prioritizes to address critical safety needs, also taking into account unique character and needs of 5th street and the community. lastly, i would like to end by touching on the next steps for the corridor. following today's meeting if approve, preconstruction outreach prior to starting restriping in the fall and work with the shops to be cognizant. concrete work will then take place in the winter of 2020. we are collecting preproject data now and post project data collection in the fall of 2020, and publish the findings soon after. and looking towards making the quick build design more permanent. we see that in the fall of 2021. thanks very much for your i am too. happy to answer questions.

>> kevin stall, and a rider of the bus line. and a major advocate for pedestrian safety and a lot of the changes here will help improve the corridor a lot. one of the major thoroughfares south of market with a lot of people walk, ride their bikes, drive, and take muni down this street. and with the number of people who are going to be moving into the neighborhood with the new projects, the potential of having a lot of families with children and possibly seniors and maybe people who are disabled who frequent this corridor a lot, the changes will most definitely help the people

feel safe, and unfortunately we have 22 people in our city killed, pedestrian fatalities and the number is growing. so, any and all improvements to make sure people feel safe is much needed, and i fully support the project in its entirety. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> paul, cat, simone. >> my name is courtney, here on behalf of supervisor matt haney, district 6. i think it's a rare evening when the board of supervisors is done before you all. i'm just here mainly to express our strong support for this project. i'm sure as many of you and the folks in the room are really tired of the streets being treated as freeways and for soma

having some of the most dangerous streets in our city, and we are appreciative of the work you are doing to advance important projects and making sure, and very transformative for the project, and eager to see in particular the gaps in our protected bike lane network be closed in soma as well. thank you for moving this forward. look forward to seeing the quick builds in the ground in the fall, and i also wanted to thank the staff and all the advocates who have been integral to building out the proposal as well. you have our full support. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> charles, cat. >> thank you, commissioners. charles lafarge with the san francisco bicycle coalition. every time, just about every single time i dare to ride 5th street i see something that gives me a chill and it's

inexperienced riders, often tourists riding, sandwiches between trucks, busses and parked vehicles, often with their children and with, you know, scraps of paint encouraging them to be bold and take the lane. they are on fifth because it's on the bicycle network, the apps. the city is encouraging people to take this really broken street from market to caltrain. it's really only a matter of time before somebody gets hit and killed, we know that at this point, let's not wait until that happens to move here and thankfully we are moving pretty quickly. so, today we have the opportunity to reverse this embarrassing, unacceptable part of the bicycle network and continuous protect the bike lanes can create new space for people riding. not only the north/south connector between 2nd and 7th. so, not only will the project

save lives but will open up the network, it's important we get it right on 5th street. the unit from market to mission, one of the busiest blocks of the corridor. you have the active valet, hotels north of market, so protection for people riding on this block is a, is a crucial component to the overall project. a break in con at this -- continuity, and priority over automobile access, yes, and slight transit impacts as well. i'm excited to see the lessons learned from previous quick build projects and get things in the ground this year, timeline, and thank you to staff. we look forward to this going in the ground. thank you. >> cat carter, simone, marcell. >> cat carter, san francisco transit riders. we are excited to see 5th street

improved with protected bike lanes and the bus bulbouts and the safety features that will make it a more livable street, and make it more welcoming for everybody. however, we are disapointed to see busses forced to share a single lane with cars. the northbound 27 bryant will be sitting in 5th street congestion downtown traffic congestion for three blocks and this will add at least a few minutes travel time. and make the 27 bryant even more unreliable than it is now. as you probably know, the 27 bryant is part of the equity strategy, low income, senior riders, and the north side of market street and sfmta did so well on that one. gains made on the 27 north of market will be wiped out by this project south of market. we have suggested a possible solution, namely a combined

bus-bike lane pilot project. again, we like pilots. it has been done in other major cities. busses only every 15 minutes and the shared bike lane would be three blocks long. we really ask and urge sfmta to consider this pilot. we cannot have another project that considers transit as an afterthought and impacts be ok. so, i ask you to consider, if any other recent street improvement project has actually made muni worse by design, and i urge you to alter that part of the project. thank you. >> simone, marcell. >> i'm a concerned citizen of san francisco and dedicated biker. i strongly support the 5th street improvement project. it's a sorely, sorely needed project that improves bike infrastructure. finally finally a protected bike

