>> good morning everyone. thank you all so much for being here today to mark the completion of the all new southeast family health center. [applause] >> yeah. my name is carla short the entroom director for san francisco public works and i have the honor kicking off the festivities. i'll turn it over to mayor breed in a moment but ypt to tell you one thing that stuck out for me for this project and that is teamwork. this is a collaborative effort from start to finish. public works lead design

project management and construction management and worked very closely with the department of public health, which will operate this amazing facility, a clinic that plays a critical control in the bayview and san francisco neighborhood health center network. the arts community helped enrich interior can art work and local agencies and initiative helped pitch in with funding. we had more then 40 contractors collaborate on this project and much of the labor came from local residents. it is always great to see when a project can help support jobs in our community. the driving force of course have been the community members who made sure the city delivered. the community partnership has been the foundation of this project success. and i reallypt to note the beautiful glass wall that is designed to welcome the community to this building. this is meant to be a building for the community. -thank you. yes. [applause]

i doopt to take a moment to thank some of our great public works teams who helped shepherd the project along. some of the key players include our city architect ron alameda who is here. the bureau of architectural manager julia loe also here. the project architect charles king and richard gee. i know i saw charles earlier. the lead design architect, greta jones. project manager, (inaudible) and construction manager (inaudible) ed ryan. from the drawing work to work on side the project managem construction helped make the important project come to life creating spaces that bring people together and express community vision for itself. thank you also to the fantastic artists and i hope everyone will get a chance to see the beautiful art inside.

(inaudible) yes. [applause] ron sanders and william rodes who contributions have infused beauty culture and love into this project. and finally, i want to thank san francisco voters who support of the health band was crucial. so, that thank you everyone who played such an important part in the amazing project and i like to invite mayor breed who has shown incredible leadership during the pandemic and throughout her tenure and amplified the importance of our public health system. madam mayor. [applause] >> thank you carla and you had me at on time and under budget. really excited about the new southeast family health center that is finally i

believe a dream realized. in fact, a lot of the work that former supervisor sophie maxwell did while on the board of supervisors and i want a member of the redevelopment agency commission with all the stuff going on here and oscar james would come to the meetings and fight for this community and the fact that we are starting to finally realize a lot of the promises made to the bayview, a lot of the decisions that we are making have everything to do with input of the people of this community and it has taken a long time, but here we are. we know how important having a community health center is. in fact during the global pandemic with a lot of uncertainty and fear, part of the work we did into the emergency response had everything to do with the southeast health

center that is located there and they were able to work with us to set up a place to do testing and when the time came for the vaccine they were the place that first got the vaccine in order to serve this community. but more importantly, to make sure that we work with the community. that we provide the resources and part of that is making sure that we are coming together not that we are dictating what should happen in the community but how we work together in order to make these things possible. and i want to take us back a little bit, yes, these bonds that the voters passed on a regular basis help us to build projects like this and this bond passed in 2016, which not only made it possible for the southeast health family health center here we built from scratch, which is a beautiful building, but it also made it possible for us to remodel max ine hall in the

fillmore making sure people in the community get services. half the people served in the facility next door are african american. over 40 percent are people from the bayview hunter point community so we know when we build it they will come because we know the need is so critical in this community to make sure there is a place within close proximity of where you live, a place you can come and a place that is culturally sensitive about the needs of our community. i'm glad and excited about this and looking forward to seeing this place, become not just a place you come when things when you are having problems but a place you come for preventative care. a place you come to canggregate and hang out like the george davis senior home and i see cathy davis here. we know community is so important and this new health facility is about community, and i love the fact that 3 african

american men artist who are part of the amazing community in san francisco had a opportunity to showcase not object their art but their art as reflection of the community so this truly is your southeast health center here in the bayview hunters point. [applause] i know everybody is anxious to get in here and get a back seat or-vaccine or booster or get things checked out. it is okay, doctor, privilege. none of your business will be in the street so dont worry about that. before we get started and cut the ribbon and get this place open to the public, i want to introduce the supervisor for your district, the president of the board of supervisors, walton. [applause] >> thank you so much madam mayor. good morning

