i support this resolution but maintain the concerns that i expressed then on environmental aspects locally and as to waste. i hear the regulatory requirement but i would try to reduce demand on that side and increase willful generation on the supply side. i appreciate the discussion that you just had. i agree that this location is farther away than the tumble weed promise and i'm concerned about transmission loss. we're moving essentially power elsewhere and storing it there for a period of time. and then moving it back here there is inherently transmission loss in that transaction. and, you know, that is something to try to avoid. i discussed this so none of this should come as a surprise. in any event, as i said last time, perhaps some periodic follow-up at a meeting would be helpful to the board and

the public as to how this is all working out. but thank you for hearing my comments and i do support the resolution before you. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. mr. adkins, can you confirm that was our last speaker? >> caller: there are no further callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. >> public comment is closed. i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion to send -- pardon me, to forward this

resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation -- [roll call] we have three ayes. >> thank you very much. item number 7. >> yes. item number 7. it is a resolution approve and authorizing the director of property and the mayor's office of housing and community development to enter into a ground lease for real propertied by the city located at 180 jones street with 180 jones associates l.p. for a lease term of 75 years and one 24-year option to extend with an annual base rent of $15,000 in order to construct a 100% affordable 70-unit multifamily rental housing development affordable to low-income households, including 35 supportive housing units available for households experiencing homelessness. and one resident manager unit approving and authorizing a loan agreement in in the amount not to exceed $13.95 million for a minimum loan term of 57 years to finances the development and construction of the project. adapting findings declaring that the property is except surplus land, pursuant to the california surplus lands act, determining that the less than market rent payable under the grounded lease will serve a public purpose by providing affordable housing for low-income households in need, in accordance to -- in

accordance with administrative code section 23.3. adopting findings that the project and proposed transactions are consistent with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1, authorizing the director of property and/or the director of mohcd to exec cute the ground lease and the loan agreement and make certain modifications to such agreements as defined and take certain actions in furtherance of this resolution and authorize the director of property and/or director of mohcd to enter into any additions, amendments or modifications to the ground lease and the loan agreement that do not materially increase the obligations for liabilities to the city and are necessary to affect wait the purposes of the ground lease of the loan agreement or this resolution. members of the bhoubl are joining us remotely and wish to comment, call 415-655-0001. and the meeting i.d. is 24886077768 and then press pound twice.

once connected to the meeting you need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. when the system prompt indicates that you have raised your hand and unmuted, that will be your cue to begin your comments. manager? >> we have m. romero to present on this item and if you can do your best to keep the presentation to three minutes, we would appreciate it. >> sure. good afternoon, chair ronen. my name is anne romero and i'm of the office of community development. i'm here to present on item 7, related to the proposed ground lease and permanent loan for 180 jones street. the purpose of the resolution is to approve and authorize the city to enter into a long-term ground lease for the property owned by the city at 180 jones. and to authorize a permanent loan agreement in the amount not to exceed $13.950,000 to finance the development as well as the associated findings. so, 180 jones is a 70-unit

affordable housing nine-story development to be cuktsd on the corner of jones and turks street with 35 supportive housing units for dultzes experiencing homelessness. tenderloin was selected in june 2019 to develop and manage the property under their response to the 180 jones developer request for qualifications which was issued in 2019. the project site and loan proceeds are provided through an inclusionary housing land dead case ining contribution from market rate developer to satisfy its inclusion nicer housing requirement. the proposed project will have 70 total studio units comprised of one manager's unit, 35 supportive housing units and 34 units which are low-income households. the sponsored secure state accelerate to and h.m.p. funding plans to start construction in early june 2022, if these approvals go through. construction would be complete in december of 2023. so i'm happy to answer any questions and thank you.

for your consideration. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, chair ronen. this would approve a $13.95 million amended and restated loan agreement for 180 jones streets associates l.l.p. and a proven ground lease. the source of the city loan is funded by a developer payment that was subject of legislation back in 2017 that waived inclusionary fees for the developer at 950 market street in exchange for our payment and this land that the city now owns. the city loan will fund a project that will be developed by tndc, half the units will be affordable housing units, half will be supportive housing units. we recommend approval.

>> members of the public that wish to speak on this item and joining us from person should line up now to speak. for those listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. there are no in-person speakers in the chamber mr. adkins. first speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon. this is anastasia ogilopoilis. this sounds like a very worthwhile project for the developer fees to be channeled into my only reservation is affordable to

what a.m.i., they say affordable units. so i'd like that to be specified and in the future you should consider doing family-side units as well for this neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you. anymore speakers? >> mr. clerk, there are no further callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation and i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. >> noted. on that motion for this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation -- [roll call] >> please add me as well. >> noted. [roll call] >> please add me as well. >> noted. we have three ayes. >> thank you so much. can you please read item number 8.