lane for "the entire corridor." music to my ears when i hear that. i biked 5th street a few days ago, and dangerous for even an experienced biker. and as director brinkman said we needed them 5 or 10 years ago. if we put them 5 or 10 years ago we would not have the vision 0 problems we are having today. it's not enough. protected bike lanes often still have dangerous mixing zones and other items i'm sure will be continued in this project today. the excelsior project today only had four blocks of unbroken bike lanes, only four blocks. and then 2 to 3 more years to get transit improvements. the sixth and taylor project has been going on for years, and no bike lanes in the final design. i went to one of the outreach meetings and sfmta staffers had no data to keep bike lanes out, even if it was in the original

design. and mentioned before, stockton street was entirely returned to the cars after, you know, all of that central subway construction. based on evidence, i don't think the sfmta takes vision 0 very seriously. we need more car-free streets for the tenderloin, more protected bike lanes, protected intersections, transit only lanes. articles in newspapers often only asked merchants and don't ask transit riders. with reliable transit and bike lanes, people will ride them. as director borden said, people don't bike because it is dangerous. all of these things need to happen on every project. >> thank you. >> by default. >> thank you very much. >> time is up. >> marcell, harold, michael. >> thank you. my name is marcell, i'm a

resident of san francisco, and ph.d. student in city planning at u.c. berkeley, and a proud member of the san francisco bike coalition. tremendous momentum today in terms of improving sustainable transportation options in large part due to decisions made by the board in regard to our streets. today represents another opportunity to move the city forward encouraging and protecting bicycling. research shows that unless bike lanes are separated and protected, only a small section of our population will use them, namely young white men. protecting bike lanes is the best way to diversify, women, older adults, and children, and people of color. in addition, study after study indicates that building protected bike lanes improves sfoot traffic and success of businesses along such corridors,

as opposed to maintaining private car storage. in particular, 5th street represents market street, union square, and beyond. two traffic lanes in each direction and private car storage on each side. we can flip the scale of the street towards bicycling and transit. thank you. >> thank you. harold findlay, michael borden, kevin carol. >> harold findlay, i've ridden my bike all over the city. the main thing i notice, besides the city streets me as a second class citizen, the main thing i notice is that i'm so exposed to danger, especially the vehicle -- i'm just moments away, just a momentary lapse, a judgment by a driver, or attention by a driver, or maybe a momentary burst of aggression

by a driver and i'm down. people are putting up the bike, i'm not here talking. it just -- it's frightening, and then when i get past that, i just think how ridiculous it is. we are a fifth of the way through the 21st century, we should be done with having car-dominated streets but we are not. it's everywhere. and also, you know, projects, create places of danger, we need to protect people from the danger. that's part of completing the projects. that should be natural. you know, crucial to create the danger, then protect people from it. don't make them come to meetings and protect you from protection, be satisfied with bulb-outs and stuff like that, protect them. you insist on having it. i know you all know this, but our streets don't reflect that at all. and i guess i'll say one last

thing. director heminger, i am mad at you, and you know, you are right, people just are not coming up and telling you and i and director borden, i understand completely the analysis you gave but you have an ethical problem allowing people to die while you wait for community sensibility to reach the right place. >> michael borden. >> good afternoon, michael borden, i'm 68 years old, and i get around the city when i can and i feel safe. my first choice is by bike. everyone else has already just said when i feel about the conditions of the 5th street, probably more eloquently than i can. so, just thinking of something new to say. bear with me a moment, you may think i'm having another senior moment. but just rereading the novel,

ian forester's novel, "howard's end," and a wonderful quote, those of you who saw the wonderful movie, emma thompson says to anthony hopkins, and that is "connect, live in fragments no longer." now you can take this in a very literal way, commissioner heminger's statement of our need for bike transportation networks that connect or what charles pointed out, the need for connections between the 5th and townsend and howard and market street bike lanes. a literal way. but i would like to talk a different way. i don't really think of myself as a senior, i think of myself as a 68-year-old man, lucky enough to be still hobbling

