friend and family and i will see you in december. adjourn the meeting.

>> good morning, everyone. >> good morning, mayor. >> good morning. my name is dr. gina frommeer and i'm the president of the southeast community facility commission. welcome today. look at this building! the southeast community facility commission provides a forum for discussion on broader issues facing our community. our job is to continue the legacy and work of our founders known as the big six. harold, ethyl, eloise, shirley and the famous dr. jackson. my girl whose unyielding

advocacy in leadership led to the mitt geation agreement. i am going to ask the families to stand. we want to acknowledge we're on then ceded an ves tral homeland of ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land, the ramaytush ohlone have never kredded or lost their responsibility as caretakers of this place as well as other who reside in their traditional territories. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living, working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our rear expects

by acknowledging the ancestors of them. >> he greetings to you my relatives. thank you for having mere here today. i'm greg castro, a ramaytush ohlone. i'm here to represent our community and chair jonathan cordero who is with us today and wish to give good thoughts and prayers to this place that is opening here, that is reflection of not only this community values and hopes and he dreams dreamsbut our own val excuse dr.

we might have been under water but near water and our ancestors took care of these waters and the earth surrounding it and the delta that came from it that sustained and that nurtured the community for thousands of years. and we were here from this place that made us who we are can. for the last 200 years it's been challenging to say the least for our community, but we're still here. now we welcome this opportunity to join with the community in a new village place. that incorporates the same values that our community has carried forward from ancient times of

compassion, care, love, integrity and respect for all people. for all members of the family and whoever comes to this place is a member of the family. in ancient california tradition, all appraisers and rituals and ceremonies and songs are foms of prayer. i would like to offer you a song here as a prayer for opening this place. it is a good luck dance song from the ohlone community borrowed from our rel tifers inn monterey county. i offer this as a good way to open this place and bring people together in a good way.

[indigenous singing and chanting]

thank you. [applause] >> all right. thank you, welcome again. i want to acknowledge the southeast community facility commissioners here today. our former commissioner, other dignitaries and the families of our founders. calvin chan is here as well. i would like to introduce dennis herrera. [applause] >> thank you dr. frommeer. from. i don't know if this is a good omen, how many people noticed that the lucky bayview sign just came up on the building recently because they knew we would have

a great turnout today. thank you, everybody for being here today. we're here to deliver on a promise, a promise that really was decades in the making. you heard dr. frommer mention it a little bit. it was about the strength, foresight and determination of a community that embody itself in six people, the big six as they came known. but they were representatives of a community. and their call was a call to action. a call for inclusion, a call for accountability. ever you see here today is drr everything you see here today is their legacy and the legacy of the community that fought for today's day. thank you so much for being here.

at the san francisco public utilities commission, we heard and answered the community's call to reinvest in the people of bayview hunter's point. this new center is a direct result of extensive outreach and engagement with the community and years of planning and pushing forward. this center truly belongs to the community and would i like to thank the community for continued partnership and i look forward to our joint stewardship and management of this facility together. we hope that the more than 100 million-dollar investment in building this new center demonstrates the puc's commitment to doing the right thing. we hope it shows our intention to be a good neighbor, to do good and be accountable to our community partners. it's my privilege and honor to see this project across the finish line. let's be real.

i'm new at this job. not evenly a year yet and i had very little to do with putting this across the finish line. it was the function of hard work of countless others. too many here to name. but they all need to be recognized. there we go! we wouldn't be here right now without the unflagging support of our southeast community facilities team. i'm talking about victoria bryan, carla von, jason barcelona, nicholas cresta, larry ferry and the executive director of this amazing facility. all for everything you've done to allow us to be stand hearing today. i would -- standing here today. i also want to thank the alan group, our trade part eroners and our team for designing and constructing a stunning building

and campus. and i want to thank the arts commission for the great job they did in commissioning local artists to inspire us all. we know this pandemic has created uncertainty everywhere. but we knew it was critical to maintain our momentum to get this project done. while keeping our trades workers safe and employed and working with the trade partners, we were able to develop policies to achieve that goal ultimately delivering this beautiful project filled with 100 percent union labor. [applause] we're proud of our local hire and local contracting efforts that exceeded the city's goals. on this project, we had a contract commitment of 30%. we exceeded that. nearly 40% of the hundreds of