>> yes. item number 18 a resolution retroactively authorizing the departments of public health to accept and expaends grant in the amount of approximately $249,000 from the stupski foundation through the san francisco general hospital foundation for participation in a program entitled "zuckerberg san francisco general serious illness care program" for the period of september 1, 2021 through august 31, 2022. and members of the public who are joining us remotely and wish to comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. isplease call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. >> and i understand cusf is here on this item. >> thank you, supervisor.

i am the chief of the division of hospital medicine at zgsg supportive and palliative care service. i'm here with my colleague who is the chief nursing officer to provide information and answer questions regarding this resolution. we provide high quality palliative care for all san franciscoians who rely on the health network for serious illness and caregivers and families of patients with serious illness. we aim to achieve these goals through developing palliative care services that match the needs of families across all settings of care. facile tating timely discussion with patients regarding their serious care preferences and delivering collaborative partnerships. the serious illness care program is developing and implementing a range of interventions to achieve

these goals that initially will target cancer patients within their last year of life. our plan is to scale these interventions to patients with other diagnoses in the future. these interventions will capitalize on current staffing and resources and leverage established and respective partners both locally and nationally to implement proven solutions in palliative care and adapt other solutions to our unit setting in patient population. the fronts support these interventions were received by the san francisco general hospital foundation as part of donations provided by the stupski foundation to the serious illness care program. the city and county of san francisco is providing personnel resources to assist with carrying out the purpose of this grant. the total grant expanses for september 1, 2021 through august 31, 2022 are not to exceed a total amount as indicated of $248,924. and myself and terry are happy to answer any questions regarding this program and my

colleague greg wong, administrative analyst in the department of public health also has an amendment that he would like the introduce. >> thank you. would you like to introduce the amendment first? >> good afternoon, supervisors. on the resolution itself, page two, we would like the introduce the word retroactively in line 12 that the director of health is and also we would like to introduce on line 13 the second page of resolution and memorandum of understanding to replace the word "agreement". and also to cross out "and be it" at the end of the sentence. we also are removing the draft further without cause. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. i'd like to make a motion to amend the item as detailed by mr. wong. and seeing no questions, can we open up this item for

public comments? >> yes. members of public who wish to speak on this item and are joining us in person should line up now. please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. if you are waiting in the queue, please wait for the prompt. do we have any in-person speakers? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. can we please take a vote on the amendment? >> on that motion to amend this resolution as stated by d.p.h. -- [roll call] we have three ayes. >> and could we send that amended item to the full board with positive

recommendation? >> [roll call] we have three ayes. >> thank you so much for the presentation. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 9. >> yes. item number 19 a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $125,000 for the centers for disease control and prevention for participation and in a program entitled dp21-2111 closing the gap with social determinants of health accelerator plans for the period of september 30, 2021 through september 29, 2022. members of the public joining us remotely and wish to comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3.

when the system indicates you have been unmuted that will be the signal to begin your comments. madame chair? >> thank you so much. and i believe paula jones is here to present. >> yes, chair ronen. good afternoon. and vice chair safai and member marr. my name is paula jones, director of food security for the department of public health. i'm here to give you a little bit of background about what this is intended to do and how it will be used and how my colleague greg wong and also ask for an amendment to the resolution. this program is intended to address and create a multisector action plan to address social determinants of health. it will the focus on two of those determinants of health, food security and community

clinical linkages. this will be led by our office of health equity and support the creation ofs a san francisco black african american focused social determinant of health accelerator plan to improve the disparities in cardiovascular disease incident and severity. and the need for food and nutrition to manage these diseases. funds will be used to convene with community residents to create this plan as well as the leadership team will also include members of representing services agencies and other members from the departments of public health and it is intended to create stronger connection between clinical staff and food providers and to create better food solutions with high health disparities. these will be managed through a public health foundation

that is already in place. and i'm here to answer any questions on the program and greg wong will also ask for an amendment to the resolution. >> thank you. mr. wong? >> thank you very much, supervisors. we would like the introduce on a resolution on the second page, line 17, after the sentence expand the [inaudible] we would like the replace semicolon and be it with a full slot. and delete the two causes on line 18 and line 22. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. i'd like to make a motion to amends the item by mr. wong. it looks like there is no questions. can we please open up this item for public comment. >> yes. those who wish to speak on the item should line up now to speak. for those listening remotely,

please call 415-655-0001 with a meeting i.d. of 2488-607-7768 and dial pound twice. can you confirm we have no speakers? >> mr. clerk, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> public comment is now closed. can we please take a roll call vote on the amendment? >> on that motion to amend the resolution as stated by the department of public health -- [roll call] we have three ayes. >> and can we take a vote to send the item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> that amendment -- [roll call]

we have three ayes. >> thank you so much. can you please call item number 10. >> yes. item number 10 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the departments of public health to accept and expand a grant from the alliance and safety justice through san francisco general hospital foundation fors a participation in the program entitled trauma recovery center, national learning collaborative for trauma recovery centers in the amount of $135,000 for the period of october 1, 2021 through september 30, 2022. members of the public are joining us remotely and wish to comment on this item. please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. a system prompt will indicate that you raised your hand and when the system indicates you are unmuted that is your signal to begin your comments. madame chair? >> thank you so much.

