>> thank you to i think the members of the board of supervisors joining us today. i see superintendent safai, budget chair matt haney, supervisor mandelman. thank you for joining us as well as our treasurer, our assessor recorder torrez, the district attorney bodine, and i'm not sure. i think agot all the elected officials here. thank you so much. good afternoon to all the community members, the city staff, elected officials, i can

not tell you how happy i am to be here. [applause] not just because we are announcing that we have officially balanced our latest two-year budget -- though that is important. , no, and i'm happy because i am here in chinatown in front of actual people again. and it feels great. this is the first time in so long that i've seen so many familiar faces kinda. i think i recognize you all. over the past few weeks, san francisco has really started to open up. you can see it everywhere. people are going to museums, to baseball games, enjoying the incredible outdoor dining spaces and families and our parks and playgrounds like this one that we are at today.

willy woo woo wang. i had the opportunity to go to the symphony and the performance was incredible. just being at davey symphony hall was magic. it was san francisco coming back to life. people are excited for what's coming. and i'm excited to be here today with all of you. i want to recognize my budget chair or my budget director ashley and her incredible team. thank you for the hours and hours of work you've put into working with labor and community stakeholders and the city departments to get this budget balanced and delivered on time.

over the last year i have seen what we can do. all of us have been tested like never before. our spirit, our resilience, and our compassion for one another have all been tested. the past year has been hard. we've all been tired. we've been worn down. we faced challenges with our mental health. our kids have suffered. our seniors have suffered. our outlook at times was pretty dark, but through it all we held it together and now today gathered together at willy woo woo wang playground, we are in the light. no, covid is not gone. but the number of people in the hospital is lower than it's been since march of last year. and almost 80% of eligible

people have been vaccinated. >> and thanks to the hard work of so many health care providers and city workers and the parks workers and the people of the city, i can finally declare with pride and confidence that we are literally out of the woods. >> but keep your mask on. now, we haven't done this alone. we have had strong support from the state and federal government including governor gavin new some who has led california and delivered for the workers and small businesses and most vulnerable residents through project home key. thanks to the american rescue plan put forward by the president joe biden and vice president kamala harris and speaker of the house nancy pe low sis, we don't have a

crushing budget deficit. thanks to all of those folks. what we do have, however, is an opportunity, an opportunity to take all that we've lived through and all the lessons that we've learned and focus on what really matters. that's what this budget is about. it's about fulfilling the many promises we made. delivering on fundamental change and lifting up our entire city. now we are here in chinatown because we know this neighborhood was hit first and it was hit hard. february is normally an amazing time for this community when the lunar new year celebrations bring visitors from all over the world. but in february of last year, things were really dark. the lunar new year parade was cancelled. tourists disappeared. small businesses were

struggling. and the streets were empty. and in the month since then this neighborhood has been one of the continuing to suffer from the loss of visitors, yes, but also from the disgusting xenophobia and shocking acts of violence. seniors are afraid to run errands. families worried about their safety. what is happening right now, in particular the attacks against our elders is shameful for our city. it is shameful for our country. just last week i was out to lunch at r&g lounge down the street from here with a woman named ms. wong. after my grandmother passed away, ms. wong became my adopted grandmother. she's so warm and kind, but just like my grandmother, you don't want to get on her bad side. and she fills me with such joy when i see her. she tells me she is proud of me and shows me pictures of her

grandchildren. she is truly a beautiful spirit, and she is joining us here today. thank you, ms. wong. that's my baby, y'all. you mess with ms. wrong, you mess with me. when i see these attacks against our asian seniors, i think of my grandmother. i think of ms. wong. i think of how i feel if someone would lay their hands on them. i know so many of us feel that way here today. and it breaks my heart every single time. and an attack against one of us is an attack on all of us, and san franciscans, we will rise to the occasion to protect our seniors by any means necessary. i have been proud to stand with leaders like assembly member david chiu bill king to call for unity against the racist attacks but to bring forward solutions to support our residents and to send a clear message that the

disgusting attacks against our api community must end now and that doesn't just mean having more law enforcement on our streets. it means continuing and expanding programs like our community guardians. these multi-racial street patrol teams are walking the streets and neighborhoods like this one and visitation valley and the inner richmond, the tenderloin, san bruno avenue and other areas. they know the community. they are from these communities and they are bridging cultural divides, building relationships and watches out for the most vulnerable. this is exactly the kind of program my budget will invest in. it means continuing to fund the senior s corp. program which is serving members of this community. we are also launching an ambitious plan to have community ambassadors up and down mid market corridor and across all

