welcome to southeast family health center. my name is doctor grant colfact. i'm grant colfax and director of the san francisco department of public health. i'm absolutely thrilled to be here with speaker nancy pelosi and community leaders to celebrate the passage of the inflation reduction act. i'm especially excited to be mark thanksgiving occasion here at this brand-new state of the art health center. part of the department's network of community health centers and -- this center, which is an essential resource for accessible, affordable health care in bay view hunter's point. the passage of the inflation reduction act is tremendous low important. for people in this community. and for all of those who rely on

community clinics as it gives more people access to resources and health care. because of this act. seniors and those who get health insurance through the affordable care act save hundreds if not thousands of dollars per year on prescriptions and health insurance premiums. incredible and keep seniors on medicare healingy giving them access to additional, free vaccines, we know can be life saving. 91 of this would be possible without our representatives lead by speaker nancy pelosi. [applause] who has been an incredible champion, advancing truly transformtive and historical health care. including with regard to hiv

aids, the afford care act and now with gratitude the inflation reduction act. ladies and gentlemen, speaker nancy pelosi. [applause], thank you, doctor colfact for your wonder opening remarks and tremendous leadership in our community taking us through covid and now monkeypox a valued resource that we have in our community. i know that you have a meeting have you to be at and so i thank you for honoring us with your presence and if you have to slip away, we understand. if you were not so busy we would not want you to be with us. because great to be here with doctor colfax with angels calgary the executive director of covered california we're proud of them.

thank you, jessica. [inaudible] the director of aarp california thank you, thank you, to aarp for making, we can only do so much with inside maneuvering the outside mobilization. weighing in oft people on the issue and arp has been masterful in this, thank you so much when we talk about reducing the cost of prescription drugs. i have to pull this down. start all over? >> [laughter]. i said we have 2 v. i. p.'s with us. beatrice american cancer society action network ambassador and she is my boss. and oscar james a legendary figure here. board member of the southeast health center. oscar. thank you for making this

wonderful occasion possible with community family center. >> and keith is not speaking but acknowledge wrchl is keith. thank you, keith for your leadership here and the hospitality you extend us this morning but important low the hospitality you extend to people in the community at this center it is pretty exciting the southeast south center now the southeast family health center. here we are -- [applause] families are grateful for their your capable leadership doctor colfax. thank you for that and again i know we consider it a privilege to be at the new renovated southeast family health center. quality, affordable health care. we took the tour and when you take the tour, it is about health care. but it recognizes health is about your mental state and sense of community and value

that is placed on you and people here feel very respected because of the nature of this accomplice. it is just remarkable. we gather here to share the good news under president biden and democrats and congress health care costs will come down. powered by our rescue plan to begin with, health care is more accessible and affordable than ever. we tried affordable care act to bring down the cost health care and did except when it came to the cost of prescription drugs. we are about the kitchen table of america's working families. how can we lower costs and increase paychecks and make community safer. and that is what we have dmn this piece of legislation. with the inflation. we had in a rescue plan now extended it with the inflation reduction plan biden sign in the law, add to when we did in the

rescue plan driving down the cost of prescription drugs and extending the premium reduction this is is about the kitchen table. here is what the ira. we call it they don't want to call at this time ira. sometimes they talk about that. the inflation reduction acts means for medicare beneficiaries in our city. cap the drug cost to 2 thousand dollars. this is a rable achievement. we have been trying to do this for arc while. we kept the copay so what people don't have to -- insulin. 35 dollars a month. that is like 110th or 120th of where it is. and i have to say, we did that without one republican vote. sad to say. without one republican vote. we have been drug members from pred tori price hikes they have been engaged in and finally

empowered medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. that is the big triumph. this is historic we have been trying to do this for dekdzs big pharma weigh in the and weighed in and strangle hold on our ability to loose it free congress from that. we want to do more. but this opens the door on and we are proud. it is historic without one republican vote. and big pharma says the democrats will pay for this. can you imagine mag they say a thing to threaten us for lowering costs for prescription drugs for america's family. san francisco the provisions save millions aier in our own community. and now we will hear more from arp california on what this cost means for families. before we do, it is thousands of

