support and ask for your continued support. with that, i end my presentation >> thank you very much for your presentation. colleagues, any comments or questions? seeing none, but i have a report on item number eight as there is none for item number seven? >> item number eight, the legislation specifically approves a loan agreement between mohcd and the apartment for the community development. there is currently an outstanding loan of $6.5 million this would amend the loan and increase it by $17.7 million to a total loan amount of $24.3 million. you can see that an exhibit 2 on page 27 of the report. the sources of funding include the egress money that came in and other sources of funds shown in this exhibit. the total project -- budget is 74 by two millions of the loan amount is about one third of

that amount. the housing subsidy is about $231,000. as you can see on page three of our report. we recommend approval. >> thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i see no questions or comments on the roster. i would like to move these items to the board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. thank you for the presentation today. can you please call item number nine? >> nine is a resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit a grant application for the california state department of housing and community development for funding in the amount of $5 million under the cal home program. >> thank you very much. his gene here? >> i'm with the mayor's office of housing. >> please speak into the microphone. >> we are trying to apply for a grant on the state of california

for $5 million, which is to bring $5 million for first-time homebuyers. [indiscernible] >> thank you very much. is that your presentation or do you have more? >> that is that. >> that's great. we have no b.l.a. report on this any comments or questions from colleagues? i see no questions. is there any members of the public would like to comment on this item? public comment is closed. i would like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. we can take that without objection. please call items 10 through 18 together. >> item 10 through 18 is a resolution authorizing the mayor 's office of housing and community development on behalf of the city to execute a grant application under the department of housing and community development affordable housing and sustainable communities for the affordable housing projects.

and the community development infill infrastructure program. >> that is it? that is great. hello. are you jonathan? >> yes. >> please, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, committee members. my name is jonathan and i may project manager with the mayor's office of housing and community development. before you are resolutions, items 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 to assume liability and apply for funds from the california department department of housing and community development affordable housing and sustainable communities program commonly referred to as asic. these funds will go towards a falling affordable housing

projects in the city. 131 units of family housing located at 2340 san jose avenue as known as balboa park upper yard developed by mission housing development corporation and related california. 157 units located at potrero hill -- the potrero hope s.f. site mac. developed by bridge housing. eighty-four units of family housing located at the sunnydale hope s.f. site as known as sunnydale block three a also developed by related california. eighty-four units of family housing also located at the sunnydale hope s.f. site known as sunnydale block three be. and 70 units of family housing with 35 units for homeless families as known as 266 fourth street.

the program transportation and land preservation projects support infill and compact development that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the fund is established by the state and is known more generally as cap and trade funding. in order to be highly competitive, the project will be submitting joint applications with the city for up to $20 million each. for each project, the award is broken up into two major components. the first is a loan awarded to support the affordable housing development in the and the second is a grant award to go towards transportation improvements for associated greenhouse gas reduction measures included in the application. for balboa park upper yard and others, each housing award request is for up to $20 million and the transportation grant application is for up to $10 million. for 266 fourth street, the

request is for $13.6 million and the transportation grant request is for approximately six my $5 million. the application requires that applicants for the project will be held jointly and be liable for completion of the project. this means that those parties are liable for the completion of the entire project in either -- either party may need to take additional steps to have the housing or transit portion completed. balboa park upper yard is located across from the balboa park bart station. it currently serves as an sfmta employee parking lot. the team expects to begin construction in the spring of 2021. potrero block b. is part of the hope s.f. site and will be the second new construction project built under hope s.f. the nation's first large-scale community development and reparations initiative aimed at creating vibrant and inclusive

and mixed-income communities without mass displacement of the original residents. sunny block is also part of the hope s.f. site and will be the third and fourth new construction project in the revitalized sunnydale community. it will be located on an sfmta site mac located directly above the sfmta subway station currently under construction. they issued a request for proposals for the site in august of 2017 and construct -- construction is anticipated to begin fall of 2021. in addition, before you are resolutions to assume liability and apply for funds from the california department of housing and community development infill infrastructure program. commonly referred to as i. i. g.

these funds will go towards the following projects. balboa park upper yard for an amount not to exceed $4 million, potrero block b. not to exceed $15.6 million and sunnydale block three a for an amount not to exceed six my $5 million, sunnydale block three be for an amount not to exceed six my $5 million and treasure island major sub- phase one for an amount not to exceed $30 million >> excuse me, are you speaking on item 19? >> we have representatives from treasure island to develop and authority he will speak more about item 19. >> let me pause you for a second madame clerk, did we call item number 19? >> please call into the record now before we hear the rest of the presentation on item 19. >> nineteen is a resolution authorizing the treasure island develop mint authority on behalf of the city to execute a grant application under the department of housing and community

development infill infrastructure as an applicant or joint applicant with the san francisco county transportation authority and/or the public utilities commission for a qualifying infrastructure project within treasure island major sub- phase one. >> thank you very much. you may continue. >> thank you. the program provides funds and supportive infill projects in mixed-income housing as well as mixed-use infill developments. thank you for considering each of these resolutions to apply for these critical sources of funding. we are excited to leverage these funds and reduce the amount of city funding necessary to build these important projects. and to see affordable housing for did into solutions for greenhouse gas production in combating climate change. the teams are working to complete funding applications by the deadline of february 11th 2020. this concludes staff's

presentation. the sponsors are available for questions should you have any and bob back, the director of the treasure island development authority will speak further about item 19. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. if it pleases you, i do have some slides i could present. the project we are applying for is the widening of hillcrest, promoting widening transit and bike access from that side of the project area. >> thank you. there are no reports on any of these items. let's open this up for public comment. would any members of the public like to comment on items 10 through 19? public comment is now closed. colleagues, any comments or questions considering one of our colleagues on the board here who is actually the sponsor of many

of these things. i would say i would like to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation on items 10 through 19. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. please call item number 20. >> twenty is a hearing to consider the review and approval of the budget guidelines for the board of supervisors annual budget for fiscal year 2020 and 2021 and 2022. >> thank you very much. today we have angela, the clerk of the board and joan. before we start, i would like to give, on this presentation as you know i am the chair of the committee and left is actually under the budget of the board of supervisors. so with that, i would -- do you