of downtown and our waterfront. again, these are ambassadors who are watching our blocks and making calls for services for those who are struggling and given directions to those who are lost. offering a friendly face to those who are in need. but let's be clear. keeping our city safe also does require law enforcement. that means making sure we have officers on our streets walking the beat and responding to crime. right now every year we lose about 80 officers who either retire or leave the force for other reasons. if we don't replace these officers with new recruits, our police force will shrink. we will lose foot beat. we won't be able to quickly respond to 911 calls. we won't be able to make arrests to hold people accountable. that will not make our city safe. so in this budget we are proposing two police academy classes to keep our ranks

stable. the good news is -- the good news is as we add these academy classes, our police forces is also becoming more diverse. since 2009 the proportion of recruits in our classes have increased from the black community by 45%. the latino by 78%. and the asian community by 79%. removing the bias starts right there by making sure the people in uniform reflect and understand the communities they serve. and we know that we can't stop every crime, and sadly, there will be victims in our city. but i want all residents to feel safe when they step forward to report a crime, especially our seniors, so we are creating a

new office of justice innovation that will coordinate the city's response to victims across all communities including with targeted support for the api community. this new team will also continue our ground breaking work to find more effective ways to respond to people when they call for help no matter what neighborhood you live in. our street crisis response team is already taking our most challenging mental health call to the people who end up in bad situations when confronted by law enforcement. we've got four teams already out on the streets with two more coming soon. we are adding a 17th in this budget. why? because the teams are working. i have seen the results myself. a few weeks ago i went out with a street crisis response team. we arrived on the scene on

fisherman's wharf to find a man with no shoes, clearly in need of care talking to himself, walking in and out of traffic, and the kind of lost soul too many of us have seen too often and wondered why is no one doing anything? why? a police officer had arrived on the scene first, but when the street crisis response team showed up, i could see the relief in the officer's eyes. he knew he wasn't the one for this call. he knew there was a better way. i took time, over an hour and multiple conversations, but eventually that gentleman ended up getting care from paramedics and a clinician. it didn't end in violence or everyone just walking away. better solutions deliver better outcomes. that's how we make a difference. and now in this budget we are expanding our street response teams to include wellness teams,

composed of a paramedic and homeless outreach worker that will respond to even more calls, that would better benefit from a nonpolice response. and we're also adding street overdose response teams to help curb the crisis of overdoses in our city. fentanyl is destroying lives not just here in san francisco but across the country. that's why we will continue to pitch for overdose prevention programs with the help of senator scott weaner at the state level. and we will expand street medicine team and treatment program that have been effective in preventing overdoses and helping people get off opioids and meth. as we increase these services, we also need to continue to enforce our laws against drug dealing. our police officers are on pace to seize more fentanyl this year

than ever before. we need every level of our criminal justice system to step in to stop this drug dealing and especially the people in the tenderloin and other neighborhoods in the city. our residents and those who are suffering on the streets, they deserve better. as we change how we respond to people on the streets, we also need places for them to go. we can have all the outreach teems in the world, but if we don't have housing, shelter, and treatment bed, we are going to see those same people right back on the streets again and again and again. but the good news is it's take an lot of work but we have a plan. starting with treatment beds n. this budget we are funding the acquisition and operation of over 340 new treatment beds. [applause]

we have set aside funding to acquire facility for up to 300 more treatment beds so we can keep growing our pipeline. that is a plan for 640 new beds on top of the 2,000 beds we already have. that is real change. that is a long-term difference. and so when we see someone in need or a family member suffering, we can have some place for them to go and get healthy. and and we are taking the same approach with the homeless recovery plan which will create more permanent and supportive housing places to go. the plan which launched last year by july of 2022, including -- i know, i am excited about it, too.