around. but i do feel seniors through ageism are unaware, and sometimes put in a box of, the city talks about improvements to, to transportation, for seniors, i always see muni and walking, which are poriimportan me and with some with a disability like myself, and some seniors bike and i am included, and how i connect to the city is keeping my involvement up with my friends, with my volunteer work and my social networks and getting there. >> thank you. >> by bike is the way i do that. so, please help connections, please approve the bike lane, thank you. bye. >> thank you. >> kevin carol, jodie, jake shumano. >> kevin carol, president and c.e.o. of the hotel council of san francisco. i live in san francisco, a heavy user of public transit and

public transportation. for me, i'm here today to speak in support of the 5th street project. i have one question, one concern that we have been expressing throughout the process. i want to thank the m.t.a., and especially talia lange for the multiple meetings she mentioned and meeting with our group specifically, and i know others as well. but i also want to thank the walk s.f. and the bicycle coalition who have come out and met with us and our teams as well. i think it's important that we understand what each of each other are looking at with it. as far as the overall project, we obviously support vision 0, and protected bike lanes. i think as charles mentioned, our visitors bike all over the city, our employees bike as well. and then obviously we are pedestrians and our guests are pedestrians as well. the one concern we have brought up along is the constriction of two lanes to one lane on northbound 5th street and that case, i know some adjustments

that are made, especially coming off the freeway and crossing market and we do appreciate those adjustments. we still have a concern on, and ask the very thorough evaluation plan that's developed looks at what the impacts are. i think it's important for all of us to realize our supplies arrive in, through traffic lanes, and many of our visitors arrive through busses and other modes of transportation, it's not just all single drivers in cars that are using the lanes. and we do feel that there will be a constriction there as part of it. so, we do ask that as you do the evaluation that's taken seriously with what the impacts are going to be, and thank you again for your time and especially to the team at the m.t.a. for the work they have done. thank you. >> jodie madiros, jake shumano, mike sizemore. >> good afternoon, executive

director, walk san francisco. this safety improvement project can't happen soon enough. as the sfmta presented and pointed out, this corridor has been a pedestrian safety nightmare. lives have been at risk, especially those of seniors and seniors with disabilities. this neighborhood has one of the highest senior populations in the city and streets must be designed with this in mind. and as we know, pedestrian numbers on 5th street corridors are going to increase as the new developments are put on. walk san francisco has been working on this project for many, many years with the neighbors and sfmta. we have gone and done street side outreach and talked to literally hundreds of people on or near 5th street at outreach events and our surveys shows 94% expressed the desire for safe intersections, the biggest number one ask. the plans will go a long way

toward safer intersections, and huge improvements to intersections like brandon around the flower mart. incredibly pleased a no right turn policy will be on 5th street for the improvements and we strongly support a no right on red to prevent all collisions in the city and see it as a widespread policy. finally, we support the separated bike lanes, to calm the street and improve safety. and a group has been working with the sfmta on how to design protected bike lanes to ensure accessibility and hope the 5th street design including the quick build is going to incorporate the work groups' nine design principles for this implementation. thank you very much. look forward to hearing you on

this project. >> jake shumano, brian -- >> vice chair and commission members, development manager with real tech, inc. on behalf of investors, and proposed mixed use multi-family development at 300 5th street at the corner of 5th and folsom streets. i would like to acknowledge and thank you the sfmta and talia lange for mentioning the development coming to the area. i think it's an important aspect of the future of the street improvements and who will be using the streets. specifically, our firm has been proposing a development in this location since 2016. currently proposing plans for 130 apartments, small ground floor commercial street with 0 off street parking.