think -- would you like to first present the budget and have me then talk a little bit about laugh co.? >> members of the committee, clerk of the board, angela. you indicated i'm here. we always appreciate you managing this information for us annually. we also appreciate the opportunity to report to the department. the current progress of projects , just a few, and pursuant to the rules of order to request your guidance as we are preparing the budget for the next two years. once we receive your guidance we will return in february with a draft budget based upon your direction today for your approval before we submit the budget to the mayor and the controller. and now to the high-level overview, with you, i would recommend the overview of the projects and then i will recommend a couple of adjustments for the budget, for the baseline. sly two shows the department's current year budget by division

and category. under category, the largest cost share is salary and benefits at 75% of the total budget. the gross in this category is attributed to the m.o.u. negotiated wage increases and the addition of the administrative aids. the next largest category is the nonpersonnel services at 22% or 4 million. the budget and legislative analyst services contract is the largest cost in this category. a slight -- slide three, the current project, as you know, we hosted the conference in san francisco. we appreciate the committee and the board allowing us $50,000 in general fund dollars in the current year. we only used about 7,000 and we will be returning the remainder to the general fund. regarding the office renovation project in partnership with the department of public works and the real estate division of the city administrator's office, our

renovation project will be presented to the city hall preservation advisory commission for their review. this renovation, as you know, will allow us to create a private space both for the operation deputy and the payroll personnel in our department. i have a larger responsibility to the department as a whole to make sure that our payroll personnel officer can have confidential conversations in an office with staff. i am having a bit of a we organization in the area of space. regarding the salesforce constituent management system, we ruled this project out to all 11 offices. the initial feedback was positive and we understand that there are, as with every other project, there are bugs to work through. we are committed to doing so would legislative staff and the administrative staff.

we will continue to work with your office is to find out what within next steps look like if we were to continue to utilize this project. slide four lists the small adjustments that i am recommending to be included in the 2021 proposed budget. the newly created administrative assistant position in the member offices are eligible to receive overtime pay. however,, this cost was not included in the current budget and so we will need funding in the new budget. we have begun tracking the overtime pay for this particular class and we will have an estimate for you in february when we return. the operations division in the clerk's office, which provides operational and logistical support to the department as a whole are proposing a job change in one particular position. the current job is a 1426 senior clerk typist.

it is not accurately reflect the work that this particular position conducts on a day-to-day with assistance to the department and to the public and to language access and inventory. we would like the new class to be an 1840 junior management assistant. it would result in a small increase in 15,000 in salary and benefits. as i mentioned in the previous slide, the salesforce constituent management system is ongoing. the licenses have been purchased and we would need to add that cost. it is about $17,000 to purchase additional licenses to meet the demand of the new staff. and now for the couple of items. the budget and legislative analyst, every year, the budget and legislative analyst submits their request for an increase, which is stipulated in the contract. they have done so again for the

budget year. that would amount to a total of $2.44 million in contract, essentially the increase would be about 76 thousand dollars. the youth commission, there are three staff positions in the youth commission. it is time to modernize the positions and salary to be commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the job description. frankly, retention continues to be an ongoing issue and to address these issues we have worked very closely with the department of to human resources so they can review the duties and recommend an updated job class. if the committee approves this is a general concept, we will come back to you in february with the job class that we are recommending and the costs that are associated with that. and then two last points, the department is hiring a recruiting -- and chief

information officer. we currently have a position in the department. as our recruitment is yielding, we are not getting the type of individual with the minimum requirements that we need so we are asking just to bump up that position, which is what generally is the position in this city that the department of telecommunications is utilizing for this role specifically. it would be -- i would also be a seven-point 5% increase in salary. again, we already have the base salary position and funds associated with that. both salary and benefits in the budget currently. and lastly you might recall that they received a general fund appropriation of $297 in the current year. that is the same amount that we have reserved over the last 12 years. as a placeholder, we have that

in the proposed budget with your permission. i know that you would like to discuss that. we would be happy to. we would love your permission to provide all of those to you in february and a base budget for your consideration. we will bring it back to in february. we will be back here with questions. any questions? i will proceed with the increase in the budget. colleagues, as chair of the local agency formation commission, i'm working with my colleagues on that body, as well as our executive officer who is here in the audience today to develop a new budget and to rapidly expand the body of work being held by this commission. while our commission's approval of a budget is still pending, we would discuss a proposed budget at our meeting next week. i do want to propose an increase to the budget and i'm asking for the support of my colleagues to

have that reflected in the board 's budget submission to the mayor. we have received the same -- same general fund or support -- support from the city and county of san francisco for over 10 years without a single increase. i was appointed to the commission and elected as the chair in 2017 and in the last three years, we have done an incredible amount of work to revise this body, higher a phenomenal executive director and take on critical areas of work regarding municipal services and issues. we continue to provide oversight for? and power s.f. and year we did in-depth and copper hints of analysis of equity issues within the program, along with recommendations of how -- for how to address such concerns. the body his continued is continue to explore, along with equity access to clean power s.f., what real expansion of clean power would look like in san francisco. it is a -- if the city and county developed his own facilities on public land.

in the last year, it's in his last year -- in the last year, it is producing groundbreaking work in the study of gig economy workers partnering with a national organization of jobs with justice to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the conditions facing gig workers in the emerging mobility sector. the study is now in progress and in the first phase of being completed this year. it's the largest study of its kind and the executive director has secured over $300,000 in private funds for this study. and now i have introduced legislation currently pending at the board to ensure that san francisco takes the next step in developing a business plan for the first ever public bank in the state of california. i am proposing that this work live as an independent body that can skilfully engage public and private partners and utilize its legal council who have expertise in municipal finance.

if that legislation is to pass, our one staff person could not hold that work alone and we need staffing dedicated to the project. what i'm asking for today is an amendment to the budget and the board's budget to increase the general fund support for this award by $486,000. this would ensure we can bring back the f.t.e. position for executive director officer role. that position was eliminated in 2017. and fortin f.t.e. for a policy analyst role and ensure funding to bring on a consultant for the public bank. i have passed out to you a document and all about the proposed budget. i'm open to answer any questions as i said before, the executive director is here also to answer any questions. no questions. that is very positive.

pressing the button, i see supervisor mandelman. yes? >> yes, so i confess i am pretty unfamiliar with this. i am -- it has existed in every county in california. there is usually -- it was usually used, to my understanding, it is usually dealing with governmental organization boundaries and things like that. i know san francisco has used it significantly differently and particularly the board of supervisors used it at a point when maybe the mayor's office was not as excited about public power to advance a clean energy agenda from a little bit of a workaround coming from this side of the building. i guess i don't actually know or understand -- i don't have a sense of whether it's the best place for additional policy.