people in our community are in covered california this is what ira does for them. rescue plan slashed premiums now locked in the lower processes at least for 3 more years and then that is what many of the other provisions come due. our lever acknowledges increase in the that town. we will keep affordable insurance, the average enrollee in san francisco could save over -- 1400 dollars. the ming mum in premium costs. family of 4 could save up to 2800 dollars. 2 seniors could save 21 thousand dollars. we are fortunate to joined by jessica of covered california. will share how we save more for 90% of enrollees in our state. >> we are blessed be joined by 2 v. i. p.'s very important

people. >> a leukemia patientness the burden of drug costs and oscar james will tell us about his pain. and a board member southeast family health center. medicare beneficiary. a powerful voice for many years and his reputation he honors us. law passed possible because the outside mobilization. you cannot do your best job just inside maneuvering. there has to be the engagement of the public. so that members of congress know and hear from their own constituents what they node. and how they need it. in the terminology that means

something to them. because we believe that health care is a right not a privilege. too many families face the impossible choice. keep a roof over your head and food on the table or access to life saving care. campaign trail, i have seen grown men cry because they can't pay the prescription drug bills. they have family members and say, i just can't afford it. and it keeps getting more and the it was the one element of the affordable care act we reducing the costs that kept going up and now we have broken that strangle hold. lowering health care cost system about justice these benefits flow to the most in need. vulnerable seniors, working fells and communities of color. we honor doctor king, doctor king said, of all forms of inequality injustice in health

care is the most shock anding inhuman, he said, because it is often result in physical death. now it is my privilege to introduce jessica k with covered california in delivering quality affordable care to all. jessica. >> thank you, so much. madam speaker not only for the opportunity to be here today. but for your leadership and commitment in make thanksgiving day happen. the inflation reduction act provide critical savings for millions of americans including the 1.7 million in california who get their health insurance through the affordable care act marketplaces including covered california i'm here to represent. the savings have empowered cover california to reach record levels of enrollment.

reduce what consumers pay by 20% and a critical piece in bringing california to the lowest uninsured rate on record at the height of the pandemic. by extending for another 3 years we bring health insurance within reach of more people than ever before. this law will help californians and people across the country get coverd and stay covered. as you know, the act extends the increased and expanded financial help initial low included in the american rescue plan. the capped 8 and a half % of household income low are costs for more people. the law provides free, silver plan the average level of coverage for low income californians those who earn less than 19, 230 for an individual or 40,000 for a family of 4.

and extends financial help to middle income consumers those who earn more than 51 thonned for individual and 10 sick thousand dollars for a family of 4 who were ineligible for financial assistance. right now 2 thirds of the consumers we serve get comprehensive coverage for 10 dollars or less per month and many get it at no monthly cost. [applause]. we saw gains among communities of color. and low indm families got the piece of moindz that come with quality, affordable coverage making our health care system equal at the same time we make it more affordable. we seen middle income families paying 20 or 25 or 30% of their income on health care premiums save thousands a year.

and the savings for 3 years means californians and people across the country will continue to have the access to health coverage they need and deserve. those are a lot of big national members i will show what you it means for the people in the greater bay area. right now there are about 325,000 cover california enrollees. including 40,000 people in san francisco, county. in speaker pelosi's district tell help cover california enrollees save over 100 per month on average on top of the financial assistance they were receiving through the affordable care act. one couple that is benefitting is erin and jacob met with speaker pelosi when the american rescue plan was passed. they are professionals photographer and business stray up when the pandemic hit.

the law helped them keep coverage at a time when it mattered more than ever observe and now they are paying less than 50 dlrs a month for a high quality health plan for the both of them. speaker pelosi, thank you. the work you have done along with congress and president biden will make a world of difference in the lives of millions of americans and hundreds of thousands of californians. it will allow people like erin and jibbing on keep their coverage and the costs within reach for people throughout the state who don't have health insurance today but could have it tomorrow. open enrollment on november first and i encourage anyone californian going without coverage to individual coverage california. it is more in reach than ever before. with that, thank you again to the speaker for her leadership

and for this incredible accomplishment and my pleasure to introduce rossy advocacy director for aarp. california. >> good morning. thank you madam speaker and guests a pleasure to be here with you this morning to talk about inflation reduction act. years of discussion and negotiation and thank you to speaker pelosi, congress delivered role prescription drug price relief for millions of older americans by passing the inflation reduction act of 2022. this historic new law includes many key aarp priorities that will save taxpayers and medicare billions of dollars including foible low allowing medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. >> [applause],