our project received preliminary street design comments prepared as part of the project review. comments included a statement indicating that no on street loading would be available on either of the project street frontages. it includes some correspondence with talia and her team and i would like to make it known to the public records -- sorry, but basically she and her team have shown through this design that you can accommodate an on street loading zone on 5th street, the tune of 112 feet long. given our ability to add the on-street loading in this location, the sponsor is very supportive of the plans and feel it will go a long way to bolster pedestrian and cyclists safety. our time is -- excuse me, our

team is grateful for the design considerations and hard work of miss lange and her team. thank you for your service. >> next speaker. mike sizemore, followed by brian clofuss and jeremy. >> mike sizemore, 5th street resident and daily 5th street rider. again, i am one of those young white guys that can survive 5th street. i just want to give you a glimpse of what riding on 5th street is. typically every day i experience one of the following. people accelerating close to me, trying to pass me, people have thrown water bottles at me, frustrated i'm on the street. i've had somebody pass very, very close to me and clip me with their rearview mirror, and then turn around and blame it on me, and get out of the car and try and fight me. i've had somebody merge into me and i tap on their car as they are merging into me, which

proceeds them to roll down the window and "tell me they are going to [bleep] end me." you know, this is the reality on 5th street. i want my community to be accepting of people. i hate that my neighborhood is an on ramp for highway 80. let's create this community. i don't want to grow up in this community, you know, i plan on having children, i plan on putting them on bikes, i plan on having them walk around the city. this is not going to happen if they are being tailgated by people with people laying on their horns, if the street continues to be this hell-scale for anybody that is not in a car. again, i'm also up here because i am a constant rider and nothing is more powerful than, you know, if i do end up dying on the street, to have a recording of me making the warning, so -- i do wear my helmet, i do practice safety biking, safe biking on that

street, but at the end of the day if this could be used as an action to get faster bike lanes or more safe streets in our neighborhood, i will be happy for that. so -- thank you, and please push this forward as quick as possible. >> we hope it's not a record for that sort of thing. >> i hope so, too. >> brian, jeremy. >> hi, brian clofuss, here in support of the 5th street improvement project. i bike and walk every day and bike down 5th street once or twice per week. this project is great, the entire length will have protected bike lanes, it will make me feel safer. i think it should go further, red light cameras and speed cameras mid block. thanks. >> jeremy, the last person.

>> hi, jeremy frisch, i have come before you before to advocate for protected lanes townsend, and folsom and howard, but today talking about 5th street where we have another opportunity to save human lives by building protected lanes along the road. this is not abstracts every day bikers like me have to mix with highway and bus traffic, and pray they are not injured or killed by drivers. leaving any gap in the protected network for cyclists lead to unnecessary deaths, like tess rothstein who died in an unprotected bike lane a block from where it began on howard. the mixing zones i saw in the designs there the open house were a far cry from a fully protected bike lane. so, maybe i'm hoping that's changed or yeah, i still, they still put cyclists at risk at key points along the route.

as the previous speaker said, we are not going to get more diverse folks riding instead of driving without a fully protected bike network with none of these dangerous gaps. members of the board, i urge you to support the near and long-term projects on fifth and direct sfmta to implement short-term fixes in weeks, not months or years with no dangerous gaps. as the presenter said, we are seeing one person per week get injured on this street. so, every week counts. we know it can be done and people's lives again on it. thanks. >> thank you. >> thanks for giving me a chance to speak out and i just closed my -- >> your name, please. >> bob walsh, i work for scoot, one of the four micromobility companies operating in san francisco. i'm also a city native and my wife, as are my wife jana, three

children and two grandchildren. protected bike lane shouldn't take more than ten years to build. when we first started kicking this idea around, lyft and uber did not even exist. in fact, since this simple project was first proposed, we built the city's tallest skyscraper and the world class arena. and yet here we are, trying to get a bike lane built. i'm kind of like a kid in the candy store, i can't wait to get this thing built. at this point in time to commit today in this room that the long delayed 5th street protected bike lane will be complete before the end of the year, you know, the quick build. can we prioritize the safety of our pedestrians and cyclists over fancy new buildings, yeah. can we put our money where our mouth is and truly advance the vision 0 goals, i believe we must. we all know very well that implementation of safe street designs, despite approving lifesaving benefits and clear community support continue to be

