in any kind of survey and any kind of hearing like this. the mayor has already followed up on some of them. i do want to thank the working group for what they did, all the departments for the work they are doing and continue to do and i look forward to continuing to advance many of the priorities and recommendations that were identified and finding new needs to fill. with that, i will make a motion that we have heard the hearing and that we file it. >> on that motion made by temporary member mandelman that this hearing be heard and filed.

>> [roll call] >> we have 3 ayes. >> thank you, that motion passes. >> mr. clerk, do we have any other items in the agenda today? >> madam chair, that concludes your business. >> great, thank you, we are now adjourned. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> [ end of realtime captioning ] >> >>

>> really want to thank folks for joining us this morning for a host of reasons. i'm also very privileged this morning to actually serve as the mc. we will take you on a story today. one that we are not just so proud of, but everyone that is going it to have this experience today will leave i think excited, proud, but most importantly i hope energized for the work we are going to continue. today is marking an important moment. a important moment not just for home rise, not just for the city of san francisco, but really as we want to tackle homelessness. we for 30 years have known permanent supportive housing is the solutionmentf we also spnt 30 years building staff, building systems, building and supplying resources so people with secure housing but besome self-sufficient so we

so sforchinate this is another shining example and also you will learn by jazzy collins who jazzy collins is. i'm excited to introduce rick aubrey for brief introduction and framing of who we are and where we are go. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you gerald and as you can hear there is a bart training going underneath us as we speak. one of the many many obstacles that these amazing teams over-came over the last several years to get this building built. so, as joe mentioned i am the ceo of home rise rick aubrey. if i haven't had a chance to meet you. this project took as all projectss do in san francisco a lot of people working very hard for a very long time to get this done, so many folks here that i'm going to make a

point of recognizing. some i want to mention, michael cohen who is great partner since day 1. this was a public private partnership people said couldn't be done. it doesn't work, this is not how things happening in san francisco but thanks to strada and michael's effort, here it is. this is part of a much larger project that is going on, but they were very committed to the irk work we do at home rise, permanent supportive housing has to be a part of new construction that occurs in the city and they championed the work with the board of supervisors with two different mayors to make sure that this would happen. some of those early conversations which predated me were with my predecessor gale gilman who is here today. [applause]

and as a institution home rise is more then any one of us but it took the generation before me to be able to imagine this, to work with michael to work with the city to work with all of our partners. we are very grateful for the work gale made that happen. housing development at this project required many people to get this done. great team. gerald. serenea cal way here now and also helped carried forward. i remember the first day i got here when this wasn't a hole in the ground and snashing teeth is this going to happen and how to make it happen and had to deal with the fact there was a pandemic that hit us a few months after we started and are nobody wanted to lend to projects like this and provide fifanc. serenea lead the efforts to make it happen and here we are importantly and a

little plug for home rise, not only are we here but here ahead of schedule. this is unprecedented in san francisco. ahead of budget. a tribute to all of the generations of people who worked on this project to make it move forward. takes a lot of money to make a projbect like this work. if i leave anybody else my apologies but huge thanks to housing development to be a ernest and steadfast partner. we hit the pandemic thing. we all recall that was and all a sudden everything look like it would shut down have had a dilemma. do we sit and wait a year and mayor's office said, no we got to move forward with this. we are you partners and figure what it will take to finance this, if it takes unusual things and stretch what we normally do we will

keep moving forward and we did. here we are, done ahead of schedules thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development. [applause] lots of other folks arefunding this as well. one of the great things about being on this site is this is a great union town and this is a union site and one of our essential partners in this has been the aflcio and their investment team and they are a core part of this so so proud to be union (inaudible) even more proud to be partnering with the aflcio to build housing for folks who are being pushed out of the e city and making this a possibility. we have funding from merchant capital a bank essential to make this work. in order it do this kind of work you need tax credit intervesting

and enterprise community partners stood up and stood with us even during all the times during the pandemic. we also have of course a great partnership with the state and california department of housing and community development is also core to making this work. unusually for a project like this, we also have a significant private foundation that when things were looking somewhat dire could we gelt across the finish line and make it work the harry fineburg foundation said the work you do is essential, permanent spoteive is the solution. unusual for a private foundation to provide funding but they did it. thank you to the wineburg foundation. also, earlyfunding came in from the federal home loan bank of san francisco, so we are grateful for that. let me also