everybody! this truly is an exciting day for us in bayview hunters point. before i say a few words i want to pay homage to the folks who made sure we had a health center. some may recall we were getting sent to silver. some may recall the health system saying we can go over places to receive services but we had giant fight to make sure this health center existed in our community. i want to say a few names and know i'll miss names and some will curse me after i get off the podium. a lot of people fought to make sure we had this new health center. they served orn advisory committee, put in hours and time to make sure this happen. (inaudible) carpenter. thank you for your work. he looks younger then i

am even though he has been doing this decades. commissioner richardson. dr. jackson. my aunt, williams and so many community giants oscar james and a lot of folks are depicted on the quilt you will see inside so when you get a chance to look at the amazing art the mayor talked about, make sure you look at the art, try to understand the history behind it because so many fought for this to happen. if i didn't mention your name understand i love you and charge to my head not my heart. i want to give a big shout to supervisor maxwell and supervisor cohen for there process of making this happen. as i had a chansh to take a tour earlier and look at the services that are going to be offered to our patients here ing the district and

the growth having our own x-ray machines and x-ray techs on site. private exam rooms and brand new facilities and making sure people understand you are cared about in the community and do everything we can to make sure you have the amenities and things you deserve and we know health care is a basic right so i thank dpw for the work on the building, department of public health for their work with community to make this happen because this work only happens when folks come together and realize that when you make noise, things can happen and most certainly that is what the community did. that is why we ended up here today and i appreciate that. as i see james richards who -mayor breed honored him with a day a few years ago and put up a billboard because of all the work he did putting people to work on facilities and buildings like this. it is important we remember

and recognize how we all got here and the work that took place to get here. thank all you for showing up and community. thank you for supporting the work and vision of making sure that we have the proper health care in the communities because we have the biggest disparities in health care as a black population so we have to make sure we have facilities, the care and programs ing place to address those health disparities. we love you, appreciate you and look at this new full facility. come in and take a tour after this press conference. thank you so much. [applause] my apologies--as the mayor talked about when this pandemic started, we were one of the first communities to step up and say we need testing right in our very own community. one of the first communities to step up and say we need vaccinations in our community and work closely with

department of public health who did respond and heed the call and thank the leadership of dr. colfax and seeing the project through fruition so have the honor and privileged introduced the department head lead for department of public health, dr. colfax. >> thank you and good morning everybody. it is great to be here and thank you mayor breed and thank you president walton. thank you dpw. acting director short for your work and it is amazing what is accomplished when community government came together and i just got a tour of the building and it is so incredibly inspiring. the physical spaces where we deliver care really matter. the quality of the building, the artwork on the wall and design and layout contribute to long-term health. there are few american cities

that provide this level of direct care to the residents and deeply proud of the network 13 clinics including this new state of the art building. in particularly the southeast family health center is a special place with service few neighborhood clinics have and already mentioned we now have-will be having x-ray on site, so you can get care when you need it, not have to go to another place to go to another place to get something. we have a new facility where we will be doing on-site optomry for eye exams. we call this low barrier access but is saying we are doing everything we can together to make it easy and convenient for people to get the medical serveess where they need it, where they need it all in one location and our first patients will be receiving care in this

facility later this month. and already mentioned, this center is here today because generations of wisdom and community activism. the bayview community came together and fought hard for federalfunding, which allows the initial building to be established back in 1979. i know a lot of people have been doing the work and also want to specifically thank mrs. olly burgess for her leadership and advocacy for the health scepter and shaped the new facility behind us today is a legacy of her incredible leadership. and this is a busy clinic. we serve over 4,000 patients a year and this new health center renews and expands the commit to help equity brings services for where they are needed most. i want to thank you who are part of the legacy including and especially our

