to other resources. we are proud to have partnered with hunters point family. dev mission on the stem program that we have initiated across the sites here, all of whom are doing fantastic work and enhancing what resources are available to residents every day. i want to call out our services team, an amazing group of people, some of whom are here today. even if they're not, they deserve some recognition. [ applause ]. >> this team is fantastic. you show up every day doing

challenging work and being a big support to residents. we cannot talk about services without acknowledging hodc who every day, week, and month are pushing, supporting, and guiding our programs, as they should. thank you for that. finally, these past five years are not about all of us speaking today. it's about the residents who endured decades of deplorable conditions. five years of hard work is great. but the people who live here suffered through much longer hardships. that's what this project is really about. developing community, bringing onsite services, engaging with residents, having a long-term vision with our city partners and everybody up here and all the residents, that has been the most rewarding part.

we have really appreciated the positive impact of walking hand in hand with residents every day. learning from them. they hold us accountable, and we've appreciated that as well. at the very beginning of this project, five years ago or so, when we went to our initial meetings, the residents said this is a ploy to kick us out. they said, you're going to raise our rents. we didn't. they said, you're not really going to renovate these buildings. we did. you're not really going to have services onsite. we did. this was founded to help people stay in san francisco, remain in their homes, communities, schools, businesses, congregations, and that's what this project is about as well. thank you for all of your support all around. the resident leadership especially, we've enjoyed working with you. i know we're going to hear from one of the resident leaders.

thank you all. it is our pleasure to be with you here today. [ applause ]. >> well said. it really does make one think that how -- while certain leaders in washington seem to be doing their best to pull our country apart, here in san francisco we are doing our best to reknit these properties into the fabric of our communities and neighborhoods. we are doing our best to now bring the san francisco housing authority itself more directly into the family of city agencies that work closely with mohcd and the other agencies at the city to provide affordable housing. and the kind of work we do here as david so eloquently articulated, to just bring people together, reintegrate things, and really fight back against the forces that are trying to pull us all apart.

thank you, david. well said. while it probably goes without saying, that's when i say it anyway. none of this can happen without money, lots of it. for that, we in the city turn to bank of america, merril lynch. they have been key to our success. we're talking about over three-quarters of a billion dollars in debt and equity for the program. here at hunters point, they provided over $150 million in construction financing and over $120 million tax credit equity as well as funding for residents during construction. we went to bank of america for funding because that's where the money was. they were ready to put it to good use. to paraphrase elanie, where is the money at, that's where i'm

going. okay. i didn't get it quite right. you can school me later. don't beat box it? okay. i get a little carried away sometimes. anyway, back to the script. it gives me great pride to introduce a proud resident of san francisco herself, liz minik. >> these are always hard acts to follow. thank you so much for having us today. bank of america was founded in this amazing city in 1904. two years after, we had one of our largest earthquakes. at the time bank of italy at the time spent most of their resources getting people back in their homes. housing has always been integral to what we do. that's when the call to action and rehabilitating the 3500

units around our city came, we were so delighted and honoured to provide $2.2 billion. so $2.2 billion in financing for the san francisco r.a.d. program. as has been said, this is all about the residences. this is ensuring that people can be in the homes that everyone deserves. again, thank you so much for having us today. i will continue with a thanks for our great partners related, john stewart, and san francisco housing development. our wonderful team who has worked tireless over the last six and seven years to get this done. mayor breed, we couldn't have done this without our leadership. thank you. [ applause ]. >> $2 billion doesn't go as far as it used to, but it adds pick up. the engagement and support of our residents was absolutely

crucial to our success. i'd therefore like to acknowledge quickly and thank all the officers for our three tenant associations at the three different sites, many of whom are with us today. susan mcallister, renitia raina, elise minor, ivan sepulona. those are all from the east association. from the west we have joe nyamalaga, ronald anderson. and from the other associations we have many people as well.

thank you all. it takes a lot of work. you're volunteers. you're out there helping the residents organize and bring issues to us. you're keeping us honest, committed, and engaged. we appreciate the partnership that that represents. speaking on behalf of the residents today is renée, as i mentioned earlier, president of the westbrook tenant association. she's a passionate community leader who encourages and assists residents in advocating for their own best interests. born in the bay area, she takes great pride in engaging and helping her community, understands the challenges of the residents, has a strong commitment to educational values, and her skill and compassion make her both a voice and a beacon of hope for the residents. it is my pleasure to have renée

mangdangle to the stage. >> hi, everybody. thank you, mayor breed. i would like to thank related, john stewart company, of course my tenant association. yesterday was my birthday, 9/11. anyways, i'm kind of nervous. i'm not much of a speaker. anyway. this building came a long way. i come from the peninsula, and when i came in here it was like pulling teeth. i did not want to move here, but i did. made the best out of it. i became a community leader. and hunters point west with marlene harris, she hired me to be event planner and personal chef for all three sites. then i met hunters point east

and of course westbrook residents at that time. i just want to thank everybody. thank you. [ applause ]. >> you're following the sage advice of roosevelt, be sincere, brief, and be seated. you're going to go far in politics. anyway, this is short and sweet. we want to spend time listening to some more music, touring apartments, having some food, breaking bread together. i want to thank again all the distinguished speakers. i want to do a special shout-out to our technology program partners for the wifi, the training, et cetera, here at this site. it includes the city's department of technology, monkey brains, dev mission who's been mentioned, the community tech

network, microsoft, you've heard of them, adobe. they all pitched in on the technology side. we appreciate it. there are so many companies and public agencies that have contributed their time, energy, and hard work to making these properties a success. i wish i had time to recognize them all. i can't. time is short. i'm going to name a few, sort of speed recognition. our architects, our general contractors did an amazing job renovating and breathing new life into these communities. thank you. i'm going to repeat a few thanks that came up earlier. from the city and county of san francisco thanks -- [ indiscernible ]. from the john stewart company itself, i want to shout out to our founder and chairman john stewart himself, margaret

miller, dan lavine, jenny collins. and our former project manager adam levine who came from east bay to see the fruits of his labors. i want to say hi to many of those who couldn't be here [ indiscernible ] -- thanks to michael mincus and thanks to all the other people who contributed their time and energy to this impressive effort. so that's it. thanks for coming. please stay for food in the community room, tours of apartments, more music. so if i could just get the speakers all to follow. [♪]

>> please stand by for closed captioning. >> the meeting will come to order. welcome to the september 16th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee vice chair, shamann walton and to my left is rules committee member supervisor gordon mar. our clerk is victor young.

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