i'm gauge, livid here my life and i come before it ask you to passport all of the budget increases for the da, police and safety initiatives. i roadway mounty to and from work an hour each way every day. i see the city and what i see mou is not safe. i see people scared. i see elders and minority communities. that are asking for help increasing security and when we do have indents making sure the people are prosecuted and victim's families receive resources and the justice than i deserve. and i hope that keeping the da budget increase and the pd increase will aluthat. thank you.

let the peeshg know we will allow hem to peek a second time since they did not use more than 15 seconds but yes or no low we only allow once. >> thank you. >> good upon afternoon. coalition on homelessness. supervisors you are sitting in a junctures in san francisco. budget other homelessness, increasing poverty. drug epidemic, decrease mental health. exploding racial deper seities i massive challenge special you

must get creative you heard 7 hours of testimony add back pot is tiny. we left lane is if the in the budget chopped from the top too many managers police and fire and park rangeers. i have watched many prescriptions 15 city personnel from 5 departments doing nothing for hours. they need 2 staff. too many embas dorse. empty city jobs. many address homelessness use that to solve homelessness and shelter treatment. housing we penned 4 percent on poems homelessness. thank you. i was in kurts the 9 a.m. this morning. i am i 73 year old d 5 person.

whop is live nothing subsidized senior housing i'm being evicted for nuisance the nuisance is i had no hot water for 7 months. afternoon that i was told that i'm the only one admit build and the niche had no hot water either and we both called the inpector and now i'm getting evicted than i burglarized my per minute with a master key and did not do i darn thing about it. i am here representing seniors who are being mistreated by housing. and there is, lot of money going in their pockets. i'm a victim that they are trying to evict at had point and now i got an extension until june 26. and it is unfair. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments do something about this problem. why thank you for sharing your comments.

>> i'm nionlya charles with the advocacy and children's council of san francisco. i want to thank the budget committee for all you do and agreeing to work with the community on the 2 proposals. i further want to talk about the report and transification to universal pre-circumstance this is a now grade level that will require and move a lot of children to the school district. legality of family check and centers depends on older aged children. there will be an increase we want to see that the new true cost of care is and look in this in the upcoming year with planning grant from the state. thank you.

provide sxirs add vo katds rallied and walked through the doors. they made voices heard. that's when make officials great listen being to everyone and, comidating in difficult times. appreciate the hard work and situation hope lovelyy leave we will not have to see you as often next year. thank you. next speaker, please. i live and work in d 5 and represent the coalition. you seen us in the halls a lot this among i thank you for commit to row down the baby prospect c. i'm here to reminds you invest nothing child hood education

helps our entire community. i want to see sf commit to universal access to high quality accessible childcare. we had over 700 community number asking you if you can continue to see through that commitment this year and every year moving forward. remember if we want a safe city sign a budget for the people the needs of the messenger nalized communities. thank you for sharing your comments.

thank you. . can we have assistance. >> hi. deb wet sudden front human service. >> pardon me. good afternoon are you with us. the interpretors ended at 6 p.m. >> this is just to say they support they are she is against the mayor's proposal. and would like us to passport prop c. thank you chair chan. >> next speaker.

first we want to thank the mayor for putting 3-4% cost of degree business increase in the budget. this increase is les then and there 4 opinion 2% inflation rate. rising rent and living expense and cut for nun profit this is strug toll maintain services and raise wages and dealing with higher rent, food, health experience everinsurance and operating costs recognize under funds nun profit contracts, equity per workers and the quality and level of services for vulnerable residence denials funding 2% in the cost of doing

business increase for next organizations. thank you. any other speakers? >> one more. >> yes. >> good evening i'm here to request 8207 for san francisco public library locations. it is clear from when we heard today that san francisco is i changed landscape. fentanyl, homelessness, maling, all land at the library as well. it is no mistake or how should i put this. not an being that we are offered training. to ensure safety to patron and staff requesting more

punishment. you are familiar. i think to the degree you can ask -- this is a need for us for our number and workers and staechl we care about -- we need. thank you. are there other peeshgs that would like to peek to items 1 or 2 today before we go to the call in members. we are 24 caller listen nothing with then in the queue. if you intend to speak please dial star 3 now. to be added to the queue. may we have the first caller. hello can you hear me.