>> getting people with medicare plans the piece of mind knowing they will not have to pay more than 2 thousand dollars a year for medications. penalizing drug companies raising their prices higher than inflation. limiting the cost of insulin to 35 dollars an among for those on medicare. [applause] >> and making many vaccines shingles available at no cost in medicare. these prescription drug provisions in inflation reduction act of 2022 broad bipartisan support in voters and are long over due. speaker pelosi we know you have been a strong voice of support for lowering drug processes and grateful to you and your colleagues for getting this bill across the finish line. one cannot state what a monumental improve am this will

be february older americans and all struggling to afford medications. for decades, medicare has been prohibited from using the buying power to negotiate lower drug prices. up until now, the pharmaceutical industry successful at keeping that in place. this new law will finally change that equation and put money back in people's pockets instead of more profits for pharma. this law will also keep insurance affordable for millions of americans when qualify for expanded financial assistance and will prevent a massive previous premium increase affect 3 million people. this is so important for aarp especially for members 50 to 64 who already pay up to 3 times more for their coverage than

younger people this is an e normous victory the fight is in the over. big drug companies spends millions trying to over turn the luto keep charging americans the highest processes in the world. aarp will keep fighting big drug companies out of control process and we will not back down. once again i thank you madam speaker on behalf of 3.3 california numbers and all older californians for strong leadership in achieving the passage of this historic legislation. and now it it is my upon honor to introduce beatrice duncan, health and wellness advocate and constituent. >> thank you. >> good morning, my name is

beatrice duncan >> going through cancer presentses a series of changes the many trials we face in cancer journey covering the high cost of out of pocket for medication is the most troubling issues and contributed to health desparity patients force to delay or forgo life saving. for those taking new or special drug therapies or medications, include members of our communities, the cost prescription drugs can be in tens of thousands per year. if i have conversations with other cancer parents the tommic on how are out of pocket cost force us for paying for cancer medications or shelter and other essentials necessary to our daily life. for example, having to purchase

to medication [inaudible] the cuomo therapy infusion i'm one of those. being able to have a care provider if affordable. consistent chronic aid health problems and most important low being able to address emotional and social problems the need professional attention. with the passage of the inflation reduction act for lower health care costs we have taken an important step in creating long-term affordability and will help spread the costs predictable for patients and survivors. to speaker pelosi, thank you for your support, leadership and our continue efforts to ensure this very important legislation was successful. thank you for bringing affordable medical coverage and

access to cancer medication to the forefront. you have demonstrate third degree is a human right's issue. one that will impact the constituency you representative in the house of representatives. earlier i mentioned the challenges this we face as cancer parents with this law there will be reassurances the cost of cancer medication will be not one of them there is a bright future for me. and i look forward to share thanksgiving time with my daughter, my son and my 4 grandsons and 6 great grandchildren. and to focus on one of the things that truly matter in life that people give this life a true meaning. thank you. >> see how excited i get. it is with a great, great pleasure to introduce mr. oscar

james. southeast health center advisory member board member and a person this we exchange a lot of history in this neighborhood. mr. james. like to honor the heros of market who help bring a lot of this to fruition. i would like to definitely -- give all the respect and love and all of the things you have done for the community mrs. nancy pelosi we should vote for the next time and make sure biden becomes the next president again. like they said before, it was a democrats who done this for our community and city and state. so therefore, i'm saying because

of -- what has been done, this building would not have been here if not for persons like nancy pelosi and people in the community as a whole. >> both done was done through model cities and this building here was done from the work of ofy bever ~ess our president. this building would not have been here it is a historical building represents all the residents. of bay view hunter's point if you have the opportunity to go through and have history. has done art work show the heros on the quilts that in this building upon people not to the quilt in this community. i want to be brief. we need to vote for more

democrats this project could have been better than what it it is. the nay sayers and ones who don't watch for the american peoples, did not vote for this package. therefore, mrs. nancy pelosi, you know, she brought a lot of money this community. she brought money to help with the ship yard and all brothers and sister in the kuntsful mental problems and things like that, she has done a lot to bring that money here. we owe her a debt. the city owes her a debt and make thanksgiving community and this city safe for all peoples. with that i will quit i will go on and on. but i just love you and keep doing what you are doing and vote the next year election her back in office and biden back in office and trump and his people

when is they rescind when we should not do and should do we are watching for the peoples. united states and this community. >> thank you very much. >> [applause]. >> thank you for your community your appreciation with so many of us wing fort worth we are able to accomplish. you mentioned asthma earlier i saw a precious child across the street. and it is important to note in this legislation inflation reduction act, we have the biggest commitment to protecting our environment and savingor planet with environmental justice. ever, ever instituted by any government. any place at any time this it is again environmental justice is important part of what president biden is b. health and environmental justice. infrastructure justice. equity and he puts resource there is to make it happen.