politicized. swiftly moving forward with this project you will make the next project less fraught and send a clear message. designs that save lives by protecting vulnerable road users will be explained, but they will not be delayed. more and more residents are demonstrating a willingness to embrace alternatives to driving, such as public transportation, bicycles, e bikes, scooters, make your efforts to make 5th street and all of san francisco streets safe for everyone. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> i'm one of the people that director heminger referred to using a bike as a primary mode of transportation, and i think less about my age but more with my nationality. i don't go down 5th street

anymore, a friend of mine started doing it, and he then asked on twitter for tips how he could avoid 5th street, because it was so bad, and he wrote after his first time riding from the sunset to caltrain, he wrote "5th street is hell, you're biking on a six lane highway, no dedicated bike lanes, and cars zooming inches from you." google maps sending bicyclists down 5th street, a disaster. disclaimer, i have been riding down fifth, but rarely felt as safe as riding down fifth this morning. i think this project would help a lot with that. it has a few mixing zones, it's not perfect, but it's really, really good, and so i hate to disappoint mr. heminger and not be -- i will do something i don't do very often, which is disavow something the transit riders said. i'm a member of their organization, i support them but

mixing bikes and busses is very, very bad idea, and we should not ever do it. there's not enough space on the street for a bus, take it from the cars. don't take it from the bikes. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. any more speakers on the topic? seeing non, public comment is closed. colleagues. >> ms. lange, a few questions. a couple of the speakers brought up what my -- first of all, great work on the project and good presentation. obviously there's a lot of support for this one. can we talk about the mixing zones? i see the project will be upgraded in 2021, which will include signal lights upgrades sounds like. until then, mixing zones at the enter essentials? >> at some intersections we will. at some we will have four out of eight intersections we'll have either protected turns through sort of temporary portions of your protected intersection, or

separated bike signals at folsom and bryant. >> we'll have four intersections that -- >> basically be phased in as quickly as we can in terms of the long-term project and then we have some development projects also bringing online some changes, including the flower mart. >> good, that's great. i understand the need for the mixing zones, but i'm not a big fan of them. a relief on 8th street when they are upgraded with dedicated turn signals. second question, it looks like the west side won't be parking protected all the way. and do we have some idea of how we are going to keep cars out of that bike lane because as we know, unless there is a concrete curb or a line of parked cars, cars are going to try to go in there to get to the curb and park. >> great point. in the quick build design, we will have vertical posts and buffers, and -- and upgraded in

a phased way as quickly as possible, and the long-term, and become concrete buffers. >> good, i can see that the next question that we'll get from director rubke will be access across those bike lanes for people with disabilities. preempt her and ask that question. >> quick build project, does incorporate curb ramps at all the passenger loading areas that are sort of floating between -- it's the passenger loading zone, and then it's bike lane, then the sidewalk. you need a way to access the sidewalk, so curb ramps and also be accessible. >> i'm so supportive of this project, it's going to be great and a fantastic connection. it is a good way to get from the

train station pretty much in the part of the neighborhoods, going to the maria, cal hallow, i do wish we had a slightly better connection taking us across market street, but i guess as market street gets improved, cyclists will be able to go left on market, and out turk and -- >> to use that intersection of market to intersect. >> it's going to be a big help for people and as more and more people buy electric assist bicycles and bike shares have more available, we'll have more people doing that commute across the city. might be nice to add additional signage as we get the bike lane going, to let people know how to get across market street and turk street and -- >> that's a great idea. thank you. >> thank you, great work on this, and look forward to riding 5th street on my bike. >> approved. >> second. >> question? >> ok.

