>> good morning, everybody. this is i big day.

good morning. everybody. >> all right. i'm very excited to be here. this i'm finishing up my fourth month at superintendent of the district. this is my second shovel ready project. look how much gets done under my administration thank you very much is a long time coming to the mission bay and to the your. and this is we are proud to be standing here today to commemorate the beginning of development activities for the newest school in the unified school district the mission bay school. >> and what is so exciting about not just the state of the art building coming here but the educational access this school will provide partnering with ucsf and science organizations in the area. just a tuesday i was visiting an

elementary sixty-twoing school in a fourth grade class students were learning about anatomy and the immune system this one student explained how antibodies work annal gee as a garbage truck cloning the system this is the education they are getting they're getting lessons and the opportunity to go to ucsf hospital and explore and be in the hospital in labs and work with scientists to learn and understand a nat mow and science and had is means and could mean to enter in a profession like the medical profession of science procession this is what we want to provide to every student in the district. this mission bay school will do that. not just through elementary school but being a learning hub.

and that is what is innovative about the project the fourth floor be a learning hub for students and older stounts to come down and have the different experience and it is hand's on experiences. and today's shovel red, the shovel red event and so you know it will be ahigh school before we dot ribbon cutting. we are not witting for those learning hub to go in action. and so there are activity this is morning we will start in january with students from our high schools engaging activityings with ucsf and other organizations. so, really proud this we are able to move forward with this project and have both our elementary school here and fourth floor with the stem focus link learning hub. and so, with that, i want to bring up our next speaker.

i have been here 4 months people have been working for years. i want to bring up a few from matt hene. [applause] >> all right this is an exciting day, right? >> let's give a huge round of applause to everyone who made this future site of mission bay school! this will be the first new elementary school in over 20 years in san francisco. and any time we are investing in our future in invest nothing our kids, it is proud day for our city this is a community this needed the school for a language time. over 2 decades ago, the city and ucsf recognized that this

neighborhood would need a school. and it put aside the lands for future site of a school. if only it was that easy to have it built. [laughter]. this has been a journey of determination, of never giving up. of supporting this vision and doing all of the hard work it took to make this happen. we know that many of us came together now about 8 years ago. to bring forward a resolution at the board of education to make that commitment to see this school built. i want to acknowledge the people who were a part of that including my former clothes on the board of education now president of board of supervisors walton here. [applause] former commissioner on the school board mendoza a part of that and that commitment then lead to the journal that he

got us here. we had a 2016 facility bond folks fought to get the resources to build this school. we came together with the city and ucsf to come to agreement to have the land sent to the district. and throughout that process the people at the center were residents of mission bay. a mall and mighty group the mission bay task force that came together as a group i want to acknowledge some. bruce, sarah, toby, sue, ma tina everyone a part sthaf effort a mission bay residence den raise your hand so we can give you a round of amruz. they were determined. they came together and said this is a neighborhood growing faster than any other in our city. every day you walk around the neighborhood and see strollers. you see new families moving in and the most important part of a

family friend low city was missing this is a public school. and that was true 10 years ago and more true now. if you look behind the housing was not here. 10-20 years ago. this is one of san francisco 'family neighborhoods. and now tell being much more complete with its own elementary school. there are other folks i want to acknowledge the superintendent doctor wayne. i want to acknowledge 2 people who from within the district fought to get this sdpn don and carisa. for theired wellership i got calls from them saying we need your help and need you pushing for this and acknowledge bryce i know is helping to lead the learning that will help here and all of the staff, i see so many.