stacey wiggle? >> hello and thank you. i am stacey regall of the trauma assistance recovery program and here as a representive for the department of public health regarding this grant titled trauma recovery center or t.r.c.s in the amount of $135,000 from the alliance for safety and justice. for the period of october 1, 2021 through september 30, 2022. and on behalf of my team, i would first just like to express my gratitude to the board of supervisors for your long-time support of this program. and to acknowledge that the san francisco trauma recovery center was created here in 2001 with support from the department of public health, the san francisco general

hospital foundation and ucsf. and begining in 1999, it was the san francisco general hospital found case thating gave us the money for this program and for years we have worked closely with them and with zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. with the support of the ucsf dean's office t. draw ma recovery center model is designed to remove barriers to care and to provide comprehensive support and evidence-based services for victims of violent crime. especially those from underserved communities and it is because of the success of this model and its effectiveness that it is now the state model for developing recovery trauma centers in california and there are 34t.r.c.s in eight states across the country. this grant helps support the replication of trauma recovery centers and to provide training and technical assistance to those 39 programs that are collectively serving thousands of victims of violent crime. but the growing scope of our work, this will be the last years that money for the trauma recovery center technical assistance program and the national learning collaborative will be coming to the san francisco general hospital foundation.

we respectfully request approval to accept and expand these funds. i'm here to introduce my colleague greg wong who has an amendment to the request. >> mr. wong? >> >> thank you very much. on the resolution on page 2, line 7, introducing the [inaudible] retroactively. on line 8, we would like to replace the word "agreement" with "memorandum of understanding" and at tend of the sentence we would like to replace the semicolon ands so be it. and on line 11, we would like the delete the last further result. thank you very much. >> thank you. i'd like to make a notion amend item 10 as detailed by mr. wong. and i just wanted to thank you, ms. regal for your work

and it is very exciting and i would love to be a co-sponsor of this item. thank you for piloting and starting a model that is being spread all over. it is super impressive and very grateful for your work w. that, can we open up this item for public comment? >> yes, madame chair, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3.

please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will indicate the cue to begin your comments. we have no one in chamber. mr. adkins, do we have anyone on the phone? >> caller: mr. clerk, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. >> public comment is closed. could we take a roll call vote on the amendments? >> on that motion to amend this resolution by the department of public health -- [roll call] >> we have three ay irks. >> and could we take a roll call vote on a motion to send the amended item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended -- [roll call] we have three ayes. >> thank you so much. and last but certainly not least k you read item number 11? >> yes. item number 11 is an ordinance amending the administrative dozed authorize short term extensions for construction contracts, goods and services contracts and grants to mitigate staffing shortages and to authorize amendments to modify skoem and compensation for goods and services contracts to mitigate supply shortages. members of the public who

wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. a prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand and the system will also indicate that you have been unmuted and that will be your signal to begin your comments. madame chair? >> thank you so much. and we have rachel tuckerman. >> i work closely with the office of contract administration. there are contracting agencies within the organization. i'm here to present the short term contract ordinances that will allow the departments to extend existing agreements for a duration of 12 months with the objective of giving them a time to conduct solicitations and so that they can continue their operations in the meantime.

first i would like to thank our sponsors, supervisor ronen and safai and melgar and mandelman w., that i think we have a presentation via teams and she will be going through this item. >> so first i'm going to go over the purpose of the legislation and then a few of the details behind it. a you're probably aware, the city and our departments are facing a backlog in contracts and day-to-day procurement activities and this is really due to three reasons. one, there's been the covid emergency and departments and spend ago couple of years responding to the emergency at hand. which has really meant that day-to-day operations needed to be delayed while we focused on the emergency. the second is the great resignation and this is true in our contract analysts positions. this can be particularly

difficult with contracts analyst positions because san francisco's contracts rules and regulations are highly complex and unique to the city of san francisco so when you get a vacancy in one of these positions and able to fill it, it can still take upwards of a year to train that person so they can really manage solicitation and contracting process. and then last but not least, the covid emergency has also led to supply chain issues making it difficult to get to high inflation rates, making it hard to work with any existing contracts. next slide, please. i'm going to quickly go over some details of the legislation. as the -- as i mentioned earlier, this is a short term contract extension that allows departments to extend existing agreements for a 12-month duration. with the objective of giving them time to conduct solicitations while continuing their operations under the existing agreements.

the ordinance also allows departments to add dollars to the contract, if necessary, commensurate with the duration increase and it sunsets on july 1, 2023. next slide, please. i think the important thing to highlight here is we're asking for an extension of time but not a change in process. so when departments do amends their contracts, they need to go through normal or standard amendment procedures. what this means that the city attorney will need to review any contract amendment. if it's a chapters 21 agreement, the office of contract administration will review and approve that amendment. for example, if an amendment is increased over $10 million for for 10 years, lit come to the board for review and approval as well. we're also working with the controller's office to make sure that we can track and monitor any use of this ordinance and report out if requested. and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions.