>> i wanted to ask about the new configuration two in one, right, for the motorists, and the one is northbound. >> yes. >> so, that primarily has an impact in the morning peak. >> actually has a lot of impact in the morning peak and there is some -- >> did you consider a reversible lane as a way of managing that? >> we did in the consider reversible lane but this works with 5th street, exact in verse of what the 6th street configuration is, and also say the northbound one lane is from harrison north, and flip flops from bryant south, because of the highway on ramp and off ramp. >> maybe you could just ask the director of transportation. do we have a policy on reversible lanes, is it sort of a standard tool in the tool kit that can he consider?

cities are skiddish, the lawyers are skiddish, but a state law when you make improvements to the state highway system you must consider a reversible approach. >> yeah, of course most of the state highways we have are -- are wider -- >> i'm just saying, you know, caltrans is doing something and we're not, a reason to pay attention, i think. >> simple answer, it's not a tool that we have -- that we have applied to my knowledge in the city. definitely, it's something that the cities that have heavy vehicle, heavy directional flow to their traffic patterns use on surface streets. we have bi-directional, both directions south of market and the traffic flows will get more and -- and the freeway access, it does not conform to the sort of natural north in the morning and south in the evening.

a lot of complicated factors. something we can certainly look into. it's not currently in our toolbox. >> yeah, i just think, we are missing opportunity if we just don't consider a strategy at all by default because i think there are going to be probably places where it's going to make some sense. you obviously, as you said, have a strong directional flow. but my own experience has been this is more skittishness than unknown, it's not a good idea in every case. >> any other comments? i think i would agree, like rock creek park changed directions, we should look at that, a great way to not have to expand roadway capacity but accommodate better for shifting traffic. >> and as mentioned, evaluation plan and look at how things are working, and as director maguire

stated, it's really about even in terms of the number of cars at the moment. >> a motion and a second, all in favor, no opposition, that is -- item is now wrapped and we are going to go into closed session. >> madam chair. >> motion to go into closed session. >> you do not. >> great. >> it will take me a >> the board is out of closed session. board of directors met to discuss the appointment of hiring the director of transportation, but did not take action. >> motion to not disclose. >> that concludes the business before you this evening. >> all done.

>> today in the omi in district 7 -- [cheers and applause] >> -- they say it takes broad strokes to make something truly incredible, people to enjoy and that's the message we have here today. there's no better person to articulate the vision for advancing economic opportunity and equity in our city than our next speaker that is joining all of us and leading these efforts with us today and that is our mayor, london reed. >> hello, lakeview! hello! i am so excited to be here! let me tell you, this centre is long overdue in the omi community. [cheers and applause] i want to start by thanking

supervisor safaye, who is really, i think the best supervisor district 11 has ever had. let me tell you, because of his work and advocacy, we are bringing more resources than ever to this community. we saved 21 units just on mission street where low income families were facing eviction. he took the leadership, we purchased that property and protected those units for generations to come. [cheers and applause] >> we know that you want your library and supervisor safaye and i are working to get it done for this community, making sure that even though sometimes i know over the years you felt forgotten, your supervisor and your mayor, we're doing

everything we can to continue to focus on bringing resources to this community. [cheers and applause] and you know, you only have to look at the data to know that a place to provide employment opportunities should have been here a long time ago. in fact, 94112 had sadly one of the largest populations of people who were looking for employment opportunities but couldn't find them. 1600 people in this zip code alone. now while we enjoy this tremendous economic boom in san francisco, too many residents in this community are left behind. we see a significant increase in the number of people who are unemployed and looking for

opportunities and that number is even higher for our african-american community. and so we as a city have to look at those numbers and make the right kinds of investments in the communities where we know it could make a difference. and so, it is only fitting that today, we celebrate the seventh workforce or whatever this place is called, access point. they changed the name so many times. [ laughter ] >> they used to be job center and this and that, a place where you can come and find help to get employment. that's what it is. [cheers and applause] >> so today is a celebration of something long overdue and i just, i'm so excited to be here and i know that inner-city yout. you're going to speak, right? [ laughter ]