we have great public school this wills be another great public school for our city. i acknowledge the educators here including united educators of san francisco strong supporters of this project. the board of education, president lamb, thank you for see thanksgiving through. when people were running for the school board and talk to me about supporting them, i would tell them i hear about 2 things one every kid in san francisco has a great education and you build that school in mission bay. i want to thank them for support and commitment and determination and this school would not be only for mission bay but all of san francisco. tell uplift the opportunity for every young person. testimony is something this we celebrate together for the entire city and county of san francisco. i want to thank the people who

build this school. construction workers. you will give a round for the hard work they will do. once we do the break the ground approximate fwhld it is a beautiful school. this was a community effort. it was a joint effort. such a beautiful sign of what we can accomplish when we set ouriveos manage and see it through. i want to thank our current supervisor matt dorse whoa is here for his support of the school. we are right now on ucsf land. that will soon be city and school district land expect that process could not have happened without the commitment from ucsf approximate partnership to make sure this would come to the district but that the future of this school would be one where we truly took advantage of all of the opportunity this are here

in the neighborhood and city. in terms of learning that our young people will access. person who has been at the center of that leading the work of what will be the fourth floor of the learning lab the mission bay school is the ucsf vice chancellor renee, welcome her. thank you all. [applause]. thank you very much. it it is a pleasure to be here today and on behalf of our chancellor sam i want to welcome all of you to ucsf and doctor renee and i serve the vice chair for office of diversity and out reach. we are focused on diversity. equity, inclusion and antiracism. on everybody having an opportunity to show up, do their best, excel and a part of the

future. i'm a professor of anesthesiology. i'm excited because education for me that is key. i'm a girl from mobile, alabama who never dreamed. fact i could be a physician. never saw a black woman physician until i was in my 20's. now to welcome you to to this outstanding opportunity on our campus the first black woman to be a vice chancellor and our 150 year history, i'm excited. i'm excited about the power of education. and about the power of this institution to transform lives. so, we are so thrilled to be welcome the san franciscouneified school district to our campus. many of our own faculty students, staff and learners live in this community and they are excited the children will teamed this school.

we are proud of our long history with san francisco unified school district. since 1990 the center for science, education and out reach. lead boy don woodsman and part of the office of diversity and out reach provide programs to support student academic success, increased college rates and exploration of stem and health science careers for students in the schools we serve. ucsf is committed to local students with experiences and preparing a health science workforce that will representative our community. the link learning mission bay hub alines with commitment to the community and an important step in diversifying the health and biotech workforce. the center for science and and education out reach involved in the development and our

students, residence can'ts and staff served as the partners with you. working with student ambassadors to droll a bold vision for the student experience. in the future, we imagine mission bay students contribute to pediat tricks, food seasonals. sports medicine. neurology, oncology and other areas for engagement. i'm am confident they will bring perspectives and ideas and solutions. ucsf provide students with meaning and will challenging experience to intern shps. j.w. shadow and acassess it a research and clinicians. ucsf science and educational partnership part of the district for over 30 years.

we have volunteers teaching in the k-12 class. provide teacher training and workshop in science teachers. summer research programs for students coming in our labs. and career days and science medicine and research. over upon i believe 92% of the district have benefit friday this program. in addition, many clinical programs are working with the san francisco unified district. psychiatry and pediat risk psychiatry provided the school based prevention programs targets new comers risk of traumatic stress will disorder. our voices and intervention program is another great program. dislekt lexic center work to improve access to services. and the program sell a long

standing collaboration with the district to address trauma and stress for students, staff and the school. we aim to increase time and decrease time spent on discipline actions. the upon opportunities for all amount in internships programs providing students an experience in behavioral health and mental health under the commission. in 2021, ucsf signed an mou with the district to advice the district on how to rehome campuses safely during the pandemic. lead by ped strigzs collaborative on reopening education faithfully. we are delighted to be in community with you. this is fruitful work and look forward to more years of partnership with the district

welcome to the neighborhood. thank you. [applause]. now my pleasure to welcome san francisco board of education president. jenny [inaudible]. >> good morning. so wonderful to be here this morning. my daughter first entered sf unify in the 2009. at that time we heard the new current about the e merging discussion around the expansion of the potential for building a new school in mission bay. fast forward 13 years here we are. the beginning this vision and that dream a reality. will it hen a badge of honor to

