>> first let me acknowledge paul we left outside. he is under the tent, which is good. he is an ambassador. cudos he is amazing.

[applause] thank you and to acknowledge another doctor carol tang director of the children's creativity museum. put a nice roof over our heads appreciate it, carol >> welcome to the yerba buena gardens a beautiful garden i'm scott ruiz the new director for the yerba buena community benefit district and the gardenace conservesancey. thank you for having me both organizations are dmited improve thanksgiving yerba buena neighborhood. yerba buena is a u neefk neighborhood. culture, convention and community meet. we have world class museums like this amazing children's creativity. the amazing moscone convention center. hotels. educational snoous institutions the yerba buena gardens. small businesses, restaurants

and live/work senior housing, et cetera . yerba buena is a diverse and unique community. i want to highlight this museum bring your kids back. i have young kids it is an amazing place for 2 to 12 year olds to experience education rotating common when is you are done here today. i was going to send you out to the carousel we can do the carousel is outside and check out the museum. look at the mufb lab if you can it is neat. >> a couple other things i want to acknowledge mandy hall from the sftid and paulita eliot. [applause]. and paulita eliot from block by block. [applause]. those 2 amazing individuals create third degree program. we are honored have this program

and this here a year later. we all know and you will hear more. the oranges jackets are amazing and they make such a presence in our community. yerba buena and everybody in the city. thank you for your hard work. i know you are not here to hear from me. most important person. london breed, our mayor. [applause]. >> thank you, scott, it is great to be here and you know i should have worn my orange jacket today t. is actually in the car now. sometimes when i want to go out there and support the community and have conversations with just visitors and i will 3 it on when i'm out cleaning up the streets i wear that orange jacket. people will stop and ask me questions. which is nice. they don't ask because i'm mayor

because they see that orange jack and it is really something this i will tell you is one of the things i'm most proudest of as mayor. because i had a chance to talk to some of you over the past year. and what i was most excited about is number one, so many of you who have grownup in san francisco and your love for san francisco. and how you have told people like the best places to eat. not the places that typically tourists go to at the whar and downtown but places in neighborhoods that still exist. places all around the city. you give them a different perspective of san francisco. when i travel, i wish i could find someone to give me nadifferent perspective. i gotta say, i get so many letters not always good letters but for this program, it is probably the program this i

gotten the most good letters from visitors and people who travel to san francisco from downtown. and i make my staff give me them to read because i want to have i good day. and i have a good day when i hear about the stories where i think i don't want to say names but there was an ambassador who someone had an experience with a family member approximate a medical issue they let them use their cell phone ask stayed with them to make sure that that family got connected with another family member. and it is just things like that that make this program unique you alwaysment to help. i see you all talking on the talking to visitors on the corners. walking with people. trying to point out the directions to go in. and the thing i love most you always have a smile on your

faces. >> and makes a difference. you know, we have been through a challenging time this global pandemic hit us hard. can you imagine having a really bad day and you walk up and you see someone and you just smile and how good that makes you feel. it makes you want to ask for directions even though you can use your phone. it really invites you in to have that conversation. that conversation leads to a great experience in san francisco. we are not going to let everyone determine what the story is of san francisco with all of the posts that oftentimes target and focus on the negative things. when we will do is elevate the experiences of what the downtown community ambassador program has done in neighborhoods throughout san francisco. that is the story of san francisco. talking about the personal

experience that you have about our city and also making the recommendations to the people who live and visit. we have a convention going on now. and many of those convention goers sent letters in the past about this program. and how they had a great experience. because i will tell you there were conventions that were having second thoughts about whether or not they would come back to san francisco. and because of you, they not only came back to san francisco but are looking toward the future of returning to san francisco after their conventions. this means so much support. this means the ability to pay for programs and do all the great things we do in san francisco. you are an important part of this work. i can't thank you enough for your commitment, work, for your advocacy, for everything that you have done to really turn this area around because last year, you know and this year to