>> i know that -- i just want to really acknowledge and thank mike brown, who we all miss and remember for his work and his advocacy. and we know that his daughter, gwenn, carries that same passion for young people and we're grateful for you for following in your father's footsteps, to make sure opportunities are available to all of the folks in this community and she needs your support, your continued support to continue the work of inner-city youth in the lakeview community. so today we're opening this incredible place where you can come and get the help and the support that you need to either build a resume, to talk about job interviewing skills, to do mock interviews, to do whatever it takes and i want to thank

young community developers and dj brrokter for partnering with inner-city youth to make sure that this space is really a space available to the community to meet people where they are. not let me just be clear, there are so many job opportunities in san francisco. you can drive muni, you can be a police officer. hell, you can run for mayor, but after i'm done. [ laughter ] there are so many opportunities and it is time that we look at the tech sector the healthcare sector and all of these other industries and we make sure there's a direct connection between all these companies that want do business in san francisco and making sure that they hire the people of this city. [cheers and applause] >> in fact, your long awaited grocery store, what is it

called? h-mart, h-mart is coming to the omi community and here is the thing, they'll be hiring 150 new part-time and full-time employees. [cheers and applause] >> and this center will be ground-daughter roground-zero ft because we will make sure the people who live here have the first opportunity to work in their community, if that's the kind of job they want, we have to be deliberate in our investments and connecting the people of this community to these incredible opportunities. and i am excited to be here today. i also just want to point out that our workforce director, josh arsay, is here as well. cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] >> so if you run into problems in finding employment, josh is always there and available. he will pick you up personally

and take you to the job interview, take you shopping to buy the appropriate clothes to get ready for that job, whatever it takes. we will make sure that we change those statistics so that everyone in this city has an opportunity to get a good paying job so that they can take care of their families and create a better future for their lives. someone who has been a real partner for me on the board of supervisors every step of the way, not just on city-wide policies to address homelessness and housing and the things unnetted tthings weneed to do tn francisco, he's been a real strong advocate for this community, the community he represents. leads and gentleman, your district 11 supervisor! [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mayor.

this day is a day of many years coming. i see a lot of history in this room. i see reverend amos brown, who has given his life and dedicated his life to this community. i see dr. honey-cut, marion harris. this community has been too over overlooked and forgotten. so when i came into office, it was president breed at the time and melia cohen were having hearings and they were extremely frustrated with work development

at the time. they said where the unemployment is, where the violence is, that's where the jobs and resources should go. and that was just a reflection of what was happening in the community. so as mayor breed said, we looked at the numbers. we reached out to the then director of ycd and we talked by gwenn brown and said what can we do and what is the most important thing? guess what? this is ground zero for a month before i came into office, there was a murder and the first week i was in office, there was a murder and it was a continuous state of violence. and then you looked at the unemployment in the black community that has historically been here and it was extremely high to the rest of the community. i went to then mayor lee and said we need your support. we want to put money towards a great organization and a great young lady standing and carrying

on the tradition of her father and that young lady is gwenn brown. [cheers and applause] >> and we have a phenomenal organization named inner-city youth and inner-city youth should be the beacon and the leader for job creation and job development in this community. they can bring people together and so gwenn, at first was like, are you sure? i said, i'm sure. i said, we'll lock armed and do this together. we had the support of shamon and then to dj at ycd and we are here today now because then president breed and now mayor breed invested in i this community. she has been in office for a little over a year and we have gotten more year and more attention ant more investments than any other mayor in the last 25 years. [cheers and applause]

so i'm just the beneficiary of great partners. i'm the beneficiary of great leadership from the mayor's office and community-based organizations and those, like, mike brown and now gwenn brown that are taking over the torch for this community. i know gwenn, that your father is smiling down from heaven right now because he truly gave his life for this community. and what is the words they say? if you can give someone a job, you can give them dignity and respect for their entire family and that's what this is about. so i just want to end with saying, thank you again to the young community developers. thank you again to gwenn and icy and owd and joaquin torez and never, never finally but least, mayor breed for your continued investment and dedication and love and support for this

community because you all, this is called the hub, so welcome to the hub! [cheers and applause] >> and i have a short certificate i'll present to gwenn and icy on behalf of the board of supervisors and the mayor to congratulate her for the phenomenal job she's done and the phenomenal job we know she will do. [cheers and applause] >> take a little photo. and next up is our fearless leader and ucy and who will be taking this hub to the next level, miss gwenn brown! [cheers and applause] >> thank you, guys, for coming to our grand opening. i'm be the programme director here at this neighborhood access point that we'll be calling the hub. and the reason why we'll call it the hub is because this is going to be a place where anyone who lives in the omi, whether you're

an entry-level job seeker or experienced person that wants to refresh their skills and technology and get training, you're going to be able to get that here. i want to thank everyone who's here, all of the cbo partners, oewd, joshua, arsay. he was literally here at 9:00 sweeping with his team, fatinya homes, ground movement, shamon, asha. he's not lying about what he said. are you sure you want icy do it? he was, like, yes. so i thank you for leaving this in my hands and this is my way of thanking my father and grandmother for the work that they've done -- excuse me. [cheers and applause]

