>> this the february 12, rescheduled meeting of the

budget committee. i'd like to thank mr. cooley and miss mendoza for broadcasting this meeting. can i have a motion to ec accuse supervisors xi and mandelman. we can take that without objection. madam clerk? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices and copies of the documents should be submitted to the clerk. >> madam clerk, can you please call the items? >> yes, i'd number one, hearing to consider the annual review and adop adoption and proposed t from 2021-2022 for office of the clerk of the board.

>> we have our clerk, miss angela. >> members of the committee, chair and clerk of the board, herlast week, as you were contemplating our department's budget, there were two outstanding budgets we were to bring to you with the answers having to do with the support to the youth commission and the classification for the aid. subsequently, the question regarding the classification for the force aid has been withdrawn and so today, we will just bring information regarding youth commission. >> thank you. >> so on this slide, the next slide, the youth commission staff have been making efforts and engaging youth in schools with limited resources.

here you'll see that more resources would help with their outreach efforts. junko has been engaging with the stafthestaff to have them brings to us. as you recall, the charter does not allow compensation for the youth commissioners. so in conjunction with the city attorney's office, we looked at a couple additional resources that would not violate the spirit of the charter and so, we have for you on this slide a couple of items for resources that would assist in bringing more served communities to the commission and by utilizing digital resources and collaborating with other youth-serving organizations, the youth commission could recommend an additional 5,700 and boost

their outreach efforts for things like town hall events, printed materials, advertising and promotional items. and as far as compensation is concerned, as i said, the charter is clear and we cannot provide compensation or reimbursement. however, there are other ideas. for example, providing meals for their commission meetings and committee meetings and it's one way to incentivize commissioners to attend meetings. they typically start at 5:00 a.m. and last an hour and a hal5:00 p.m. and last an hour aa half to two hours. that's the average of time and we're looking, perhaps at an additional 750. commissioners expressed and in attending training and conferences to expend knowledge and assist with development as youth leaders. a potential 7,000 is what they're requesting. lastly, youth's commission staff

believe they're providing a small budget for three issues based committees to host own events to fulfill their charter mandated duties in a more impactful way and they're looking at 4,950 and if all items were approved, it could increase the youth commission's budget by 21,400 in fiscal year 2021. i have to say that were many other items that the youth commission is requesting. however, we only brought forward those issues that pertained to the supervisor's question. the next slide provides the budget request which i just discussed a moment ago and you can see the total that we're providing is at 13,851 --

$35,000.251 for the proposed amount and if we go to the next slide, that does talk about overtime pay. i had an inquiry from the member of the board who was curious about overtime pay for the administrative assistants and i wanted to put that information upfront. titen administrative assistants are on board and have clocked in. and on average, they're working 7.92 hours of overtime per aid, per pay period. so there's other detail there, but just wan wanted to put that. some administrative assistants are being paid overtime pay.

while others are earning compensatory time. one has actually reached the fiscal year cap and so there is the blend that's occurring and the union rules allow for that to occur. it's 120 hours. so if there aren't any questions about those two items, we'll talk about the summary of proposed changes and moving on to slide 6, if all the changes are approved in the department's expenditure budget, it would increase by 810,000. after discussion and public comment, if the committee desires to authorize this proposed budget to be submitted to the mayor and the controller, the action should be to move forward the budget to the mayor and controller. of course, in june, i'll be back to provide any details that might have changed between now

and june and to certainty review all of this information with you once again. we're available for questioning. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you. i just wanted to say that i am 100% in support of the increases for the youth commission. of course, i wish that we were able to compensate our young people for all of the th hours d time they put in. knowing that our youth commissioners take this work seriously and how much time they spend but i do appreciate you working with the city attorney's office in trying to figure out the things we can do to help support their work and so i do support that and i support the resources putting youth commission in the position to be able to market and advertise the things that they do and make