hours it took to build this fantastic center were worked by san francisco residents. even more importantly, almost 100 of the individuals who built this landmark destination are from right here in this community. [applause] there you have it. in some ways, this is a project built by community and for the community. but this is only the start. the puc is committed to providing robust programming at this foilt expand access to resores and opportunities which will lead to better outcomes for youth and families throughout the bayview hunter's point community and beyond. in keeping with our commitment to be a good neighbor, there are more investments including at the southeast treatment plant down the road. we're investing over $3 billion in critical upgrades to not only

make the it better prepared for earthquakes and sea level rise but transform an aging sewage plant into a modern resource recovery sent that are smells better, is an attractive workplace, and most importantly is a neighborhood asset. these are the right kinds of investments to make. they're good for our communities, they're good for our city, and they are smart investment of the funds that all of our customers entrust to us. you have my commitment that our investments we make it this community will going to make life better for all of us. i can tell you no one is going to be more important in keeping me up to my promise. she tells me what to do and i can assure you that she's going to make sure that we are living up to the commitment that i am

making to you today to be the best possible neighbor that we can and that is our mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you dennis. and i think that you were selling yourself short in saying that you didn't have anything to do with this when in fact, you served as our city attorney and did all the legal documents to get this process done. but more importantly, the bayview hunters point has a challenging history we know in the city. a lot of the reason why we celebrate the big six has everything to do with the fact that they sood up imns a lot of -- stood up against the environmental injustices until the day jackson passed away, she was an advocate around environmental just physicaller it the community. this is advocacy started in the

1970s because of all the different levels of the power plant, the treatment plant, all the different things that had happened here at the bayview hunters point and seeing high rates of asthma and cancer and other issues around health that impacted this community for so many years. many of those advocates at that came before us started a movement, a movement where i must say continues on and it continued when supervisor sophie maxwell became supervisor for the district and her along with dennis herrera worked hard to shut the power plant done, it was one of the first major things that happened that set off a number of advocacy and things to come. i see oscar james in the audience and incredible consistent advocates. people who show up and linda

richard and people who stay actively engaged in the community to make sure the city meets its promises that we deliver on our promises. the old southeast community center was a promise that was delivered on, with you not necessarily sufficient. when toya moses ran the facility, he made sure every person in the community had access to the nilt. it's not just about a program and child care center and playground and all the great activities that are going to be here, people from the community would go to toya and say we need to use ifer this event or something. and i want to make sure that you all know this is your facility. this facility should be prioritized for the residents of the bayview hunters point community. because of the blood, sweat and

tears over the years, this community deserves this and so much more so i'm happy to be here today, but more importantly, i'm excited to see the use of this space which members of this community. i don't care if you just want to play dominoes. whatever it is, this is your facility. hopefully this is money involved. i like to win. nevertheless, i'm excited about what this new facility means. it's a new day and along with what is happening with the investments made to make this waterfront better than any other waterfront in the city, to bring the attention and resources and the support of all of these things are going to be truly transformative. so i'm so excited about the future. and i am grateful to so many of the leaders who are here today and so many of the family

members of the leaders for the work you continue to do. i know it took a long time, but here we are. god's -- your prayers have been answered and just because there was a delay does not mean there is a denial. here we are -- here we are celebrating something absolutely extraordinary. and i'm grateful for your work, advocacy. mildred hour las sculptures and so many other incredible people played a role in this. i want to say thank you to emily and the members of the board. we finally got it done. thank you for all who played an important role in making this a beautiful facility for the community. i want to introduce your supervisor. >> thank you madam mayor.

something special is happening in bayview. something special is happening in bayview. i want you to look across the street as general manager hararea said earlier, we have a new lucky store coming next we go. i want you to look around you and look at this amazing space built for the benefit of this community. and i can't talk about being dpl this amaze -- in this amazing space without saying people didn't want us to have this space particularly right here. there were people who fought us every step of the way when we were fighting to make sure this would be a state-of-the-art community center and have a

state-of-the-art education zone. i want those people to know that people power, resiliency of the community will always win. if we go back to '79 with the conversations with the mitigation, if we go back to the work of the big six and we can stand here today and say that we have actually realized a big chunk of the promises made because there is still one more step. there is still a state-of-the-art community fiment that has -- facility an education nailt has to go here as promised. we needed to have the bond money available and now we have to make sure the building gets built. working with our partners from city college and the puc. as your supervisor, as the person that you put fla place to