because again, the subject of asthma and it is occurring in communities of color especially is one that is immorality in our society. this legislation guess a long way for clean air and water as we again protect the planet for the children so thank you for mentioning that oscar and for your kinds words. this is again this bill was about health care. and we consider the health of our planet a health issue as well. i did deposit want to just focus on the health aspects without settle way to what else is in the legislation. 2005 and 6 when we were run to take back the house from the democrats we had 6 row 6 a new direction. 6 pieces of legislation we would pass in the first 100 hours of

the new congress. we passed all 6 in the house. 5 became law. one did not. and that one did not prevail in the senates was to enable the secretary of hhs to a negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. we were fighting for arc while. put it on our agenda passed in the house could not get it through to be passed because of the strangle hold. with the outside mobilization, aarp and all of you and the courage of might have members in the congress that just take that vote. and the leadership of president biden we had made history and have made progress. for our seniors and people. i'm sure we will be honored take questions you may have. questions?

no. >> we anticipated all of your questions you may have. >> yes , sir. [inaudible]. yes. >> [inaudible]. >> it is disarc pointing because our the reason i have all the security i have is because i'm second in line to the presidency that never will help but none the less it is a continuation of government issue. so you would think that the secret service would have everybody else in the line all the secretaries of cabinets who follow the speaker of the house in succession have secret service protection the president and violent have the most. but they had justice decided that they would not do that.

it is irresponsible. we have questions about irand not of the secret service at the time of january 6 some performed manage 95 cently. some did not. i have many [inaudible] probably more then and there anybody export air presidential candidate. i'm more concerned about the safety of my members. safety of our staff the safety of those who cover us. in the capitol and you see the frivolousness which the secret service treatd that. i have the protection of the capitol police i'm indented than i saved our democracy on january 6. [applause] >> strong democratic showing [inaudible]. >> this was a big victory left night. since oscar talked politics i

will, too. the question would not brought up a political subject we had a victory last night. people were stunned the fact in a district that was not supposed to go democratic it did. i give credit to our candidate pat rion. excellent veteran and public servient. a small business person bringing so much to his candidacy and so much to the congress. very soon. he has won the special election. i get one more vote. when we -- when we have accomplished all these under biden the rescue package [inaudible]. were the infrastructure bill with with some republican row. the issue of chips and science and some republican vote. and now inflation reduction act

with no republican vote we have 220 dem credits in the house. franklin roosevelt had 319 democrats in the house. we have do this carefully and i'm proud of the courage of our members. this was the residence should be very, very scared this morning about their prospects. i had never believed we would not hold the house. that's my mission and hope to accomplish and i have a floon do it under sean patrick had a victory last night. our chair. but this one -- they expected to win and they out spent us but we out organized them. and that's when. we don't agonize we organize.

[inaudible] we had it in this bill reduce the cost insulin we had the bill on the floor on its own without anything else. and we only got 20 republican votes that means 190 residence voted against it. this bill had more because it had [inaudible] reduction of this or that. since they think the climate crisis is a hoax you see well they had that excuse not to vote but when it was insulin alone, only able to get. we thought -- how could they resist this. insulin is costing 6 or 300 an among. this take its down to a 35 a

month copay. you would think that respect for constituents and the brood need you mentioned they would represent their constituents. no they represent big pharma and that's really what the success was in this bill. that we were able to -- losen the strangle hold of big pharma on our families. thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> thank you all so much and let us thank again the family health center. thank you doctor for your leadership. and wonderful being in the commuter. oscar given me the figures he is about the [inaudible] hidden -- black excellence [inaudible] >> in every way taking great pride in the african-american community as we do.

you have to know about this area was the leading area in san francisco of homeownership. of homeownership. this is about community. and the word, communities, as we are remindeds had the word. unity. that's what this center is about you see the welcoming presentation called woven comb. just like -- that respected it has for the people coming in to calm them and provide a community center when they come together. share thoughts organize, not agonize and make the future better. so. thank you all so much >>