an extent; there was uncertainty whether or not people would return to work. and we are still struggling with that. but people still come to san francisco for skroengzs and to visit and to ride the cable cars. where i always see an ambassador at the cable car location. where do i get a ticket. what do i do. where are the best stops? i appreciate mta but not mta answering the question its is all of you that are telling folks where to go and how to get to lombard and look over and the beautiful views of san francisco park and the golden gate bridge that is meaning. . this has not happened before. we did not have you all over a year ago. and the experience was much different even before the pandemic. i'm glad to be here with so many folk who is believe and support

this program. but i'm glad to be here with the people who show up every day rain or shine. to be of service to the city that you all know and love. i can't be more proud to celebrate a year of this program and hear here is more years to come. thank you very much. [applause]. thank you mayor i'm matt dorse the district 6 supervisor. for those of you visiting welcome to district 6. this is a district that credit includes high traffic and visited destination in our south of market neighborhoods including mosconi. west field shopping center yerba buena gardens. these destinations attract thousands of visitors a year. remind people how important that

is. in 2019 san francisco had a record shattering year in tourism it was 26 million visitors that is the state of texas. coming to visit our city. 10 billion dollars in economic activity. and supporting 82,000 jobs for san francisco. this is really important. and the work that our ambassadors do is bring us back. you know the thing they think about you know i know that we can be down sometimes as we come out of covid. if you look at the seal of our city t. is a phoenix. we come back. that is the civic creed of san francisco. and we are on our way back and doing it, i think one smile at a time. what i love about the ambassador program, happy anniversary to all of you. i will say as a new interiors it

is niez to know how popular you are. the k bd's are well regardd and it means so much to residentses and as well as to our visitors. to see a smiling face, welcoming presence, knowledgeable person who can answer a request where something s. that is how we will come back and i do feel a little eni havous i'm on the board of supervisors the least popular there is a public comment caller who every week reminds us that the 12% think we are competence. it is humbling and i really appreciateow popular you are and i hope you see it. and i do. to say to the public. when you see people out here ambassadors whether in orange or blue or white or green. you am see a lot of them and you

will see people pick update street who is work for the community benefit districts. say hello and thanks. it means the world to our city. we are coming back. and i want to say how grateful i am as a supervisor i will do everything i can to stand with the mayor to make sure we have the funding for this we need. and we are funding our cbd's and bringing our city back to get better the numbers we had in 2019. and with that, it is my pleasure to welcome john anderson the general manager of the marriott marky. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your leadership in district 6. i get to chair the [inaudible] and the general manager of the san san francisco marriott marky. this neighborhood is important to the ambassadors. a year ago we stood here not far

from here in yerba buena and introduced the san francisco welcome ambassador program. thanks to the support london breed, it has been successful, would you agree? good. today over 4 million welcomes later it is i pleasure to say and celebrate the success of the program to see how far we have some on the road to recovery. in quarter 3 of this year san francisco recorded the best tourism quarter since the pandemic started >> the san francisco market achiefed 70.5% occupancy, daily rate of 230 dollars. last year in quarter 3 it was 51% occupancy and 168 dollars of average daily rate. we have a ways to go to reach 2019 record tourism year it is

important to celebrate mile stones the program has been successful and measures to support the economic growth in san francisco. i want to thank all the ambassadors for important contributions to make the visitors and residents feel welcome are safe and cared for in san francisco. the ambassador program is well received by planners and convention goers. it has been crucial in helping bring book conventions to san francisco. last 12 months we received e mails raving about experiencing with the ambassadors. who are thrilled receive cal travel endorsement of the welcome ambassador program when they awarded at this time 20 upon 22 visitor experience award last month. congratulations. [applause]. this would not have happened without the support of mayor breed and the welcome ambassador

program. thank you, mayor breed, we appreciate it. [applause]. before i turn the microphone over to rodriguez i encourage the business community representatives to open your doors to the ambassadors. they are walking the streets and greeting guests they use the restroom. of kick feet and up get a drink of water. welcome your doors to anybody in orange. we appreciate you, thank you very much. [applause]. >> thank you, john. i'm marissa rodriguez the union square alliance the heart of our city thank you very much our ambassadors. we don't beat without your support i receive e mails telling us the great stores. we are the part of town that is home to hotels, theatre, restaurants, visitors. it is not without the support of our ambassadors that we will not