raise children this san francisco and the mission bay stootd stood by the school district that consistent low pushed to ensure this this city is truly a city for families and for children to tloif. mooim jenny lamb the san francisco board of education president and such an honor and privilege. there are many people to thank who have been on the journey with us for almost 2 decades. and this is what happens when you have a member a former board of education member. got to think of so many of our partners that first and foremost i want to extend a big thanks to our staff. to our staff, head of facilities. yee. you have our staff and so many staff and educators work tirelessly for our students. and realist this could not have

happened without them. i want to acknowledge [inaudible] being there as well. the events often time its is truly a coming together as a community and celebrating. there were times when we were not sure. if this was going to be reality. conversationless we had, we have to push and make this a reality. community has fought for this for long. you heard about how the mission bay school is the first in over a detectived. the building a school for grouped up this excites me as the board president this . is truly what is possible for san francisco. when we come together upon around everaround a shared vision and come around embraszing innovation. and we are so clear about what

it is and our mission. this is to provide world class, high quality education for each student no matter what neighborhood they live and come from. and it is our commitment from the sudden fran board of education, to do so. just this past tuesday we approved a 5 year goal for our students. that includes literacy, math, college and career prepared knows. to me mission bay school embodies all 3 and innovations of the partnership that will make that a reality we know we cannot dom this by ourselves and our community and city is with us every day. mission bay school be a commune for students, staff and partners to learn and so thrilled about the professional learning lab that will be available it our

educators. we hear from educators how available time to clan rit. time to reflect and to be able to continue strengthening their teaching in their class rooms they do so well. and we are thrilled around that veterans am of that teaching and learning instruction. i'm. honored see our young people and students part of the link learning lab and got to participate and observe those link learning will be sessions and thank eric race and his team. for the innovation to thinking different low and centering our students hearing from them directly from our students around wham will it keep them engage in the learning. when opportunity they absolutely deserve and not just the educational state but workforce space. we have the strongest partners to connecting our young people

internship, exposure to careers i know the connections the members made to our students. if you kent tell how excited i am to begin had work on the mission bay scoop and welcoming our first students to the newest school in 2025. yes, thank you to our construction workers for making that happen on time. we will continue to try for making that happen. and again, thank you so much for your critical partnership all these years the mayor and her team and the real estate department in help being upon lend that expertise when things got tough to push we made it to the finish line. thank you for your commitment. notice i have the humanor to

introduce our supervisor matt dorsey from district 6. >> thank you. as the district 6 supervisor for over 5 months i'm the realize i'm the rosy release of the mission bay elementary school. rosy is 1980 was declared the winner of the boston marathon until she jump in the a half mile before thes finish line. there was a marathon to get this to where weigh are today and it is great to be a supervisor who will condition it support this i want to acknowledge all the leadership of all the people who made this a reality. i think nobody more so than my predecessor matt hene a champion for this on the school board. president walton. approximate mendoza.

and everybody may be the people who have been thanked, lamb and -- others i want to give a shout out if i use my 2 minutes to the people who didn't draw a salary and did the work on this from the steering committee bruce, toby, sarah davis. sarah bartrum. . patrinasm ben, rick garcia, matthew, sam moss, [inaudible] carlos, ruby, and shauna. >> community has been so instrumental in this. you finish there is a neighborhood that in district 6 i feel like a stomping ground it it is mission bay n..com era i worked at 185 baref street the building this is was a place where there was a golf driving

range come r very close park and to watch this neighborhood come up and over the last couple years before the board i worked at the public safety building and saw this. it is an honor to represent this district and see what tell become. this has been like we talked about decades in the make. i was around san francisco long enough to remember that the mission bay started as an idea in the frank jordan administration ucsf expanding its footprint in the area and they were running out of space and the jordan administration said, go to mission bay. we will create something of a life science community that makes san francisco a global competitor in a way that for years to come and i think we are seeing that with mission bay elementary and the link learning hub with stem education. we are fulfilling the promise we