represent you, i said -- in place to represent you, i told you i would fight for things on our agenda. we'll see all of this. we're going to continue to fight until everything that was promised happens. if i'm fortunate enough to be reelected in november, we only have four short years. the same resiliency we brought toalgt together we'll need moving forward because time constraints are always against us. i want to thank everyone who showed up-to-date, if you think several mayors ago, several commissioners ago, several directors ago, several community leaders ago, promises were made to this community. because everyone came together and said, we're going to make sure that we're not denied what is owed to us, we were able to

get to this point. i am proud to stand here with all of you and the supervisor who is able to be here when this vision was realized. but i definitely want to thank supervisor maxwell for all of her work. i want to thank supervisor corn for all of her work. because we don't do any of this alone. i want to make sure that everybody who played a role in making theur this facility was here gets their proper due. if you screwed in a bowl, if you nailed in a nail, if you stood up at a community meeting, if you came down to city thool say this this has to happen, if you were on oakdale making sure that everyone understood that we needed a better, new improved community center, any role that you played, i want to thank you for that and thrchg this

community for their resiliency and i am proud to be your representative of this new facility. now i have the opportunity to bring up someone who has always stood with us in this community. when i go to him even though we don't always agree on everything, when i go to him and say we need support in our community, we need resources in our community, he's still with us, he's with you and i am thankful for that. i want to bring up our state senator, scott wiener. >> thank you supervisor. thank you madam hair. -- madam mayor. this is -- first of all, this is like breathtakingly beautiful. this is one of the most beautiful buildings in the entire city of san francisco. i don't say at that lightly

because we always talk about the new design. this is one of those examples of what it means when we really put our heart and soul into what something looks like and what we deliver to the community. this so beautiful and i want to congratulate the community and puc and everyone who is involved in this amazing project. i'm a big fan of the san francisco puc. this is an organization committed to sustainability whether it's around clean water or clean energy. this is a clean environmental agency. it's awesome. this building, of course, is so incredibly sustainable. it's a model for what we need. we also know that environment sustainability, yes, it's about energy and water and all that. but it's also about the sustainability of the community. and this is a community -- the

bayview hunters point is a community that's been under intense prescriber for so many years. it's not always been prioritized by our city government. at a time it was cut off and felt neglected. it's important that we be intentional about investing in this community, about supporting

he made sure this building happened. he had a vision. and along with the community, you all helped him make it happen. he made sure the community was involved every step of the way.

when i look back at this building, i see this is what a utility of the future is posed to be. our policies -- supposed to be. our policies go beyond do no harm. our policies are do good and build. that's why licky store is here. this is what a utility of the future has to be. this was harlan's vision but is also my vision and should be everyone's vision. a utility of the future goes beyond. in this neighborhood we've fought for environmental justice and fought to breathe. we have the highest rate of asthma and cancer. you mention it, we had it. this building helps to with the three goals. intentionally, we have water conservation. intentionally, we have good quality air inside.

intentionally, we are environmentally sound. everything that was not outside is now inside this building. that's what a utility of the future does and we need all of you to hold us to that. not about money, it's about what you need. and then in a family, you say what do we need? then you find the money for the need. you don't say what money do we have first? no. that's not what you do. you prioritize. and that's what we have do. i want to make sure that all of, young people, old people are environmentally conscious in this neighborhood. and that's what this facility can do and that's why it's important to have the educational facility. and we also know that opening the doors is the easy part. holding us accountable to making sure up keep and maintenance is

done way into the future. holding us accountable as mairt said, to making sure that -- as the mayor said, making sure we have good programs that are exciting and relevant and take us into the future. i'm excited about this building and i was going to say i know it's going to be shaking off this foundation, but i'm not going to say that. we also have had taken advantage of a $250 million asset and that's the third streetlight rail. that's the buses. when you come in, this is the first thing you see. had you leave, this is the last thing you see. and children are playing and it's green and beautiful. thank you, community. thank you harlan kelly and thank you all of you who had something do with this. [cheers and applause] this man needs to introduction. >> thank you so much. my name is ralph remington

director of cultural affairs. it's my pleasure to be here with you today on behalf of the san 8ñ [cheers and applause] i've only been at my role for two years now, but i have to say this this building -- say that this budding is incredible. a lot of it is due to community activism and political pressure and a lot of it is due to conscientious politicians and a lot is do due to our artists in the community. i want to give a thank you to the san francisco public utilities commission and bayview hunters point community. we're here to celebrate the opening of the beautiful new southeast community center and robust public art collection featuring new collections by local artists,.