>> actually, mr. goebel can explain why it is the appropriate place to mean a surprise a lot of these issues like the public bank. and also why clean power is part of the purview. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. we were assigned oversight authority of clean power s.f. in 20 -- 2007 by the board of supervisors. we have an ongoing m.o.u. with the public utilities commission to do that work. as chair fewer stated, we had a very important report released recently with regard to clean power s.f. and the number of power disconnections that are happening in san francisco due to customers' inability to pay. we plan on carrying that work forward.

they all have special studies authority. i was hired as executive officer almost two years ago and i was asked by the chair to look into some issues. one of those was the gig economy issue. the city has been trying to obtain data from the companies to do an assessment of the externality that is being created on our streets in terms of congestion and trying to determine whether the company are so -- are following the labor laws. we are now undertaking what would be the largest and most representative survey of gig workers in the country. i have gone out and raised an additional $300,000 to support that work. in addition, you know, as the local agency formation commission, there was a lot of discussion about forming a new municipal bank and how that is

ideal for local agency formation commissions to do since that is a moral role. these are the three big issues that we are handling at the moment i would like to add to that that the scope of work has germs expanded dramatically through the commission, as it would meet these issues, and actually california came down and gave us a whole training on what it can do. it opened up a whole variety of issues that we could actually undertake and i think that the enthusiasm of the supervisors and the members really, what we are looking at with these studies and what we are looking at is a reflection of how excited the commissioner is

after they realized what their purview could be. i am -- as brian mentioned, we know we have had more -- the same budget for the last 10 years and our work has more than tripled in what we are doing, and also that mr. goebel is a consultant and we feel as though it is the only right thing to do to make this a regular position and bring it back as a position and give him the benefit that should be afforded to any employee that works with the city and county of san francisco go ahead, supervisor mandelman. >> that all makes sense. over the next month, i can hear a little bit more about some of the thinking behind it. this is adding additional staff positions and building it out and why it makes sense to do that through that company rather than controller studies or

b.l.a. studies or task forces and things like that. those would be the questions i have over the next few months. >> i would like to emphasize that it is an independent body. independent from the city and county of san francisco. i think that is, quite frankly, probably why it was formed. it is designed to be an independent body. we are commissioners, we don't sit there as representatives of the board of supervisors. >> i have reached out to you on your staff to offer a briefing and i'd be happy to sit down and discuss this with you. >> if anyone would like to serve on that commission, we would love to have you. i would like then to have this committee approved and all the

other items you have brought forward. are there any questions, supervisors, on the other items that the clerk has brought forth , meaning an increase of the positions for the youth commission also -- >> essentially in concept you would be authorizing providing the guidelines to move forward with providing you advice on what an appropriate class could be for both the youth commission staff, in addition to the c.i.o. in the department, in addition to the cola increase for the budget legislative analyst services and any additional work you would like us to perform on the group, which i heard outlined in your presentation. erme for the ad been stuffed. >> yes. >> thank you. just a quick question because i want to make sure i know how hard the office works and all

the components necessary to do a great job. everything you put in the presentation, that covers everything you thank you need moving forward next year. >> thank you. supervisor walton, the baseline that we would be bringing to you in february would have all of our needs in addition to the little bit of detail that we spoke about today and in february it would give you the opportunity to review that and that is what i would submit to the mayor and the controller for one we have our longer conversations in june for a second opportunity for you to cut and paste. thank you. >> i think today, what i would like to do is to approve -- to amend the budget guidelines to include the additional funding and to file the hearing.

>> could we please have public comment? are there any members of the public would like to comment on this item? public comment is now closed. shall i then make a motion to amend the guidelines for the board of supervisors' budget? >> i make a motion. do we vote on that? do we take it without objection? i would like to file it with -- as amended. do we have any other business before us today? >> there is no further business. >> okay. we are adjourned. thank you very much.

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. buying your first home is a big deal. for many of us, it's the single largest asset that we'll own. that's why it's really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. a typical question new homeowners ask is what is a

supplemental tax. so understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to a 2% growth peryear, but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we set a properties assessed value to market value. the difference in value between the previous owner's value and the new value is the supplemental assessment. how does the supplemental assessment translate to the tax you need to pay? supplemental tax is calculated by applying the tax rate to the value and then prorating it for the amount of time that you owned it in that tax year. in generale, the tax rate is roughly 1%. let's walk-through an example together. here dan is the original owner of a home with a prop 13 protected value of $400,000. with a tax rate of 1%, he pays $4,000. dan sells his home to jennie at

a market rate of $700,000. in this case, jennie's home will be reassessed to $700,000, and jennie is responsible for paying property taxes at that level from the time she first owns it. many times, people might have already paid their property taxes in full by the time they sell their home. in that case, dan has paid $4,000 in taxes already for the full year. jennie would likely payback dan through escrow for her share of the $4,000, depending on the proportion of the tax year she owns the home. however, she's also responsible for paying taxes at the higher market value from when she begins to own the home. how does that work? let's say jennie owns the property for nine months of the first tax year, which is approximately 75% of the year. during the escrow process, she'd pay dan back 75% of the $4,000 he already paid, which is $3,000. on top of that, she would owe taxes at the higher rate for

the proportion of the year she owned the house. in this case, she owes the amount not already billed through dan or $700,000 minus $400,000, multiplied by a tax rate of 1%, and multiplied again by 75% to reflect the time she owned the home in that tax year. here, jennie's supplemental tax is roughly $2,250. going forward, jennie will be billed at her new reset prop 13 value. are you still with us? if this isn't complicated enough, some new owners might receive two supplemental tax bills, and this has to do with the date that you transfer property. but before we get to that, you first need to understand two concepts. first, what is a fiscal year? in california, local government runs on a fiscal year. unlike the calendar year, where the year begins on january 1,

a fiscal year begins in the middle of the year, on july 1. property tax follows the fiscal year cycle. second, state law requires property be valued as of january 1 every year, in other words, new year's day. the value as of january 1 is used to calculate property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year. this means property value as of january 1, 2018 will be usedtor fiscal year 18 -- used for fiscal year 18-19 covering july 2018 through june 2019. similarly, the value of january 1, 2019 will be used for the fiscal year covering july 2019 through june 2020. now back to whether you should expect to receive one or two supplemental tax bills. the rule of thumb is that if the property transfers happens in the first half of the fiscal year, in other words between july and december, then you should expect only one