>> thank you so much. i don't believe there are any questions so could we please open this item up for public comment? >> yes, ma domestic chair. -- yes, madame chair. members of the public who wish to speak, line up to speak. for those remotely, please call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2488-607-7768 and press pound twice. to request to speak, press star 3. we have no in-person speakers. do we have any on the line? >> caller: david pillpel again. last time during this meeting. i am concerned about changes to contract authority. i think the mohammad nuru situation in the last couple of years showed very clearly the need for effective controls on city contracts.

this would allow staff in various departments to amend and extend contracts without the normal approvals from this board and perhaps others under applicable code sections. i think a better solution is not to do this. but to hire and assign staff to o.c.a. and elsewhere, including the city attorney's office. perhaps c.m.d., including the use of prop-f retirees. i know there are several recent retirees in various departments or from various departments that could help here as well as knowledgeable staff in other departments that could be assigned to o.c.a. and elsewhere. i know that taryna and others have been working hard and over time considerably over the last two-years to make contract work happen. it is not fair to her and to them to have the existing situation continue. but i think that this

proposed ordinance would change the situation, not necessarily in a good way to protect the taxpayers and citizens, but might create more problems in terms of contracts. so i would just ask the board to think very carefully about this approach and whether it sets a bad precedent for other types of changinging to contract authority and the various sections that are bedrock to contract work in the city. thank you for listening. >> thank you. mr. adkins, do we have anymore speakers? >> caller: mr. clerk, there are no further callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> public comment is closed. supervisor safai? >> thank you. i'll be real brief. i just want to say that i appreciate the office of city administrator and contracting for this thoughtful proposal.

i know that from conversations there is a shortage of supplies. i know that from conversations that there is an inability if you were to go out and rebid these contracts now, you would pay more money so the city would be paying more money given the shortage of those supplies and the competitive nature of the market. i think it is very thoughtful that it will expire in one year. it gives us the ability to look at what we're doing and then you will give us a report. i know the b.l. will work with the controller to provide that report. under normal circumstances, we would not be doing this. but these are not normal circumstances as you laid out. we're in the process of hiring and in a competitive market with a shortage of supplies and good answer if we were to rebid many of these contracts, first of all we might not get any response of bidders. people may not be interested. and secondly we would be paying a lot morse money. so appreciate the nimbleness of this. this is what governments should be doing.

the ability to have flexibility and so we will be watching this. but the fact that it's one year gives me confidence that it is the right thing to do in this environment. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor? >> i just wanted to thank the city administrator and office of contract administration and the controller's office for all of your work on hiring and contracting streamlining and i know this is the first legislation to come forward from all that work and appreciate all the thought and work that went into this and i would like to be added as a co-sponsor as well. >> thank you so much. and i echo both my colleague's comments. mr. clerk, can you -- i will make a motion to send this item to a full board with positive recommendations. could we have a roll call vote? >> yes, madame khaifrment on that motion to forthat -- forward it to the full board. [roll call]

we have three ayes. >> thank you so much. and is there any other items on the agenda today? >> madame chair, that concludes our business. >> the meetinging is adjourned and i will just make a quick announcement that we're going to return a little late to start the budget and appropriatations meeting at 1:15. so, we can have a proper lunch. thank you. >> very well. thank you.

>> good morning. i am mark buhl. i have the pleasure of vice chair of the board of the trust. on behalf of the chair, current board and our past board, i welcome you today to a long journey and celebration of a vision, a dream that actually came true. you will hear from other people who have been on that journey about how we got to where we are, but is this not the most spectacular setting in the world? (applause). i was thinking as i was coming here today. this is part and parcel to a bigger dream and there are people here who were participating in that many years

ago. the result of that dream was a renaissance in building really wonderful open space for the people of bay area and people around the world. chrisy field began and the parade ground, then be the tunnel tops which we open in july, battery bluffs. in san francisco we have francisco park opened in two weeks. we are working on an enormous park in bayview at indian bays sin shoreline. these are terrific projects that represent the spirit in san francisco about open space and people enjoying it. if you think about it 75% of the people in the city are renters. this is their backyard. we have a responsibility to give them the back yard we can. now as some of you have heard me say over the 25 years that i have been barking about parks, victory has many parents and

defeet is an orphan. today we celebrate the parents who made this possible. there are a combination of government entities and as important philanthropy from generous people who care very much about i would say because parks really benefit everybody. philanthropy is a way to make a difference in people's lives. you will hear more about that later, too. on behalf of past trust board members and the current ones, we welcome you and appreciate you being here. my job is to simply welcome some special guests. you will hear from them speaking in a minute. if i find it we will be in business. the wind is not cooperating.