everyone stawnd, please. descrsh everyone stand up please. canada, mildred, there they are. thank so much. and we have 37 two-dimension the artwork purchased from 27 ar cysts. each were selected from the bayview registry and each has a meaningful connection to the bayview hunters point community. the art was made possible through the enrichment ordinance which allocates 2% of construction costs from capital improvement projects for the production of art. in collaboration with southeast community facility commission and staff, project stakeholders and community members, they developed the bayview arts

master play which established the registry and guided the use of the art enrichment fund improvements in bayview including this new artwork and collection. joan me in acknowledging the artists here today. as i mention your names again, if you could stand up, i would greatly appreciate it. you deserve to hear the appreciation of this community. mildred howard! mildred howard and her bronze sculpture takes its inspiration from west african currency that was traditionally for the success that embodied their power. philip boi. this honors the six founders of the southeast community center.

and canada hinkle. thank you, thank you. whose vibrant mural a reflects the milestones and relationships that connect community members across time and generation. i would also like to thank the 27 artist whose contribute their artwork which can be found on the center's second and third floors on the wails. i would thank to thank -- as you tour the center, please be sure to stop and take in the magnificent work created to reflect and honor the bayview hunters community. and i would like to thank mayor london breed for guiding us. thank you mayor london breed.

and i would also like to thank the art's commission staff who worked on this project including mary chu. mary chu. jackie von tresko who worked tirelessly with project stakeholders and artists to see themselves if this project through this work. thank you so much. enjoy the work. enjoy your community center. have a ball! thank you everybody! >> before we go back to dr. frommer, i want to acknowledge we have three of our puc commissioners here. two are new. we have tim paulson. kate stacy and tony revera who are our new commissioners and we're happy to have you here. thanks very much. >> all right. you guys be quie oat.

this building is a a piece of art. let's give the building a hand! you know, i had my wedding reception at 1800 oakdale. my memories go deep. i think about the new memories that you're going to make. we feed a place for events. right? and i'm always going to remember that memory from there. now we have a new facility to create new memories. we're honored and want to thank. i want to acknowledge the southeast communityenter team lead by emily farr rogers. larry barrie concepty director. jason barca clt lon. carla von along with victoria

bryant. and nicholas cresta, let's give them all a hand. i don't think i said enough about my commissioner, southeast community facility commissioner. we spent hours looking at artwork and touring this building. we spent hours crossing stuff out that we didn't want. what they have in presidio, we need betterçc9■ here. i want what they got! we fought for that. i'm honored to be the president of this commission and we have so much more work do. on behalf of the commission, i want to extend recognition to the white water enterprise and the san francisco puc for the commitment to this community. thanks to our tenant partners and the non-public hud, there

will be a pavilion to share the information over there about the programs and services and i want to close out and invite the commissioner to gather around this wonderful mayor to take a picture. and thank you for coming out today. i was born and raised right on this hill. i'm a six generation san franciscan. i got gentrified out but my intlood in this community and i'm not going anywhere. thank you and enjoy your day. we have great food and music and family. congratulations, everybody. congratulations, everybody.

[♪♪♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple

lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football. i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then

they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right.. >> shop and dine the 49

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>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park.

there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪)

>> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions

only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and

anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks.

>> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens,

private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district.

one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in

their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer

here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website .

>> [gavel] >> good afternoon and welcome to the november 1, 2022 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. on behalf of the entire san francisco board of supervisors we condemn the vicious attack on paul pelosi, husband of speaker nancy pelosi when occurred early morning last friday. the board of supervisors condemns all types of violence including towards public officials and their families. this type of violence has no place in our society. the tragic politically motivated attack on paul pelosi and all forms of violence are not to be tolerated. this