including the largest expansion of permanent supportive housing in 20 years. and this plan is already working. we have fewer people living in tents on our streets than at the height of the pandemic than even before the pandemic. and we are moving people out of shelter in place hotels right now into permanent, supportive housing. each of these stories is a success and a life changed. people like the vulnerable senior who had been homeless in the mission for 45 years. let's call him tyrone, not call tyrone, but call him tyrone. some of you got that. thank you. >> it wasn't until they got him into a hotel and connected to services that he began to relax. that he had the opportunity to

heal. and tyrone moved into permanent supportive housing and 45 years homeless and now housed permanently. that is almost longer than i have been alive. actually, that is longer than i have been alive kinda. so yes, the homeless recovery plan is working and over the next years between local, state, and federal funding, we are putting in over a billion dollars into action in san francisco to address this. this is an historic investment which will allow us to provide up to 4,000 more new placements to get people off the streets including 1,000 new unit of permanent supportive housing in addition to the 1500 units we already have. we will add two new safe parking sites and create a new 40 and to

keep people housed is the easiest way to end homelessness. more housing, more placements, more people living indoors. yes, this is an historic investment for our city but we have to be honest with ourselves. if we're going to see change on our streets, it takes more than money. we also have to have the will to make the change. so to be clear, we will lead with services to get people housing and the help they need for those with complex needs we will do everything we can to assist them and get them on the path of recovery. we know it's not easy, but that's our commitment. and for those exhibiting harmful behavior, whether to themselves or to others and those refusing assistance, we will use every tool we have into treatment and

services to get them indoors. we won't accept people just staying on the streets when we have a place for them to go. if we focus and invest right, we have a real chance to make a fundamental change for those who are living on the streets for our city as a whole. we also know that our recovery isn't just about getting back to where we were. it's about taking on the existing disparities laid bare by this pandemic. we saw the devastating impact on the latino community. those who lived in crowded conditions who didn't have access to health care and didn't have a lot of trust in government. we saw systemic racism that many of us have known all too well for far too long in the african-american community. exposed by covid and the murder of george floyd. we saw our transgender community suffer from disproportional

impact. we saw the young people devastated and women pushed out of the workforce at higher rates than men when our schools shut down. we witnessed all of this and it's clear that we have a duty to commit so to an equitable community and will continue in the african-american community to fund the dream keeper's initiative. we will include $57 million to fund programs and impacted communities to deliver on work force, small business support, economy relief, food security, testing, vaccine, and mental health support.

all the things that got us through this. we will build on the guaranteed income pilot programs to deliver payment to members of the transgender community. we will offer women free child care so they can get back in the work force. we will fund mental health support for our public school students and continue our opportunities for all program which is providing our young people with paid internship and setting them on the path to success. [applause] we are back filling our lost hotel taxes to ensure that the art and artist cans continue to thrive, deborah walker. and we are setting aside funding

to purchase a site for the lgbt cultural museum to have a home to celebrate all those that fought for exneck this city, supervisor mandelman. we are funding affordable housing, improving playgrounds like this one we constant in today. and improving our streets and replacing aging city infrastructure. we are investing in our inspection system, delivering over $90 million to support muni and bike and pedestrian safety projects because if we don't have a fully functional transportation system, people won't be able to get around in this city. we need testing, outbreak management, shelter in place hotels and to feed and supported

those who are in need for months ahead. like i said, we are out of the woods, but one thing we have learned over the last year, we never know what lies ahead. this pandemic did not give us notice and neither will the next earthquake. that's why we have to do the hard work to prepare. remember over the last year during the worst of our budget, we did not have to lay off any city workers because we had a strong reserve to take us through. we were so lucky to receive the tremendous support from the federal government to stabilize us. there are still challenging times ahead. i know responsibility doesn't grab headlines. but it's what leaders do. we don't raid our reserves

unnecessarily so. we protect and we grow them. that's how we will weather any challenge that comes our way because we are a resilient city. the people of the city are strong and resilient. the people of the neighborhood, chinatown, they are strong and resilient. it is in their history, the oldest chinatown in the country. after the 1906 earthquake and fire, almost all of china town like much of san francisco burned to the ground. people from outside this community said let's move china town to the southeast part of the city and to go across the river to oakland. and the people who lived there and their homes and neighborhood and community. the people who knew proud place

and those who came before and welcomed those who stayed after. they fought for their home and they won. and out of the ashes of that great fire they rebuilt this incredible neighborhood. that is the story of china town and the story of san francisco. not even a global pandemic can knock us out. san francisco is coming back. with these investments, we have a path to get us to where we need to be. it is the people of the city who will propel us to the place we know we need to go. in the challenging times, that

is what held us together. san francisco isn't going anywhere except straight ahead into what i see is a bright and hopeful future. i am so excited to work with each and every one of you to make sure that our city continues to shine. we've been through earthquakes. we've been through fires. we've been through challenges. now we can check off the global pandemic box and guess what, san francisco, after we get this budget passed and we move these dollars into action, we are going to see real change and things will look bet arenaed brighter than before the pandemic. you all are important part to thank in these efforts. thank you, all. looking forward to see this budget pass through the board of supervisors. [applause]