>> good morning or good afternoon nothing like a little rain today. a mission in the rain. >> this is a san francisco moment and i'm honored be here and do this and -- it is just -- it is a dream come true. i'm tom murphy an organizer for jerry day. we started around this area that event 20 years ago and here it is going strong and thanks for

everybody for your support. [applause] >> i'm excited that we are celebrating and bring it back to the jerry garcia theatre and celebrate the heingacy of jerry garcia who grew up up the street 121 amazon and 87 herrington down the street here t. is amaze to me not surprising but we have jerry days all over and there was a jerry day in australia. somebody correct me i don't think they ever went to australia. you know it shows that this scene is growing and take off tremendously. take kickoff the days between we are staying a week of celebrations through the 14th. we had a lot of upon community collaborations on jerry 80th

birthday. i'm excited for the community organizations and partnerships that came about this during this time. red light management mark allen, thank you. jerry garcia family, thank you very much. [applause] the office of workforce development chris corey and mayoran thompson, thank you very much. sf rec and park the sf library, the district office supervisor's ej, thank you. >> sf travel, grants for the arts. the sf giants. stern grove festival. haight street merchants thank you for coming out today and thank you valley brown for coming out and grants for the arts and all the community organizations accellsior action group outer mission merchant. manny's cafe. hart monick brewing and key supporters of jerry day jump as the jerry garcia family.

sound support. san francisco rec and park. sf beautiful and all of our staff, vol disappears all of our don'tors such as tommy wearing the nice shoes today. [applause]. when i if you ever learned about this i mention joe coffee she advocateed have the jerry garcia theatre renamed back in 1995. that was the first time i found out and realized that jerry grew up in the neighborhood and sparked a plug in me. and here i am -- 25-30 years later doing this it is amazing. >> and right here is the plaque this was installed in 2017. as the quote there, what we are trying to do is expand rather than narrow. i feel hacommunity was able to accomplish that this year while we are work to recover from the pandemic we went through the

last 2-3 years. >> once again i want to say, thank you and have a huge happy birthday to jerry garcia, his 80th birthday now the mayor of san francisco a fan of live music, big fan of live music the 45th mayor of san francisco, london breed. >> thank you, tom. i almost wore my tyedye dress from love on hate i have to run to a flat raising right after this i had to dress up. back in 1965 when the grateful dead came in existence, they really not only put san francisco on the map they put the haight ashbury tyedye on the map and created music for everyone. mixing reggae, gospel and seoul, country everything they did represented a way to bring

people together. and i think that is why so many people identify with their work. identify with their music. and feel so connected to this group. because there was always something for everyone. and some of you may have been arc live at the time. i was not arc live i like to drag brag about that. i saw so many of the photographs of them performing on haight ashbury primary nothing golden gate park. when you look at the crowds and the access of people, it was absolutely extraordinary. and what they were able to do, along with so many other iconic group in this community and this city, was to make magic happen and make us feel good about the time despite the challenges that existed. we remember the vietnam war and other things going of and in fact, jerry garcia privileged he was born and raised in this neighborhood. lived the first 5 years of his

life a block and a half away from here. supportd and loved his home town like i know some of the natives here today. and so -- we want to honor, recognize his legacy becauseen though he was a star and performed all over the world, he always represented san francisco in such an extraordinary way. and when i think about you know the over time, so many things that have been done. tom and his work around jerry garcia day. jerry garcia theater there will be a great performance you can watch for free tomorrow. wear all the tyedye you want as we beat l.a. we will be playing the dodgerers! there will be activities and events. what is so great about this year more so, i love the fact that we are home. we are to where it started where

jerry was born and raised and spent his time as a child. we will have a number. events throughout the community and that's what it is all about. the activityings, the things that bring people together and nothing brings people together more than live music. we will be at a number of upon venn use. at a lot of places and on august 14th, phil will be with his friends and others the other founders of grateful dead will be with a group of folks at the big picnic at stern grove here in san francisco, which is open and free and available to everyonech i am really excited be here today. and grateful for all, grateful for all of you. [laughter]. and your love and your support of this extraordinary iconic person. we know that he was a large are than life figure. and today would have been his 80th birthday. as we celebrate and honest or and remember his legacy