>> yes. proceed. >> perfect. department director of latina arts and mode why organization in d 9. that is i member of the san francisco latin x coalition the experience of supporting the organizations which under funded in addition to the organizations in the co, ligz provide wrap around service it lettin extinguishing community the passport economic refer exit want to highlight saying the inception of the art's walk in 2016 latina support the 40 businesses in the commercial corridor encouraging the audience of 16,000 to shop. the commitment to support our yes or no prescriptions help us provide wages for our staff and possible to serve an accomplice

for mealheeling. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello committee members i'm judi i have my voice to can for funding for the serves and programs by those who, pored before you today i help this the time to ask to you approve and fund public work binge support. i bring your attention to documentation of public passport for public works service. the petition signed from 11 zip codes and the levers this support by many reads and including support from 7 community organizations. we need public works serves andment them funded cope the city clone with respect to great highway to keep it sxoep accept

believe for all whether used by the 20 authorize vehicles drive and communicating or others rescue ritting on it, prove management plan for the great highway option 3. are all peeshgs limited to one minute. the next caller. can you hear me? yes. i'm a residents of d3 i worked with homelessness for 7 years and now inattorneying at the public defender. the failure of over policing experiencing homelessness and the criminal wragz of poverty. reyekt the major's budget and

defund police not thrown if yes, i will for being without housing. next calmer. hello i'm alisa vasquez i'm the cofounder of collective a member of hummingbird pharamacy my

family in the city over a century and d10 and 11 since the pandemic stele spent on let yous against populars for, bus. many of the receives are repoe oshg feloniers operating philadelph why i city that doubled the population and half the budget is doing better. police don't need more money i urge you to urge them to manage finance they have more then and there enough. san san francisco a fun accomplice the land has, because and makees work our community have high risk of healing problems the mir refused to support wellness. do not defunds prospect c workery rights, [inaudible] >> funds the community. protect translives young lives, family and wing class who has

heart and soul everything good and pure in the city. don't expand the pd budget and refund the community it is terrible we have to go through this process. and instead of regular the mean willful crumb catharsis fought for that couple hundred,000and here and there when the police budget has 713 million. the city invested over a billion in law enforcement. we put nothing toward housing and the well being of children, youth and family in san francisco prioritize our communities we are recruiting a beautiful place this is not visited by people. thank you for sharing your comments. next caller. i'm chief operating wolf.

cochair for supportive housing net w i'm here to ask you fund all asks out lined by the justice coalition. i'm a long-term residence devon d sxen i'm asking that the --

funds further police and d anot be company i will give you an example i was at the safe way on monterey and 2 shop lifting events. i roadwayed cross the street. member tried to blow a red light going 50 miles per hour. other side there were 2 people smoking fence nal i'm tired of this police don't cut the funning to the pleas. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i'm steven and i am 47 year resident and voter of san francisco. and i support all the live comments made. which emphasized family, youth, housing. health care and education. and also i support funding of the dpw because as we know if

they we are clean streets and there are not needle and are not treasure every where. i think would improust city and i think that -- the deparity in percentage for the public defender versus the da have to be addressed should be equal. public defender has other service giving immigration advice, directing and they are an asset to the community. please, don't defunds the group this is came before and thank you for sharing your comments. i'm eric and i am a residents of

d 11 and representative mission graduates. [inaudible]. district 9, 8, district 7 and -- i'm here as a representative of the [inaudible] and urge you to funds the important support. in a city that will receive moreim guarantees not less and the civic engage am and the collaborative is a multiling william to ko aligz. able to participate actively and be a part of the solution for the [inaudible]. urge to you continue funding and don't cut funding. thank you.

thank you. next speaker, please. i'm a d 8 resident i'm disappointed pursuing gun violence. the retraining orderses take guns, way from people that are a threat to themselves and others. it is a wornful way to preand vent violence before it starts. and you know in awe counsel row with guns and relaxed gun lus san francisconiesed this tomb to keep our people safe. thank you. next speaker, please.

hi. i'm can you hear me? yes. will i'm susan district 3 a taxpayering san francisco residence den ending the drug crisis is top work order for our leaders. this crisis is linked to upper issue homelessness, mental health, public safety. violence, you name it you enough make ending open air drug markets the priority of the budget. expand treatment programs. make sure we have capacity. the board of supervisors must ensurety major's victims and da's office remain in the final budget reallocate fundses from our city and home to fund will shelter beds so people can move off the street and into shelter.

thank you. make open air drug marks the prior in this year's budgetful to do this we mead to expand treatment promise for drug users and make sure have you capacity on every level of care. board of supervisors must ensurety mayor avenue public safety investment miss the police department, district attorney and ambassador programs remain in the budget of

reallocate funds from our city our home to fund shelter beds so unhoused people can get into shelter are. thank you very much. hello i'm francesca a 35 year resident and positive of neighboring associations san francisco is in crisis. immigrant communities have been impacted by years of fails policy and homelessness, crime and drugs i urge you to restore public paces to get clean and safe neighborhoods don't cut funning from the am bas dover program or police.

urn gent they be available to stop crime and the conditions on our streets. and -- and we are -- can you hear me. >> yes, proceed >> i'm keely i live in engle side district 11 and a students at state college i'm asking you to not cut funning to conduct civic engagement and out roach for [inaudible].