have been working on for decades. end of the day i want to make sure everybody is thanked the construction workers including our aprentice construction workers here who are already getting start the this . is always about the community. it it is about prosecute am you know the global competitiveness with stem and more than anything it is about the kids and the kids who were here play and get their education and part of this it is my honor to hand off to a young man who i recall a senor old back with my friends gladis -- on son william soto from the mission bay student and ambassador to say a few words. [applause] good afternoon, everyonech i'm soto. i'm a senior at mission high

school. [inaudible]. i'm excited talk about the mission bay hub. some of you may know the mission bay campus house an elementary school but a high school program as well. i had the privilege of being 11 ambassadors that took part in the pilot. many students worked at different elections from the chase center. and in early stages inside of learning about the hub we will held sessions and reflects on strengths and fault fist. students felt comfortable sharing experiences to each other and mission bay partners. we were informing the school's value systems years before opening. us working on site and collaborating with centers mirror the future program will accomplish providing students with access to industry lab equipment. scientists and campus that were

has passion. [inaudible]. in the designing the school we pictured a place, learn from each other and inspire generations to criminal i want to say the work of mission bay and the communities [inaudible] education remains a prior. today [inaudible] and tomorrow get become to work. thank you. [applause] gi loch hearing from our students. they really tell us and share what we need to do as an education system. we are ready to shovel dirt if there is dirt left t. has been shovelled. and the school district we have -- you know our values as a

district and they spell out sfusd the first is center centered you hear thou say student centered project upon driven by ideas from students the second is fearless and we heard this morn that many had to be fearless with tht project and united that it is what ask neat about being here and something i know our board of education and myself value it is being united and serving the students. so when we have representatives here you see how what happened when everybody can come together and be uniteed make something special hatch and w with close low in the district and appreciate here with us today our final speaker before we shovel dirt is our mayor london breed. [applause].

>> all right. is to be back in mission bay. again. i was here the other day. and -- what is great about being here and coming to the neighborhood is seeing the significant can changes that have happened here. over 25 years ago this is inspect space, a rail yard and supervisor dorsey mentioned the golf driving range i know there are a few people that were not happy that left but -- look at what is has become i remember when i was on the redevelopment commission when the conversations about housing and opportunity. and look how far we come. we opened mission creek p i know many of the folks neighbors are truly happy that is down after

a, a lot of bureaucracy. thank you supervisor dorsey. i than since the 25 years of ago that we have now in a great place we built over 6,000 units and 1500 of those affordable, 25 acres of open park space. ucsf and known research institution and schools and w they do and now they are support of providing the space for a brand-new school that has been talked about formany years. i know there are former school board members, too, buzz i know each of them have you know a stake in this and want to see this done including mendoza and matt hene who went from school board to supervisor to assembly men and even former current pedestrian board supervisors walton and our current board

member. so many who have been a part ofment to see this happen. no onemented to see it happen more than the people who live in this community and came together and talked about had they wanted not just create other a traditional school but make at this time accomplice that will serve the communities. elementary, pre-school, high school. how do we work with organizations like mission bay hub and i'm proud of william and getting up here and speaking and -- i've known him since he was a kid. i had a chance to meet folks from the program and looking forward to the work they doll with high school students here in mission bay. and also the partnership. it is in the about providing the lands but how do you make the connection to our the incredible institutions and, with their amaze being resthaefrp is

already changed the worlds a reason why san francisco did so well during a pandemic. people came to san francisco for support and it is because of ucsf and all of these xoord people and seeing a connection between this school and these kids who grow up in the school having an opportunity to serve and work newscast neighborhoods they grew up in. and various capacities men we will have a star playing at the shae center for the warriors one day that is out of mission bay school. so much possibility and hope this is a real neighborhood. filled with very wonderful people who have been parent as development has occurred this is bringing us a step further to meeting the goals and promises made to mission bay to create a communities. a community of housing.

