[inaudible]. >> directors, what say you? >> motion to not disclose. >> second. >> secretary boomer, can you please call the roll? >> clerk: all right. [roll call] >> clerk: madam chair, four votes to none to not disclose the information discussed. >> great, and that concludes the meeting of the sfmta board of directors today. have a wonderful rest of your evening.

>> we continue our celebration, our community celebration here for bubble upper yard. i would like to introduce our executive director from mission housing, and he's joining us via video. thank you so much. >> hello, everyone, i want to say thank you for letting us to share this fantastic day with the community. my name is sam moss, from mission housing development corporation.

one of the developers for the balboa park upper yard. we're standing on the future site of 130 low-income family units for the community and throughout san francisco. i really want to thank supervisor safai, the board directors of mission housing, the bart board of directors as well. we're also standing on land that will eventually be a brand-new community center and new bart station and plaza. and it's things like these, collaborations like these, that are the most important work that we do in the affordable housing community. it's important to take advantage of sites like this. they don't come up very often. with the construction that is as expensive as it is and the uncertain times right now, i'm honored to personally to be able to say thank you for allowing to us help to deliver this vital community center. most importantly, cuhj and the community for sticking together and working together throughout the last five years to make this a reality. without the tireless work that cuhj has put forth since 2008, i don't believe that we'd be here. it's important for everyone that

is watching to realize that the standard for affordable housing development and community organization has been set at the balboa park upper yard. this will be the new norm, engaging everyone that will benefit from the property, and not just those that live at the property, it's at the heart of mission housing's mission and i'm honored to stand here today and to say how awesome it's going to be. and, finally, i want to thank the mission housing deputy executive director. i know it looks like i run the company but without marcia, mission housing would not be where we are today. thank you, marcia. and i'm honored to welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you so much, sam. i'm mayor london breed. i'm so excited to be here with all of you today for the balboa park upper yard groundbreaking. now this is really a groundbreaking project for the lake view o.m.i. community. it's one of the second 100%

affordable housing projects in the lake view community. and that has no small part to do with the people of this community who have fought for years and years for their fair share of not just housing, but 100% affordable housing. 131 units. right here at balboa park. and let me just talk a little bit about how amazing this project is. not only will there be an on-site child care, there will also be wrap around services for families. and what's so amazing about this project is that we will be using neighborhood preference. so the people of this community get the right for the units built in their community. it's time to change how we provide affordable housing in communities. it can't just be that we build this housing and then no one who grew up and was born and raise in regard this community has access. we have so many incredible leaders who are going to be

working with us to make sure that the people of this community apply for the affordable housing and that they get in. it's going to be up to you. but let me also tell you about some of the great amenities of this project because this is how housing should be built. very close to transit corridors. and we're lucky to have a bart -- a partner in the sfmta, so i want to thank sfmta and i want to thank bart and thank all of our transit agencies for the work they have not only done to work so we could use this property for 100% affordable housing, but the work that's going to be provided around reimagining what this plaza looks like. there will be additional bart trains. there will be traditional resources. $30 million from the state invested in this project. which is just one of the many things that we know that we need to do as a city to make sure that we are building more

housing along transit corridors. it's not only efficient for the people who rely on public transportation every single day but it's good for the environment also. and let me just take an opportunity to really thank mission housing and sam moss for the work they've done on this project. i want to thank bill white and related for what they have done and our sfmta department for working with us to transition this property for affordable housing. and i want to thank bart for their partnership. i want to thank our mayor's office of housing and the work that they have done. it really does take a village. these projects are so expensive. because it's not just about building housing, it's about building the infrastructure to maintain this housing for generations to come. it's about redoing the plazas and making it work. it's about the fact that there will be families moving into this particular development and we want to make sure that children have a safe place to

play. so so many incredible things. such an amazing project. and let me also just give credit to where credit is due -- where credit is due. the leader of this community, supervisor safai, when he first stepped on the board of supervisors, he said that it is really unfortunate that no affordable housing has even been built in this community. and he wanted to change that. we are breaking ground on the second affordable housing development in district 11 since he's been in office and that's an absolute amazing accomplishment. we are so grateful for his leadership, his partnership, and the work that he has done, not only to provide affordable housing but the job center, the library, and the parks, everything that matters to people and families who actually live here. because of this supervisor, the lakeview community is no longer the forgotten community of san

francisco. so, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce supervisor safai. [applause] >> thank you, madam mayor. this is an historic day and we're really excited to be here. i want to start off by saying that rather than keeping this site and just as an empty parking lot or used as parking, we went -- she doesn't like when i say this -- but we marched into the mayor's office but we marched slowly and we said what can we do creatively on this site while we're waiting for affordable housing to be built. and we came up with a plan for safe parking. there are individuals in this city that are unhoused and that are living in their vehicles and she did not even hesitate. she supported us, myself and the