be able to receive back all of the san francisco. of you reminds them it is safe and the accomplice to come back and celebrate the greatest moments i want to thank patrick who kept me dry moments ago. it is acts like that that i hear about. the small things that people appreciate you feel welcomed. the community feels welcome and feel like they are stepping into san francisco living room they have you to ask questions and talk to which i want to thank all of the individuals here today this is a racial fabric you may not realize ambassadors you are supporting. i want to thank block by block. handy hall for her program. i see ken with the conventions

without which our heart would not beat. thank you and supporting them. i see our hotel and cbd community. and there are so many people here that count and rely on you. we can't do this without your support. they are all here to support you. i can't imagine. this is one year that you have been here and changed lives. and right observe the holiday season come again. we are excited for a big blow out in union square. of course, winter market and the ice rink is opening today. yes it is opening today i know you will all be there i want to thank our mayor for all of her support and all of you. it does not happen without great vision. i want to thank you, mayor and certainly to our board of supervisors for recognizing the importance of that, too. we do better when we work together. our ambassador in blue

appreciate you in union square. thank you so much. with this i like to welcome up moanna. [applause]. >> hello i'm moanna saul [inaudible]. and i have been with the welcome ambassador program since the beginning. one year ago. when i applied for this position, as a welcome ambassador i did not know what to expect. all i knew was i was going to make a difference i look forward to greeting commuters on their way to work. school kids crowding the 30 and 8 bus. saying hello to cable car conductors and welcoming our visitors to the great city of

san francisco. i think that this program is important because we help a lot of people. we give dreksz. all types of recommendations. and also guide many folk who is are in san francisco for a convention to the mosconi center. we also offer and provide different resources for the homeless and just anyone who is in need. although i have been in an san francisco all of my life this job helped mow to be kinds always. many visit because of the diversity and we are the heart of the bay area. to the current and future welcome ambassadors, thank you for your hard work and your dedication when you are out in the field. rain or o orange still

is bright. [applause] >> thank you, mayor london breed and the city of san francisco for funding this amazing program. it is making a huge difference for visitors, locals and businesses in the areas we cover. also, to all of us ambassadors that enjoy the job. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you everyone for coming and thank you for staying here even though it rained heavy out there. i'm mandy from the sftab the director of the welcome ambassador program. thank you to our speakers to mad am mayor, maona. supervisor dorsey, john and scott and your team for hosting

us today. it has been a privilege to work with and get to know the team overnight past year. it is gratify to receive all the fantastic e mails that i get. and to share them with the team. these are a reminder of the amazing work they are doing. and i know that it shows how much they are appreciated. thank you all of you for all that you do. all your hard work. ? this includes paulita the director of the program near block by block. . [applause]. before we close the proceedings and you will get to ride the care set, hopefully and cookies we have cookies to share. i would like to recognize the upon 20 team members been with us from the beginning the guys that you see behind us. not all 20 are here but --

[applause]. thank you all of you for all your hard work. and thank you also to everybody else on the team of in the office or out on the streets every day you do an amazing job. thank you. [applause]. and then just to conclude my bit here, one person has been chosen as ambassador of the year. uh-huh. this is i surprise to everybody. [laughter]. she was chosen for strong work ethic. being a great example to coworkers. always as a smile and goes above and beyond to provide great service and also share her knowledge and enthusiasm with fellow team members. moanna, would you like to stem

forward. [applause]. [applause] so, thank you, moanna. congratulations. this is your certificate and will be goodies as well >> you are being recognized as ambassador of the year for 2022. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause]

>> 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 --

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concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of

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welcome at this time november 15th 2022 regular meeting of the stan fran board of supervisors. madam clerk call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chan. >> present. >> supervisor dorsey. >> present. >> supervisor mandelman. >> present. >> supervisor mar. >> not present. >> supervisor melgar. >> present. >> supervisor peskin. >> present. >> supervisor preston. >> present. >> supervisor ronen. >> present.