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adjourned. >> chairman: are there anymore public comments? seeing none, we are

>> 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

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in

the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the policemrogram is very, ver

in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the

kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant,

nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's. nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪] >> used to be very easy to

define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar,

it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i

can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines.

i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.