sure we can get more folks on board or more diverse pools. so thank you so much. >> ok, thank you. supervisor mamd elmam. >> thank you for the presentation and for your creative solutions and challenges we present. i do think as we go forward towards this 2020-2021 budget, in which we'll be hauling department heads in here and asking them about their overtime budgets and asking them to think about how they can get a handle on their overtime, that this board of supervisors needs to spend a little bit of time thinking about how we're using our overtime budget and thinking through, you know, what sor whas acceptable and what limits. because right now we have none. we're putting a budget in, but what happens if we blow through

our overtime budget? >> at that point, i would like to my salary line and any funding in the salary line, it won't be auto losed t utilized r costs. >> at some point you would have to come to us for supplemental in overtime. i think just if this is many of us are using significant overtime in our offices, we think of what kind of box to put that in. >> currently, supervisor, overtime or comp-time should be utilized if the employee has asked the supervisor or manager in this case or any case in our department in advance to tang te that overtime and comp time. >> absolutely, but that doesn't set -- you mean, we have infinite work. >> true. >> if we had a happy admin who wanted to work 80 hours a week,

and would be happy earning that additional overtime and my constituents would be completely having that additional 40 hours of constituent response, there's no -- from the perspective of an individual supervisor, there's no reason why not to just completely, you know, respond to the constituents and spend as much as you can doing it. so i do think that it's a little bit of a tragedy of the common situation or something and we should think about, ok -- >> happy to work with you on that. >> i think supervisor mandlenam brings up a good point where we add staff to city departments. we would hope that the effect would be they would be reduced overtime. and i mean, i think that this committee has themselves condemned, certain departments saying we have increased your fte account and we've given you

more and now we see there's more overtime, so it seems as though we should sort of abide by our own philosophy, which is that now that we have more help, it seems as though it would be -- it's a little, i think, hypocritical to say than we would use more overtime. and so, anyway, just wanted to also say that i am in support of the increase for the youth commission and i hope that with your ability to advertise, that we would actually bring in more youth commissioners that are from our public schools, from our housing projects, from some communities that have not been represented in the past and the youth commission. and fully in support of that and i believe, i would like to be

given an opportunity right now for mr. o'donnel miss o'donnellp and make a statement from supervisor hainey's office. >> thank you, chair and members of the committee. i'm courtney mcdonald. i am here today to make you aware of a request that we have for the budget for the clerk of the board and the board of supervisors and we recognise this is coming late in the process, but i did want to do our due diligence and make sure you're aware. as you probably though, last week, supervisors hainey, mar, ronan and preston asking that the clerk of the board for a competitive bidding process for a special investigator to conduct a really detailed review and recommendations for internal control of an oversight for departments that are susceptible to fraud. and we're very supportive of the

investigation and auditing that the controller and the city attorney's are doing and we really, really look forward to working with them and we also think it's really critical that the board exercise its role and authority to exercise the power of inquiry and request that these investigations being conducted. so with that said, because this proposal is really one that's in process with the news of the federal investigation coming relatively recently, so i want to recognise that the scope of what we're proposing is still very much in process and the board has not yet voted to move forward with the motion, but we hope that the board does and our reference would be to add a line item for $300,000, which is the estimate that the bla has helped us to come up with and what it would cost to conduct an

investigation of this scope and we also recognise that you're moving forward with a proposal today and that that might be added or considered later on in the budget process. but again, just wanted to make sure that you are aware of the requests and if you were open to it to move it forward today. happy to talk any questions. >> so miss mcdonald, this proposal has not been voted on by the full board, has it? >> that's right, it has not. >> so i'm going to just make a suggestion that we would consider this, i think, at the full budget and when it is once passed by the full board and that we know that it has been a mandate by the full board. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. this opens up for public comment. any members like to comment on this item? come on up now.

public comment is now closed. >> no, no, i was just checking. so i know around 1993, there was a youth commission and one of the things this board has not done chro chron logically evalue the youth commission. we have to give them credit with this and mix this with matt hainey. this city should be ashamed of themselves, that the fbi, a federal agency had to come in and teach all of us, all of us that we have to checks and balances. and so we have a sunshine task

force that totally doesn't work. the ethic's commission totally doesn't work and the controller's office has a gun to their head with people telling him what to do and what not to do. since 2014, i won't do the research and tell you the city attorney hasn't been doing their job and so, corruption in this city and county of san francisco has reached a saturation point, where millions and millions and millions of dollars are wasted. and you know, when the youth commission needs something like a couple of thousand dollars oh, you know, this and you know that. they should have, like, a million dollars. you are the future. we need the money. without the money, you can't have the honey. so i'm saying you all don't do due diligence. do due diligence and be educated

on issues and have your natter n the right place. thank you very much. any other public comments. >> hello again. i just want to say thank you for this potential increase the budget. we take this really seriously around what you're saying around outreach and we noticed a difference around not getting public school students or other marginalized young people to have their voices at the table and so we think that with this increase that we can do some due diligence and hopefully expand the types and identities we have and we're excited to move forward with this if you all approve it and we hope to see this come to fruition when we look at our upcoming terms. and also, just want to say that we are in the very, very beginning process of figuring out how to do a long-term campaign about changing the charter to see if we can actually change the charter to get stipends for our commissioners because we know

how hard they're working and deserve to be paid for the labor they're doing. >> thank you very much. no other public comments, public comments now closed. madam clerk, do we file this or move it to the full board? >> i believe the appropriate action would be to move forward this draft budget to the controller and the mayor's office as presented by the clerk of the board and also to file this hearing. >> i make a motion to do both those things and we could take that without objection, thank you. any other business? >> no further business. >> this meeting a adjourned. is-

>> our united states is- constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the

federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. >> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the yunited states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do

the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under

counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender.

>> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. >> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪ ♪

♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really

made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought.

they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and

learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on

communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and

reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is

that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome.

oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. >> welcome. thank you all for being here. it's just a wonderful, joyous occasion to celebrate such an important accomplishment. and without any further adieu, i would ask you to join me in welcoming to the dais our mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you, thank you don. well, first of all i'm really excited to be here today. i remember when i was campaigning to be supervisor of this district, one of the things that i made a priority when i got elected was to focus our attention on rehabilitating public housing in this city.

and we've set out on a journey and i've gotta tell you that it was not easy. some of you know that i grew up across the street in plaza east before they were what they are now, when they were similar to the pink palace. which is now called rosa park apartments. the conditions that existed there, we all remember, we never had showers. we had problems with roaches and rodents. we had mold. we had just the kinds of conditions that no one should ever have to live in. and, sadly, you know, i mean, it was a community and i loved my community and i appreciated what my grandmother tried to do and so many of the other people who disciplined me and raised me and helped me through, yes, i love you too, randall. and the fact is -- the fact is that because this community took care of me and took care of my family, and i knew as supervisor that these conditions still

existed in so many of our public housing developments that there was nothing that was going to be more important to me than trying to do something different to get the work done for the people who live here. [applause] so we set out on a mission. and it was scary. you know, joyce remembers when we went around and we did all of these meetings with people. and here's the thing -- we talked about r.a.d. and what it would do, and of course, people were very fearful. they were like am i going to bit displaced? is something going to happen? what's going to happen? and, sadly, we had a bunch of people who never set foot in any public housing development come in and try to invoke a lot of fear amongst the residents. and let me tell you, i appreciate the fact that you all

trusted me. and that you were all patient with us as we went through this process. because it was important that we developed a new funding source in order to pay for what we know were so many problems in these developments. the housing authority would get about $12 million maybe from the federal government to help with maintenance. and they had over $200 million in deferred maintenance. how were we going to make any change? and so that's why this program, when lee was our mayor, when olson lee was a director of the housing, and i was your supervisor, we aggressively pushed this program forward. and now here we are -- not only celebrating the completion of --

i know what was probably a challenging time for all of you, the renovation of over 200 units here at rosa parks, but so far over 3,600 units throughout san francisco of public housing. [applause] it is so amazing and i see a lot of the folks who live here that are here today. i'm so happy for you. and i'm so grateful to you for trusting us, for your patience, because i also know that it was very challenging to go through this renovation process. we know that that can be difficult. but i really want to thank the partners that we have and you will hear from some of them today. tndc, thank you so much, don, who is here with us and your team at tndc, for your understanding and your sensitivity to the fact that we have people who are seniors, who