condition to remember what he stood for. music, entertainment, keep smiles on people's face and to just really bring joy to our hearts and seouls with the everything that he and the grateful dead agreed. today on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i want to present his daughter, tricksy who is here today, with a proclamation recognizing your father and his numerous talents and your family and the community. and today, we will officially proclaim it jerry garcia day in san francisco! [applause] wonderful. what an honor. >> thank you. >> thank you. you want to say a few words. >> i have words to say. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed you

are an inspiration and people like that you hopefully inspiring young people to get involved and remember they can change the world. my father was raised here he learned about fair labor laws from his grand mother was a union organizer. it was here he learned be a musician from his father who played saks in his jazz band. it was here he learned see the beaut in people's story growing up with the family bar. [inaudible] here he learned live like an artist in san francisco art institute they all contributed to the legacy of jerry garcia. not just the world class musician but someone who's lasting influence makes the wormed a better place and as his daughter, it it is an honor to be here and represent the family. be in san francisco and proud californian this is the best

place on the planet. thank you san francisco for valuing the i deals always assistanting for someone and a safe space for open minded people. we honor our father jerry garcia who played thousands of shoes in the city on his 80th birthday. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor london breed. now i will say a few words joy from art span are doing an art mission here in the district working with many organizations grants for the arts here is >> ann >> thank you, topp the unfish mayor of -- i run arts span and this is the testament to why art and matter. we are all here because an artist jerry garcia touched so

many people and still december what are we doing? bringing art out to everyone. we have 4 years we have paid artists 29 artists we give them a total of 50 thousand dollars because we are putting monnet hands of artists to put art in the store fronts on mission street. and on the closing kinds of, roughly the closing of jerry garcia day in the park zeal a pub crawl through the park oust park and on mission and ending at the dog course inn. >> [laughter] we got this! and along the way, there upon be bands 5 bands in bars and they will be 11 cites with art. so it is a music and art crawl from mc claire and i know seat excelsior temperature means so much to know that art does matter and what brings us

together the first art work we are like we will walk and take the artists. may be 30 people will come tell be amazing. 100 came and walked the entire path with us. i was like, we are touching people. sends postcards in cantonese and spanish and english everything we do and -- we do pretty things like here is the map of the day. we will put them all over if you are a business owner put it in your win o the partnerships with action groups with city departments, mayor's office of economic workforce development, it matters. city funds are coming to us to give it to artists and you all benefit. so, thank you all for being here, art matters. tell help us come become from this crazy time of the covid. follow the art. we will be here. thank you, guys. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to list the events today

today we had the special proclamation. tomorrow night jerry garcia night at the giants. also today starting is a library art exhibit it will go on the month of august. check it out. and the haight street from august 7 to august 14th. thank you sunny for doing that. and art span starting -- august 11th. and an event at manny's cafe on august 11 and ocean beach clean up with the jerry garcia family on august 13 and jerry day august 13th at the jerry garcia theater. >> and then after the show, will be jerry night with the art installations and art pan and all along mission and geneva. and then the day after stern

grove festival closing out 2 weeks of jerry garcia celebration. thank you for coming out. thank you mayor breed and tricks and he jerry garcia family. happy birthday to jerry! [applause] [singing happy birthday]. [singing] [applause] thank you, everybody happy jerry day!

bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing

insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. >> my name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to $10,000 a most. >> and chad of the arts project pursue. >> the evolution of the orientation the focus on art education between children and patrol officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space

for the program that we run. >> i'm the nonprofit manager for the mayor's office of economic workforce development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute technical assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. >> snooechlz is rob the executive director and co-founder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of san francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know they'll not renew our lease the last year's the city with the nonprofit displacement litigation program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction

and technical assistance. >> fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around $40,000 a year now $87,000 taylor's dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota street project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a nonprofit organization national anthem and turned out the northern california fund they accepted us into the real estate program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was

in full swinging skinning they brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a $946,000 grant that is

provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern california platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property we're sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years we'll renting $10,000

square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. >> the loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the

sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. >> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit mitigation program and the

sustainability initiative and find their information through technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the >> my name is holly doudiet. h2 firefighter with the san

franciscowired. what inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college . the recession had happened so there weren't any jobs. i was having troublefinding a job. and i was kind of looking around . my dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. so i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. i said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea . i took some classes, i ended up loving it . i grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because it's a physical job and it's enjoyable. you never know whatyou're going to get and it's a team effort . i first realized i was part of the lgbt+ community in sixth grade. i looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend . th