public comment. >> chair fewer: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: we'll file this and bring it back when we're ready to take action. is there any further business before this commission? seeing none, we are adjourned.

>> it is a little warm for the mayor. welcome, please come closer, my friends. i know we are going to get this started. thank you so much. thank you so much. friends, colleagues, stakeholders, summer has started. it is always summer in in in th. this is a historic signing

ceremony. welcome to the signing for the right to return legislation authored by our leader and i present to you mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you. it is so great to be here. i am so really excited about this legislation. i was happy to partner with supervisor walton on trying to put forth the policy we know was desperately needed, not just now but 20, 30 years ago because i can't help but think about my own experience and my mother lived here with my sister as at 1829 35th street. i used to spend a lot of time here. my experience in living with

plaza east and the challenges that happened when people who were born and raised in oc and in potrero hill, the challenges that occur when you want to come home. promises made, meetings. community input. all of a sudden the housing authority is looking at maybe your back rent or your grandisonian his criminal history or some other things where they put up roadblocks and bear yours to allow -- barriers. it is a new day in san francisco where we don't just try to tell the community what we are going to do and do what we want to do anyway. we are working with the community to ensure we support and keep the community intact. that is what this right to return legislation is all about. when we think about even the

decline of the african-american population in san francisco, there were a lot of african-american families living in public housing. my grandmother came from texas, my grandfather worked in the shipyard. access to housing came through public housing. public housing was my community. they are the people that raised me when we didn't have daycares. when we didn't have places to play. we had the kids in the community. something has changed. people that used to be here are no longer here. it is time to change that. it is time as we move forward with rehabilitation of public housing that as we develop new properties that we are not doing it for the people who we anticipate are coming here, that we are doing it for the people who are already here andy serve to live in better conditions.

today is a glorious day. i don't want to go over. some of the challenges of the conditions that exist i am excited the city is doing what it should have done a long time ago. it could have prevented a lot of things from happening in the first place. here we are signing legislation that provides the security that people need to know that when we come into a community and say we are going to work with you and then you have a new unit and trust us, well, now here is the legislation to ensure that no matter who is the elected official, no matter who is running the particular department this legislation is about ensuring the safety of the residents and their rights to be part of the communities that they are born and raised in.

i am really excited to be here today where we know it is always sunny and the views are always nice, but it is time that we do a lot more to bring attention and resources and support to this community. this legislation is just a small piece i think of hope to ensure the safety of this community and others including sunnydale, hunters point, places we are starting to revamp. we want to make sure we don't make the same mistake we did with plaza east and fillmore. we can't do things the same way and expect different results. if i could pass legislation that would allow everybody displaced out of san francisco to come back from the past, that is something i want to work on.

it has been tough. that is something i would love to be able to do. in the meantime this along with neighborhood preference and some of the other things in place they are going to be meaningful and now it is up to the community to make sure that we are doing everything we can to communicate to other people the laws that are going to help ensure access to opportunity for a community that traditionally has not been supported the way it should have in san francisco. i thank you for being here for the signing ceremony. the legislation is intact. it is important to be here for the ceremonial signing in so people are aware this is important to us and it is going to lead to some incredible results for the future of residents of public housing all over san francisco. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, madam mayor. smartest woman in the building.

getting in the shade. as mayor breed mentioned this could not have happened without our fearless leader. i bring you our supervisor walton. >> good afternoon. it is always a pleasure to be home. this is just a wonderful feeling today as i had a chance to walk into this and i used to attends here illegally. my aunt was director at the time. we named the infant child center after her. when my mom needed a place for me to go when i was removed from school for some reason or whatever the case may be, i would be here at cleo wallace along with other folks here in ph. iit is good to see so many residents not from just from