supervisor brown at the time and we were able to create something that has never been done in san francisco. and that's safe parking for those that are unhoused, living in their vehicles. we're coming up on about a one-year anniversary of that work and it has been extremely successful. so i want to thank the mayor for supporting us and believing us and allowing us to do something positive with this site while we waited for the housing to get built. another thing that the mayor did when she was on the board of supervisors that i don't want to -- i want to underscore, is neighborhood preference. neighborhood preference says that if you live within proximity, if you live within the radius of this site, you will have first crack at getting into these apartments. that is something that had never been done in san francisco before, and that is extremely important to the lakeview

community. about 20, 30 years ago this community was over 50% african american. today it's down to less than 20%. but the children and the families of those families that have grown here and been raised here and prospered here are still connected to this community. they will have the ability if they live in these homes and their families and other neighbors will have the ability to apply for these. and i want to give a special recognition to miss gwen brown who runs our job opportunity center, she's also going to be working on our employment opportunities for this site. she'll be someone that we work with at mission housing and the mayor's office works with to ensure that we do the outreach in this community so people apply. that's a very important thing. another thing again to thank the mayor, this project would have not been at the top of the pile. we came in and we made the argument that this district has never seen any family affordable

housing built on any scale. mayor breed put us at the top. she listened to us and she heard the community and she heard our voices and filled that gap, an additional $20 million to $30 million, first out of the eraf funds and now out of the prop-a affordable housing bond fund. that is what closed the gap for this project and we're here celebrating today, a major grant, a transportation grant, that was awarded to this site. another $20 million. this site is special. this site is important for this community. and we would not have been able to be celebrating this without mayor breed and her leadership and support. so thank you, mayor breed. [applause] mission housing related have been wonderful partners. i don't know how many times i had to pick up the phone and call bill witty and work through problems to make sure that this project is going to stay on track, that it's going to be built, that it will be family. and then let me make one last

point before i end. another thing that the mayor and i worked on together when she was board president and along with supervisor jane kim, along with supervisor aaron peskin, we updated the conversation about what is affordable. and affordable for whom. so many times in this city people are talking about housing and affordable housing just for extremely low-income families. and you know what, we do a pretty good job of that in san francisco. and we need to do more. but what we haven't done, and what this community has always been has been a community of working people, a community of working families. i'm talking about non-profit workers and i'm talking about teachers and i'm talking about muni drivers and educators and i'm talking about people that get up and to make this city run every day. and because of the work that we did, we have been able to expand the definition of affordable. we have been able to ensure that working families will also be

included in this conversation. so that when a janitor applies or when a non-profit worker applies, they will also be able to qualify for this housing. now that's not at the exclusion of low-income families, because what we did -- we expanded the pie. instead of having 80 to 100 units we went up to 130, and we did that with a community process. so i'm very proud of the results here today. i'm very happy to be here. i want to thank again related mission housing, mayor breed, the mayor's office of housing and marion harris from the district 11 council, thank you for being here. phylicia thibedeau from one of the institutions in lakeview o.m.i. and i see the folks from community, united for health and justice. i want to recognize all of the community work that went into making this possible. this is years in the making. this is something that will be

special and lasting and thank you very much, everyone. [applause] >> oh, sorry, and, yes, our other partner that is very important because we're sitting on their land is bart. bartd has been a partner -- bart has been a partner in helping us to solve the pusonl the puzzle n reimagining this plaza here. and sfmta was also a part of that, but i would like to bring up miss alicia trouse from bart. thank you. >> hello, welcome. i'm alicia trouse, i'm the bart communications officer, and welcome to our bart station. i love this station. i love how easy you can jump off a train and get on a muni bus. it's a great partnership. and our business is moving people, right, but it's also gaining lifetime riders.

you do that by building housing right across the street from your station. i want to briefly talk about something that we're very concerned about at bart. it's the mobility divide. you've heard of the digital divide, right? well, there's a mobility divide. and it's perpetuating inequality and the way that you tackle is to build 100% affordable housing right next to transit, right next to bart and right next to muni and you make it easy to go to your job and health care appointment and school by doing that. and this partnership is going to tackle that divide. and next i toss it to our bart board of director bevin duffy, who represents district 9, so let's roll the tape. >> i'm proud to join you this morning virtually on behalf of the bart board of directors and my colleagues simon and director jantzidirectjanice lee.

