majesty for being here with us today. [applause] >> good morning i'm matt franklin a proud approximate honored president and ceo of mid pen is my great, great pleasure to welcome you to shirley chizism village. >> the ground breaking for the future home of 135 san francisco educators and employees of the district. how about it. [applause] we are done it.

we marshalled the will and resources to be at this day. it is irrelevant rable. we look forward it celebrating with all of you. everyone here has been part of the journey and worked with us to get to this very proud moment. . together, we created a plan. a resource the will and the plan and now the execution turning of the dirt to credit what i am confident will be model educator in district employee housing. the best in the country. it is buzz of the work we have all done together. today we look forward it honoring you and celebrating together your contributions to this effort. i want to begin my remarks talking about the residence denials of this district in this community. so we were selected work on this

development 4 and a half years ago. and -- in putting together our proposal we drove around the district and of course the first thing we noticed was play landful a rable effort from the communities. and the first meeting we held on a beautiful weekend day in the center. play landful i brought my boys with me. a gorgeous day. and i will tell you i have been dog this w for 30 years. works in 11 counties in san francisco and monterey bay area. and the beginning of the first conversation i of was i'm for affordable housing. if you have done this work you worry about the but.

now i live in southern marin and involved in my community and can't tell you how much i here i'm for affordable housing, but. i heard i'm for affordable housing and for it here. and we want to be involved, but we have thoughts and input we want and it was amazing. and the energy in the what it say busy this community you created play land and engage am that the neighbors had and have. and the way this supervisor tang and the city worked to do it. we knew it said a lot and counter to when narrative people want to have about the sunset or san francisco it was not our experience at all. i want to honor the neighbors of

the district. will who have been involve anded have input. features we point to and will. that are products of this engagement you lived up to your initial commitment we are for it here and we want to be involved and have a voice it has been fantastic the work made this a richer community. and i also. to highlight that the 3 organizations that came together to help govern and guidous this journey. and that is the superintendent's office from the school district. the union of the employees and teachers and the city and mir's office of housing. if you work in this field you know how river and heard that is. right? seriously. i work in the districts up and

down the state it is heard to get districts and cities every day will we came in literal intimidated and it was amazing. everyone around the table was rollingum sleeves. we get the work and how we will get focus groups going to work to understand. and it has been an amazing journal etch we learned so much and you see it in this community we are creating together. the district knows their teachers they know employees. they had all sorts of great data the union had feenemial data

worked with us from the beginning to create focus groups of employees and educators so we could listen and learn when their needs were and express in the ways that get policy but there are features of the development that are tailored to this workforce and community. we have been able in the great partnership with the district and the city with their investment and expert ease to create a range of incomes we serve. we are going deep on the income spectrum 35,000 for a husband hold and all the way up to 150,000. we learned teachers live in households. educators live in how did holds there may be other earners, there is a spectrum of need. in the moderate range have a difficult time living with their

families in the city. and so we have a wide are range of income in order to based on everything we learned together, and planned together this we know about the needs of the educators in the city. they gave us all sorts of input in the design. a lot behalf they want we hear from other residents they were eager to have common area space and we will have a generous out door courtyard and indoor spaces for exercise rooms and gyms. and they were eager for kids to benefit from school based after school program. you teach all day in the class does in the money you would not like an after school program for your kid. in the afternoon. working with the neighbors we got generous community serving

space on the ground floor youth programming and services that was a need identified. and i'm prud we preserved a corner of the soit that will be accessible to the public. and will be in the spirit of play land. and of course, we endeavoured with city and per ins and architects to envision a beautiful, high quality physical environment. which we know is a necessary condition to creating a great communities. it just a platform the fun part will be in 18 months when is we get back together and see this communities forming with residence denialses moving in. but we than quality of the built environment matters and creates this precedent for the community getting off to a great start there is a lot to celebrate and eager to invite our partners to

share their thoughts and reflections and i'm going to start with supervisor mar. [applause] >> good morning and i am so excited be here with you for ground break being of the village in front of this dramatic back drop here. and really today represents a huge step forward for our public school educators and new strategy its husband our essential w force and the sunset. i could not be prouder that sunset is home to this project. >> the village is the fordable housing that our workers need and deserve and thrilled support t. i did want to story by saying today is historic for the sunset. one of my top priorities expanding housing to meet our community needs. and the village not only