here but from other sites. this is important. we make sure we make our populations whole and communities whole, having the ability to bring people that used to live here that have been displaced is an important piece to make that happen. i want be to appreciate our then. thensupervisor breed and cohen for passing the legislation to make it possible for higher percentages of our folks to win in the lot terry system that is detrimental to opportunity for housing for black people. i want to make sure that everyone knows and understands that we are going to continuously do everything that we can to make sure that folks have an opportunity to come back home. this is very personal to me. i used to live on 25th street

with my aunt and cousins. my first job. i use to run the family resource center up the hill on top of the williams center. when we started having those conversations about hope sf and what we reenvision here in our community and i went to dcyf the work continues. we have the first building and continue to build more. nothing is going to make that more complete without providing the opportunity for some of our families to return. i was excited to partner with the mayor on this legislation to make sure we do just that and bring the families back to san francisco. i don't want be to belabor that amazing point. the mayor took my statements how beautiful it is and district 10. i make sure we highlight that. people need to know how beautiful our district is.

people need to know why so many people are pushing us out and trying to come over to live in our places because of the beauty of district 10. thank you all for coming out. this is historic legislation. now we have to do our due diligence to get an opportunity to return back to these communities they help would build so many years ago. thank you. [please stand by]

>> just to say a brief word as to where we are. we are at the site of cross cultural, which is a facility that supports many of our people on potrero hill. hope sf stood for a simple

promise, that we would undo the harm on 2200 families, and this is a little bit about fulfilling that promise. this legislation is for that grandmother in hunters view. but not just that grandmother, but that grandson who goes to s.f. state university, so he can get good grades and come back to support his family. it's for that transitional age youth, that young person, who's at dillard university, working away, and he wants to come back to double rock, but there's no way for him to come back to his community. this is about real hope, real

families, and hope sf. my name is theo miller, and i have the greatest honor to serve our mayor, london breed, in this partnership. when you think about who this package -- first in the nation, first in the nation. we are. once again, leading this nation. it is as strong as this to prioritize, not just the sons and daughters and sons and daughters of the sons and daughters who used to live here. as we close in transition, i want to bring up one of those brilliant, brilliant, brilliant young mind who, as mayor breed

and supervisor walton drafted this legislation, they had people like sealus in mind. i want to bring you up to the mic so you can share your story. shaylas. >> hello, everyone. i am a former resident when i used to stay in potrero hill. when i think of potrero hill, i think of barbecues, family time, and a great community family style living. why would i want to move back to potrero hill? the view. the structure of the building making it more of a family-style living. a new home is a new beginning for everyone. how this program can help others.

giving residents a new location and environment, letting people know it's not where you live, it's how you live, and last but not least, letting every resident know that there is hope and a second chance of new beginnings with the newhouse ho -- new household. my aunt valerie says they gave her a new place, a place that's safe for the kids, no mold, great views, and community-style living, as i mentioned before. why is it important for me to live in this city? i feel it's important for me and my child to live in this city, reasons being, great neighborhood, great programs, the housing programs are awesome, and not to mention the minimum wage is way more than a

lot of cities that we know of. i want to say thank you so much for allowing me to speak today. i currently live at john burden housing, in a studio. i would love to have a chance to come back to my community, a chance to be a leader to other youth, a chance to show them that we have a chance to come back and be great leaders in our community. thank you so much for having me today. [applause] >> thank you so much, shaylas. we're now going to move to that incredib incredible moment. if i could have mayor breed to come to the table, supervisor walton, other people who want to be involved in the photo op. any residents in the building please come forward. eddie cotrell is in the house. i want to thank supervisor

cohen, former supervisor cohen, linda adams, daniel eelie, our city attorney, who drafted this thing, hope sf policy leader, jason lu, our property managers and service providers, thank you so much. and i'll turn it to our distinguished leaders. >> the hon. london breed: all right. here we started.

let it be noted the house is full of educators, and union members, welcome. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district is now called to order. roll call. >> thank you. [roll call] thank you. >> thank you. section a, general information, accessibility information for the public, teleconference information, there is none tonight. do you want to do that? okay. go ahead. we are going to