i want to introduce one of the great champions of hope sf. we have benefited san francisco of having one of the great advocate mayors in america and she advocates. so with that, i'd like to introduce mayor london breed. well i advocate for all citizens of san francisco as a person with no option spending 20 years of my life living in public housing, living in what i think were some of the most horrible conditions that too many residents live in today. so i will continue no matter what condition i'm in to

advocate for those of sunnidale. and i've got to tell you it feels good to be in sunnydale. back in the day when i used to hang in sunnydale, billy, we had a good time. but we also knew there were challenges that continue to persist here. first, let me just start by welcoming you all to sunnydale and welcoming many of our guests. we have a number of guests here and a few of them are going to be speaking later. but i want to thank the folk who is are here including the president of the board of supervisors shamman wallton and malia cohen who started a lot of the work that took place here. i remember when shaurn hewit and she said we need to fix

this, malia now and look what you're doing. i want to thank state senator scott weaner along with our lieutenant governor because we know building housing in san francisco is getting rid of the players that make it more difficult and more expensive. our assessor recorder who's bringing in the money so we can spend it on the housing that we need i see so many of you here i see drew does a lot of great work. we are honored to see our amazing guests the speaker, the leader of this country, madam speaker nancy pelosi. it's so great to see you here.

thank you. and you'll be hearing as well from the secretary of h.u.d. which is incredible to get the secretary of h.u.d. to come to san francisco, but also to come here and be a partner in these efforts. someone who is a former mayor and understands how important it is to take care of cities and communities. i'm so glad secretary fudge you are in charge because you understand it and every time i pick up the phone and call her, we've got an advocate and someone who's going to help us deliver on our promise to sunnydale to make sure there's 1:1 replacement for every household that's here. so that what happened to me in o.c., in fillmo, 300 units torn down, only 200 units built. there was no one for one

replacement. so when i served on the san francisco redevelopment agency with fred black well we committed to work with the residents to make sure they were really apart of it and they were guaranteed that they would not be displaced from their home and not only did they never return, it's impossible for them to be able to afford to return to san francisco now. so part of what we also did when president obama president obama was in office is we got

something through h.u.d. that was almost impossible to get and because of speaker pelosi and her work and advocacy, neighborhood preference. so even though there's a 1:1 replacement of the units built here, we also have an option with our affordable housing units for neighborhood preference. so the people who live here would get a right of first refusal and have access to the affordable housing they grew up with right in their back yard. that's so important that we change the way we build and make sure communities have access because access was denied at one point. and so we are coming up with creative solutions to ensure that the people who are part of this community are in this community living their best life. thags the most important thing to each and every one of us

here today and why are we here at sunnydale. we're here because this project is getting done, 55 homes already done with people living there. and folks are going to be moving in and nice units. units with some washer and driers. two, three-bedroom units. bigger bathrooms. the bathrooms here are the same ones that were here when i grew up. i was telling them my brothers always left a ring and didn't clean up after themselves. we are changing conditions and making sure people can live in dignity is the most important thing to me. it's the most important thing to me as a native san franciscan who was afforded the opportunity to grow up in

public housing and my grandmother made sure that i was proud of where i lived, that i took care of where i lived. she'd make we go out and sweep the front porch. you take care of your community and take care of the people in your community. and that's what this is about. living in dignity and maintaining a community that has been far too long neglected. and so we are here because we are going to finish and continue the promise that we made to make this community a better community with amenities, the gym that's going to be built. the grocery store that we hope will be closer than geneva avenue. the things that we know are going to be important to a thriving community. that's our goal.

the public and the private partnerships to make it happen and we're lucky because we have supporters from the private sector and thank you again to fred blackwell from the san francisco foundation, but it takes our state representatives and our changes to bureaucracy and it also takes our federal partners and how lucky are we that we have an extraordinary leader that has been through many of presidents and still running the country through the good, the bad, and the ugly. and i don't mean ugly on the outside. she has been a champion when it comes to the things that we need for san francisco, the reason why we're able to deliver has everything to do with the respect and the fight of the woman that i'm about to introduce now. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our speaker nancy

pelosi. >> madam mayor, it's always a joe to be with you when we're talking about low-income housing, public housing and the rest and here you speak from your own personal experience about it. but my friends and madam secretary and lieutenant governor and elected officials who are here, those of us who have been with the mayor to these community events know that no matter what the subject is when we are here the mayor speaks from her experience growing up in public housing and the need for us to address that matter. when we're giving out food to the poor, the mayor knows what it means for people to be hungry because of her experience growing up. the list goes on, but we're talking about health care so that we're meeting the needs of those who need the help the most. and it's just a beautiful inspiring experience to hear