>> good morning, everyone! i get the amazing privilege of being the coronavirus of habitat for humanity greater san francisco and we're so pleased

you can join us. we're here in diamond heights to break ground on a very important project to us. there's not very many community occasions that is exciting as the ground breaking except for the day we give the keys to the family which is coming soon. as we begin, i would love to invite a champion for affordable housing and a good friend to habitat for humanity, pastor teresa chow sigh a few words and to bless us all. pastor chow. [applause] thank you. a house carries very significant importance. it's more than just a shelter, for some it's a sanctuary, place of rest and belonging. for my parents, who emigrated to the u.s. from south korea a house was a dream, however their dream didn't stop at owning a

house for themselves, but being able to provide a house for their children and grandchildren. 20 years ago, when i moved to san francisco, newly married, my parents' dream was realized as they helped my husband and i purchase our first home. and it's why i chose to wear this particular stolz today. this korean fabric means many colors. during very difficult times through out korean history, parents would don their children in these colorful fabrics as a symbol of their hope. they carry the hopes and dreams of the community and i wear this carrying dreams many of us for not just housing but affordable housing. to make this dream come true, it takes the community to put fourth the sweat equity, to push fourth just policies, build a foundation, network the resources and carry the hopes with determination. i love that the homes that will be built here on this land

begins with community. city officials, faith leaders, volunteers, neighbors, homeowners and home dreamers, which truly makes it our house. in the korean angst possess i have pronoun, my is rarely used. we use our. my house is our house, my dream is our dream, my land is our land. however, when we say our house, we also carry the responsibility of not only the hopeful future but the past so that our dreams do not -- are not at the expense of others and that's what it means to be a community. so in the spirit i would like to share this house blessing by poet jan richardson and acknowledging this is on the ancestrial home lapped of the aloney people who are the or not inhabitants. think of the year as a house,

door swung wide and welcome, threshold swept and waiting a grace spaciousness, opening and offering itself to you. let it be blessed in every room, let the it be hollowed in every corner. let every nook in the refuge and every object set to holy youth, let it be here that safety will rest, let it be here that health will make its home, let it be here that peace will show its face and let it be here that love will find its way, here let the weary come and let the aching come, let the lost come and let them find rest and find their soothing and let them find their place. and let them find their delight. and may it be in this house of a year that the seasons will spin in beauty and may it be in these turning days the time will spiral with joy and rooms will fill with ordinary grace and lights spill from every window with welcome to the strangers

calling it home. amen. [applause] >> thank you so much pastor. we appreciate you and your congregation for your friendship and your advocacy on housing and your on going support. i want to welcome our guests here with us today. because of covid we had to limit the crowd. i appreciate all of you who are here with us, and physically and in spirit. i'm delighted to say that mayor breed is with us today. since her inauguration, mayor breed has been a true champion and leader prioritizing affordable housing. under her leadership, the mayor's office of housing and community development has continued and increased their work supporting families and communities across the city. today, san francisco has a robust pipeline of affordable

housing and ready to be built and available at all levels for all family sizes. madam mayor, it's great to see you and we look forward to bringing hundreds more homes that we have in our pipeline in the next several years forward to partner with the city. i also couldn't be happier the district 8 supervisor mandelman is with us today. there are few people who have worked harder more thoughtfully than you have to get more affordable homes built with the needs of each neighborhood. it's good to see you. i'm going to come back to a would be wonderful proposal of yours in a little while. eric shaw is also with us today. thank you for your leadership and your vision and we really appreciate it. we also have with us three san francisco habitat homeowners today. den ice, jenn, and jeanette. if you can all just wave. like all habitat homeowners,

denise jenn and janette know their way around a construction site and experienced home builders. i know they can't wait to welcome new families to these homes and help them on their journey. i'm so pleased to see bryn smith here today, a fantastic volunteer who has worked hundreds of hours both here in san francisco and overseas across the globe. thank you, bryn. you live a stone's throw away and we'll see him working on the homes. representing our amazing dime opened heights neighborhoods, i can see betsy eddie, thank you, co president of the diamond heights community association, and betsy is such a strong supporter of this project. from the moment i first called her to say yes, how can we help and i really appreciate you. last time we were together, just up the hill at the police academy, we had about 70 community members join us to learn about and support the project. i was so impressed that we had almost everyone 68 out of the 70

