this is the third event we've done this year and the other two, the bristol and the abigail are some of the best in the country. and at a time when people all around the country are complaining about homelessness and saying what are the solutions. we're acquiring permanent supportive housing and that's the only answer because people need housing, they need a roof over their heads and this particular project as i said earlier, tenants from the baldwin hotel will be moving here and they've been in very

tiny rooms on 6th street with no private baths.' this is the first hotel ever acquired by the city that has not only all private baths, but microkitchens in every room. they have microwaves, entire kitchens set up. a giant stove for people who really want to cook right around the corner and this is what i call s.r.o.2.0. this is what we want to see as the future. you know dpock and then cathy. cathy's late husband enrique used to team with d-pock and then they turned it over to the city for us to run. mary's done a great job here. no further adieu. we'll let you speak. [ applause ] >> well, so first of all, let me just say, i want to

acknowledge many of the people who are outside and working in our various places around the tenderloin community from sciu and many of the workers who even during the pandemic still showed up to work. thank you for your service. thank you for supporting the community in this neighborhood despite the challenges of a pandemic. we were able to still push for an expansion of many new hotels and affordable housing and i know it hasn't been easy. and so i hear your request and i am taking them very seriously and i just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the various employees of not just the garland, but many of the supportive service housing locations throughout the city because we couldn't do this work without you. we know this work is important. we know there are people who are getting back on their feet. you know, it could happen to anyone at any given time.

anyone could fall unfortunately victim to challenges around behavioral health, around substance use disorder, around poverty. and the ability to do what we're doing here today is so important. and d-pock, i just want to thank you so much because i feel like we continue to do these great partnerships, but most importantly, i appreciate how much care you take into making sure these places look good for the people that are going to be here. how you've gone out of your way in addition to another location that we've workeded together on and provided even a television in a congregate room where people can come and gather as a community and it means a lot. it's the little things that make a difference and so we appreciate you and your family and your work to help us get san francisco's most vulnerable population housed. and the thing is, we set out in

2018 or 2019 to increase the number of shelters in san francisco and what we set out a goal to do was to add 1,500 new shelters to our portfolio. the fact is we're almost there and i'm really proud and excited. it's the largest expansion of shelter in san francisco in over 20 years, but in addition to shelter, what we've learned from this pandemic is people need their own space. people need their own bathrooms and their own food prep areas. i mean, these are things that many of us are so blessed to have in our lives. things we take for granted every single day when we walk through the doors of our home, it's what other people sadly don't have, the people who unfortunately are sleeping on the sidewalk, are sleeping in tents, are sleeping in some cases in many of our single room occupancy hotels where they have to share a bathroom

and have no control over the whole cleaning situation that occurs in those locations. that's why this place is so important. 80 new units where you have your own space where you have dignity. where you don't have to share your space with people that you may not even know and people that you may not even get along with. that is so important and this is direction that we need to be headed in. now, i know we built navigation centers and a number of other places to provide support for people living on the streets, but i want us as a city to move away from that model. to move towards those small homes, the cabins we just opened at 33 goff. i want us to move towards places like the garland and focus on places that will allow people to live in their own space and live their lives as i

said with dignity. this is so important and we were able to do this because of federal support from h.u.d. because of the state support through project home key and because of the resources we provided in our budget through the city and working with randy shaw and the tenderloin housing clinic and the work that they continue to do to manage these facilities to provide the supportive services, to work with the city and what we have available to make sure that we are not only getting people housed, but we're keeping them housed, and then we're thinking about the challenges that they might face with their mental health or their personal care or just basic hygiene. and let me tell you this quick story because many of you know that i grew up in the city and i remember there was this gentleman who i knew all my

life. and he with the older guys would hang out in this location. and we all lived in plaza east. this was public housing, and, yes, people didn't go there unless they lived there, but we didn't have people sleeping on the sidewalk. everybody had a place to go. and so just imagine you fast forward and this same gentleman who i'm not going to put his business out in the street, but he's sleeping near safeway at webster. and he was homeless we found out for five years. he lost his housing. he had challenges with his social security. he didn't know where to go or what to do because he did accept when plaza east was torn down. he accepted a section eight voucher and he just struggled from that point forward and he was homeless. fast forward, we built the willy b. apartments we used

neighborhood preference and we were able to not only get him housed, but we were able to provide the services to ensure that he stays housed because it wasn't -- he had his social security, but he had trouble in terms of balancing things and making the right decisions because he used to have someone who helped him to do that and he no longer did and that's why he ended up homeless and that is the tragedy. we can't just take for granted everyone knows what to do and how to do it especially in an expensive complex city like san francisco and that's why services are so important and that's why it's so expensive. people are wondering why you're spending so much money and we don't see changes on the streets. john will disagree with you because there's a change in his life right now and it's a blessing. it's a blessing that he is here and our goal is to try and do everything we can in this city

to make sure that people like john and his friends are not ending up on the streets. we have a lot of work to do in this city, but we're also committed to doing everything we can to make sure places like the garland become the norm and not the exception. thank you all for joining us here today as we really celebrate this milestone. so much more work to be done. as you can see with all the folks that are here today, we are committed to that work and we're not going to give up. thank you. >> i want to thank the mayor for acknowledging our workers because one of the problems we have is that this proceeded mayor breed by years is that the salary levels for the