2024 be a reduction year. >> next speaker, please. hello good evening i'm millie i am with defense collaborative you heard from my clothes about our collaborative of can't willing service agencies in san francisco providing rep 7ation to residents deportation and immigration court we have success winning and prevenning

family prescription 90% of completed case. record numbers and the cols and service agencies provide services to the population. legal reputation is key in the pop population the eli didn't believe for work is tieed applications we are asking you to support our work allow to expand capacity to serve the residence denos the wait list including 200 minor children. why next peeshg, please. i'm a residence den of an fran for 40 years. funning for collaboratives to continue graffiti remove in the

community. number 2, keep the market agencies coordinate efforts to close the open drug market. fund law enforcement to break up fent until reasonings. fund the da office. number sick. fund mobile veterans to pick up people for treatment and number 7 approve the public workers management plan option tloechl thank you very much. good evening i'm barbara wadden i work with mmc inspiring success early education class

rooms throughout san francisco. i had to leave to pick up my child. thank you for your support baby prospect c. continue to protect and safe guard the voter approved pack of prospect c. our teachers deserve a fair wage for their hardions. our families need and deserve safe healthy care and education. thank you. >> thank you. "pledge express" star 3 to be added to the queue. thank you. supervisors and staff. this is i'm a cordinating attorney at the retraining order

legal service organization in the mission. we prosecute void emergency willing services to domestic and sexual assault and stalking survivors thank you for leadership in degree everything you can. i will note the domestic violence retraining orders include orders the parties cannot own, possess or purchase firearm and poke in favor of an increase in the cost of doing business, for all contracts in the city. thank you for always be there. and the service providers work with them 24-7. thank you.

i was born and raise in the san francisco i will say from my experience in 47 years and a formy yaoing commissioner. relies on childcare safety replies in investment in childcare. support pilot program will increase the rate for providers they get the education and training than i need. and i do facilitate a group in the city and say investing in the police and dpw is in the the

way to invest in safety. invest in the children and families. thank you. i'm call to make sure that families who rely on childhood education. i know this sounds like a deficit but childcare has been over due. providers need to get paid. it it is [inaudible] please don't cut funding for check and early education funding.

next speaker, please. >> hello i'm julie brown i'm a university student and want to talk to behalf of the society and how nile idea of community resource my first visitar kiefs to learn about lbgtq+ community formation. but from this trip i gained insight to the community. go and to kwoer studies provide add back funding to the historical society to restore fund and protect cuts to service.

i'm laura i am with [inaudible] exit wanted to poke on behalf of i believe the community nun profits are important and you need to prosecute void essential service. and i thank you. for housing, and a lot of joy taking in the hummingbird farm and working with them and helping them with green spaces and grow and coming together as a communities. and i think that sf rising we need this community to provide services to the community. not as much in complooes policing we are enough. we mead social service programs than i are different. i consider that and i approve

the mayor's budget to increase the policing. so, safety community nonprofits and provide. >> thank you. next caller. so, budget and finance committee. i tried my best to giving your deliberations. and not once have i heard about the 3,000 employees that the city has. and i'm giving i minute and i think you could use artificial intel johnson. to do a need's assessment on the salaries of those making more

then and there 250 thousand dollars in our city. you may not like what i say but this is the worse finance and budget committees that i have tried to pay attention to and deliberate and [inaudible] san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. the next speaker. >> good afternoon i'm jenny i'm with safely sound here on the center, lines. i want to first say how grill i am for the proirzs of the subject committee listening to the public and supporting the opposition to the changes to baby prop c. i urge you to invest in the safety net for children and

families and why families are clearly the foundation of a strong communities and children are our future. we locked at the mayor and leaders and the board of proirzs as well as our police officers. each are business owner and they are all grew up in san francisco. we need to continue the leader help. please continue to supportful the baby prospect c as los angeles as funds for example young adulls on their -- the prop c and investment in continue strong -- business for communities. thank you. your time has lapsed. the next speaker. >> this is matt i'm a d3 resident and a business owner downton abbey the exodus in businesses is real and potential

low our own lost half employees to other states related to the street scene it is the worse it hen in 30 years. gotta make closing down open air drug market and using the main priority of the budget, clean up streets and stop crime. funds mayor's public safety investments in the sfpd and d a's office. am bas door program remain and stop churning people in and out of the er reallocate to funds shelter beds focused on -- cower and treatment and not purke people out on the streets. thank you very much. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. next speaker. i work for low income recommend

fund. i urge to you row no regarding baby prop c. our children and childcare workers are better they other most available and precious resource. your support the solidify you champions for education we know you can be on behalf of the parents and families anded lers who couldn't speak across san francisco protect baby prop c and say mow to both proposals. thank you. next caller. >> unattended line.

next speaker, please. >> helo ask you hear? >> yes, we can. [no audio]. hello? yes, we can. a dead line. and to those joining us if you are in this room you mode to be seated. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. can you hear me.