patient advocacy groups. because of the success of the clinic and the new building is because of the care you provide and relationships you built. the future is bright and i do want to personally thank the dph team for their work including cathy jones. cathy i dont know if you are here but thank you for your work on that. to lisa (inaudible) and kate kim and long-term medical director keith seidel who mentioned 4 medical directors were involved created the building and entire ambulatory team. now it is my great pleasure to introduce a key leader and member of our southeast health center advisory board member oscar james. mr. james we met pre-pandemic in the old building where the board was meeting and i have to say it is astoubding this project came on

time on budget because of you and others during a pandemic. that is just incredible, so it is a honor to work with you and thank you for your support and leadership, because of you the gap in health care services you were so key in organizing to build the original southeast health clinic and because of your vision and leadership we are here today to inaugerate the new building so mr. james, my pleasure. please. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. they already said my name so everyone know that already. but i want to say a couple things about my board members who are present right now. i like everyone to stand so everyone can see them. those who stand and raise your hand. these are the people

who really made this possible. karen pierce, i wish you would stand up. we have been dealing with this every since the 70 when we first got this property along with the model cities who bought the property when they were trying to take this health center to silver avenue and san bruno and we bought this property cht this property is deer to us in the community. a lot who do not know about this community. this particular property here is the old south basin, channel street project. one of the first projects built in bayview hunter point before they started building the houses on top of the hill. these houses were on stilts and when it would rain it would flood and people had to use (inaudible) we have done a lot of work in the community to make things possible

for us to have the type of facilities we have now. dr. davis vision on senior housing. the swimming pool. the redoing of the bayview park so we have a community now that is really has been thought of by people in the community, especially like a person like james richard. (inaudible) who played a very important part in this community. we have a plaque with numerous people in the community. a lot of people are missing but one thing i want you to focus on is the young men for action was the group in this community. when we started in 1966 during the riots, we made sure people in the community got jobs first and we only have 2 or 3 members left, which is james richards and dr. mayberry on the quilt. what i say to you young brothers and sisters in the

community, if you say this is your community, fight and do something for your community. we started at the age of 18 years old. 18 years old and we started with clubs. people talking about club, people are bad and all this and that. we only are this because of the vanguards. the south boys. the sheiks. they were the ones who made all this possible. you say this is your community, then act like it is your community, stop killing each other and come together and build the community for your kids. we are old g's now. we are old g's. i'm 76 year olds. i started at 18. it is you guys turn to do this now. it is your turn. if you dont step up to the plate all this is in vain. stop the killing. we dont need that. we need to know our history in the community, how the chinese, how the blacks, how the mexican americans made this community

what it is today. with that, i didn't write no agenda, i talk from the shoulder. i want each and every person to learn your history in the community and come together. if we say we are a community we the community of one. god bless to each and every one of you. [applause] >> thank you mr. james. thank you to all of our speakers and thank you all for being here today to celebrate this momentous occasion. with that, i would like to invite the speakers and other ribbon cutters to join us and cut this ribbon! >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [applause] good mornin

and welcome to -- i am scott

weiner, i have the honor to represent san mateo county. and we were able to recently retain in the budget $12 million in san francisco east neighborhoods. and specifically that funding is as follows, $5 million for the sunnyvale hub for the amazing rex -- rec's center, and for the market and the artwork space. each of these investments will

directly impact this amazing and over time tragically neglected community ensuring that kids have a safe place to play, ensuring that people have direct access to produce and street safety and of course supporting local artist. i first want to talk about sunnyvale hub. as you know, i want to thank all the members of the community today. sunnyvale is a public housing community whose residents are largely low-income and people of color. this community has for so many years lacked access to just basic community services that so many of us take for granted, such as access to fresh food, access to a public gym where