talk about the people who actually did the work. first and foremost the workers on this project. [applause] some of us show up at the ground breaking and the ribbon cutting but every day all the works from suffolk construction were here rain and shine. whatever it took to get this done, they were here, they built it. amazing building we are so grateful to the union workers of suffolk who made the project so and it is beautiful building and you will get a chance to see it, but again, early. when do you get to say that in california? when do you get to say that in san francisco? this project came in earlier then promised so that is great thing and ua local 38 of course was a great partner in this. larry muzola is here. their site they could have done many

different things with this project. they were really complited committed to what we are doing here and so grateful larry to all your brothers and ist sisters you represent. i would be remiss if i didn't mention we were privileged and fortunate jazzy collins and friends and family of jazzy collins is on the door. most know jazzy collins was a fierce advocate for the work we do throughout the city. a first in so many ways in the city in terms of advocating for people not getting the respect they needed and we were so happy that we were able to include jazzy in this permanent testimony to her long work that she did in defense of and in support of and in fierce advocacy for the people in the city that we will now be able to serve in this

building. so, [applause] you know, she devoited a lifetime it to it, she did the work and so grateful for that. let me turn the platform if i might back to you gerald. many more folks you will hear from. let me just briefly mentiont that we have 3 board members from home rise. board members--sor ry-we have 4 board members from home rise. thank you very much for that. board members are a essential fabric of all non profits in the city. they work tirelessly. they make sure that the work gets done, here for the right reason for the core mission of the organization. they make sure we stay true to what we are trying to achieve so shealy, david and deborah, so grateful you were able to be here today.

so grateful every keeping us true to what we signed up for and give us the guidance to make sure we do it work we need to do. if i might, back to you gerald. [clapping] >> thank you so much. you ready for the first part of the story about jazzy? many of you know and think many are familiar with jazzy's place. but many may not be familiar with the intricacy, the importance of her story. jazzy wasn't someone at 13 years old knew she would be this amazing advocate. in fact, she in late 30 into 40 she realized and had the life experience that told here she needed to move. she needed to move effectively, she needed to move expeditiously and glad to bring up a partner that embodied the same sentiment and that is strada.

so much what you see around you, you delivered on time, delivered on budget. those are things jazzy believed in. she believed you had to step up, be there and make a way out of no way. i will not say we made a way out of no way because strada team does it all over it bay area but did it with us knowing the impact that this is the type of development that permanent supportive housing can live within, both the fiscal impact, the jobs created and most importantly not forget the convenience. bart is right here. think about the access that affords anyone in the community so grateful they partnered with us. michael will join us quickly but thank you william. sydney is out here somewhere. the entire team over at strada, thank you so much for keeping us humble. keeping focused and making sure we delivered on time. michael,

please. [applause] >> thank you gerald. it is nice every once in a while to be overcome with feeling proud about something, and i think gerald said at the beginning, this is a day for a lot of us to be really proud and there's two things that i'm most proud of about this project. the first is we have been checking, but i think this is the only supportive housing project for formally homeless individuals that is built on private property as part of a market rate development not just in san francisco history, but we haven't been able to foond a example of this anywhere in the state of california, and it is really quite awesome and as you heard from gerald and i'm sure you will hear more of, it takes

a incredibly collaborative effort to make something like this work, and you heard all the financial people who were integral related to the support of this effort. i do want to shout out and there is a bunch of them here, building a project like this on time and on budget in a pandemic is really hard, and i want to thank -we had great partnership from the city. i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team. i was talking to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause

budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods

and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm immensely proud of is the fact that on time on budget during a pandemic, supply chain collapse and we did this project and think you heard gerald allude to it earlier, with 100 percent union labor. [clapping] and i hear it a lot, people say to you, you cant do it that way, you can't make this budget, you cant make this schedule with a 100 percent union job. you can tell them they are wrong, because we are living proof of it, so thank you. [applause] >> such a great segue into another really important speaker. impact on us and looking over at (inaudible) who is my colleague in housing who