we are proud to be here to recognize the community leaders that i have known for so many years here in san francisco who had a vision for what could be done and that we could take this site and develop homes for families that need them and to create a vibrant meeting place that brings the community together and also to recognize the importance of transit oriented development. what we're trying to do at bart around the bay area, which is to build complete communities that have housing and retail and sometimes commercial and great bike and pedestrian access and public meeting and gathering places. and so i really want to congratulate the mayor's office of housing and community development and also mission housing development corporation. and related companies. and sfmta and our transit partner. and so many great things will come as a result of this that we'll have better seamless transit access and that

individuals, including bart at balboa park, you will find a great community space where we may have farmers' markets and other things that really bring our community together. i really want to say that we are extremely grateful to the community and i also want to add to mayor london breed, supervisor safai, supervisor avalos, and the previous supervisor for this district, and really just to say that -- that the city has really come together to create an amazing t.o.d. project. thithis is an important milestoe and we're gratified to be part of it and to show the bay area that we can develop much-needed housing and help to have a more complete community. >> thanks. now i'd like to introduce bill witty, the chairman and c.e.o. of related california, one of

the largest developers of affordable housing based here in this great city of san francisco. everyone, please welcome bill witty. [applause] >> thank you, alicia. you know, as the mayor and supervisor safai said, i have been working both in government and in the private sector in san francisco since the early 1980s. this is the first time -- the first year that i can remember a big push for affordable housing in this neighborhood, which has long been needed. and i think that what's really made this happen -- you have already heard is that we've gotten to work along with mission housing with two of the most effective advocates for affordable housing, not only in this city but in california. with mayor breed, if you mention affordable housing and are about to ask for something, she will typically say yes.

now the answer is yes. now what's the question? you can't do any better than that. and supervisor safai who has become a friend and colleague over these years, working on this project, and every month i know that i'm going to get a call from him saying, what's going on. what can we do? oh, we have this technical problem. let's figure out a way to solve it. oh, we have to lobby the state to get funding, what can i do to help. he's really helped, along with our partners at mission housing, in bringing the community into this so that this is not just about bricks and mortar. this is about holistic housing, you know, and you've heard all of the components of that in working with the community. i would also like to thank our staff and silver berg and nick wilder here today for all of the technical work needed to work with our partners at bart to make this technically feasible. this is a very challenging site.

we have to deal with bart's legitimate questions. we have to deal with issues of inaggress and egress to have the services and the site work and the child care, all on a very complicated site. we have a great architect in methune partners and a great partner in cayhill contractors and it's all come together to make it happen. and i would like also to acknowledge the mayor's office of housing who on behalf of the city has worked with us throughout to make sure that all of the funding works together and that as supervisor safai said to close the gap to make the financing feasible. so i look forward to the day when we open this development. in a few years from now we will welcome the residents of lakeview and others for whom this housing was intended. so thank you very much.

and now i will bring back marcia contrares of mission housing. >> thank you, mr. witty, thank you for joining us and thank you for your kind words. i would like now to introduce jesse fernandez, the program manager with communities united for health and justice. jesse? >> buenos dias, good morning. i'm jesse fernandez, i'm with communities united for health and justice, we're a multi-reliant program across the district. we are celebrating affordable housing, community serving here at balboa park upper yard station. this project represents the very best in collaboration between the community and the decisionmakers. and i want to invoke all of the

community planners who for 10 years have rolled up their sleeves and time and again made the case to make this project possible and have done so guided by a heartfelt community-led process. our success at the balboa park upper yard should set an example for people-focused planning for our ever changing city, to always keep people at the forefront of decision-making. i would like to acknowledge the hard work of our former supervisor john avalos for working with the community and advocating for necessary resources that are long overdue across our district. thank you very much. >> thank you, jesse. well, we are at the end of our community celebrations. thank you to all of the partners that joined us today and to everybody that joined us virtually. thank you to cuhj, for [speaking

spanish] the ymca of san francisco, mayor london breed and supervisor safai, and all of the representatives from bart and their team for their support while coordinating this event. and, of course, our development partner, mr. bill witty from related company for their understanding and being able to work with us and identify the needs of this community and the families of district 11. we also want to thank our team at mission housing for reaching this milestone and a special thanks to our board of directors for always supporting us. last but not least i would like to send a special thank you to our senior communications manager for working on all of the logistics and to make sure that this event was a successful and safe one for everyone who participated. thank you again for joining us and until the next one. (♪)

>> all right, welcome, everyone. [applause] today is the day, dr. colfax. today is the day. it's the day that our kids get back to the serious business of play, and so i'm thrilled to be here with our mayor, supervisor safai and our director of public health, and many community leaders and wonderful people to celebrate the re-opening of playgrounds all across the city starting right now. we are here at mersed heights,

so we're not just opening up the gates to playgrounds but we're also cutting ribbons on five amazing playgrounds that have just been waiting for children that have been renovated through the let's play s.f. initiative, which is is an incredible partnership between the recreation and the park department and the parks alliance, san francisco voters who support park bonds, and through let's play s.f. we're actually transforming 13 playgrounds that have been loved to death across our city and to creative places that spark imagination, connection, and healthy bodies and minds. so without further adieu it is my great pleasure to introduce our parks champion-in-chief who has been a great nudge to make this happen. thank you, mayor. >> thank you. and thank you, phil, and thank you to all of the families in san francisco for your