>> yes, we can. >> great i'm phyllis live in know fran in district 8 the budget modes to address the drug crisis. it overwhelming our city. it is the main problem we need to solve causing so many of the other problem in our city like residents not feeling safe. theft, shops leave and homelessness and others employees i'm calling to ask you toen the open air drug market and to do i'm asking for expand the initial treatment bed and make recovery the goal for truth users enough capacity for every stage of recovery. 2, keep public safety dollars in the budget. police, sheriffs, da, need them to run. and finally 3, we need more shelter beds we have 4,000 people on the streets and we are powerless to reclaim our public space for

electric of beds. let's do something about that and get more beds we mode to reallocate in our city. >> thank you. we have 12 callers with sick in the queue. next speaker, please. i'm a mother and business owner. and i want to highlight the childcare i have been a mom for childcare and also we are advocating childcare for children with special needs. which hopefully baby prop c will funds as well as i like to advocate for the licensed care and system capacity. we don't want to leave behind children parents work nontraditional hours.

fund for faeps first. including left lanesed care outside of the system to remove barriers. so crucial and should prioritize all the programs. thank you. dp w funding. seck. i support budget for police and public safety resource. nvenlths i don't support the funds proposed for mta the city agency abugs the budget. senior manage held,a counselable

for [inaudible] and finally the taxpayer i want to return on recommend rather than wasted money i want machine tow support investment in people. including children. i might suggest we put more money on kids and thez who care the other stele, will improve. not the taxpayer i'm a voter. respect the voter hos have ponent on baby prop c. thank you for your time. have a nice evening. >> next speaker, please. >> hello i'm starry and i'm 23 and i went to san francisco state university and a paid intern in san francisco rising i'm here to urge you to fit cut to funds to encourage youth to be engage empowered royces to the things that impact them and families.

i'm the first of my routes to begin the opportunity to share the importance of using the voting and, wear of the proposals that impact us. san francisco rising and empowered my voice and -- the opportunity to engage. san francisco rising i realized well is no need without my community to create foundation we have access to. and last summer door knock nothing the bayview get to know the neighbors. and i want to stres the importance of enengaging with youth ofim grant family and young people of color. [inaudible]. thank you. >> time lapsed. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

i'm call nothing support of option 3 for the sand management. a provision of the ordinance to open cardings during the week it has been inadequate. i think in 2023 the southbound lane has been opened for car for a week. total. and the people that they dpw people have to drive heavy equipment cross town any time

they clean the sands we need a staging your for this sand equipment. here at the beach and we need to keep that southbound lane open. >> that's in the ordinance. posed to manage the highways. so that it is sounds free and it is not being done. please approve option 3 alcohol mech it possible for commuters and working people to have that southbound lane available to them. thank you. >> thanks. swing become to the unattended lines and give them one more shot. >> hello i'm [inaudible] can you hear me? >> yes, begin. >> yes. i'm saul am a parent of san francisco and a parent and today

i like to say thank you for understanding the need of childcare. i want to reminds you please focus on pilot programs to extend for childcare for children with and needs. thank you so much for what you do for our community. thank you, have i great night. >> have a good night. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> can you hear me. part of many organizations the right's mittee we robbery trying to put funds negligent safety net of inference france and being the community families of color. 's residents for 25 scombreers i

advocate for the money to go in the families of san francisco. and childhood education is so important and crucial. and i'm a teacher and i advocate for my students. when they are little and for special education which my family received service. keep up the services and thank you very much for your attention in the letter. i'm district 11 residence den and have a great evening >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi. can you hear me. >> yes. begin. >> [inaudible] out reach [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [audio breaking up] advocate for the 8 hum huh,000 request it next expands mental health

services. dealing with sharp increase of demand we are seen at the clinic and all this is going on in the country more transgender identified people are moving to the city and we need the passport. please, if you could -- do this add back it would be grit. thank you very much. >> thank you for sharing your comments. do we have anymore speakers? hi. this is larry. and -- i'm -- calling to advocate on funding for 3 trailers. you go around and talk to people living on the streets. i wanted to most desired things is to be able to clean their body and it is a human right.

have access to sanitation. and they don't have a house, lava main is closed. people mode to shower. i can heard low go a week without taking an hour imagine mag going 30 days. this is less than a million dollars ask. please, funds it. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. my name is (indiscernible) i'm the ce o. of the mission economic development agency. we are the codevelopers and owners of this beautiful beautiful building. [applause] thank you to all of you for gathering for this great occasion to celebrate the grand opening of casa de (indiscernible) 681 florida. [applause] this project is yet another win for affordable housing in the mission district and the city of san francisco. it is the result of years of work in partnership with tenderloin neighborhood development corporation- [applause] supervisor hillary

ronen's office. [applause] mayor london breed and her team. [applause] our friends from wells fargo. [applause] the california department of housing and community development. [applause] and many other amazing organizations. casa d (indiscernible) 631 florida is main stay and permanent fixture for affordable housing in the mission district. this project has 130 family friendly homes, including 39 homes for the formally unhoused. [applause] in addition to the housing, it will be the permanent home, the permanent home for carn val san francisco,b a true

san francisco institution. this will be the 9th community based organization that is housed in one of buildings and continues to strategy of cultural place-keeping to insure that the mission never loses its history of latino culture l and arts. [applause] casa d 631 florida was a community space before becoming housing and community space it will remain permanently. [applause] so, we know that much of what we do is about living our values. togetherness are two core values. this project will not be here today if collectively we did not have the audacity to dream of what could be and should

be. of the audacity to fight for what we think is right and just. also, today is about togetherness. look around. we are here celebrating together how this housing for community-how this housing and this community space will serve families and community members who are often underserved and under-represented. again, the core of our work comes down to the people who now call casa d-631 plor florida their permanent home. [applause] again, i want to share my gratitude to all of those who contributed to making the building happenp. specifically, i want to thank mayor breed. thank you mayor.