supplemental tax fill. if the transfer happens in the second half of the fiscal year or between january and june, you should expect two supplemental tax bills. here's the reason why. using dan and jennie's example again, dan's $400,000 value as of january 1 is used to set the tax bill for the following fiscal year beginning july through june of the next year. jennie buys the property from dan in october. the taxable value is reset to $700,000 as of october, but the bill issued still reflects dan's lower value. in this case, jennie would expect to receive one supplemental or catch-up bill to capture the difference between her assessed value and began's fr began's -- dan's from october through june. because of january 1 we already know of the sale, we would have used the following year to set jennie's property taxes and no other supplemental bill should be received. however, if dan sells the

property to jennie in march, instead, jennie should expect two supplemental bills. like before, jennie would receive one supplemental bill to cover the time in which she owned the home in the current tax year from march to june. but because as of the next january used to set the tax base for the following tax year, dan still owned the home, the following year's entire bill still reflects the values not updated for jennie. in this instance, jennie receives a second supplemental for the following year covering july through june. after the supplemental tax bills, new owners should receive only one regular tax bill peryear going forward. remember our office values the properties, but billing and collections are handled by another organization called the treasurer and tax collector's office. if you'd like to learn more, please visit our website at sfassessor.org. thank you for watching.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission.

i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents.

it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to

a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through

this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours,

that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the

look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself.

follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. >> good morning everyone. can you hear me? let's get this party started. before the sun goes away. good morning, everyone. thank you so much for being here with us on this exciting, groundbreaking. of course, you know, 20 years in the making. finally we are here, joined by community, our local representatives and leadership. as you know, for over 60 years, we have been at the forefront of providing community services, quality programs to our community from cradle to rocking chair.

this building here really is a testament to the history and the commitment that we have two this multigenerational community, starting as a head start program , them the house of mission girls, and now, transforming into housing for formerly homeless displaced seniors. [applause] thank you. yes. of course, this vision, this dream, this accomplishment, would not have been possible without the fearless leader, santiago. please let me welcome him. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. welcome and thank you all for joining us this morning. i would like to impose on you just for a few minutes, briefly. just to give some context to the comments that you will hear from

distinguished guests this morning that we will take to the podium, starting with the honorable mayor, who had a most beautiful inauguration yesterday very classy, ma'am. i am not saying it because i was there, i'm saying it because it was absolutely beautiful. that blue carpet, i have never seen it before. it has always been red. anyway, thank you very much, everyone. this site used to house one of our head start classrooms and we are providing -- we were providing services to 60 children, if i remember correctly. the site, over two decades ago, was put up for sale, and it basically, mission neighborhood programs were under threat for displacement. we were being evicted. we learned that it was being sold by the owner to none other

than pepsi co. corporation. pepsico was acquiring both lots, specifically for a taco bell franchise. when we learned of this fact. --, we were somewhat alarmed, not just because we are being displaced, but the economic impact, the negative and adverse economic impact it would have for the 24th street corridor considering the food establishments that are mostly family-owned in the area. so we opted to be bold about this issue and canvassed the 24 th street corridor and interviewed or polled residents, homeowners, tenants, business owners, and the consensus was unanimous feedback that we received that we need to remain on-site. so we rallied old friends,

friends of the community, neighborhood residents, and nancy pelosi, are tagged no and jim gonzalez, who, in a 90 day period, were able to generate a lot of help from the 24th street revitalization committee. i won't forget. they were able to identify $500,000 that we utilized as a down payment for the acquisition of these buildings. the idea was to make this a community asset, and it remained a community asset and it will remain -- it will continue to be a community asset as 45 seniors will be able to call this their new home. these are formerly displaced senior citizens. hopefully they will be senior citizens who are displaced from the mission and we will say -- [speaking spanish]

[cheers and applause] with this piece of history being shared with you, i want to acknowledge a couple of individuals before the mayor takes to the podium. and romero is with us today. and, thank you. the mere's office of housing and community development. kevin is also with us this morning. where is kevin at? did he leave? there you are if i am missing him, my apologies, but these are individuals that throughout the last 20 years were always by our side no matter what. one in particular that started a relationship with mission neighborhood centers is none other than barbara. i know she is here. where is she? [applause]

she held onto this project like there was no tomorrow and so we are creating and we are extending or bestowing her with what we call the endurance award thank you, barbara. you are always by our side no matter what. with that being said, i would like to introduce our illustrious mayor london breed. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. i am really excited to be here today. this is the sixth round breaking in the mission since i've been mayor and i am so excited. it amounts to over 600 new units in this community. and the reason why this is happening at this pace has everything to do with the advocacy of the people who are part of this community, starting way back in 2014 when roberto and others were marching the halls of city hall as we

prepared for the 2015 housing bond. in that housing bond, when the late mayor was our mayor, he committed to making sure not only that $50 million in that housing bond was set aside because of the gentrification and displacement of what was happening in the mission, he committed to making sure that we did a better job to pay close attention to this community and to not only build more affordable housing, but we worked side-by-side when i was on the board of supervisors to pass neighborhood preference legislation, so that when we build in this community, the people from this community have access to the affordable units in their community. i am so grateful that the work that we've done, not too long ago, is actually, finally being realized. this incredible project of 44 units for seniors and the

manager unit is just the tip of the iceberg. next month, we will be opening 94 units at shotwell, and those are all 100% affordable housing units. it is because, again, of this community and the work that continues to get done to make sure that we are getting those applications in, that you are at the forefront of these groundbreaking his and the community activities that happen around affordable housing. this is how we support and protect this neighborhood for generations to come. [applause] so i'm looking forward to even more because of this community and because of the voters of san francisco. together we passed a $600,000,000.40 will housing bond last year, the largest in our city's history, and we are hopeful -- [applause] -- that with the support of what

the 2015 housing bond has yielded and the 2019 housing bond with purchasing properties, we are breaking ground, we are building more housing, we are doing small sight acquisition to protect people in their housing, because when it's all said and done, we know that what has happened in our city over the last 20 years has everything to do with the fact that we have not built enough housing in the city for the people who live here and are struggling to live here. that is our commitment. we will work harder, and hopefully with new policies, we will work faster and get more units open sooner rather than later. i want to thank sam and mission neighborhood centers for their dedication to this community, not just was housing, but with programs, childcare centers, with everything that you do to look at the entire family and bring people together and