let us start with a woman who will arrive in about 10 minutes. normally runs about 15 minutes late. that is because she is busy doing her job. that would be mayor london breed. we have michael alexander, chair of is spur task force and leader of the effort to have the plan adopted by caltrans all the way from vancouver to join us today. thank you very much. alisha, president and c.e.o. spur and long time champion of the parks. supervisor mandelman, chair of the san francisco county transportation authority. one of the civic partners who made this happen. david abbule, chief district director for caltrans which built the parkway. thank you, david.

i would like to welcome supervisor stefani. connie chan was to be here. catherine toy from the california natural resource agency. phil ginsburg, general manager of san francisco recreation and park department. shout out for phil. representatives from the offices of senator. i know dan burnell is here for nancy pelosi. we have a representative from senator weiner's office. special welcome to susan painter, spouse of late michael painter who inspired us to think about the redesigned companyial drive. susan is here with her children

melissa and josh. thank you for being here. that is the heart of this really. also, i recognize current trust board member nicola minor. thank you for being here today. former trust board members janet riley, collins and the last one i will mention if they gave me 15 more minutes i could address this just to her, amy meyer is here. give her a hand. we would not look at open space had it not been for this woman and arm twisting of phillip burden to draw the map and put that also clause in there that said if the army ever leaves it goes to the national park. thank you, amy. (applause). to our wonderful partnership for the presidio laura,

superintendent of national recreation area tiring in a few days from 32 years of service. laura. thank you. i am going to miss that talent. chris leonard, c.e.o. of golden gate national park conservancy. let me say over the 25 years of their existence they raised over $500 million for the golden gate national parks. that is the gold standard in the country. no one comes to a close second. thank you for what you do. [applause]. c.e.o. greg moore who had a lot to do with that $500 million. he twists arms almost as well as amy does. do we have board chair stacy slaughter? not here. more importantly, i want to

recognize two families here. mark and jane perry are here. i believe amy and gordon ritter. are they here? this is how you get things done in parks. i know mark and laurie jane helped not only here but in other parks. that little one across from where they live. for all you do. thank you very much. sh it is my pleasure to allow the people to say a few words. we will start with michael bolin. >> hey, happy earth day everyone. what more spectacular way to celebrate earth day than a new park over a freeway. how often does that happen?

it is not bad. it is gorgeous. we are so excited and grateful. my job is to tell a little bit of a story. that story starts in 1989. it is a really important year. i will not go year by year. this will be quick. 1989 is important in the history of the presidio. in january the army didn't need the land any more and thanks to phil burton and amy meyer this land was going to transfer to the national park service to become part of this system of 410 national parks across our country. that is an important moment. the park service began this process to work with thousands of members of the public to create a vision for this place as national park.

that started a public conversation. what could this place be and what does it mean to be a national park? later in the year come october was the world series. i remember it well. there was a little shake called the earthquake. that started a different conversation because we realized the elevated highways around the bay were vulnerable. this one which carried over 100,000 people each day was especially vulnerable. caltrans began a public conversation about the future of this highway. these two intertwined but parallel conversations began. the result is a world class vision for a parkway rather than freeway that as mark mentioned has allowed us to do some of the things we aspire to do at the presidio to reconnect

waterfront with the heart, to transform the center, take an area that a reporter this morning said to me i wish that chrissy field wasn't part of the presidio. i wonder if that is because doyle drive used to be such a wall. it is great to have independent confirmation from a local. doyle drive cut the park in two. now what the presidio park has done is allow us to pull it. we have one presidio now. one visitor experience, new gateway to the presidio and to the national parks all over the country. that is the reason for the park to be the national park for all. what an incredible vision that

michael painter had. so many people pushed forward. so many of you took the notion and transformed it into reality. thank you all for being part of that journey. you know, my mentor, greg moore said to me many times a dream without resources is hallucination which i love. i use that with my staff all of the time. i am a landscape architect. we are notorious for hallucinations about places. what is so inspiring this was a big bold vision. you all came together to find the resources to make it reality. thank you for that. today is a celebration of all of you. today is celebration of everyone that is not here that came together to make this vision reality. really the purpose of today is to both honor you and to give

the key players that played an important role to bring this vision to life an opportunity to tell their stories. thank you for being here. thank you for everything you have done to make the parkway a reality. [applause]. it is my honor to introduce a good friend. michael alexander. >> thank you, michael. we started with two conversations and how they were brought together. when the earthquake occurred it

was clear that the drive which was many decades old not in the best structural shape was going to have to be replaced. the san francisco board of supervisors. thank you, supervisors, formed a doyle drive committee and as signed it the task of bringing together the various elements of san francisco and reporting back on what we wanted. this included caltrans. a lot of neighbors. the sierra club, the spur. all sorts of people. i was elected vice chair. we got to work. it was tough. caltrans came in with 26 different designs.