addresses the housing needs of educators but it is the very first 100% affordable housing ever in the sunset district. and amazing project will lead to are house nothing our neighborhood that meets our needs including our sunset district's fared automobile family housing breaking grounds onnishing and 26th avenue. >> and at a time when san francisco residents frustrated with the extreme cost of hozing and state of schools this project provides hope. not just to the educators and families who will be able to have a new home here but provides new home for our neighborhood and our city that we can build real solutions to our biggest problems and do it

effectively and clantive and creatively. this as matt mention third degree project brought our neighborhood together in the face of contention around housing and the village embrailled by community. and it benefited from the input and collaboration from the neighborhood. and again it is brought us together here over the last 5 years on our interim base. the site was reimagined and repurposed by the community play land on 43rd avenue. youth this is u noticed artists and gardeners and yoga teachers and skate irs and using public land for public good. and bring the sunset together. ir want to thank katie tang and her staff for w on creating play land at 43rd avenue. and thank the community it was a

community envision and create ed space. i some of the stewards here today. thank you very much. play land is gone the needs it serves are not going. and in addition to the delivery needed mixed income housing, the village will continue to tradition of public serving space on this site with a community room and public art by local artists. it has taken collaboration to get here. to be in the school district it came together in the service of a vision. that teachers and educators should be able to live in the communities they serve. we am deliver on that vision. we will deliver a housing solution for under serve the community and social and racial equity and he doing it together. let's also and yes, we need to

build more and build faster and do more to address the housing crisis impacting everyone in our city but we should take this moment to celebrate this missage today. if you are teaching our kids in san francisco you should raise your kids in san francisco. surely the village you can. again i want to thank united educators of san francisco. the mayor and her mayor lee before her and the mayor's office of housing. the school district leadership. for all of their work on -- initiating this project. and thank you to mid pen for your work and bringing it to life and the sunset xunt for embracing this and this will be a wonderful new project i'm proud and excite today is moving forward. thank you. [applause]. >> all right. thank you. now invite jenny lamb the

pedestrian board of education. good morning, telephone is wonderful to be here this morning. we are so fortunate to realize the vision which has been in the works for a decade and demonstrated the true commitment of collaboration with the city, county of san francisco and sf unifies district and the community. it is the first educator housing communities for san francisco and sfusd and only one of a handful of housing developments in the state of california. the development is built on sfusd owned land this would not have been possible without legislation and prop e in 2019. it was just down the street in 2019 where i spoke directly with

educators, it was a couple who also have an feint. edkirts in the district. and they shared their store we kneel me how it was difficult and is difficult to find affordable housing. they are so committed to our students, their profession and the public sector they were sharing how important it is that san francisco offers housing for educators and staff and they want to raise their children here. that discussion, this morning has continue today stay with mow throughout the work of the board working in community with our labor partners of recognizing right now we absolutely need to support our educators and staff that have been doing the work on the front lines every day and service to our students.

>> we believe it this hozing solution will create opportunity for educators and staff. in the district and allow the sfusd to retain a strategy w force dedicated to students they deserve this. and this is an example of how our city issue community and school districts can work toward machine goal when is we come together well is nothing going to stop us in doing what is necessary and needed for the betterment of our students and our city. i want to thank the san francisco community. our city partners and the voter who is made the project possible through their contribution. i want to extend my appreciation to the many sfusd staff who contributed it make thanksgiving a reality through steadfast

dedication. there have been counselless hours, days and nights of meet beings on the weekends. want to acknowledge and thank don, karissa fin low and karen sulveteran who are joining us today. long with viva mologyy. young lee who is here. and so many more of our staff. thank you to our city partners i know the staph is here you will hear from them examine this w is not possible without everyone here this morning and more that were acknowledging and thanking. i look forward to welcoming the first residence devenlts the village in fall of 2024 and want it acknowledge we are just getting started. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, president lm i appreciate the detail on the staff engagement. there are many issues you deal