is negotiating our union labor agreement right now. we are so proud of the union staff members who make up home rise. they are our front line. they are the reason not only does the brick and mortar impact live but the service and impact and being there consistently is one of the hall marks of not just supportive housing but 30 years making sure families are housed and stay housed and get better, they achieve self-sufficiency. but all part of that and our own union labor was very much complemented by what you see around here. excited to have larry come up and talk about the impact on not just union labor on this project but the long-standing commitment. larry. thank you. [applause] >> thank you larry muzol isa plumbers union local 38 and

president of san francisco building trade council. thank you all for being here today. this is exciting day, proud day for us. you guys takes a lot of smart people to build a building like this. i figured you would have done a eir for this event and had sunlight here but you screwed that up. anyway, i just want to say how proud i am in local 38 is of this development and it is long time coming when this property was bought in 1947, my grandfather joe muzolea had a vision of this but think he would be surprised of this part of it. 53 colten. we have done a lot. we helped the community out. we have gulf tournaments we like to give money to when we raise money for charities and we like to keep it local and do

things for the citizens of san francisco. we have given to a lot of places in san francisco that helps our kids thrive but i think this is probably the most important and exciting and most proud one we have done in partnership with strada to build supportive housing for homeless people and low income people that are going to have a permanent home and couldn't be more proud to be partners with strada and suffolk. cant say enough about suffolk and strada. they are a great team with us, and we got to this point and like michael said, and everybody said, to have a job like this come in under budget, under the timeframe, ahead of schedule that was built 100 percent union and we didn't do it with modural housing and someone came to me early on and said you need to build this modural it

isn't going to work and said 100 percent no. it can happen on site and be built better and look at it. beautiful building and done 100 percent union labor so any developer out there saying it cant be done, bull shit. i want to thank all the workers. they are already thanked but enough credit cant go to them because this doesn't happen with them and this is it proof that skilled labor what they can do and i'm proud of each and every one of the members that worked for all the different crafts and i want to thank them for the stand up working through the pandemic and this job actually kept a lot of members working like michael said during the pandemic. there was no other job that started when the pandemic hit. this job started and it is finished and it is a beautiful building and we appreciate the partnership we had. all the people involved in this so i want to

say from our union as a partner with strada, thank you and we look forward to and we are proud of this commitment and we cant wait to see it come to fruition when everybody is moved in, so thank you. [applause] >> in the fall we were at the richardson apartments and the (inaudible) was with us. the bart is going by as you can hear. and secretary fudge was with us and we were on the roof and i pointed over and said ipa few mujts we will be opening a new building and who i dident know was standing behind me was the mayor and in that time and space i realized something that is important and i really hope everyone understands why jazzy collins and this legacy. today we have a vice president who is

a black woman from the bay area, secretary fudge who is a black women, a mayor who is a black woman, a black women at hsh. that is progress and that is what jazzy was talking about, the advocacy and glass ceiling and path she created for us but so grateful are we we have a mayor who is blazing that trail keeping it moving, delivering over 1500 units of permanent supportive housing and the economic impact each of these jobs creates support and retain. grateful today not only do we get to acknowledge the legacy and progression with jazzy collins we have a mayor that will keep pushing us forward. please welcome the honorable mayor breed. [applause] >> thank you jerome and thank you to home rise and thank you to strada and local 38. it is

good to be here with each and every one of you to celebrate jazzy collins apartment complex that truly does represent jazzy collins and her legacy and what she fought for here in san francisco for so long. let me just take us back just a tad bit because when muzola and i were kids growing up in san francisco even though i know he looks a lot older then i am, we are basically the same age, we grew up in a city where it had its challenges but we saw a lot of possibilities. we saw the possibility for a better life, a better opportunity and we in fact you know, i'll be honest, homelessness even existed back then, but it want as problematic and it seems to be because as someone who grew up in public housing, as someone who grew up around a lot of affordable development, one

thing that even through our challenges of poverty and sometimes substance use disorder there was still a opportunity to access housing in some capacity. the people who built this city lived in the city, the people who worked in the city for the city and county of san francisco lived in the city. the people who started businesses in the city lived in the city and over the years something has changed. we can point to a number of challenges that existed that made things difficult for us to continue to move forward as aggressively as we should to build housing and who access the housing. we can talk about the challenges of those things, but today we have a real solution. we have a real tonight. we know what happens when we come together and we put aside our differences and we focus on what needs to be done. and specifically in my homeless recover y plan, we