people can exercise and access to safe places for young people to play. while so many san franciscans live within an easy walking distance to a public recreation center, the public gym for sunnyvale is within two miles. it is very necessary and will be a great place for families to gather and play and much needed sports and a healthy and social outlet for youth. many who don't feel safe traveling to other neighborhoods. kids deserve to be kids and to come and play soccer and everywhere else, to do arts and crafts with their friends. residents of all ages will enjoy the wonderful new recreation

center. i want to thank the mayor's office of housing and community development and parks and rec and for making this resource a reality. and for the san francisco produce market. not everyone knows about it, but it's the best part of san francisco that is a place where farmers from around the state can come and sell their fresh produce, supporting our local farmers, and is the only non-profit wholesale produce market of this scale in the country. with this $5 million investment, the produce market will be able to upgrade its facilities and

surrounding infrastructure directly benefitting the neighborhood and those who rely on the market and there is a lot of street changes that need to happen to take the market into the modern era and to make it really sustainable for the long run and supports economic development and food security for the southeast portion of san francisco. finally, i'm really excited about the funding that we were able to attain for the box shop, a collaborative artwork space in bayview point offering studios for the artist of the bay area focusing on arts and hopefully will continue to exist in a new space. we know that being an artist in san francisco is not easy to say the least. the cost-of-living here is just extraordinary for everyone and

we have seen far too many artist having to leave san francisco, and san francisco is all about arts and culture and we support local artist. the box shop is that space, a space that what so many artist lack and a space to create beautiful art. that's what the box shop is. while some may have to leave, i hope there are spaces and we want it to be sustainable and to have a permanent space. so i'm proud to be here today with various community leaders that you will hear from including mayor breed and supervisor walton. now, i would like to welcome our mayor, mayor breed. [ applause ] >> mayor london breed: thank you, senator weiner. it's so great to be back here in sunny

dale with the work that needs to continue. we have been here over the years for numerous occasions. i remember when i became mayor taking here and talking about a lot of the promises made to this community over the years, and after governor newsom after federal funding brought hope to sff with the south community around rehabbing and redeveloping a number of public housing in the city. but it couldn't be about rebuilding the homes but supporting the needs of the community. that's why the fact that our state senator scott weiner understood the value of this project and the needs for us to bring together the resources to make sure that it happens and is delivered is so significant. fortunately senator weiner understand the south east sector

of this city, and the president of the board of supervisors, mr. walton, you are the beneficiary of this senator because we are talking about nearly $12 million on the southeast sector of our city [ applause ] investing in this community finally. [ cheers and applause ] i know larry is happy and since being part of this community born and raised and see it give back is something that happens once in a lifetime that is truly extraordinary. we have other members here and we are talking about folks who are investing even their own money to making the hub happen. whereas the boys and girls, and we have rob here as well. the boys and girls club will have their facility. we will have a

community hub and child care center and this is happening because of people of this community and that's what we want. i can't wait until we make the investments in sf market because that fresh produce that comes from the general street will come right here in a community that we open and that is long over due. [ cheers and applause ] so, senator weiner, i really want to thank you for your support of focusing on this community. i wish it wasn't happening in bureaucratic years because it's 15 years in the making and we've been able to build a few hundred units here. we went from almost 800 units in this community and when it's all said and done, we are talking about 1700 units filled with life, filled with fun, filled with home, filled with family and filled with opportunity.

thank you so much senator weiner, we appreciate you and we appreciate your advocacy and we appreciate you to be sure that all of san franciscans are included in these wonderful opportunities. i can't wait until we open up all of those places, right here, the rec's center, the gym, all of those that make this an amazing community. thank you for your patience, understanding and feedback and for speaking over how our community is not delivering as it should. thank you all and to all and thank you for blessing us and we are going to get this done. thank you