office, research, grocery stores. i came from gunthers market and great restaurantses and long with the chase arena and concert and games we have a school that will serve the kids to make sure the next generation gets the education to be appropriated for the future. thank you for participating in this and at this time! i think we will turn some shovels and am launch the beginning of when will be the best school in our city. thank you for being here today. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! [applause] [music]

>> hello, everybody. my name is matt dorsey, your district 67 supervisor and i'm thrilled to be here is to open this long overdue extension of mission bay park. [applause] it gives me great joy to stand alongside mayor breed and my former boss deny ir herrera. it will serve the mission bay community for generations to come. this is kind of -- it's -- this

is important to me because 22 years ago i worked at 185 berry during the dot-com era when there was a golf driving range and nothing. it was a lot of industrial unused land. two years before i was appointed to the board of supervisors, i worked at the public safety building but still in mission mn bay. at that so exciting to see this neighborhood come together. having open spaces like this is a part of what 21st century urbanism is poasd to be. i think san francisco will look more like district 6 in generations could tomorrow and 24 is getting it done right. the opening of the fark is a long time -- park is a long time

coming. the fencing began to come down and families and workers and kids were welcomed inside. we want to welcome kids from the dahlia school. welcome, kids. do you miss the fence? i don't see any hands. housing has been at the forefront of priorities in mission bay. this is especially for families of chern here today and that's why the opening of these public spaces in this neighborhood is so important. our rich park system provides an avenue for people to come together and celebrate the beauty of our city and mission bay parking is no exception. we have an amazing view here. giants play visible over here. we have views of citro tower. the mission in creek, i know myself leaders beside me can't

take credit along. i want to make it sure you know all the people are thanked. thank you to the engineers, architects and city planners and laborers who built this park, we thank you today. i do want to say i know there are folks and i don't want to dwell on it, but i can't avoid the elephant in the room, there was a fence here. i remember actually at one point saying if you're going to finish the park ask leave the fence up, could we get a backhoe here so it looks like you're doing something? dennis herrera was a long time city attorney. there are important is to be dotted and t's crossed and important things to happen.

there was a little bit of bureaucracy that held things up, but i said, mayor, let's get this park opening on the calendar and then ply my recommendation is that we'll come down with bolt cutters or sirses, it's your decision. i will say it's going to be scissors. if i'm being honest, i if i this we had taken down the fence with bolt cutters, it would have been better television. with that, let me introduce the real hero, mayor london breed. >> supervisor dorsey is right. i was prepared to come down and take the fence down in the middle of the night myself and hide it somewhere. who knows where. and this is really a testament

that even our parks are not immune from city bureaucracy. it has been very, very challenging and i know really frustrating for this community which we know consists of our seniors, our kids, our families, i remember when i served on the san francisco redevelopment agency commission when this neighborhood was starting to take shape and conversations around the decisions of what will happen to mission bay. and when you think about it, just 25 years ago this was an under-used railyard. not an area you came to unless you were going to the golf driving range. that was popular by the way. i know that. but the fact is look at what we were able to create as relates to this neighborhood and providing not only open space but also housing and child care. we've opened up the park and other parks in the area. we're opening up a school in

this neighborhood. chase center is here with the national nba champions, the golden state warriors. you have the giants there. this is real san francisco at mission bay. so the thought that we're here celebrating the opening of this park is just really icing on the cake. we know at that there were some challenges, but i'm so grateful to not only supervisor dorsey who harassed me more for this park than i think anything else, and i appreciate the support of our puc director dennis hararea. he's running the public utilities commission. i appreciate that we w rked together to come up with a solution to get this open for the community krld i know many of you are anxious. that's why you're all here toe celebrate this milestone.