already as we committed built a thousand units of permanently supportive housing with 1500-we built and got about a thousand more in the pipeline and these 96 units that are for people who struggle with homelessness. this is a game-changer. when we provide a opportunity without the layers of bure ocacy that make it difficult for people to access housing we make a dif rnsh ference in san francisco and when we have partners who believe in this because this land, all of this is a legacy of the plumbers union with muzola, jr. grandfather who we know a park will be named for him people in the city can enjoy. the fact that he was willing to work with this city and partner to do something to give back to the city that he loved is significant. this place is born out of working

together out of relationship, out of really trying to combat some of the real challenges that exist in san francisco. this is what happens when we put aside our differences and we make something happen for the people here in san francisco. so, yes i know we have our problems and i see former supervisor jane kim here. thank you so much for your work helping to get this project done in our city because it did take a village to get us here. but it is also going to take that village to continue to stay together to get us even further until not one person is sleeping on the streets of san francisco. until not one family is sleeping out on the streets of san francisco. untul we do a better job to address the challenges and disparities and access to this housing for the people that we knew know need it the most. that

really represents san francisco values at its best and today as we celebrate i truly want to thank our partners who make it possible. who make it possible to do extraordinary work like this. my favorite favorite favorite thing of any project and believe this is probably the first project that i even saw in the notes and had to read it again because i couldn't believe it muzola, on time and under budget. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you your honor. as always privileged to be a part of the solution and moving things forward. i have one more guest. as rick pointed out not only does it take money but it takes money to not do it once but again and again and we have a unique partner in merchant capital who

not only stood and supported this projpect but we will put another 58 units in rehab and keep this going. we are serious about the solution and serious about the partners who make it happen every day. lee. [applause] >> good afternoon. lee auler the executive vizdant of merchant capital out of caramel indiana and i run the chicago office. this was such a collaboration working on this project together. it started in the middle of a pandemic. you had forest fires, people were exiting the city. we never met a single person until this grand opening. i'm meeting everybody for the first time because i met you all over zoom. we spent months together, collaborating so i have to take a couple minutes here to thank a couple people

and merchant capital is in partner with the housing investment trust. i worked with the housing investment trust all most 30 years and any time that my bank and the housing investment trust can partner together to create housing, affordable housing with hundred percent union labor i'm on board. it takes a lot of extra effort, but it is well worth it and as you can see the 96 units is beautiful. at merchant capital affordable housing is not a secondary line of business. it is not a after-thought. we are the third largest affordable housinglener in the country and we are so excited to be a part of jazzy collins. again, i want to give a special thanks to my partners in the afl housing investment trust, but also to the skilled union labor workers. without the general contractor of suffolk

construction, we still be looking at blue prints today. to wrap it up. i to say how proud i am to be a part of this from merchant capital and celebrate the successful completion of jazzy collins apartment. the life changing benefits that will house people and that is what is important to the city of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> alright. we all learned a little about how and why we are here. now let's go see this building. we are going to-thank you. we are going to do this in hopefully a way in which everyone really does get to see what does it really mean to be a part of a 500 unit mixed use multistage development. i want you to feel our building. i want you to know what we are proud of and really what we are now setting as a standard. i would love for folks to

please join the mayor downstairs. we are going to unveil the heart of this building. we--yeah. i'm going to talk about jazzy downstairs. i'm going to have-(inaudible) dolores street to talk about jazzy's place and have hsh join us and also seen ocd join up so grateful for everyone to be here. please join us downstairs as we do a quick cutting of it ribbon then we will get into property tours and lunch. thanks everybody. one more part of the program downstairs. [applause] >> [difficulty hearing speaker]

both organizations recognize and honored jazzy collins her advocacy, impact on the community and support of lgbtq seniors and other san francisco. it is exciting to be able to honor this space and recognize the services both (inaudible) to the san francisco community. at home rise we work with our residents to increase self-sufficiency once in housing. to heal from the trauma of homelessness experience and rebuild community and connection with each other within the building and within the broader neighborhood. i believe that this really speaks to the heart of jazzy collins hopes and passions and efforts and we as (inaudible) continue working in that (inaudible) at

this point i think we are ready to officially do the unveiling. >> you want to take it this way. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [cheers and applause] how pretty. >> 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]

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