[ cheers and applause ] >> senator weiner: thank you for mayor breed and for deeply understanding that people deserve to have a safe and just wonderful place to live. i'm so excited about this project. next, i want to welcome up the president of the board of supervisors supervisor walton who represents southeastern neighborhood. we have a long relationship and friendship. and he is very, he is such a fierce fighter for this community. he holds all of us who hold citywide office accountable to never ever ever forget this community because we know in the history of san francisco, far too often

for his vision for this and the mayor and mr. walton. it's these situations and it's amazing that we have leadership that knows where these public dollars need to go. i appreciate that. i hope they get -- >> we have a long standing campaign with our recreation and parks. we have seen the streamline and it's a place with rec's and park and it's a great thing.

lastly, as an affordable housing developer, most of the time we are building housing in communities where there is nobody on the site to begin with. sunny dale is a completely different situation. we walked into a place that had a vision and the mayor mentioned, larry and drew and those that work with the boys and girls club staff and we are all behind with what led to the team development. it's phenomenal to have the opportunity to work to fulfill the promise that president walton talked about earlier. i want to thank you for working in this community. it's one of the most important experiences of my life. i will thank you and turn it

back over to the state senator. [ applause ] >> so, to make the hub successful, we are going to rely on our non-profit community partners who do amazing work supporting our young people. i want to bring up two folks from our non-profit. rob connolly from the boys and girls club, monica walters of children's services. >> [ applause ] >> good morning and thank you so much. i would like to start of course by thanking senator weiner for hearing the needs of our communities and championing them from sacramento and mayor breed and sf board of supervisors for their contribution to the low-income investment fund. that is a big part of our funding here in the

city as well as the states. we believe that early quality child care education is so important. we know that good preschool education is essential for the success in kindergarten and beyond. this is important for families of san francisco. we have been working closely with all of you to make this possible and this investment is marking a new milestone for the community and we are committed to the success of every child and we could not do it alone and that's why the mayor and the board of supervisors has really made a tremendous difference in our ability to succeed in our mission. by working together with you and our partners at sunny dale, we want all of our community members to feel invested in this project and to the success of all of our children. together, we are

raising san francisco. >> thank you so much. >> [ applause ] >> some of our young people and staff from the club at sunny dale will join me. let me first just say, rob connolly, boys and girls club of san francisco, i'm super proud to be here today. i love the spot we picked because you can look right over, you can see where the hub is going to be, where the gym is going to be. it's so exciting for me. boys and girls club has been in this community for 31 years. i have been responsible for this site for 23 of those years and we've had some tough times here and times when we wonder can we do this work successfully? we wondered should we stay here? should we move to an area outside of the community. we have three really small rooms here, and it then became

apparent that something was going to change in this community and the leaders in the city were going to look out for the community and do something profound. so i am incredibly proud and it's been a long time coming here and to say thank you to our elected officials. senator weiner, thank you for all you do. you do it in a really quiet way at times and you are good at what you do. i appreciate the fact that you answered the calls when people like me make them and you find ways to support the community. i'm really grateful to everything that you have done. mayor breed, we knew that when you went into office, that communities like this was going to benefit in a great way. when the mayor came in, i thought, all right, there are going to be some promises delivered on.

thank you for everything you are doing. and supervisor walton, thank you for caring about your community, he's got five sites and your support of this community, i have seen you many times to support many things and support my staff and drew and others. you do it from your heart and i'm really grateful for everything you do. >> i want to also acknowledge the young people behind me. we are excited and we know what this can mean, but this is yours and we are really proud and whatever amount of time it's going to be, this is yours. this is your hub. we have the tag group, teen advocacy group. you have spoken up and attended

hearings with rec's and parks and thank you for allowing the young people to be heard and congratulations for all of do. [ applause ] i will just finally say to my staff out here, star leads this site. jb is here as well and dede is in the crowd and the professionals here that work everyday for the young people and for the families of the community. thank you for your leadership as staff and my senior team is here and some have been here for two decades now to make sure this ran well. and the promise that is going to be here in the next couple years is really exciting. thank you all and thank you to the officials for being great leaders. >> [ applause ]