this is what happens when we partner and work together and make great things happen. 7-acres of park space and brand new and all these, you know storm drain things around the environment that dennis will explain. ultimately, i want to gift credit to the community for coming together and wanting to see this happen. i know many of you had an opportunity to know your neighbors in the process because mission bay is a real neighborhood. it's a great neighborhood. i love the gus market. i want to thank some of the departments. thank you to oci dispirks thor the director is here with us. and justin true who helped to expedite this project. this is more challenging than getting housing built in san francisco san francisco. i want to thank puc and dennis

herrera and the port of san francisco and everyone from the mission bay community and all the work they were able do to get this done and the developer who helped to build this park and now we have the responsibility to work with rec and park and phil ginsberg is here. we're going is to keep it green and we're going to make sure the community loves on this park like nothing else. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> thank you mayor. o now it's my privilege to introduce my friend ask former boss. >> thank you, matt. any delay here was the fault of the city attorney's office. since i'm not there any more, go after them. to echo what the mayor ask matt talked about, the vibrancy of mission bay, i'm your neighbor,

i lived in dogpatch since 1993 when dogpatch wasn't even called dogpatch. i used to take my walk and i could come down this route down third street and back in the old days, i used to keep my keys in between my fingers in case i had to defend myself. i know i'm not going to have toe did that any more now that we have this beautiful park here servicing this neighborhood. i have gust's at one end and newfield if he other. i'm excited to be here now to share in this sell braitionz because we're prude to be part of the open space at the heart of this park. not only to serve mission bay families but be environmentally sensitive as weld. and ecologically help save the

bay. you see, we have can a centralize storm treatment facility which is a big part of this facility. it's a centerpiece of it. the rain gardens and stormwater will filtrate water that will be clean asked treated before it's discharged into the bay. more specifically, we have about stormwater that will treat nine acres of public right-of-way land here in mission bay. we have 5500 square feet om bioretention and vegetative swells that will collect the stormwater and allow it to facilitier into the ground. we have about 2,000 square foot of pervious concrete to allow water pass through. and when combined with the pump station that's going to be built at the end right -- we're going

to get that done -- at fourth and channel, we'll be able do 800,000-gallons of stormwater per day. that will be discharged in a can clean bay after it's treated into the bay. he we all saw what happened to the algae bloom this summer. we know we have a responsibility toe not just make sure we're serving the residents but taking care of the bay. in an era of climate change, it's foreign that we at the puc we take seriously to be good stewards not just of this neighborhood but of the san francisco bay. what we've constructed here in partnership with seth who you'll hear sphwr in a minute, is going to ensure that we don't just take care of our neighborhood, we take care of the environment and provide habitat for wildlife that hopefully you'll have the opportunity to sees you walk --s

you walk through this poork. we're happy to play a small role in bringing this to fruition. we look forward to the community enjoying it each and every day. thanks so much. have a great day. >> thank you, dennis. next i want to introduce seth. >> thank you. my company is the managing member of the master developer for the mission bay project. and i am here today to speak to two things, one, the parks at mission bay a don't often get the full recognition that they should. there are a lot of great things happening in this neighborhood, but i want us to pause and recognize this a neighborhood where a 6th of the acreage was dedicated to park asks open space at the girchght project. that was a decision made at the

beginning and what does that translate into? that translates into every single building here -- every resident and worker, every visitor to the hospital, everyone who comes to a game, they're within one to two blocks of a park. can you imagine a city that says that? that is special. everything else in mission bay is worth sell baiting. celebrating. this is a precedent-setter for the city. we have the beauty of parks access to open space. it's important to thank the people who helped make this happen. i want to actually start with the implementers, the people on the ground who are out here designing and engineering and building this, we have landscape architects cmg. the civil engineer firm, our