with in the realm of education and say that one of the thing this is toed out how hands on and engaged the districted has been and it is the right thing. how you will get comfortable with the just being the beginning and trying to seize more opportunity as we go. so00 autonewest addition to the real estate community and real estate development community in san francisco. superintendent wang. >> thank you, good morning, everybody. i have some my third month on the job and look how much i accomplished! in this time! no. it is really i know the effort of the district, city and union leadership this has med this help. this is while i'm new to san francisco this is in the an issue with which i don't have familiarity. 25 years ago i started as a

teacher in new york. another city that housing can be difficult. and at that time, it wasave challenge. i taught in the lower east side where i could find a place to live was washington heights the tip of machine hattan and i would take the 2 train down and take 50 minutes to get down to the school. which i guess was helpful as a new teacher it was when i did lesson planning for the day and a challenge on the way home i would full aslope on the train after a full day about students. and that's why we there are reasons we want fordable housing we want our teachers in the community they serve and our educators to be in the communities they serve. where focus can be on their school and their class recommend and not worrying about half-hour, hour and a half commute or the other challenges this educators face in finding

housing. i'm glad to be joining the team this project is starting. and again know it has been a lot of hard work and it alines with when we are trying to do to recrew and retain educatorings. we increased salaries and from 2016 it 19. an 18% increase. but still did not match what the increase in costs in the city. we recently negotiated another 6% increase for the school year. it is in the enough to help our educators with the financial challenges than i face in finding affordable housing we are pleased this project is moving forward and again alines with our vision of recrewing educators and will appreciate the other work happened in the city to support educators finding housing. we have part inned with the city on programs such as teach are next door. down payment assistance loan.

month low housing clinics and legal advice. these are ways which we support our educator in finding affordable house nothing san francisco. i'm looking forward to seeing the building develop when i'm out and coming to the ribbon cutting and -- know matt introducing the next speakers i want to appreciate the president of uasf and past if the president it is. they are wonderful and than i represent the people dook the work with studentses and glad we work together to support them. thank you very much. >> thank you. iel. i have to say, as i introduce cassandra and ask her to come up we were so happy to see the union at the table from day one and i think that, too, i will

put out there part of the model for how to do this right. played a role in everything. a strong and helpful voice and i think first and foremost for us. helped the future residents of the community live at the center of the discussionless we had. as we go through this. that can get lost and the pro formas and the plans and it is so valuable and it is a far, far better community than it would have been without that. so, cassandra? [applause]. >> hi, thank you. good morning. the president of uesf and i'm here attended with for you of my predecessors or 3. dennis, suzanne and lita. as well as other leadership and folks who represent the 6, 500

members. who have been struggling with affordable living in san francisco for decades. folk who is are dedicated to this work. right. as the challenges of education have been apparent to everyone, which is one of the things made clear during shelter in mrachls everyone got an inside seat. to had it is like if you had not before. some of what is left in the conversation i appreciate previously folks said; educators are not single entities. we are members of families. sometimes single parent households. sometimes no children households. sometimes we care for our elder family members or in some case i then and there is something we worked on was we take in our students as faster youths. we are commune members and

sometimes presidents of nonprofits, creators of other business opportunity. my point is this we are integral, critical and engrained members of the community. commune which we work whether at the school house. or where we live. if it is traveling in my case 3 hours round trip cross to oakland. we fuse to give up teaching there. or if a wuk down the street. can you imagine? being able to live amongst and with educator who is see, care for and educate our youth the foeks that are the most important in our opinionful in the city. the individuals who are very much our 40. those other folk when is we hope to teach to care for as well as we get older as well.