they said choose one. we didn't like any of them. the problem was that we knew what we didn't like. we had no idea what we did like, what we really wanted. this went on for months. we were meeting at the golden gate bridge district offices. months and months, getting nowhere. until and we always asked at the end of each meeting was there anybody from the public who wanted to comment or ask questions? nobody ever did until one day this one guy stood up and said i would like to speak. michael painter unrolled a hand colored and hand drawn drawing of the presidio from the

perspective he had seen it which was, believe it or not, on top of the dome of the palace of fine arts. that is where he got his vision. he brought it to us, a road that thatnescled into the main post d was hidden with two segments. in that minute, 10 minutes, we knew what we wanted. that was it. it was that clear and that simple. it was not easy from there on. we had a lot of debates, caltrans decided that it was what michael wanted to do was not feasible.

their engineering group that was hired echoed that. i went to spur. i said we have a problem here. fortunately jim chapel had a brainstorm idea. he said let's get the great engineering firm that had a san francisco office involved and let them decide whether michael's design is feasible or not. they came back and it is here and some of the other guys came back and said not only is it feasible. it fits much better into the park. it will cost less than any of the caltran designs. there was the magic moment. i will leave it at that because others will describe what went

on from there, but it was wonderful. i just want to say one other thing here. i have a photograph. i was a magazine photographer. i have a photograph of this little chung of concrete 10 feet long and 3 feet high covered graffiti. the only picture i took of the batteries because that was all that was to be seen. i came here today having seen none of what is exposed now. i said to bolan where did this come from? he said we uncovered it. it is fabulous. it absolutely blew me away. it tells the history of world war ii at the golden gate. thank you very much.

[applause] >> thank you for being the invisible hand behind the presidio parkway project. always by michael's side to make this happen. thank you from coming down from vancouver. it is great to see you. i will now introduce this community's fearless leader. our mayor, the honorable london breed. [applause]. >> mayor breed: i am wearing heels in the park. i am in awe of the view and the magic of what i feel today. when i think about conception of

projects that take place in san francisco and then seeing the results of the work the hard work of so many people who have a vision for what something like this could be, it is really amazing. it is not surprising. we are always thinking outside the box. thinking about new innovative ways to make the city more beautiful than it is. what an amazing testament to michael's legacy. thank you, susan for being here today. his work here and vision along with the doyle drive task force and people who care about the presidio and wanted it to be this place where we know these

views have existed since the golden gate bring was -- bridge was built. it is amazing. it is something we all can cherish. when i traveled all over europe to talk about san francisco and what is new, i talked about battery bluff, the tunnel tops, the fireworks, fort lauderdale -- fourth of julyand the thingsd with the feeling of comfort and excitement from the golden gate bridge to the beautiful water and all that that entails. we know the city is special. we know that when we make spaces like this. waterfront spaces like this available and open to all people, it has a tremendous impact on our mental health, on

our happiness because we saw during the pandemic just how important parks and open space really was. they were so crowded and so heavily used. as we began to reopen and our economic recovery, of course, is important. also, what is equally important is how we continue to beauty fiand support and uplift our parks, open space, residents and all of what that entails. i have been really fortunate to go to a number of these park renovations, park open space, downtown in the middle of the high rises, the sales force park, new space we opened at 5mwhere the chronicle building is. what i also appreciate more

about these projects is the support from the private sector. the public private partnership that exists where san francisco and people who care about the assets say we are going to contribute the resources to making this happen. you have people like our fearless leader nancy pelosi fighting in congress to bring in resources to make it a priority. thank you, dan, to be here to represent our speaker. you have people like jim from spur and others who are looking at innovative ways to make our city an urban city more functional for all of us and the national park service and presidio trust and rec and park department and phil ginsburg is here to create this space so it is not just a place where freeway passes, a place where cars drive. it is a place where people walk

and picnic and bike and throw balls around and hang out and just enjoy life. i am really grateful to be here to celebrate this milestone in our city's history. i look forward to coming here to enjoy this space. i really look forward especially to what happens when we opened the tunnel top. together these two spaces provide open public park space of over 50 acres of san franciscans to enjoy. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. thank you for making sure that san francisco is the most beautiful, innovative and most livable city in america. it is a miracle. i fly home from traveling and