construction management team and then our contractor hosely who removed the fences to do our celebration today. on the implementation team, the mission development group that oversees the construction of this project. and park live open space management the individual and team who will be taking on the management of this park until it #km■]qe handed . i want to thank the city family. the city family -- there are allusions to battling it. the reality is everyone we work with at the puc at the port, the extended city a family, even the army corps of engineers, a lot of hands that touch a park like

this. is it plays an important role in protecting the bay and feeds to last for community. even though it's painful to go through the permitting process even though you hear me on an off day complaining about this or that, the reality is people care deeply and that is what adds time to the process and hopefully the end product is worth it. i would be remiss not to thank specifically supervisor dorsey and the mayor's office and ocii for stepping in. [applause] they stepped in at a moment where we were at a an impasse. everyone was in the weeds struggling and arguing and it was thor at oci what pull immediate aside and said when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled out. whm you argue, it's account

community that suffers. we got right on it and made sure this opening happened today on time. i finally "want to thank the community. community. it's a weird thing, you have your official bodies that helps give input on the parks and open space. they're the local businesses. we've had three here that provided eyes andability vaition. eyes and ak at this vaition. eyes and activation. i want to say that new belgium brewing company has been kind enough to welcome everyone in after this for refreshments. if you can come in, come and join them. they're towards the corn there are. that is a generous offer. [applause] i want to caught out and end

with a thank you to the community. i don't think people recognize what it means to be a community member in mission bay versus other parts of the city. this is a neighborhood that has been under construction -- under construction for 24 years. can you imagine what it would be like to come to work every day or come home and in the background pile drivers going in the background? this is the most patient group of individuals i've met and we are blessed as a city to have them as the people who said, you know what will? i know it's not done yet, but i'm going to live here in mission bay and work here because it's because of you this is feasible. we're a looking forward to delivering more. thank you seech, everyone. thank you so much, everyone.

he. >> thank you seth.when i was a s tell people, i know what i was signing up for. if i hand somebody my business card, i'll say, if you have any issues, things to complain about, get in touch with me. if i don't hear from you, i'll he assume you're good. hearing from everybody helps empower the mayor and me and everybody to get this all together. this is really all a credit to you and next i want to introduce dora fleedo who is the director of learning and development at the preschool. dora. >> hi, good morning. on behalf of head start, we want to thank mayor breed, supervisor

matt dorsey and everybody in the city who has been involved in creating the amazing spaces. we're excited about our families having success to parks. readily accessible from heir theirhome. we serve children zero to three months to five years of age and many live in this community. they don't have yards. directly outside of their homes, but these amazing parks in mission bay are their yards, they'll come here and ride their bikes and explore and see nature. as we walked here the children pointed out the flock of birds flying by. children need open spaces to thrive. they need open spaces to develop a sensibility and appreciation for nature and even more important, just physical

well-being to be able to run long stretches. our children don't have place do that accessible in their homes. we know that clean outdoors support children's development. and program list. access to this new stretch is even more important for families to thrive. when children run, jump, throw balls and building gross motor skill, they develop a healthy habit of being active along with their familiarity list. a playing outdoors is a great model for physical activities. the natural landscape will invite children to learn about science. at school, we read books will at birds and trees and animals but at parks they'll be able to see

t7f!t butterflies s and birds flying over there. condemn this is show the value of the natural world. we believe opening this new stretch will enhance the quality of life for children, families and all of the residents of this beautiful water park community. thank you. [applause] >> thank you dora and everyone at the staff for helping support the growth and development of so many children in san francisco. i hope we can all enjoy what this park has to offer and now the moment we've been waiting for. this will -- it will be the scissor, not the bolt cutters. mayor breed, here we go.

>> are you ready to open the park? [cheers and applause] >> join me with the count. five, four, three, o two, one -- [cheers and applause] ♪♪ >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to

look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about

environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of

>> good afternoon this meeting will come to order. welcome to the october 31, 2022 regular meeting of land use and transportation of the san francisco board of supervisors.