[applause] who administration is key insuring affordable housing in the mission remains a priority now and for the future. this includes her leadership in making sure that buildings like this one become a realty each and every day. also, she has been a true champion for the small sites program, which has a-allowed to purchase 38 apartment buildings and saved over 300 families from eviction in this neighborhood. thank you, mayor breed. [applause] i want to thank the board of directors for their trust, for providing great care, guidance and support as we dare to become an affordable housing developer, taking many many risks along the way. thank you! [applause]

finally, i must thank our team. they now provide services to over 17 thousand people per year in this neighborhood. [applause] our staff shows a remarkable ability to beadacious by adapting and pivot to meet the needs of our community at any moment. this includes providing key services before, during and after the pandemic. insuring our businesses have access to technical assistance and capital. rehabilitating existing apartment buildings and building new buildings like this one. creating spaces for community organizations that are no longer threatened by eviction. you name it, meta staff always steps up to

support this community. thank you meta team. [applause] at the end of the day, we will do this work because of the people living here. our residents. our community. and now it is my great pleasure, it is my great great pleasure i have to say to introduce you to dolores a woman who calls this building her permanent home. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> hello everyone.

thanks for being here. mayor london breed, welcome. [speaking spanish. waiting for translation] my name is dolores ramero originally from el salvador. i'm 77 years old and i worked and lived in san francisco for many years. [waiting for translation] i worked really hard to bring my two children to this country, and i worked at a mexican restaurant before and getting there at 6 p.m. and finishing up at 5 a.m. [waiting for translation]

i used to live on 20 and valencia for 35 years. i used to go up three flights of stairs every day, and i count the steps 42 steps. [waiting for translation] when i got to 20 and valencia i was full of energy and that was good, but in 2008 i was diagnosed with cancer. [waiting for translation] it was very hard for me because it was very difficult after a huge operation

procedure to go up the three flights of stairs. [waiting for translation] i needed to go up and down sitting down. [waiting for translation] [applause] >> but in 2020, covid came and i was in the hospital for a total of 6 months. [waiting for translation]

after covid, after the 6 months, i didn't recover fully and i couldn't go up the three flights of stairs. i had to move with my daughter for total of 4 months because i couldn't do it and i needed the elevator at her apartment. [waiting for translation] but i continued to go up those three flights of stairs sitting down and i would come down sitting down as well. [waiting for translation] i fell three times going up and down the stairs, but i thank god, thank meta, tndc

and all the other organizations involved in this project. [waiting for translation] but after covid, after applying since 2008 for housing, march 2022 they let me know that i won the lottery. [applause] [waiting for translation]

[laughter] on march 2022, veronica from meta called letting me know i won the lottery. she was confused and shocked because she didn't buy a ticket. [laughter] [waiting for translation] but no, it was the lot tory for my future home. [waiting for translation] [applause]

[applause] on october 2022 they told me to come pick up my key. she said she didn't feel she was picking up a key, she felt she was picking up a crown because she feels like a gwen queen at home. she wants to thank all the organizations that made this happen and hope

everyone continues to support what we are doing to keep people housed and thank you everyone again. >> thank you. [applause]she wants to thank all the organizations that made this happen and hope everyone continues to support what we are doing to keep people housed and thank you everyone again. >> thank you. [applause] >> i like to introduce pedro, deputy director of legislation at california department of housing and community development. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] good afternoon everybody. i'm pedro, deputy director at department of housing and community development, and it is a great honor to be here today. i want to

congratulate the community and our partners today at meta and tndc for this tremendous building and this beautiful community that they have built with 130 new affordable homes. this project includes homes that are affordable for people who experience homelessness, it includes two community spaces and sustainable agricultural on the roof and this is a model for how housing can be built to be affordable, environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. i also want to thank madam mayor on behalf of director vulas quez and the newsom administration and my self it is honor to celebrate and thank you for your continued support of affordable housing here and throughout your city. it is with partners like you that we make buildings like this happen so thank you. thank you also to

supervisor ronen for your leadership and continuing to push for more affordable housing here in the mission, and throughout the city. i also want to acknowledge the work of my partners at the state level with the california tax credit and debt limit allocation committee for providing the invest mentds to make it possible. it is great joy and say it department of housing and community development is proud to have invested $14 million in this project. as i said, this is exactly the type of project we want to fund. to share a little bit about why i feel personally connected here, my own family immigrated to the united states from brazil and when i was young we struggled to find stable housing. eventually we did. it wasn't affordable but it was stable, and it gave us-it gave me the stability i needed to study and to actually be here speaking to you all today. this is a