look at the golden gate from the air every day. thank you. it is my pleasure to introduce alisha john baptiste c.e.o. and president of spur. alisha. >> thank you. hi everybody. looking at where we are today, i have been having a hard time remembering the old doyle drive. it is also a little hard to believe that there was a moment in time when this vision seemed like it might not be possible. it is true that there was no guarantee at the beginning of this effort we will have a rebuilt doyle drive anything other than 8 lane highway. the process started with a task force which is very san francisco and it was a classic

task force, a ton of stakeholders, very few shared points of view. everybody was very certain their opinion was the right opinion. they were all valid. we needed to come together toward something that is whole community could rally around. it really was when michael painter came to the room to say here is a vision for a parkway that people have something to start to generate common cause around. even with that galvanizing vision it was still an effort. it took extraordinary perseverance and courage on behalf of all people involved to make that vision a reality because we know that to get to something transformative we start with the vision but we have to work through all of the messy reality to get to the end of the road. speaking of proverbs i heard a

japanese proverb that said vision without action is a daydream. action without vision is a nightmare. we have all experienced that. i am proud of the work my press deassessors did in this. the spur roll was to keep the stakeholders together. keep that group focused on the vision but really to support the professionals in their work so that what they were delivering for the community was the best for the community. i do want to note we are in this moment now where we have another opportunity to really make enormous investments in infrastructure. thank you, nancy pelosi. think of this as an example of infrastructure in partnership and done in a manner that puts a

bold vision at the center. for us at spur we will continue to tell the story of the presidio parkway. it is so important to recognize what we can do when we come together around bold vision, with courage and with perseverance. before i sign off i want to acknowledge a couple of people who just were instrumental in the spur work or realizing this place where we are today. michael painter in whose memory we are here. amy meyer and the recreation area and jim cappel and michael alexander and the whole team bringing about this outcome. to the san francisco county transportation authority for your efforts. to caltrans.

the work to prove the validity of the payler plan -- painter plan was instrumental. to the many thousands of people regular residents of san francisco who said we want something more. they gave their time, energy, commitment to making this dream a reality. grateful to all of you and thank you so ever. [applause] >> thank you. this is a project that only happened because of a very unique partnership. one of the hallmarks with the interesting partnership between local, state and federal agencies working with the private sector and the community to secure resources and deliver the project. one of the key players is the san francisco county transportation authority. it is my pleasure to introduce

our next speaker. supervisor mandelman, chair of s.f.c.t.a. welcome. >> what a beautiful day. i am the supervisor for district 8. all supervisors think their districts are the most beautiful and best. supervisor stefani up folks in the northern part of the city do all right. it is such a pleasure to be here to represent the transportation authority and decades of work for which i am not responsible. i am happy to bask in the flow on behalf of those decades of transportation authority staff and board commissioners. i want to congratulate again the presidio trust and jean frazier and michael bow lanfor

extraordinary work for the city and for the presidio. i want to echo and this is said before. dan bernal, please thank your boss on behalf of all of us. she recognized and knew that this had to be a park and came up with the way to do that in very hostile conditions with tough republicans making it very hard along the way and her mentor phil burton and amy meyer thank you for all you did to create this regional park that we benefit from throughout the bay area. i had the opportunity to see this a few weeks ago. to see this work in progress almost done. i was stunned by the views. i want to thank all people who did so much work. landscape architects and plants

and all of the people who delivered this here. i think my special role is to talk about the transportation project, too, big transportation project. it is a gorgeous park. there was a roadway running through here not too long ago. it used to divide the six acres of natural beauty and they are reconnected to another public space to enjoy the shoreline. presidio project was carefully designed not only to improve safety for motorists but also improve access to the golden gate national recreation area. transportation authority as cosponsor allocated transportation sales tax funds for planning, design and

construction that were matched by major investments with the state's, federal government and private sector. more than $2 of outside funding for every local doll laare in the project. thank you to the voters who approved the prop k sales tax in 2003 for support of safe reliable transportation and accessible open spaces like this one. the voters are going to have, we think, another opportunity to vote on the extension of the prop k sales tax this fall. projects like this will make it easy to convince the voters it is a good investment. i want to thank the people who did the hard work. executive director chang for everything you are doing in transportation in san francisco.

really the prior executive director who is here louise and your mom is here. wave. you did such a good job. you gave us louie. jose louise led the parkway through the early stages of planning and approval. tilley called him the master strategist for making it a reality. sometimes those transportation planners do amazing things. thank you. thank you to michael painter whose vision design enabled the battery bluffs. thank you for being here. i want to thank projects and cosponsors on the project caltrans, current and former

directors, whose partnership was instrumental throughout the project. thank you, of course, to the many workers, designers and contributors who helped with the project. it is the work of many hands and demonstrates the excellence and design and results in public infrastructure to not only serve needs of residents and economy but something beautiful that reflects and respects surroundings and serve and inspire our region for generations to come. thank you everybody. enjoy. >> thank you, supervisor. next it is my pleasure to welcome representative of the other key partner in the highway project, david ambule.