her speak about it because it's the continuum of concerns housing's central to it. when i was hungry, you fed me. when i was homeless, you gave me shelter. when i was naked, you clothed me. all of those thingses in the gospel the mayor brings. madam mayor, thank you for your tremendous leadership and how that experience has benefited so many people and just viewing this project sunnydale, it's about respect. respect for the tenants. they are the d.i.p.s. we're here to speak, but they are the d.i.p.s which means we're here to meet and meet in a way that is respectful and recognize that some families are multi-generation grandparents, children, and three or four access to bathroom just accessible in every way. and i say this because it is a

model for the country. it is a model for the country to see how san francisco deals with this and sometimes we've been at other openings and ribbon cuttings every step of the way to see how what it does for people to see that they are treated with respect by housing that meets their needs in a way that they had some say in putting together and everything that goes with it whether it's community center or whatever else, a model to the nation. and that's why it's such a treat to have our secretary here today because she understands this full well from her whole career, her whole career in public service at the local level whether it was dealing with fore closures. in the congress of the united

states, a member of the agriculture committee and that sounds rural and she understands rural need, but it's about food in the city. that's why shelley chism and that's why our agriculture served us so well including urban needs related to housing and a continuum of meeting needs and then she also serveded on the education and labor committee, but we're talking about the education of our children and the mayor knows full well how the dignity kids have going to school when they can bring their friends home and feel proud and she also served and this is very important right now, all of it is but this is timely this week something will come up and next week in the senate on this. she led the effort in the house

of representatives to bring to take testimony and bring to the floor of the house the voting protection act bills that are there. john lewis voting protection act that we had written last year for this year, but her role was in the voter protection act to remove obstacles of participation to the vote for people of color, for people in lower income neighborhoods because that was the assault that was being made on the vote in our country. so is in her experience whether it was, again, the fundamental respect for people to vote, whether it was the housing, but throughout her career, she's been a champion. she brings that experience to the secretary office. again, madam secretary, we're honored to have you here. we're very proud of the fact

that california and i want to solute our lieutenant governor because of her experience in terms of housing as well. california has figured out a way to make use of every public policy option whether it's tax code, low income housing, tax codes, bonds, whether it's the ever popular propositions whether it's policy matters that make a difference and timing and the rest for us to meet the needs of the people. we're now in the process of debating the build back better. president joe biden has said i want to do everything to support it in a bipartisan way and that's one bill that's written but i will not confine my vision for america to what can be done in that way. we have much more that needs to be done and now as we're in that debate, we're debating what will be contained in the housing aspects in that we

couldn't be better serveded by the biden administration than the great secretary of housing and urban development. it's not just h.u.d. so it is my honor to thank everyone. doug, mr. blackwell, our president of the board and joaquin and the state senator and malia, as well as our lieutenant governor and thank you doug shoemacker for your lead and so many others making this day possible. now i have the honor of bringing to the podium my friend. i saw first-hand her leadership and her judgment that she has about these issues serves our country well, but most importantly, appreciates what's happening here in san

francisco. madam secretary. mad am am secretary marsha fudge. [ applause ] >> good morning. thank you. i came all the way from washington. ya'll can't say 'good morning,' it's going to be a problem. your mayor is absolutely outstanding. she's always been on the leading edge of making change especially when she does these kinds of things. to speaker pelosi, even though i'm not a member of congress any longer, you are still my speaker and i have watched this little lady put the entire caucus on her back and carry it across that finish line and i'm looking for you to do it one more time. you know, nancy likes to quote matthew. right now, i'm thinking about

eclesiasis. this is the season to build up. mayor, this is what the season of building up is. but we need an urgency that i don't believe that we all have. you know, sometimes it just takes the will to get something done, but these things actually make people who have so long lived on the outskirts of hope, hope again. it makes them hope again. it makes people believe that the government cares about who they are. it is important that we understand that we cannot do any of this by ourselves and that's why i'm glad that the mayor's a partner. she's got private partners. the governor has been outstanding on dealing with issues of housing. san francisco is one of the highest priced markets in the

country. and i'm here because i need for every single person in this nation to understand that homelessness isn't just the problem, but the housing prices are a crisis in this country as well. there's going to come a time when people are going to complain they have nobody to work because they can't live here. they can't get here. we have so much work to do. but i say to you today, this is our last chance to do it. joe biden cares deeply about people in this country. this is my life's work. i will probably never have another job, madam speaker and i want to know that when i leave people will believe that the government can work and will work for the people we

serve i need them to understand that this administration is going to do what they can. this is not to make somebody rich. it is to give people who have no home a home. the speaker was right i'm very passionate about what i do. i'm passionate about feeding children. i'm passionate about people who live on the street. people like us see them. people who ignore people who are really struggling because it's easier than to see them. so my message here today is twofold. one is to keep doing what you're doing and we're going to help you as best we can because these are the kinds of things that should be in every single neighborhood in america. every person should live with dignity. every single person should live with dignity. when we first got into this covid pandemic, madam speaker,

the first thing they said to us was stay at home. what happened if you didn't have a home? then they said don't send your children to school. let's let them learn virtually assuming every child had high-speed internet or broad band access in their homes. we have children who have lost an entire year of education. we cannot continue to be this nation. and i'm going to close with this, a french historian who is reported to have come to xheshg 200 plus years ago to determine what made this country great. he went all over to the hills, to the valleys. it was not until he went into our houses of worship that he determined that america is great because americans are good and if we ever cease to be good, this nation will cease to be great.

i just wonder if he would think we're so great today when 160,000 people sleep on the streets in this state every single night. or whether we have places so expensive people are living three and four families together. i don't know how great we are. but what i do know is that we are judged not only by how we treat people, but especially how we treat people at the dawn of life and those at it the sunset. we cannot afford to not take care of our children or our parents and grandparents. so this is our time to build up and i just hope that you'll help me do it. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> if i could just wrap up on behalf of the governor gavin newsome and the people of the state of california to again welcome you, madam secretary, to our beautiful state and just say that all of us here in the state of california stand behind president joe biden's build back better program. we support you, we thank you,

and we need you. as you noted, far too many some counts over 130,000 californians experience homelessness in our state. this is our last best chance to do something about it. we're doing our part here in the state of california passing legislation to make it easier to build ten times greater allocation for housing and homelessness in this budget than ever before. governor newsome has been absolutely fearless and leading on this issue and the people of california recognize homelessness as one of the greatest challenges that we're experiencing in our state and, you know, it hurts us all every time we see someone in need of help. it is a human rights crisis here on our street. madam secretary, we are grateful to you. madam speaker, we are proud and

grateful of you to see us all the way out here on the pacific coast and recognize that we need federal support in order to be able to truly once and for all deal with this challenge of humanity that exists here in homelessness. together we can do it. the build back better program is going to help us get here. so thank you, and welcome to california. >> thank you, lieutenant governor. and thank you everyone for being here. we want to just, again, thanks the sunnydale community. it's great to be here. thank you so much, drew, for all the work that you do with the young folks here. you know, as well as john, thank you so much for all the work that you do. we know that you guys are in the trenches of helping to support and uplift this community and so as i said before when i came here for my budget speech a couple of years ago before we had to shut down for the pandemic, i am not going to forget about this

community and it's important that we fulfill the promises that we've made over years and we're going to see some real change and so we're here and we're seeing that change. so i'm excited about the future. i'm grateful that you all are joining us here today. and, with that, i want to open it up for a few questions that the press may have. all right. easy crowd. let's go. thank you.

>> my apartment burned down 1.5 years ago in noba. my name is leslie mccray, and i am in outside beauty sales. i have lived in this neighborhood since august of this year. after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and find out about various programs that could help us get back on our feet, and i signed up for the below market rate program, got my certificate, and started applying and won the housing lottery. this particular building was

brand-new, and really, this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. and i came to the open house here, and there were literally hundreds of people looking at the building. and i -- in my mind, i was, like, how am i ever going to possibly win this? and i did. and when you get that notice that you want, it's surreal, and you don't really believe it, and then it sinks in, yeah, i can have it, and i'm finally good to go; i can stay. my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look

at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. a principal analyst recently appointed as acting administrator responsible for developing all of the rates and charges for the water, power services we provide. >> the main things i work on are rates. it is really trying to figure out how much money we need to fund our operations and maintenance and thinking how to collect the money in a way that is fair to customers and

sincentives for water conservation or installing stormwater management on their property. >> i nominated erin for the many accomplishments she has provided especially for the financial sustain ability. the reality required a lot of work retooling policies, financial planning as well as many rating and charges. er ron served in the projects including update to water and sewer rates, update to 10 year financial plan as well as setting the budget for fiscal 2019 higher 2020. >> i am pleased with working here. i feel like we have tons of work to do. it is important work. it has a direct impact on people's lives. >> she has a unique ability to get to the root cause of the issue and help develop consensus

around a solution. not only is it troubleshooting what the questions are, but also coming up with what are the alternatives. >> i think a lot of the satisfaction from the job is looking back over the past few years and seeing cereal concrete change we have been -- real concrete change and that gives me pride. >> the team very much appreciates her hair color and the world of finance and accounting tends to foster conformity and boring guys like myself. i very much admire the fact that she walks her own walk and creates her own path, and i think we all can learn a little bit from her. >> i and a principal revenue and rates analyst in the financial

rates analyst in the financial >> chair bustos: this is regular meeting on committee of community investment and infrastructure for tuesday october 19, 2021. i like to welcome member who are listening to us live as well as the staff and those presenting in today's meeting. following the guidelines set forth by local officials at this time, the members of the commission are meeting plotely to ensure the safety of everyone including members of the public. thank you all for joining us this afternoon. please call the first item. >> clerk: first order of business is item 1, roll call. commission members please respond when i call