it is important to understand this is their working living condition. when an educator has the presence of mind and time to not just of stay after school and grade papers but to be involved in all of the community efforts, student's outcome and connection to their teacher to their educator and the school secretary, to the janitor who is my favorite person when i was at school. then there are even deeper and measure connected to their education. to the trust of not just this school but any school that followed. it is an investment. this project. in the future. and also hopeful low one of many steps this san front the district and of course, we --

have in the housing taking care of -- planning for an fire community to work for the entire community. we are just one, one -- aspect if you think about education as one entity. but we are a microcosim. we report an entire healthy community. even in one building but also spanning from early ed to elementary, middle and high school. and then of course, college or city college or perhaps the workers that live around us. that are doing this w. it all speaks to a healthy community. we were happy to be involved. we know this work very well. we know our members and our students well. and we hope to be involved in

more to solve a krois like that called the staffing crisis and sometimes many other crises. there is in the a one single solution to this issue. because we are not one single issue. we are the entire community. of it will tick all of us coming together and we are happy to be involves and take leadership in the spaces and happy to work with folks making sure that the solutions are creative. innovative and intense. this. we are proud of this. we are looking forward to the first day of move in. some of us. and -- [laughter] i don't know but moving is horrible. but tell be great. i'm sure. so that someone does not have to move againful thank you very much. [applause].

>> we will invite you cassandra toor favorite day when is we come and help the new residents move in. everybody needs help when they move. seat mask. birch introduce our next speaker i want to take a minute to tie together the last 2 speakers superintendent tucking about is experiencing in new york. and then such a passionate description of our incredible educators in san front. i want to re >> et cetera on the work we did together to name this community. shirley chizism village. got a lot of enput and so i hope if you get a mobile home you will take a moment to seat board we put up by the entrance. our staff had fun.

we have enthusiasm around upon this name. it was an amaze pregnant leader. the first african-american women elected to college in 1968 from new york. can american woman to be a series contendser for the democratic nomination for president in 1972. and importantly started in early childhood education before she was i don't know the nick name i think in congress than i called her fighting shirley. honed her skills in the community and the class room and an incredible champion for those under served in her time. we are proud of that name and appreciate the collective work to come up with that it lives. now it is my pleasure to

introduce our critical part ins a fundser to the development. investor in affordable housing throughout the bay. fiona chiou from silicon county bank. >> good morning, everyone on this beautiful, classic san francisco morning. on behalf of sill condition valley bank it it is an honor to be here on this long awaited ground breaking. silicon valley bank is prud to be a project funder. we are providing 98 million in construction and permanent loans and a tax credit investment. this americas our largest single project investment to date. and we went all in because you did and dedicated to solidifying this model for other community

to follow suit. our purpose is to fuel innovation for a better world and better world is one where our educators are feel well supportd and valued for tremendous role in developing our children. so, a small thing, i happen to be at one of the children who was educated here at francis scott key junior elementary school. i confirmed with my mother i attended here from k-second grade. and i was driving entering the grounds i had a moment, i don't have the clearest memories of my class or teachers but i remember walking out and feeling brave because i was a city latch key kid and took the network judah home while my parentings were working at city gentleman jobs trying to build their american dream. i did not know then as i do now the greatest lesson gained was

how to be brave and resourceful. that sweet memory of my small connection to the site has lifted mow up the past few weeks during the challenging times. it is -- no audio. um really to rise boost abstract terms we use in policy and financing units ami, and huannize the critical issues we are all facing. and -- these are truly challenging times need for affordable housing is continuing to grow and as those the need gross so does the complexity and challenges to get it built. we have incredible per sdmers incredible sponsor mid pen housing a dedicated team who are using their resourcefulness and resilience tow get the housing

built and help the residents succeed in it. so thank you so much mt and the entire team for selecting us for your trusted per in we are committed to being your strongest advocate on this journal tow build this project to fruition this say public/private partnership made possible by the san franciscouneified school district. san francisco mayor's office of how doing and community development, supervisor mar and mayor breed. thank you so much for this bold vision you had and we are committed to staying alined with you to bring the project to meet that vision. i'm in awe of seeing all of you here and think burglar the hundredless of community stake hold and neighborhood advocate who is fought for this project will not let you down. here is to a smooth construction. and thank you, again and

congratulations! [applause] >> all right i like to offer a quick reflection on the role of the city. the mayor's office of housing and commune development at the table from the beginning. that it is an office i had the privilege to lead for first 5 years of the administration before i came to mid pen we were dedicated to housing and got a lot done around supportive housing. i can tell thank you in my spare time i was over at the district offices with the then head of real estate. about once a week offering my services. we got 40 people they understand real estate. i studied. we can help. was my pitch. and -- you know despite the incredible work of mendoza the