she director for caltrans. welcome. >> i would like to congratulate you for hosting today the beautiful park to celebrate dieio diversity of the bay area and honors the history of san francisco landmark. since being founded by the spanish in the late 1700s. it has undergone several major transformations. caltrans, $1.1 billion redesign of doyle drive has played an integrate part in the latest trap importantmation. -- transformation. design for 21st century. for battery bluff caltrans invested $50 million in land scape improvements of the it is money well spent. i am certain future visitors agree. people forget it was built in

1937. it wasment to be nothing than a utility roadway from the golden gate bridge. it was designed to not interfere with military activities of the presidio and keeping public out of the base. we moved on from that design and with forward thinking vision of late michael painter they worked to develop an open space that celebrates the beauty of this area while making it accessible for everyone. it is truely striking. the engineers teams at caltrans and the county transportation authority certainly had challenges. rebuilding the retraining wall for the national cemetery provided opportunity for engineering team to create design that honored the veterans while celebrating the beauty of the area. in addition, dedication to the project helped provide many of

the yous everyone is enjoying today. i would like to thank some of the individuals who helped make this project a reality. our depdeputy for design. chief of the design team t.project management. jonathanen inc. project honoring the past and future is commendable. thank you for the efforts. they will appreciate your work. i would be remiss if i don't say the long-term project manager and director who is here to help celebrate the opening of the park. for us the leadership and

foresight. it made this reality and it made us work to be better and do better things. i would like to thank the people of san francisco for supporting this wonderful project and without your support and understanding for the inconveniences that construction brings we wouldn't have a project like this today. finally, i would like to encourage every one to take a moment before they leave to remember the past and think about your future when you come to visit battery bluff. thank you. appreciate it. [applause]. >> it is my pleasure to introduce the final speaker. friend and boss. fearless leader of the presidio trust.

>> i am rarely known for being speechless. i really am. >> thank you very much. i thought it was going to rain. then i thought what better way to celebrate earth day with rain in san francisco. it is beautiful. this project like everything we do in the presidio was collaboration. you have heard of many people who participated in this. >> in closing i would like to thank those not mentioned. i have been in public service all of my life. i have been in government service.

i believe that government in if hands of the right people with the right ideas is the greatest force for good human kind has ever created. [applause]. as we see the problems that government can create. celebrate the people not mentioned. all of the people who toil for low pay and in obscurity to make projects happen. i would like to have every person who has served at any time whether you have been elected, appointed or you are a staff member in any level of local government, city and county of san francisco, rec and park department, municipal transit authority, county transportation authority and all of us at the local level please rise to be recognized for all of

your work. [applause] >> they may being sure the streets are clean and parks are beautiful and hospitals are running. thank you for keeping us moving, healthy and keeping parks beautiful. we have also colleagues at the regional and state level who toil in obscurity often because they are further away from the people they serve. i want to give a shout out to caltrans. this is not an easy project. i personally was not so easy to deal with on this project. all of our colleagues. if you ever served at state level as elected or appointed or staff member in the metropolitan transportation or caltrans, golden gate bridge district,

please stand up to be recognized for your work on this project and everything else you do to keep this state running. [applause]. to my colleagues in federal service. we are honored to be a small but mighty part of the golden gate national recreation area, which is one of over 400 units of the unbelievably magnifcertainty national park system. i would like to honor everyone on the federal level with the federal highway administration who helped with the project, national park service, united states park police which provide security and law enforcement in the presidio. if you have ever been elected, appointed or staff member of the federal government including all of my colleagues at the presidio

trust please stand and by recognized for all of your work. [applause]. >> here together is an example of government doing something wonderful for ourselves, colleagues, friends, neighbors, children, grandparents and for the entire world. thank you for everything you have done to make this project a reality and for everything you do to keep government in the united states something we can all be proud of. [applause]. >> thank you, jean. now, i would like to invite the speakers susan painter, supervisor stefani, chris and laura to join me at the garland to formally open the battery.

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tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as it's moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the affordable housing in general people want a safe and clean community they see did changed coming is excited for every. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. >> when we were just getting

started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience

whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. >> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. >> we've created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. >> oewd is oak on aortas a driver for san francisco. >> we've got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street we've seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now they're coming to us. >> today, we learned about the

office of economic workforce development and it's effort to foster community and make the buyer market street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor.

i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪]

>> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the

family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that

diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made

to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much.

>> commissioner griffin: here. >> commissioner hallisy: here. >> commissioner jupiter-jones: here. >> commissioner mazzola: here. >> the san francisco recreation and park commission acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone people. we honor the people for their enduring commitment to mother earth. as the indigenous protecters and of the land, the ramaytush ohlone has never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities to this place. as stewards of parkland we recognize our duty to honor the ramaytush ohlone. as uninvited guest