provide the wraparound supportive services needed. i want to thank mercy housing and doug schoemaker -- shoemaker for being here today and the work we are doing to make this possible. we are so looking forward to seeing the seniors move into this property and become part of the fabric of this amazing community. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you. i would like to introduce hilary ronen from district nine. she has been a long time community advocate for the mission district, formally an attorney fighting for immigrants and workers rights and serving six years as the chief of staff for david campos. supervisor ronen has demonstrated a strong commitment to the community she now represents and is wholeheartedly dedicated to addressing street homelessness in our district and ensuring public safety and all district nine neighborhoods, building more affordable housing , and protecting the culture and character of our

neighborhood. please help me welcome district nine supervisor. [applause]. >> good morning everyone. what an amazing way to start 2020. [cheers and applause] yesterday we got to go, and i agree with you and sam, to the beautiful, elegant inauguration of mayor breed and we got to celebrate the inauguration and now we get to break ground on 45 units of truly affordable housing for formerly homeless seniors. what a way to start the year. what i wanted to say is i wanted to thank santiago and think mayor breed for the history lesson because we have to understand our history to both learn from our mistakes and to know what we have to do in the future.

and what is another little piece of history about this exciting project is that it is the first 100% affordable housing complex built on -- [speaking spanish] -- that is what happens when i try to makes languages. since the 1980s. since the early 1980s. that is not acceptable. thank you to all the communities for making this happen again. the way that we protect this community is by having housing that the city subsidizes, that the government subsidizes, because we know that nobody but the ultra rich can afford to live in san francisco nowadays if we don't have affordable units. so it took 20 years to get this

going. that is way too long to state the obvious, but what all of these six projects that we have broken ground at at the mission, they all happens, they all started a long time ago, which means we need, right now, to be fighting for the projects that we will break ground on in this decades to come. so i am 100% dedicated. i know the mayor is 100% dedicated to it. i know this mission community is 100% dedicated to it. we will get it done, just like we did last time. thank you so much. this is very exciting and it's a pleasure to be here today. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor ronen. we have been working hand-in-hand to ensure that our

affordable housing vision for this corner, with an unwavering commitment to the cultural character of the neighborhood, becomes reality. mercy housing has been a great partner. with us today is doug shoemaker, president of mercy housing california, a leading provider of permanent homes and transformational services for vulnerable people. previously doug directed the mayor's office of housing in san francisco, the city's engine for financing and developing affordable housing. doug has 25 years of experience generating affordable homes and leading initiatives to expand housing access. please help me welcome mr. doug shoemaker. [applause] >> i don't think i wrote that bio. it sounds better than the bio usually use. i will go with that. i also want to add our thanks. it really is an honor to have been asked by sam and mission neighborhood centers to partner

with them. having started my career in the mission, i know the legacy that sam and maria and the rest of the organization have in this neighborhood. it really is an honor to be able to participate with you. we see ourselves as working in the service for the mission district. i really appreciate that, as to all of us. you are right, barbara has held onto this project. she has projects that she loves, some more than others, and this has been a labor of love for her for many years. you deserve a perseverance award as well because this project has not been the easiest one to move forward. there are lots of people who could -- have contributed to making sure we are here today and we are finally able to get going on creating some new housing. i would not be able to mention everyone who has been helpful. i do want to acknowledge a few people. i saw miguel earlier. he has met big supporter of this project. our neighbors and amy and a supervisor's office who has been very important. our colleagues at the mayor's office of housing.

i want to acknowledge our general contractor. these are not easy times, but this is a good time to be working on this project. [applause] the designs are beautiful. for that we have to think our great architects who are standing behind us. they are doing great work. [applause] we have a number of financial partners on this project. it costs money to build buildings, so the national equity fund are here, from silicon valley bank, as well. the mayor's office of housing provides critical financing. the city provides really important financing to make sure we can serve seniors that are formerly homeless. for that we want to thank the department of homelessness, as well as the department of public health. this project is unusual, and maybe some people don't realize

that along the way, as we are trying to scrape together enough money for this project, we had something that almost never happens to us is something called us up and said they wanted to give us some money for affordable housing. george and evan are here in the front. [applause] this project is the beneficiary of five million-dollar requests from the betty ferguson foundation. we were very lucky through steve , who is a long-term attorney that some of you know, he referred them to us and said they wanted to do something to help create more for the housing for seniors in the bay area. we knew exactly where to put the first bit of money for this project and we want to thank them and the betty ferguson foundation for that. thank you so much. [applause] i am almost done. there is a long list of other folks. i'm sure i will not mention everybody who has helped move this project forward. i want to say that it really is an honor. i hope that this building, as

beautiful as it looks on paper, when we're done, i hope we are around to celebrate. as roberto said to me earlier, we will do our best to make sure the folks moving in here are folks who have been moved out of this neighborhood, not there any choice of their own, but because of the incredible pressures that this city is under. it will be an amazing day when we reopen this building. we welcome back folks who have been living in the neighborhood who have been forced out. that will be one of the greatest pleasures that we will all have. i share your wish and i thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. last but not least, i would like to welcome eric. he is a founder and president of -- [speaking spanish] -- originally from nicaragua, he has called the mission district home since 1963. he has been a proactive community advocates since 1996

and an amazing community leader fighting for the preservation of latino culture district, and against the erasure of the latino community. please welcome eric. [applause] [speaking spanish] how is everyone? welcome to the cultural district this is our centrepiece, right in the center of the latino cultural district. we are very proud. i want to thank, of course,, mayor london breed and supervisor ronen. thank you for being here. sam, it has been a long time coming. it has been 20 years. we have seen several designs, several ideas. money was there than it wasn't there than it was back. you did it. you had a vision, you followed it, you have the community together -- community together to support it. we are very proud for that. we have been fighting for affordable housing for a lot of years in the neighborhood. we have reached out to about four or 5,000 people in the area

, finding out what their needs -- their needs are, and all we ever heard from the community was affordability, affordability, affordability, whether it is services in the area, and especially for housing here we are. we are providing that and we are very proud. thank you everyone. congratulations to the entire community because it will benefit us all. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all. i wanted to acknowledge two things. one, i wanted to acknowledge the board of directors that are here present with us today. without the support of our board of directors, this would be a lot more difficult and they have been with mission neighborhood centers, with sam and part of this vision throughout the

decade. if you could stand and be acknowledged, our board of directors. there we go. [applause] thank you so much for your support and your leadership. i also want to acknowledge someone who is here representing assembly member david chiu who surprised us with three certificates of recognition, one for mission neighborhood centers , one for mercy housing of california, and one for -- [speaking spanish] -- acknowledging today's great event. thank you so much. [applause] finally, i would like to welcome back up to the podium sam who will be giving us our closing remarks. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. i will try to be as brief as i can. i just need to be honest with you. this is a very -- very emotional

moment for me. bear with me, please. honestly, mayor breed, thank you for joining us this morning, as well as hillary. this project is basically none other than a team effort. i am glad that layla asked our board members to stand and be recognized. i am a blessed man. i consider myself a change agent , a community builder, and when you engage in that level of practice, it is very contagious. i tend to attract people who think the same and to behave the same and to do it out of love with passion. not because of the money, but because what it represents to

our community and to the future of our community. so it has been my board, year after year we questioned, one will this get built? it's not easy. sometimes i had to sweat it before a board meeting because i knew what the questions would be all i could say is bear with me, trust me, it will happen. it's happening now. it wasn't just the board who asked those questions and supported my efforts, it was also community. there wasn't a single moment when i did not receive any support when i called community for help. whether it was our illustrious neighbor, whether it was the mayor of the mission -- [applause] -- or eric, and then, of course, , you have individual professionals in this community who believe in what you do

because it is for the betterment of your community. so i want to say thank you and i want to ask a special friend whose name i just mentioned, to say a few words. a few closing words. i also want to acknowledge anthony. the number of times that i sought your support in designing this, you were there for us pro bono. thank you. that is appreciated. but now i would like to ask my good friend, and i have to let you know that he is also my friend. the mayor of the mission. excuse me, madame mayor, to say -- [laughter] -- to please come up and say a few words. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> it's days like this that i

feel like -- [speaking spanish] -- sam, come here, my brother. come here. you know what? to your board of directors, and defence of sam, what you did not know is that sam had a 2020 vision. he had a vision this would get built in 2020. so next time you go to a board meeting, don't question him, just let it roll. sam is the man and sam will get it done. [applause] thank you, brother. [applause] i was reflecting this morning and i just want to give a little history and a lesson. this place has been a center of change. at one point, and i saw george

simpson, where is george simpson at? this was the home for -- [speaking spanish] -- which was a drug rehab program. maria, please stand up. you were part of that. thank you very much. [speaking spanish] worked with people who at that time were on heroin. it's very hard to work with people who were on heroin. then you had horizons limited, which went through some changes, and thanks to sam again, he provided a home for transitional -- for transitions and horizons unlimited, another organization from our community. and then you had the 24th street merchants association. where is eric? sam, once again, he gave a home

to that space. and then he gave space when carnaval san francisco was going through transition. and mecca, and then mission grove. and. [speaking spanish] , anyone here from -- [speaking spanish] where are you at? thank you. sam, once again, he gave home to it. so this has been a transitional space for our community, which has a lot of history. it's kind of a bitter but sweet moment today. as i walked over here, because i only live two blocks down, i didn't have to drive or catch a cab or ride my bike or my low rider, you know, but it is, as i reflect back, you know, i honor you, brother. thank you so much. i know that he did call me a couple of times because some people weren't paying their rent

i won't mention which organizations, and sam was having a budget problem. >> i need you to make a phone call, and of course, i would call people up and say go pay sam. and they did. everybody paid their rent, right that is why the buildings are being built because everybody paid their rent. and the last thing i wanted to share is when he talked about the eviction they are going through, and he did call me, and at that time, we had 24th street revitalization committee which i was part of creating with others. and at that time, supervisor jim gonzalez was the chair of the committee. we did that on purpose because we wanted to hold him accountable to make sure he did some work as our supervisor. it was insane how we were not only able to get 500 thousand --

$500,000 for mission neighborhood centers, but it was a package that we got of $1 million for 24th street. we were able to abide not only this property, but we were able to buy brava, theatre, and mission housing was also able to buy a property across the street that was three properties we bought because we got creative with city funding within a short period of time. can it be done? yes, it can. we are the creators and we are the intellect. we are the thinkers of change. it takes everybody to work with us, and i'm glad we have our mayor here today who got sworn in yesterday, and that was sweet to hear santana. i look forward to working with you, to continue the work that we have been doing to build affordable housing so that we

can have justice for our community who has been displaced and evicted violently. gentrification in this neighborhood, more than any other neighborhood in san francisco. once again, congratulations mission neighborhood center and thank you, my brother. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible] >> thank you. for the record, i was able to spend some time with mayor brown on new year's eve and i acknowledge and thank him. he appreciated the reminder. thank you. thank you. with that being said, thank you, everyone, for joining us for this historic moment for our

community. we all appreciate it and we hope that when we start accessing those units for our senior community that you will come back and that you will see this dream become a reality. thank you very much everyone. have a good afternoon. thank you, mayor breed, and thank you, hillary. >> please join us for light refreshments and coffee right in here. >> are we ready? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] and our general contractor is going to clean it all up. >> this is critical work. [laughter]. >> yeah. you know what i'm talking about.

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>> good morning and welcome to lacasa. we are so honored to have so many community members here today. i am the deputy director here. this has been a very long journey to this moment today. i thank you all. we would not be here with each and every one of you. i have a lot of wonderful people speaking today and the amazing work that the organization does in the community. i would like to start by introducing our board president. michelle is the board president of casa d casa de las madres. as a member of the board for over 10 years she has helped guide us through the

unprecedented growth. as chair of finance committee she helped strengthen the position to creativity and passion for ending domestic violence in san francisco. i will hand it over to michelle. [applause] >> thank you for that lovely introduction. we are just thrilled today. this is such an exciting and special moment. i started volunteering about 15 years ago and joined the board 10 years ago. in year i was honored to be made the board president when our previous president retired. during my time with lacasa i have seen the organization grow and some impressive milestones. one thing that made me proud is the unparalleled ability for our organization to partner with service providers in san

francisco. today we stand together it is important to remember the work to end domestic violence is not done yet and not done alone. la casa spent many years to build relationships to ensure no survivor feels like that is nowhere to turn. many community partners are here today. we are proud to stand next to other amazing community service providers like the san francisco general hospital and u.c.s.f., the san francisco police department special victims unit, housing authority, human services authority, hamilton families th the count less other programs. your work is live saving. looking to the future on behalf of the board, we look forward to continuing to innovate and

evolve the expert network of systems to ensure no woman or child is forced to choose between safety and their health or home. now for the moment you are waiting for. i am introducing our mayor, mayor london breed. she is the first african-american woman mayor in the city's history. her priorities include the homelessness crisis, new shelter beds, expanding mental health, more housing and keeping the city streets clean and safe. please join me in welcoming the 45th mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you. thank you for your work and all members of the board and the staff and the people dedicated to this work. we appreciate everything that you do every day to provide a

safety net for those who often times feeling hopeless in the midst of the trauma and everything that they are dealing with. we know that this organization supports and welcomes people with open arms. we are so grateful for the work that you do every single day. what an incredible day it is today. i want to take this opportunity to recognize our interim attorney who has been at the forefront of supporting women and children for decades, dealing with challenges around domestic violence. we know the city handles over 3,000 cases every single year. 3,000 families or people that are impacted by domestic violence. we know that we want to make sure that not only are people held accountable who are victimizing people but the

survivors get support and resources they need. it is not just one department versus another. it is a partnership. working with the victims unit and the san francisco police department, the district attorney's office and so many amazing nonprofit organizations, including la casa is important. the work they do to help raise the money to support the organizations. i am proud of the work they have done to work with san francisco to allocate more resources because we know that this is hard work. we also know that often times many of the survivors end up working in this arena themselves from their experiences. we know that it can be so helpful to helping to change people's lives. you know, it is just -- i am looking at this building and

just this is your permanents home, cathy. i know this organization has moved around quite a bit, but has never lost the essence of who they are, a hot line to provide support to people, a drop in center, place of comfort and care for so many years, and now a permanent home. it means so much because when people are dealing with a situation and in the middle of the night or any other case, working with san francisco general and others, they will have this organization to depend on for years to come. we have this incredible program in san francisco. some of you know that i used to be the executive director of a nonprofit organization african-american art and culture complex, for someone who has run

a non-profit, they know how difficult it is to raise money and to make sure that you have a permanent home, to care of the home to buy the toilet paper and keep the lights on. there is a lot of work and resources that go to places like this, and the nonprofit sustainabilitynishsive is a resource that the city now provides to nonprofit organizations to help with support to purchase buildings like this so that some of our important nonprofits have a permanent home. they don't necessarily have to worry about the space that they are in and whether or not the lease is going to expire or the costs are going up for the space because there are so many other things that they are going to continue to need to raise money for. this nonprofit sustainabilities fund provided $1 million towards

the purchase of the building. i couldn't think of a better way to use this kind of fund than to support lacasa. i am grateful to be here today. i know so many of you here are people who have been working in this arena for so long, and this although it is challenging and it can be sad and emotional to see what we have done here today and to see how this is going to help turn lives around and to change lives for the better, it is absolutely amazing. you should feel good about the work you do and the role you played to making this possible. i am here to just see the place, of course, and to thank all of you for the work you continue to do and to especially commend cathy black and your team for

just -- cathy is standing over here to the side. come up here. today i want to do something special because of the work that you all do and you do it, you know, in such an amazing way every day without a desire to be recognized but you want the results, and i want the results. it makes for a better city for each and every one of us. it is casa d cass de la madres n san francisco. >> i want to thank the folks at the office of economic and work force development. thank you so much for your work in organizing and helping with

the loan documents. we know how challenging it is to get the city to move quickly and the people that we have in this offers really care about this work and they worked hand and hand to make this happen as quickly as we could. i am grateful to be here. ladies and gentlemen, the executive director of la casa, cathy black. >> next up we have our district attorney here to speak with us. she is a leading authority on crime prevention, experienced executive and led the police commission and served add general counsel of the california department of justice, also served as prosecutor and advocate for

survivors of domestic violence. we are honored to have her here today. she is a community advocate coo of center of youth wellness and in 2014 honored for her work to found and center, the nonprofit to heal children suffering from impact of violence. she served as president of police department from 2012 to 2017. the police commission provides the use of force policy and instituted body cameras to increase transparent and incommunity relations. she has improved police response to violence against women and children to make the streets safe. our work isn't possible without the work of people like susie

loftus. >> thank you. that was very kind. thank you, mayor breed for being here. what i want to offer to you is a story from my time as a courtroom prosecutor when i was prosecuting domestic violence because i think when we talk about what la casa means. i want to ground it in what this looks like. to law enforcement i can speak to today, it occurred to me when i got my first domestic violence cases they were not like other crimes i had prosecuted. what i was asking someone to do was picking up the phone and i was asking them to come in and testify against someone who they either loved at that moment or at one point loved or thought they loved, and my job was to

encourage them to come and testify against that person, to encourage them to come in and be cross-examined. we know what that looks like, right? what i needed most was to have someone who could addvo indicate for that survivor through -- advocate for the survivor. that is cathy black. that is all of you. it is not always the answer to domestic violence there is a prosecution. sometimes it is the answer. sometimes it leads to the stay away order to save a life, sometimes it leads to a program that an offender does that can change his life or future, let him reclaim his life and future. the partnership law enforcement has with lacasa is i often say safety is a team sport. we have learned lessons in san

francisco about how we actually build safety. it is in partnership and in service of shush fivesors and their strengths and resilience and we serve them. everything i know about domestic violence i learned from someone probably in this rumor cathy black. let us continue to learn from each other in service of this idea. there is an irish proverb that says it is in the shelter of each other that the people live. this is a shelter, this building, it is also a reminder that we are the shelter for survivors and people escaping violence and that when we lean into each other and solve problems in the way lacasa has modeled we build safety for the people that need it the most. i couldn't be more delighted to be here today and to

congratulate the city and city partners for coming together. this is a reminder of the best of who we are and the work that we have to do. congratulations to lacasa. [applause] >> we often say that we are only as strong as the community that supports us. we talk about bringing community into our work. often times our work is in confidential spaces. comemestic violence is challenge -- domestic challenge is scary and bat. we only solve this when we bring it out to the light. the next speaker is cassandra pogie. show brings this to the light every day. she is an employee at black rock and one of the strongest allies in the community. she addvo indicates for

survivors -- advocates for survivors. we are lucky to have her with us today. [applause] >> thank you. i am cassandra pogie. i am a survivor of domestic violence. i was in a relationship for two years. she was charming and created the illusion and he was good to me and i started to fall for him. as things became more serious he was jealous. he introduced intimidation and isolation. i was trapped with someone who used manipulation and violence to control my life every day. i became a shell of myself.