amazing opportunity that this building is providing to all 130 families that live here, but also the families that are going to be here in the future. places like these are key to maintaining a stable mission. making sure that there continues to be art, neighbors to continue to be in their neighborhood. and i can know that having a place like this would have made a tremendous difference to my family had we had the opportunity and i'm so glad dolores has this opportunity and so many other families will get to enjoy this permanent affordable housing. that is why affordable housing continues to be such a critical investment for the administration of governor newsom. this administration invested 20billion in affordable housing since it started and we have built every 10 thousand units and there is another 45 thousand affordable housing units on their

way. collectively these-thank you. [clapping] collectively these units are going to provide homes for nearly a million people through the useful life, and more then a million people need affordable homes in california, but it is a significant start and we need the help of you all to continue building on that momentum. thank you all for having us. thank you for building this beautiful community and it is great pleasure i introduce nob nub hernandez, community member the executive direct of cana-sf and founder of mission food health. thank you all so much. [applause] >> those do not know spanish,

good afternoon. [speaking spanish] first of all,b i want to acknowledge a whole bunch of people and i want to start with jonathan. where is jonathan at from south space? come here jonathan. this brother-i have to tell you a story, man. he came to our neighborhood and he started cell space. cell space was one of the most beautiful spaces that we had here in our community where carnival, (indiscernible) here earlier who did the blessing, the theater groups, all kinds of artist, it was a communal space and thriving 7 days a week and sometimes 24 hours a day, and nobody ever shut us down because we were making noise, right? but it

was fun noise because it brought young people, brought children, it brought community together, so thank you my brother. i want to honor and tell you i love you. >> i love you. >> thank you. [applause] and then unfortunately the story goes sideways. all a sudden (indiscernible) came to the city. riches and wealthy people come in. for some reason they decided they wanted to live in this little ghetto, this village we have been existing, right. they wanted a urban culture experience, but they gentrifyed us in a violent way where we had over 10 thousand people who were evicted and a lot were left homeless, so we didn't sit back as a community, we organized and organized i organized. we created save the mission and i want peter to

come up here, i want (indiscernible) to come up here. i want kelly to come here. come here, man. [applause] come on! come on. and rodrigo. where is (indiscernible) come on. and this is-where is she at? okay. we created a army. armando come here! anybody else who was part of the mission no eviction. our mission! no eviction! we organized and organized and organized and we created save the mission and we organized and we demanded then all these developers coming here had a responsibility to give back to our community. in this space here, we fought and fought and fought against the developer and he won the planning commission by one vote

but we appealed that to the board of supervisors. we had the power of the people and the votes at the board of supervisors. he had to give us his space and justice was served, so i want to thank all of you. i love you all. thank you. organized and that was over 3,000 that get up and march and do whatever it took. i just really believe that you know, we called this space (indiscernible) and now it is the-what are we calling it? the beauty on bryant. i wanted to do today to thank the creator, because a lot of times we have fear. we have doubts, and it takes time and some people don't have the patience to continue to fight,

but i always said, we got to believe in the creator, got to believe in the universe and come together and are stay together no matter what and stay strong. what was the (indiscernible) strength in numbers. thank you mayor breed. strength in numbers and that is-it has gotten us through and be able to build and celebrate today. i want to honor all the-just take a moment of silence, because i fought with him like you won't believe, but i want to honor and thank and may his soul rest in peace, mayor ed lee. not only did we get the space, but we went with mayor ed lee and said you have to come up with the money to build the housing. we just don't want a piece of land from this developer. we need the money and he did. he came up with money, he found it within 72 hours. i don't know (indiscernible)

people put money under their matresses or closet or backyard and he found the money and that was the beginning of help make this happen. i are want to thank meta and tndc for coming together and it was a marriage. [speaking spanish] and they came together and they made it happen here in our community. most beautiful thing is for community to take responsibility for itself and do things for itself. of course with the help of many. i want to thank all the artists that you know were displaced, but continued and we were able to work with them and i want to thank the people that entrusted our organization. cana a

organization that produces the carnival and entrusted in creating the space next door which is- (indiscernible) because of the lessens we learned in the pandemic, with meta help with a lot of the people who economically were broke and mental health was effected so we decided to take a right turn and not only make it (indiscernible) but also indigenous people's cultural arts healing center. with that, i want to end by having-because i come from an organizing background, cesar chavez and dolores raised me and when we gather and have a victory we clap together so i'll ask you to put your hands together and we'll slow. those who have not done it and those who know how to do it

we'll do it. we'll go real slow and then speed it up. [clapping] we used to say (indiscernible) today we'll see-i will say (indiscernible) [speaking spanish] with that, i want to-it is great honor to introduce an amazing woman who like i grew up in the (indiscernible) grew up in the ghetto and made her way through school against all odds, put herself through college, became elected to the board of supervisors and now and has and will continue being our mayor of san francisco, please help welcome mayor london breed! i call