>> to be able to do this in her honor is my way and honor to pay homage to those who have come before me and who have created pathways. i hope to create pathways for other residents in the omi like i had. i went to school in san francisco, born and raised in this community. i am so honored to be able to give back to the neighborhood that i grew up in and sorry for the tears, guys. at this time, i want to invite up my new boss, dionne j. bri dionne j. brickter. >> i work for gwenn and the entire district of district 10.

i'm the executive director of young community developers. i always tell myself we have the best weather in district 10 but i tell you what, this weather is beautiful in district 11! [cheers and applause] >> i don't think that's coincidence. i think it speaks to today. i want to thank mayor breed for her jovialness in participating today. but none of this happened by chance. it was a vision. it was a conversation that then executive director of the young community developer sat down and we had a conversation with gwenn brown and talked about the needs in our communities. it wasn't just one community. it was communities. and as we sat down and talked about those communities, we said, how can we collaborate and work together? how can we provide collective impact? we're stronger when we work together. i'm happy to say this hub is just that. so i have an opportunity to tell a quick story and i don't even know if gwenn remembers.

i remember the first time we came into the omi and we had to follow gwenn and we got an opportunity to talk to young men on plymouth and broad. we stood there for about three minutes and gwenn left me. so it was just me and folks from me and the omi community having a conversation. we talked for 45 minutes. they said for so long people have come into this community and do things and you need to be about it. and today, we're about it. cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] so i think as two organizations we're collaborate together just to provide some of the work readiness training we're doing in district 10 and really just want to allow gwenn and her team the resources that they need to ensure that we don't just come into the community and provide economic sustainability. we're about economic mobility. and that's one of the things we'll focus here at the hub. so i want to thank everybody who

was involved. of course, our phenomenal mayor, mayor breed, supervisor safaye, supervisor walton, who has quietly been behind the scenes but he's never quiet. pretty sure you know that. our director joaquin torez and gwenn, all of my team at young community developers. when you look in this room, there are so many based community-based organizations and helping to negotiate and get this space. it took seven to eight months to get into this space. i want to thank toni brock. all of the things you've seen, that's through toni brock ang ad the work she does in ensuring our community stays beautiful.

let's enjoy the hub and this weather and we look forward to providing services to the communities in our communities. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, dj. you know, these important moments of legacy and creating opportunity for our residents are impossible without leadership and partners beyond d those who are standing and talking to you today but all community members who are tirelessly put efforts and hard work and volunteered time on commissions at volunteer associations, demanding resources and i want to give a shout-out to joseph bryant who was here earlier today. [cheers and applause] >> to apri, jackie flynn, to the governor sending his california director here today, to a success center, to the community leadership to reverend brown and, of course, leading efforts for our youth on behalf of mayor breed and cheryl reed at the

human right's commission. thank you all for being here and to the urban service's ymca and the beacon team who are also here today, thank you. [cheers and applause] >> and i want to give a shout-out specifically to josh arsay and the element team. they go above and beyond to make this work happen on behalf of all of you. to morris young, thank you for all of work you've done and now, let's cut this ribbon! [cheers and applause] >> we create opportunities around here. [cheers and applause] >> there we go. you all ready? ok, you ready 5-4-3-2-1! it's open! [cheers and applause]

>> good morning. we are going to call the meeting to order. i would like to thank everyone for coming today. this is our first disaster council meeting of this fiscal year. i would like to introduce or mayor's office chief of staff. >> good morning. i want to thank you for your