i was his captive. the abuse was constant happening all hours. i lost count of the slaps and the punches. there are nights that he would abuse me sexually. those were the darkest and loneliest days of my life. i was able to leave after one extremely bad beating. i don't remember how many times he punched me because i started to blackout. when he finally stopped, i was able to stagger to my bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and i knew if i did not leave he would kill me. so i ran out the door. as i was running down the street i didn't be know where i could be safe, but the la casa image

popped in my head. a few weeks earlier a colleague was doing a presentation. i looked for a second. i was running down the street. i stopped and hid in a dark corner of a garage and googled them. i found the emergency hot line number and gave them a call. not knowing what to say, all i was able to tell the woman on the other line was that i was just beat up, feared for my life and i needed somewhere safe to stay. she gave me instructions to an indisclosed shel shelter where e would not be able to find me for the night. the comfort and security that night is invaluable i will nerve be able to put it in word. i will never forget the feeling i had laying in a bed that night. a feeling that i haven't had in over the past year. the feeling of safety.

but what they did for me did not end that night. they provided legal council to file for a civil restraining order, made sure to keep in contact with me as i got on my feet. one of the advo cats attended every court date to make sure i was not alone. i faced my abusers. in each trial the following year. i cannot change my past. i can only learn and share my experiences and hope to just save one other person from a similar story. abuse thrives in silence. i could not be more proud that we are here today to bring a voice to the social injustice that holds so many in darkness. fortunately for us in san francisco bay area, lacasa is a

bright light in the darkness. this beautiful new home is a bright light. thank you la casa for saving lives and thank you for saving my life. [applause] >> next up we have a woman who needs no introduction. here we go. cathy is the executive director and she joined la casa in i is . she has met the needs as they have evolved and globe. grown. three increased number of services by 300%. she is on oversight panels and worked to bring the gaps and service and champion domestic

violence with policymaking bodies throughout the city. she brings a wealth of program and strategic experience to la casa. each day hundreds are made safer because of her leadership. as someone who has been here through the process of the moving into this building, we really cathy did it almost entirely herself. it was amazing to watch and wish i could be more helpful. we are lucky to have your leadership at this organization. i think you touched the lives not only the survivors in the city but the people in the room individually. without further ado, kathy black. [applause] >> thanthank you, mayor breed, d welcome everybody here with us today. i was telling somebody earlier

that i was nervous and fearful. then i listened to cas cassandrd realized the real fear. it puts it in perspective. it is easy to stand in front of you now. i get the best part of this event today. everybody said such wonderful things about la casa and how it has touched so many people. i get to say thank you. almost without -- well maybe not media but some of the media people have played a role in bringing la casa to where we are today. when i joined la casa in i in 1e

are omission street. on the mission street. we weren't offered the opportunity to stay. we moved to a loading dock that was in the back of the old electrical workers apprenticeship building. we were hidden in the back on the loading dock. we fixed it up and were there for a period of time until they moved in next door. they weren't the ideal neighbor. they thought they were. we definitely sudden lie a light was shown in a way that made it scary for the employees and the victims and survivors to get help. we moved to the old ben davis factory at 1663 mission street. our lease was coming up and they didn't want to renew the lease.

we knew we needed more space because we were providing more and more services, and there seemed to be an unending demand for what we had to offer. you know, there was a crazy journey to end up with this building. we ended up getting the second time i applied to the nonprofit sustainability fund. first time i couldn't get the owner to sign the purchase agreement, but i submitted the application in hopes i could convince him before the decision was made. luckily, after a little bit of time he came around and he was offering it for lease. a payment we would not be able to afford. $14,000 more than our mortgage loan for this. keeping good financial, being

frugal, i said, no, buys is better. we were able to convince the owner to sell it to us, and we applied to the non-profit sustainability fund. it is an awesome opportunity, and i tell other non-profits when they say we don't have any office space, i tell them, you have to check out this program because it is a great deal. you know, it keeps nonprofits like la casa from moving further out of the hub of where we are needed most, right? we are in a neighborhood where we are accessible, people can come here, get services in a safe way, and we are able to -- we call it hub and spoke model in the center of the partnership

with the police department, with the general hospital and the rise program, rally family visitation program, one of our founders, we are close to hsa for the program, the mary elizabeth inn which provides 157 housing units. we do case management there. it is unending amount of work that we are able to provide. this is the most amazing spot to do it. i didn't write any of these words down. this is me talking. there are some, you know, one of the things that happen is we rallied a community of al lies, and a lot of them are here today, including the mayor's office, oewd.

and every time i see them at something it makes me smile. i feel good about it. they were supportive of me. i sent many times weeping thinking this would not happen and the lease was coming up. the department on status of women, emily and carol and staff members are here. without support we wouldn't be doing what we are doing. the giants' community fund, 49ers foundation, georgia sandy and cameron foundations, businesses like back rock are just awesome. cb os, prc across the street is collaborating and helping us move in and get situated. then the individuals that have

shown up and supported our work is amazing. it is because you are with us on the mission. receiving this $1 million grant gave us a boost that we needed and inspired other people in a way that has just been such a surprise. i mean people just call up and say can i come over? we want to make a donation. not that we -- i mean it is hard to raise money for programs like this. this year has been a change. i think people see us as a force to be reckoned with. i am not going to read this gigantic printed words but i feel my message today is that we

are here and we are available and if you know anybody who needs our help, please send them to us or collaborate with us. we want to be good partners. i owe everyone here a debt of gratitude, board members, employees, volunteers, and it all comes together to make this happen. with that we are looking forward to 2020 and thank you all very much. (applause). >> i am going to invite everybody up for the ribbon-cutting. this is most excite being. they have these awesome scisso scissors. (laughter).

>> five, four, three, two, one. there we go. [applause] as latinos we are unified in

some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top,

candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do

something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii

or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we firstrted a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like

that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade

visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to

approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. the common

>> i would like to call the commission to order. i'll take the roll. [roll call] the second item on -- hello, everybody and welcome. the second item is the approval of the december 17, 2019 minutes. >> you have the minutes before you. i would like a motion to adopt these minutes. >> so moved >> is there a second? >> second. >> comments or questions from the commission? all those in favor say aye. >> aye >> thank you. there is no public comment for that item.