it lb! [applause] >> thank you roburty roburto and are thank you for joining us today. this is really exciting and i never thought we would get to this place this quickly, even though it has been a really long time, but roberto you remember when we would ride through the mission and i want to say it was before i became mayor, and roberto and i talked about some of the challenges and also some of the properties that we could identify that we needed to purchase because of the investment that the city needed to make in providing housing to make up for a lot of the evictions and a lot of the issues that were occurring in this community, and it had a lot to do with our bond came because what was

happening in the mission actually happened in the community i grew up in in the fillmore western addition and it was important to him and this community that we don't repeat the same mistakes of the past, and so when we were riding through the mission we were talking about various properties and you know all the owners and are developers and what was going on, and i was so grateful to come together and collaborate and strategize and purchase some of the various properties and to work with our state partners to get the resources necessary to make sure that we were able to get these places built, because you are right, purchasing the land is one thing, but building the house is quite something different. it does take a village. it takes a village to make things like this happen in our city, and one of the things

i'm really proud of with this project, it wasn't just about building a building and hitting the lottery, mrs. romero would talk about hitting the lottery. what was really important was the neighborhood preference legislation and making sure that when we build buildings like this, that the people who live here get the right of first refusal for the new buildings built in the community that they have blood sweat and tears in and that is what happened in this particular case. [applause] so, it takes a village, and meta has been a pillar of this community for decades, and i got to say i'm so proud of the work meta is doing under your leadership. not just with the new development, but also the buildings we were able

to acquire through the small sites acquisition program. we have had [applause] had to increase the capacity of meta to make sure that the support was there, and working together and providing the resources to do that has been really transformative in this community, so we are grateful for the protections of the people who are in those existing buildings, but also incredibly proud of the work we are doing for new places like where we are today that serve for the next generation of people and those who need a safe affordable place to call home without stairs so they can get around. this is so amazing for so many people and families who live here. i also want to give a special shout out to our governor and to the california department of housing and community development. thank you pedro for being

here. gustauvo who answers to you is running this department, and he is usually always here at these events. the state with our partnership with the governor invested so much money and to san francisco for project home key to purchase buildings to help people who are struggling with homelessness to help us build new buildings like the one we are in today, and all the various resources we need because we have under invested in housing for so long that the crisis of homelessness in the state of california, which exists here in san francisco as well is something that we have to reckon with with dollars, so we can get moving and building and acquiring properties as quickly as possible, so we are grateful to the governor for his work, advocacy and department for all the amazing investments that have come to san francisco.

[applause] i want to say to tndc, which you'll hear from a minute, thank you for being a great partner in housing too. working with meta on this project, but working on so many other projects that truly serve some of the most vulnerable residents in san francisco. we could not do this work without partners like meta and tndc, because they are the ones on the ground working with the community to provide places like this and i got to say, it is just-builds my heart with joy every time i come to an event like this. people say mayor, the city all kinds of stuff is going on and ribbon cutting is not doing anything. you know what? this ribbon cutting today is doing something interest the 130 families that moved into this building. [applause] this ribbon cutting is about the blood, sweat and tears that

went into providing this as a opportunity for those families in the first place, this community that fought hard to insure that this building was available to low income individuals and families. this means something to the people who are working here every single day to make sure that there are services and support necessary to insure the success of the people living in this building, and this building means everything because carnival is a institution in our city and the tradition of carnival has to continue for generations to come. this building is meaningful. it will be an incredible beacon of hope for the people who live here who i already met, but also the children who are growing up here and the community and what it all represents. i'm grateful and excited about what this means and i want to thank everyone that had a role, even if it is placing the tiles

correctly so the design looks good and that work, or the lighting fixtures and the people at the front desk working, the janitors, the mail clerks, the community as a whole, because it takes a village and casa el how do you say it? (indiscernible) represents our community values in san francisco at their very best, so welcome home to all the families and the people who are here and thank you for this great celebration and louis, the best is yet to come. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone. my name is anna, a legislative aid to supervisor ronen, and i need to speak louder. i woke up this morning not expecting to do this but

unfortunately supervisor ronen couldn't be here today. she is in budget and appropriation committee so apologizes for not able to be here but i'm here on her behalf and just here to really celebrate this amazing accomplishment and milestone in the mishz. there has been a lot of negative and punching down of the community in the news lately and it is important to come together to celebrate the milestone with mayor breed, tndc and meta and all the community partners who made this happen because we know the mission is about arts, community and having actual affordable housing for someone like those here today and the struggle to make that happen. i know we are hungry so i want to lift that up and thank you all for being here and thank you for everyone who made it happen. [applause]