mayor's education advisor. the bottom line is -- 2 organizationless as a city in a district we did not have the relationship, we did not have the trust or spirit of collaboration necessary for this to be fluid and to work. the rolls royce expertise will work for you. what is you and your vision where do you want to go. with that and when i walked with the very beginning it was mayor ed lee. the bulk of the development and the decisions the financial decisions and commitment under mayor breed i saw all 3 at the table and how they were working together it was striking. it has continued. mohcd dog ed in helping get this done. dog ed in honoring had than i hear from the district. it speaks to the different tone

that is set today and in no mall part because of mayor breed's leadership. like to offer the mayor to share thoughts. [applause]. >> finally here! let me tell you. i really was worried about how long if took to get this project done. fiona can appreciate this as someone when went to the school it must feel great being here and making in this place for educators to live and work and thrive and we have been hearing the conversations over the decades about the need for educator housing and often times when we put things on it is ballot. there is a lot of conversation about housing for teachers housing for firefighters,

housing for all the people but we know that the laws that exist really make it so complicated. so difficult to get a project like this done. just even the 18 among delay to rezone this property to make it appropriated for housing in the first place. i appreciate supervisor mar because part of what he and i have constants low discussed is the need to get more housing built in this part of town. we are talking about the lost 10 years only 37 new affordable units introduce in the this community. the need to build is so important. the need to build means there needs torn collaboration we know there is a community here. we therein is nittive people who grew up here. and it is important we work together and try to be aggressive about getting housing

diagonal yes, but it irrelevant is a partnership and does take a village. hai love about this property is everything this it represented. it represented school. you know it was a school and then sad low a storage. i don't know if i'm happy about this i was happy the community came together in this space and turned it in the new and improved play land. i was not born when the original play land was opened. about it was a great space for people to come. a great space for people to really enjoy themming. so many kids and families. that's what shirley village is going to represent. it will be that great place for community to come together and communities space. not just the housing with a safe, fordable mriz to call home but a real village and community. that's when we need to create in san francisco now more than

ever. cassandra i'm proud of your leadership and finding solutions to provide housing for educator in san francisco. today i was thinking about my former english teacher mr. mckenzie. i did not appreciate him this much. il be honest. because you know mr. mckenzie's class was heard and heard low ever smiled. and when i found out this he lived in [inaudible] i did in the know what that was at the time. when we were learning about maps and locations and how long it to being to get to work. i started to tree him different because i felt like he guess out of his way to come this far to be there for us. so the least we can do is behavior better in his class room. that should not be the case is my points. that is why this housing is so

important. it is important to what we need to do to develop a better future in san francisco. yes, we need more aggressive with housing policies. we need to be open minded about the possibility of using under utilized spaces like that accomplice to create house being opportunity and we need to make sure there is a real connection between the people this we want to have access to the housing and their ability to get in the housing. this is another ball game we are discovering and fact this is the first educator housing we have been able to build in san francisco. i am so happy about it and pleased and what this sayings is this we can do it. we can do it when we have collaboration. we can do it bh we stop waisting time with petty to the tick and

can do it when we listen to each other even photocopy it is in the when we agree with. this it is proof positive this we can do it. [applause]. i want to thank uesf and the folks who were a part of this and everyone when came together the now superintendent takingal credit long with our -- board members and others and -- our supervisor mar and just to say i want to really give credit where it is do you i was a member of the board of supervisor when is ed lee made the commitment and wanted to get this project done. and so i want to appreciate him and his work this is a testament to the important work he cared about but the person w that we all need to care borrow and folk us on here in san francisco. i'm happy to be here. this is realist a significant accomplishment. i almost paused several times to

reread what i was going to today. to make sure that it was actually this grounds breaking that we were finally breaking groundom this project. and i had to call and ask are you sure are we doing this. we are doing it. we are doing it and we have to make sure that we work with our educators the 1 who is work in schools within the area to ensure that there irrelevant is a direct connection with educator who is work hard and work close to this area and access to the affordable housing so we can truly create the village we know that shirley would be proud of. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause]. thank you. mayor. going like this i was thinking about the classroom had we wrote the answers on the hand.