who said yes we want to see this project happen. something that doesn't get enough recognition here in our city. our architectses, toby is here and you can see the beautiful rendering behind me and it will turn into a beautiful community for the families that live here. and you can see reflected in the design the compliments of the neighborhood as you look around. several members of our habitat for humanity greater san francisco board are with us today. mark and ken preston and thank you for coming out and if i missed anyone, sorry. we have a board meeting later so i'll hear about it. normally, of course, in pro covid times, we would be able to welcome many more of our hundreds of homeowners and thousands of volunteers to this event. i feel so blessed that we've been able to be here together and gather as many friends. i know we're all excited to be moving forward with this path to a gradual and safe reopening. we're starting the project with

a very special story attached to it. on this site, right here, stood the home of a great san franciscan maria collish. she was one of the first people to move into the diamond heights neighborhood in the '50s when all of this was in open meadow. she was a chemist, activist, medical researcher whose circle of friends included chemist line, artist, and venture and architect fuller and photographer imaging cunningham and if you look over at the plaque, you will see the beautiful image that the shot of her that we memorized on a plaque. she loved her city and had he loved the people who live here. the site was donated by her son and his wife. in her honor and memory they wish to help more hard-working families stay in the city that she cared for. today, mischa at 99-years-old is resting at home and he is

looking forward to seeing a video of us all later today. the flag recognizing his mother will be a fix to the building when finished. the sculpture is based on a photo. this will stand as a reminder to all of the life maria left and her generosity to families in san francisco. so now where there was previously one home, there will be eight homes. three and four bedroom homes for families. this type of urban refill project typically more manageable numbers on units on smaller parcels o of land has potential to contribute to the number of homes that low income people can be homeowners in in san francisco. that's why we're so supportive of sensible proposals such as those by supervisor mandelman to make it a little easier to build smaller size projects and certain locations that are in keeping with the neighborhood character density and transportation availability.

just yesterday, the supervisor introduced legislation to make four-unit buildings easier to build and we support that effort. so what makes a habitat project? well, all of our homes are affordable homeownership. because we know home opioid allows families to realize potential, to build wealth and equity and accomplish their dreams. habitat serves as both the general contractor, the developer and the mortgage lender with a zero down and zero percentage interest loan for families. we cap all families housing costs at 30% of their income and this pro voids predictability, stability, and for the next generation, and for this generation as well. our homeowners invest 500 hours working alongside their neighbors and the community. they will be joined by hundreds of volunteers who live and work in san francisco and who want to make sure families have a chance to stay and plant their roots in the community. these homes are forever

affordable as habitat buys them back when families move on it market rate homes or relocate after their children are grown and the process starts over again with another family. san francisco loves volunteers, pound for pound we have the most generous people in the country right here in san francisco. we've already been inundated with offers from volunteers who are anxious to safely get back to work after the past year of quarantine. this will be supported by habitat pro commercial construction staff and they have kept our construction sites safely and productively across our region. habitat san francisco is building in and to see so much affordable housing gun o in our. and the balboa reservoir projects last year. we're excited and proud to be

homeowner developers in these projects. this is being supported by the mayor's office of housing and community development with $1.5 million in construction and permanent financing. just like so many affordable developments, the mayor will drive them to the finish. i want to acknowledge eric. when he learned that 85% of habitat homeowners were bipoc family in san francisco and we look forward to carrying the legacy forward in awful our projects. and as our reopening process proceeds, we listen to the guidance from local government, we look forward to restarting our critical repair work which has helped so many of our neighbors stay safe and warm in the homes they know and they've been in for a long time, especially in the buy view and san francisco. tur for being here. i'm delighted to introduce you to the woman who needs no introduction, and the leader mayor london broad. breed. [applause]

madam mayor, welcome. >> thank you, i had to put my hair back. it's windy out here. first of all, let me say how excited i am about this project and i am not surprised the community here in diamond heights rallied together to support it. this community is a very active community and i have a history, believe it or not, with the diamond heights community when i worked at treasure island when the city was considering moving the police academy to treasure island. this community fought to keep the police academy right here in this community and they were successful. along with the work and the advocacy around george christopher park and we broke ground on a new playground and in that particular area, a couple weeks ago. and so, this is an amazing community. it's a resilient community. it's a community that has a history that was just talked