workers in these hotels have not kept up. so all our jobs in the tenderloin housing clinic and all these jobs are in-person jobs, can't work at home. we've got to get the salaries raised in the next budget to make sure we can hire people and staff the hotels. i also want to mention, i was talking to a reporter and they said, well, you know, we have so many homeless people. is 80 units going to make a difference? some people have that attitude, but that's how you solve a problem by doing it building by building and that's what this mayor is doing and the mayor made another great decision when she named her ahead of h.s.h. and ever since shareem's team got in there she made it better. so why don't you give some talk as well. [ applause ] >> so, thank you, randy, and

thanks so much for inviting us today. this is really exciting. and i want to just start by thanking mayor breed for her leadership and i think you can tell from what she just said that this is a deeply personal issue for her and that she cares very much about san franciscans being housed and the garland is exactly what she said. this is the wave of the future for us. it's really nice to be in a building where people have their own bathrooms. where people have kitchens. i got to talk to john a little bit about how exciting it is to be moving in here from the baldwin and he got to see his room this morning which is just amazing and so i'm just very excited. i want to also just welcome you, john, to your new home. yeah. and i also want to thank del semore who is the mayor of the tenderloin. love working with del.

he's also a lead are on our local homeless coordinating board and is just everywhere and he pushes us to be a better department. through his lived experience and his wisdom. i also just want to say this building which is master leased and operated by t.h.c. will have on site staff and critically on site support services for people exiting chronic homelessness. and, yes, we absolutely need to support the work force. the lease of this building is part of the mayor's historic homeless recovery plan and a demonstration of the department of homelessness and the housing mission to make homelessness rare, brief, and one time. currently, there are 1,490 active units and an additional little over a 1,000 extra units in the city's pipeline of new supportive housing. this puts the mayor's recovery plan at 99% of the goal today, but we are on track to reach

170% of our goal by the end of the fiscal year, which is only a few months away. permanent supportive housing such as the garland provides stability and hopefully a path out of homelessness permanently. we believe strongly that housing is a solution to homelessness and this property is the newest home we can provide for the community. i'm going to now turn the event back over to randy shaw and randy will move us into q&a. [ applause ] >> i know the mayor's schedule is tight but do you want to look a room. >> okay.

>> the hon. london breed: all right. hello, everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and i am extremely excited to swear in jose fuentes almanza. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i've got to say, it always brings me so much pride and joy when i get to swear in san francisco natives, and i definitely don't hold it against you that you went to balboa high school, the second best high school in san francisco, right behind galileo. that's right, state champs. i was really proud of the balboa football team who became the state champions. we had a great celebration here

in san francisco, and i'm always so proud of our young people. as a kid who grew up in san francisco in those years, back in the day, we remember many of the challenges that existed in san francisco, but we also know that san francisco was a place of opportunity, and balboa high school was that place of opportunity for jose, who was able to be an apprentice, who was able to move up in the ranks and be a part of an incredible union, local 6, the electricians, who do a lot of wonderful work for san francisco, and who have been really great in providing opportunities for city build. we know it's a part of the larger building trades family here, so it's great to see rudy gonzales here, and tom mazzola. this seat has traditionally been a labor seat, one in which

the person who is a part of labor, it's usually somebody very prestigious, and the mazzolas, they don't necessarily do a change in leadership very lightly when it comes to this seat, so the fact that they dug deep, and they found someone that they could pass the torch to must mean that you are a very significant person in the labor world, and we are very proud and excited to have you join. i wanted to take this opportunity, we have so many partners and labor leaders here and members of our airport commission. i'm not sure -- oh, ivar made it, i see. ivar, the airport director as well as jane natoli and malcom young, and also thank you to

myrna melgar of our board of supervisors. thank you so much, as well as thank you to our labor leaders. mr. mazzola, sr. has been a labor leader in this area for decades. he paid a lot of attention to not just the work that needed to be done, but all the major projects and construction going during this time at the airport, he made sure that small businesses and people who were part of the fabric of san francisco had opportunities, always asking the right questions, always paying attention to everything and all the details. and i know, based on your history, based on your work, and based on your love of san francisco that you're going to do an extraordinary job, so we're looking forward to seeing you serve. clearly, you have a tremendous amount of support. everyone is asking to be on this commission, by the way,

but it's not just about who i want to appoint, it's about what's in the best interests of the city, and more importantly, this is just -- the tremendous amount of support from labor demonstrates that you are clearly the right person, but i also take a lot of pride in the fact that you are not only a native san franciscan but the first latina to be appointed to this body -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: -- which has been long overdue, so it's time. come on up, jose. let me get you sworn in. all right. please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, please state your name, do

solemnly swear to support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic; that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter, and during such time as i serve as commissioner for the airport commission of the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. [applause]

>> the hon. london breed: here's your official city pin. wear it right next to your -- how did they do this before i even had a chance. wasn't even sworn yet. >> i was told this is unofficial. >> the hon. london breed: and look how big that is. this is the whole world can see. it's, like, i'm a commissioner, but i've got class. there's your commission pin and your pin from me. wear it with pride. all right. commissioner, let's hear a few words. [applause] >> well, clearly, as you can see, this is not what i normally do. thank you for the confidence in me. appreciate that. look forward to being part of a great team and being a -- being able to help any which way i

can to make this the world's best airport and increasing the capacity. there was so much more in my head before i got up here. and most, importantly, my wife, janet, my son, antonio, all my friends, colleagues, and everybody out here. thank you very much. >> the hon. london breed: let's get you signed in. all right. there we go.

all right. it's official. [applause] welcome

to the local agency formation commission i'm connie chan. chair and joined by gordon mar. jacky fielder and shanti singh the pleasing. and thank sfgov.org for broadcasting. clerk. do you have announce ams. >> i do before we start may i take roll call. >> yes, >> thank you. >> on the call the roll. chair chan. >> present. >> vice chair