all right. it bring us home this so much more goes into this then and there we had a chance to call out here. aly is the direct of mid pen's san francisco and north bay office and involved in this develop the from day one. aly will bring us home the final speaker. [applause]. >> thanks. get red for the long list of thank yous. thank you everyone for joining us here today. what an honor it is to stand at this grounds breaking the representatives so much work and dedication from the speakers you heard from today and represent hope for the future of educator housing. everyone has an interaction with educators and everyone has a story about a favorite teacher. classroom aid or councillor that helped you through a tough time. everyone knows educator in the communities.

we know educatorings struggle with housing insecurity. educators have an impact on lives and communities and prud to give back and recognize their hard work through this housing. i want it say from the bottom of my heart and i peek for everyone when i say thank you to the many, many folks who have helped this educator housing become real every the membership years of planning including identifies this piece of land, engagement with niches and future residence denials and the commitment to house educators. they will benefit through stability of housing knows than i will not guilty worry about rent increases, long commutes or other stressors. this allows folks to spends time on self care. personal had beenys less in planning, working with students rather the long commutes. thank you to the vision and financial support from the city including the mayor breed and mayor lee and technical support if community development.

machiney project managers that worked with us including fitzpatrick in the crowd here and director shaw, judi hall. and others when worked tireless low on this development. thank you to circumstance fu sd use thanksgiving sited the first example of educator housing. thifrpg its lee and steven, don, and karen sullivan and uesf for involvement during the design process we sat around the table optimizing the building designful bedroom mix and amenity tologist best serve the future residence denials. thank you to supervisor mar and staph for staying connected and involved with the community during this process. and your involvement as we work to build on your relationships "art community as we bring our public art work to life here and thank you to the fremdzs of play

lands for thoughtful input during the design of the out door space stilling known as play land and serve as a gathering space for the neighborhood and thanks it sunset youth services. not only for the important work you do but for being part of this process and bringing your synergies to the space with the community. thanks to development consultants and the team including grown from california housing per inship corporation and our architect and condition transactor team for working with us. to uphold mid pen value condition transact practices so we are living them not writing them in our strategic plan we dedicated a fifth of construction contract of this development over 14 million dollars to small local accidents. we are achieving community center said practices that

address the legacies of disinvestment and inequality by pursuing the condition transacting to grow the next generation of accidents and great opportunities. thank you to patricia and david casey and casey and kim and matt irwin and seek out the small local businesses with us. and thank you toal the work and support from the mid pen team including on property management, compliance, legal, accounting, construction management, residence den services and communications and business development departments. thank you to the folks on the day it day real estate development from mid pen w to figure out all of the nuances of the deal including andrew, lisa, matt and jay. and finally i want to thank and recognize the project management team that got this across the finish line and closeod

construction finance nothing referred time. we were awarded federal tax credit in john you have until december it start construction. but the leds got busy and were able to start construction by august. so, i mean it feels like december. great work by senior project manager michelle quill. lauren fer and he associate project manager jazmin lee. thank you everyone else this had an irrelevant in this project and fiwas not able to rescue noise you by anymore we see and you appreciate all your work on this development thank you. >> all right. this concludes our program. stick around for refreshments we doll a turning of the dirt here. thank you. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

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also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure

we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. >> being apart of the grou

allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a

great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i

want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪]

dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa.

i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date.

the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking

opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends

playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this.

>> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they

want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually

become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that

teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative.

helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling,

composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san

francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it

downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping.

if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came

from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life.

>> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. >> one restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really

encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of

and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very

humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place. a together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a

little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each

class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their. >> my name is kathy mccall.

i'm director of san francisco national cemetery here on the presidio of san francisco. this was designated as the first national cemetery on the west coast in 1884.however its history dates back to the 1850s along with the us army presence on the presidio itself. we have 26,300 gravesites that we maintain and thereare 32,000 individuals buried in this cemetery . the veterans who are buried here span all the war period going back to what we call the indian war, spanish-american war, world war i to korea, vietnam and then as recent as operation iraqifreedom . we have 39 medal of honor recipients. more than 400 buffalo soldiers buried here who are the

african-americansoldiers who served with the ninth and 10th calvary . there's so many veterans buried here, each withtheir own unique history and contribution . one of those individuals is all equipment prior. that's not her real name, that's her stage name and she was an actor during the civil war and while she was working she was approached by sympathizers who offered her a sum of money to cost jefferson davis on stage she did this but she recorded it to a union marshall . she was fired for doing this which made her a sweetheart to the local confederates and made her a good spy for the union. she gave information to the union until late 1863 when she

was found out in order to be hung by confederate general braxton bragg of the union troops the town . no longer any good she even wrote a book. she was given the honorary rank of major president lincoln and her inscription reads union spy. >> memorial day is a day of respect and morning for our veterans who have given their all five presidential proclamation it became a national holiday to beobserved on the last monday of the month of may . originally memorial day was called decoration day during the civil war to recognize the veterans whogave their lives . memorial day and veterans day getconfused because it involves veterans .veterans day is on november 11 is a day to honor our veterans who are still alive while at the same time we pay respect to those who have passed but memorial day is a day to show our respect to what

was said and honor ourveterans who have passed on . >> lieutenant john david miley was a graduate of the united states military academy atwest point in 1887 . he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with the fifth artillery regiment with the outbreak of the spanish-american war in 1898 he was assigned an aide-de-camp to major general william shatner, khmer and commander of the expedition to cuba.he was highly trusted and when the general staff fell lieutenant miley was designed to coordinate the attack on san juan hill in his place and would ultimately be the one to give the order that led to the charge of lieutenant colonel theodore roosevelt and the roughriders . a few days later he served as one of the commissioners who negotiated the spanish surrender of santiago july 17.

in 1904 miley in san francisco wasnamed in his honor.we know that today as san francisco va medical center . >> as a young man i grew up in south san francisco right next door to the national cemetery so when i became a cub scout we used to go over there in the 50s and decorate the gravesthat were there. when i got out of the service i stepped right back into it . went out with the boy scouts and put up the flags every year and eventually ended up being a scout at golden gate cemetery for many years. one day a gentleman walked upto me with a uniform of colonel retired . he grabbed me, i wasin uniform and says i need your help . from that day on i worked with cardinal sullivan doing military funerals and formed a group called the volunteers of

america who brought in other veterans to perform military service and the closing of all the bases we got military personnel to do all the funerals. to this day i've done over 7000 funeral services and with my group we supplement the military, all branches. i'm honoring a fellow comrade was given his or her life in service to this country. and the way ilook at it , the last thing the family and friends will remember about that individual is the final service we give to them. so we have to do a perfect job. so that they go home with good memories. >> our nation flies the united states flag at half staff by presidentialproclamation as a symbol of mourning . also in va national cemetery

flags are flown at half staff on the days we haveburials . is lowered to half staff before the first burial takes place and ray is back to full staff after the last arial has been completed . on memorial day weekend we have hundreds of scouts veterans and volunteers who come out and placed individual gravesite flags on every grave throughout the cemetery transformation from when they begin to when they conclude and to have that coupled with our memorial day ceremony is very moving and suchappointment reminder of the cost of our freedom . it's a reminderto us not to take that for granted , to be truly grateful for the price is paid not only by those who given their lives but those will have served our country and still pay the price today in one way or another and it's so meaningful to be to work in

the national cemetery and see the history around us and to know this is such an integral part of our nation's past and present. >> >> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and

it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go.

this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a

>> good morning welcome to the october 11, 2022 special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors i'm dean preston chair joined by vice chair connie chan and supervisor ronen. our clerk today is stephanie cabrera we want to thank sfgovtv for staffing our meeting today. >> do you have announcements? >> thank you. >> board of supervisors are now convening hybrid meetings. providing remote access and comment via telephone. public access is essential and take public comment as