about. maria polish, one of the first residents here in the 1950s when it was just a meadow and now look at it. a neighborhood and a community where children are raised and people shop and see each other at the grocery store and we know that this project is going to be an important part of this community too. so, i am excited about it. i'm especially excited because some of you might have remembered when i served on the board of supervisors i introduced neighborhood preference legislation and that legislation made sure that when we build affordable housing in communities, the right of first refusal for the certain percentage of those units goes to the people who actually live here who are qualified for the affordable unit. in order to allow for opportunities for your children or grand children, who may have grown up in this community, to have at least the possibility of getting access to these homes. so in this particular project, neighborhood preference will be

used for home ownership. i can't be more thrilled to be working with habitat for humanity because of the incredible work that they do the hardest part of owning a home is putting together a down payment. and in san francisco, that's at least a minimum of $250,000 in order to own a home that many people sometimes can barely afford. and here, no down payment. no more than 30% of their income used to pay representative. a place that people will call home and be able to raise their families. and if they are so fortunate enough to excel in life and generate more revenue for their household and move on to purchase another property, the home will still be affordable to the next generation. this is an incredible project for our city. and i couldn't be more thrilled. i wanted to say how much i appreciate all of you the voters of san francisco. when i first became mayor, we put on the ballot an affordable housing bond which wow supported

overwhelmingly and since i've taken office, we've been able to, along with that affordable housing and other resources, we're able town vest over a billion dollars in affordable housing in san francisco. that's why it was not a hard sil for us, immediately providing the resources necessary to get the job done for this project so it's your support, your advocacy and everyone coming together and it really does take a village and this village came together to provide incredible opportunities for home ownership for families and i'm looking forward to being here when we cut the ribbon in the first families move in. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] thank you so much, mayor. now i want to introduce someone well-known to us and well-known further afield for his thoughtful approach to an environment where more affordable homes can be built. i want to welcome rafael

mandelman. welcome. >> thank you. samson bloom. this is a little bit of like a collision of my multiple world's. i want to grad school 20 something years ago with eric and hey eric, and i worked when i was a lawyer in private practice representing local governments on many teams, are you representing kappa chat? you are on the board. awesome. well, good to see you. so, at any rate, everybody, i am so excited about this particular moment. from the moment that i started as a supervisor, i wanted to see more affordable housing built in district 8 and district 8 is a hard district to get affordable housing built in notwithstanding the displacement that has happened from district 8. it's hard because we're built out and we don't have a lot of available sites because land values are high.

from our very first meeting with mayor breed, i've been asking her for help with affordable housing in district 8 and she's been delivering it. she acquired a big giant property on market street that is going to house lgbtq queer seniors and friends. this particular project is really exciting and required moe and eric to do outside the box thinking about how to use the funds. in district 8, projects small projects like this habitat projects, affordable home projects make a lot of sense on these small sites. but it's been something that most have been funding before and i'm sure partly through the intervention of our mayor and doing things like this and it showed great flexibility around funding this and i have all sorts of people who i should thank. got the mayor and eric shaw and

of course habitat for humanity and the tremendous work you do and you are pushing us to think outside the box about getting this project done. all of the volunteers and of course the neighbors. betsy, deserves praise all the time in every way but it's wonderful to be in a neighborhood that is welcoming affordable housing and wants to see it built here and i'd love to say this was courageous to have this project here but the neighborhood wants it and people have been e-mailing us saying when is it getting done. there's excitement and enthusiasm and of course finally to mischa and his family for making this opportunity availability this is exciting. thank you, everyone. >> thank you so much. so as we get ready to mark the occasion with some photos. we're going to put some shovels

in the ground. i want to thank everyone for being here and lending your support. thank you mayor breed, you are well served by your staff and they were amazing to work with and thank you supervisor mandelman and your team, also amazing and thank you to our neighbors here in beautiful diamond heights we can't wait to see you out on the construction site in the spring and be ready to start with our volunteers, right, err on, and all our communities of homeowners, volunteers, board members, staff, donors, thank you, thank you, thank you. and a most special thank you to my friends, and our generous donor mischa and the vision and donation of this hand in honor of maria, began journey and brought us here where today. thank you all. thank you very much and we appreciate you joining us. we're going to move over to some photos. 3, 2, 1, turn that dirt!

>> we're in business! >> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs.

it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the

meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful, and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e

community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses

are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

[>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and

we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in

this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. .

community investment and infrastructure. >> this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure, tuesday, june 1, 2021. welcome to members of the public streams or listening live as well as staff and those presenting today's meeting. following the guidelines set by local and state officials the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure safety of everyone including members of the public. thank you for joining us today. >> call the first item. >> 1. roll call. commission members