live here on fixed incomes. we have people who have disabilities. we have people who work here every single day and being considerate towards the folks who occupy this space on a daily basis. and thank you to many of you may know bethel. a partner in providing and working with the community to help with affordable housing. pastor shaw isn't here with us today but we will have someone speak on his behalf. and, again, thank you to this incredible community. the mayor's office of housing. dan adams is here as the acting director. so many people worked so hard. and we wouldn't be able to do this without the appropriate financing and so thank you so much to bank of america for continuing to work on all of these incredible r.a.d. projects. it's like we're like the dynamic duo when it comes to getting this work done and we appreciate the partnership that comes from bank of america. so here we are on an amazing

day, celebrating an amazing milestone for san francisco. and i am reminded of, you know, because ed and i worked together closely and i'm grateful to him for working with me to make public housing a priority. he knew how important it was to me but also truly important to him. and one of the things that he said on a regular basis is that it's not -- it can't just be about making new promises. it has to be about fulfilling old promises. this community has been promised so much over the years and now today is a great example of a promise fulfilled. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you so much, mayor breed. this truly is a fulfillment of a vision and it's hard to

understand or recollect eight years ago what was in your mind and mayor lee's mind and to see this come to life is really amazing. so please next join me in welcoming sister stephanie. [applause] >> good morning. thank you mayor london breed for coming. my name is sister stephanie hughes and i wanted to take a minute just to share a little bit about myself and what this build in the community means to me. i was born and raised in san francisco. and i grew up here and i knew this area but the pink palace, but i dared not come over here. i was so afraid of the space. my mom was like, she was killed if we would come over here.

it had such a bad reputation and so much danger and so many things happening in the community that were just traumatizing if i shared it with you. but i moved to bayview when i was 18 where i raised my five amazing children. nine years ago i had the opportunity to and back to the western edition. and when i moved into this place i actually got a little scared because it was so quiet. i used to walk down the hallways and literally i was so not used to the quietness, it scared me. and me and my mom we would laugh when we were walking down the hallway. we both going, somebody behind -- you know, teasing each other about it, because it's so different from what we knew growing up in the community. but i love this community.

i love my community family. i call them all family. my asian family and my russian family, and my rosa parks family. my neighbors call me sometimes and try to speak to me. and i don't even know the language and it's just funny. but somehow some kind of way we still communicate. we still communicate because there's so much love. you know, amongst us. and the staff here have been very supportive, we do an array of programs here. i do field trips, barbecues, and art therapy with the families here. and they -- the staff has just been amazing and the tennis association has been amazing and very, very supportive. and trying to provide things to bring us together as one family and loving and nurturing one

another. since the renovation, i love my space. so i'm now in a two bedroom. when i moved here i was in a one bedroom. and me and my son, and my dog, keeva, can't leave her out. so now we're in a bigger space. and i'm just enjoying it. i am right there so i can see the courtyard, on the second floor and i can yell out of my window, hey, what are you doing today. hey, come here. you know, i can holler out your name and, you know, i love it. i love being able to see what is going on over here at the center and the parking lot. you know, i don't have to come outside and i can get sunshine ancoming into my apartment. and then i can walk my dogs. it's easier for me because i can go down the stairwell and i'm right by the stairwell, a couple doors from it, and i love it.

but i'm a little nervous, you guys, i don't know why. but i am. so let me finish. for one thing that i do like the about the renovated spaces though is that i like the way they did our cabinets. i like that the curtains are gone. because that was costly to have to take your curtains to the washroom for me. but it's nice and it's neat. the shades that we have now, it's nice and neat and all you have to do is just dust them off a bit. but what this space means to me is more than about cabinets and courtyards and my dog. it's about safety. my safety, the safety of my community, and the safety of my sons who come to visit me. my children of color who visit their mom. it's not easy finding a space where you can feel safe with

your young men of color in the city. but here in this particular community, my children can come visit me and i am very happy that they feel safe and i feel safe allowing them to be able to come to see me. and for that i am very grateful. so thank you all on behalf of the residents and the tenants' association of rosa parks and thank you for making this all possible. [applause] >> thank you, sister stephanie. reverend shaw was unable to be here this morning because he was called out of town. and he is the pastor of bethel church.

so here to speak on behalf of reverend shaw and the church, please welcome mr. bobby sisk. [applause] >> i was given a 24-hour notice, so i won't be long with you. madam mayor, thank you for being here and to our partners, thank you. and to each of you and certainly to the residents. the bethel church has a 167-year history in this city. 47 years ago they sponsored and built freedom west. nearly 400 units that are situated around the church. once that became 97% occupancy, the church moved out and the board of directors took over. but bethel didn't stop there. it went on to buy several other affordable housing properties in this city. when this whole notion came with

the san francisco housing authority selling off its inventory, our church became very concerned as to what would happen to persons, particularly in this community. we needed to find someone who would listen to us and have an appreciation that we're a faith-based organization. we're interested in people. we're interested in people having safe and affordable housing. although we own several buildings our mission is clear, that we want safe affordable housing. so speaking the others at the neighborhood development community, i always get that wrong -- but, anyway -- we decided that we would forge a relationshidw would do two properties together. so kennedy and the rosa park. we are delighted to have that relationship, that friendship,

that allows us to have a say as to what is happening in this community with respect to affordable housing. reverend shaw is about two years new to the san francisco bay area. prior to him being assigned, we had a pastor by the name of reverend jay egabor who was here for 22 years and was very instrumental in our housing portfolio. i believe that if reverend shaw was here today he would be overwhelmed by seeing a sea of individuals that are here, seeing this beautiful building, knowing that millions and millions of dollars were spent to get it to this level. and all of you that are here today. i want to thank you for letting us to be partners in this venture and say to you that anything that we can do, we are just situated there on the corner of golden gate, and we are here to serve, we are here to do all that we can to see that particularly division

affordable housing is a priority in this city. thank you. thank you for this opportunity. [applause] >> thank you so much, mr. sisk. bank of america has been a partner not only here at rosa parks apartments and throughout much of the public housing reenvisioning that mayor breed referenced that has been a long-time partner in many different projects. please welcome joy mccarthy. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. thank you for having me today and it's such a privilege and an honor to be here. the mayor and i have done some of these grand openings together and i will tell you that her passion runs deep. she doesn't miss a grand opening and that's a true commitment to the work that we started, but that she continues to carry out on a daily basis. so, again, bank of america, you have heard that has financed a

lot of these projects and it's called s.f. ready. and i -- rad. and i want to make you understand that $2.2 billion is the number that bank of america committed to and it's only out of $4 billion nationally. so san francisco is a very important part of what bank of america stands for. and they started in 1904 and financed projects like the golden gate bridge, the bay bridge, the ferry building and our commitment to san francisco has never been stronger. so this is our purpose. our purpose is to help, where help is needed, and whether asked by our city to step up, we make sure that we find the resources to do it. i see smiles on faces today and we know that no matter what we do to build a building, it doesn't matter except if it matters to the people who are in it. and i'm so happy that so many of you are here today. what it means is the relocation happened for a good reason. like, you were able to come

back. i know that there's gardens and i know that there's extra spaces and i think that i saw an elliptical machine over there. this is a place that you can call home. it's safe. it's for you. and we are so happy that it happened. pretty much on schedule. i think that it was mostly on schedule. but, again, it is a wonderful project and there are 29 of them in the city and we're so happy to keep doing this time and time again to make sure that folks have the resources they need, but, more importantly, to have a community they can depend upon. i heard your words when you say said that it's safe to come home and maybe it's not quiet but that it's peaceful and you and your dog can have a great time here and meeting other people in the community. it's meaningful to us. bank of america really tries so hard to make sure that we are part of everyday life in community of san francisco, helping those who need it most but we want to continue to reach out and to continue to work hard on the projects that are yet to come. we know that we can provide