i'm sorry, i have to come back because i forgot to thank erik and the mayor's office for all of their great work. [ applause ] senator weiner: next, i want to bring up mr. elias, from the farmer's market. >> hello everyone today. i would like to thank you especially senator weiner for bringing the funds. you have heard a little bit about the sf market. we have been proud members of the bayview point for many years. if you are not familiar with us, please come out and take a chance. we have bring food from farms around california around distribute to

restaurants and more. we have a collection of warehouses but i like to think of it as food infrastructure, critical infrastructure. come see me and we'll give you a tour. if you want a taste of it, there are those bags and it's for you all. please take some delicious produce home. while connecting this from farms and consumers, it's critical because it's a non-profit enterprise who employ 500 people and those jobs provide job diversity and it's a great job and we support food access and we match make between food

pantries and provide to those who need it and to our merchants to maybe food that is not sellable. we distribute 4,000 tons of fresh food everything that leads to 9 million pounds of food which is greater than anywhere in california and i don't know of any place bigger than that nearby. the funding is coming to the market thanks to the senator is going to allow us to ground break this new warehouse. to us it's a big deal, but the impact means it's going to be a new building and where we want to be and will continue to be able to have jobs and we'll be able to provide the services to the city as we really want to.

the funds will help sf market with jobs and continue to flow in san francisco. we are excited to do that. please take some food on your way out. thank you, mayor, thank you supervisor, thank you senator. we are so happy. >> senator weiner: i got a produce bag. finally, i want to bring up charlie from the box shop. >> [ applause ] hello, my name is charles. i run the box shop. it's a collaborative art space in hunters point. i would like to thank senator weiner and california, everyone. the box shop is a place in hunters point and we have tools for artist and makers. we have

been serving the community for the past 20 years, and hundreds of amazing works of art have been produced there, public works of arts that have impacted thousands of people. like many other local arts organizations, we face many pressures including the high cost of real estate. unfortunately we are going to lose our least and have about two more years at our current location, and this funding is really going to help us to purchase a new building and to create a permanent home for the 100 plus artist and the thousands of people who used the space. i really want to invite everyone if you haven't been to the box shot at ten hunters point which is next to the two new parks they are building, and we have in the last couple years paid 140 artist to paint 140 murals

inside the space and created a great amazing collection of the bay area work. we are really looking forward to serve an art space in san francisco for the industrial arts community for many many years to come. once again, thank you very much to senator weiner, and the state of california, and i look forward to working with london breed and the board of supervisors. i'm sorry because i'm a little bit nervous. i'm just super excited and looking forward to make a difference in people's lives for years to come. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> okay, that concludes our speakers, we are happy to answer any questions from the press. >> okay. >> oh yeah. >> sure.

>> [inaudible] >> there are questions about the project for the funding. >> okay. >> everyone is still doing fundraising. so private donations. >> come on up. >> [ applause ] >> that's right. hello, everybody. i'm larry jones and i have been here all my life as a resident, advocate, whatever hat, i wore it.

for 13 years, i want to say in this project in this community is something that is needed badly. it's going to change lives and change people's outlook perspective on living. we have been impoverished, underserved and we have new direction, we have a new light and the negative vibes are now being deleted. supervisor walton, we love you, mayor breed, we love you, and senator weiner. you cannot imagine how this is going to change where you have this place for kids and it is accessible and you will not believe how the kids will be able to enjoy this facility and

we can do better and live better. it's different than just funding. the bureaucracy did what they were supposed to do. they stepped up. we have been in this situation for decades. i want to say thank you to everyone of this community and thank you for bringing this back which is what we deserve. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> okay, anything else? >> okay, now, we go to monkey pox. >> okay, the mayor will. okay, thank you, everyone. we want to do a big picture. let's do a big picture to show we want to do a big picture.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural

place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has

always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down.

>> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted.

>> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san franc