financing but we know what we can't do and we have amazing community partners. so when we reached out to don and emily, we reached out to so many people to help us with things that we maybe are not thinking about when the financing came to be and we were so lucky to make sure that our community partners worked with us in lock step to make sure that this happened. so thank you again. we're so happy to be here today. i can't wait to keep touring the buildings and i look forward to our next project. thank you again. [applause] >> it's hard to convey the complexity, and the difficulty and the number of problems involved in undertaking a project this vast. and in these kinds of projects, one person is at the center of all of it and that is the project manager. i hope that people will give a warm welcome to emily van loom.

[applause] >> thank you all for being here to celebrate the rededication of rosa parks. i've had the pleasure of seeing this building through construction from 2016 to today. you know that there's a long list of folks who contributed to the success of this project and we couldn't have done it without you. there's a couple of organizations that i'd like to call out for their invaluable efforts here. the mayor's office of housing and community development, as well as the san francisco housing authority. hud as well as bachtio bank of . and our partners at bethel a and e. our contractor kay hill. los angeles as our architect, leevy design partners and the residents here at rosa parks. these folks were here every step of the way and they were great teammates. i also can't pass up the

opportunity to thank my colleagues at tndz, past and present, for their hard work here. thanks for your support. your advice. and for trusting me to get this job done. i'd like to focus on a couple of the big successes that we've experienced here at rosa parks. all of which you should check out today. first is the webster street people's garden which was added to the plans during construction and paid for out of savings. it produces 100-pounds of food every two weeks and it is home to the only greenhouse which provides plant starts to all of our nine gardens and farms. [applause] yeah. rosa parks also has a fitness center that was upgraded during construction with help from residents and we chose fitness equipment that works for seniors here, including a treadmill that operates at lower speeds and the

seated arm cycle that is perfect for folks in wheelchairs. and there were also a few traces of rosa park's past that were softened during construction. we have redesigned the entry lobby and reception desk, removing floor to ceiling security glass and creating a warmer space to welcome our residents home. and as don mentioned, an occupied rehab can be really be difficult on residents. we have an active construction site here for 24 months with 50 units under construction at any given time. this was a really big project. and there's a certain amount of noise, dust and stress that can't be avoided during a project like this. but despite this, the team here at rosa parks worked really hard to minimize the impacts on our tenants. my favorite example of this was when kay hill installed doorbells at each end of the long hallway under construction

so that our residents could signal when they needed to pass through to get to and from their homes. it was creative and it kept everyone safe. and it also provided some laughs when residents ding dong ditched our contractors from time to time. [laughter] it was it was a great pleasure to work with the residents here at rosa parks. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, emily. i want to take the opportunity to share just a few closing remarks. and i want to start by asking all of those who live here at rosa parks, the tenants here's, please raise your hands if you live at rosa parks. would you raise your hands. yeah. [applause] so we entered your homes.

and i want to thank you for being so gracious and so helpful and for suffering the way that people suffer when you're undergoing a renovation. you are truly our partners and we could not have done this without you. i wanted to do another raise of hands as well. if you participated in the development in any way, if you touched rosa parks between 2016 and now, will you raise your hand for people. can i ask all of the people who worked on the project to raise your hands? right on. so thank you. [applause] so it's just really important for me to recognize explicitly that it plays a role and we are only one of many. these developments do not happen but for an entire community of people who are working together to achieve a vision. and in many ways these events

that we do to celebrate are events of gratitude. so i want to thank you all who worked on bringing this to fruition for your efforts. and then i guess that i want to also reflect that dndz in many ways we're not only guests here in your homes but we are guests here in the western edition in rosa parks all together. and i'm just so grateful for the way not only that bethel and the entire community here has welcomed tndz to be a part of bringing our competencies and our resources in order to make something good happen. and for me that is what i see as part of the role. we are a part of a much larger important ecology to make the city and county of san francisco better for the people who live here and i'm just so grateful for the opportunity to play that role. finally, i want to invit