now i would like to introduce greg shirken the wells fargo senior vice president of philanthropy and community impact. >> thank you very much. on behalf of wells fargo, colleagues here today, (indiscernible) and all our employees in san francisco, i want to say what a tremendous honor to be a part of this incredible project. congratulations to everyone involved. wells fargo is so proud to be a lender and community partner and able to help bring much needed housing to this incredible community. mayor breed i want to extend thank you to her as well as the supervisor as well as pedro to you and as well as louis and (indiscernible)

for your tireless efforts not on this project but to do so much for this community and this city, which is honesty where we live and work as well and really what you do is a testament to what makes san francisco such a special place, and able to support incredible people like dolores who spoke so incredibly today. you are such a inspiration dolores. please know we are plepaired to continue to support this project, this community and this city. we realize we are facing a lot of challenges right now and as the mayor said, it really does take a village and we at wells fargo want to be part of this community, part of the village and committed to do whatever it takes to help the people here reach their potential so thank you all very much for your time. [applause] and now i have the tremendous honor to introduce (indiscernible) from tndc, a incredible partner. we worked

with them for years and look forward to continue to do so. i turn it over to you. [applause] >> thank you greg. i am going to give some of my time to someone that has been really passionate about this project. makes us all look dynamic and great and a big part why we are here today. colleen, can you come up? [applause] >> thank you. i will keep this fairly short. i had the privilege of working or getting to be one of the many people who worked on the 681 florida project. we had a strong development partner with shout out to jose garcia my project manager who stepped in on the job and to complete the project ester kim down there. our final project manager

(indiscernible) this all just worked. the city of san francisco and our lenders (indiscernible) thank you for getting to the point with 130 units gorging affordable quality housing in the mission. our contractor team somewhere in the crowd k hill contractor and (indiscernible) what a gem of a team. countless union tradesman and trades women. our design team. adapting and problem solving everything step of the way and of course the incredible property management compliance accounting and social work staff that leased up the building and make it all work every day. if you haven't met (indiscernible) [calling names] the rest of the property management and service staff we

owe them infinite coffees for the work they put into serving the tenants. plaef [applause] there are countless people i can't fit in the speech that contributed so much from start to finish and we are not joking when we say the word, it takes a village. as you may have noticed walking around the building art is at the core of what makes it special. (indiscernible) the three artist that spent countless hours with art work from community feedback. high schoolers with youth art exb change worked with partners to create the custom ornamental gates next door. and cana along with the community fought years ago to insure spaces like this would and could be dedicated affordable and accessible space for housing the community and the arts. it is never lost on me

that this is a place of new beginnings for many individuals and families who live here. at a san francisco native, san francisco is what will always represent home for me and the way hugging a warm blairngt on a cold day feels. to all the residents current and future at 681 florida, welcome home. [applause] >> thank you colleen. i promise you are all most home, folks. my name is (indiscernible) a ceo of tndc. the housing community development organization building and serving communities throughout san francisco. this past weekday, gus newport, the former mayor of berkeley passed. i wanted to take just a few minutes to bring him in spirit here today.

because gus was a mentor to many. gus was a inspiration to many more. but gus was my friend. one thing he always taught me and one thing he actually made me realize is the importance of listening. and many times to listen not for what is said, but also for what is not said. 681 is a example of both those things. of what has been said, and what hasn't been said. in the spirit of community, in the spirit of the mission, i could be no prouder then this moment because this is the manifestation, this is the spirit, this is the

[spanish] that we all work so hard to create day in and day out. i like to acknowledge for tndc, all the staff. all our partners. our board of directors. that allow us to do the work that we so passionately do and do well. we built this community, we'll build more. [speaking spanish] let's get to the ribbon cutting! [applause]

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>> my name is sylvia and i'm the owner of the mexican bistro. we have been in business for 18 years and we first opened on garry street in san francisco, and now we are located in a beautiful historic building. and we are part of the historical building founded in 1776. at the same time as the mission delores in san francisco. (♪♪) our specialty food is food from central mexico. it's a high-end mexican food based on quality and fresh ingredients. we have an amazing chef from yucatán and we specialize on

molotov, that are made with pumpkin seeds. and we're also known for handmade tortillas and we make our own fresh salsa. and we have cocktails, and we have many in the bar. we have specialty drinks and they are very flavorrable and very authentic. some of them are spicy, some are sour, but, again, we offer high-quality ingredients on our drinks as well. (♪♪) we have been in san francisco for 27 years, and our hearts are here. we are from mexico, but after 27 years, we feel part of the community of san francisco. it is very important for us to be the change, the positive change that is happening in san

francisco. the presidio in particular, they're doing great efforts to bring back san francisco, what it was. a lot of tourism and a lot of new restaurants and the new companies. san francisco is international and has a lot of potential. (♪♪) so you want to try authentic mexican food and i invite you to come to our bistro located on 50 moroo avenue in presidio. and i'll wait here with my open arms and giving you a welcome to try my food. (♪♪)

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor.

[music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s.

>> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay

and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement.

>> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people

of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich

monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly.

i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors

ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

>> good morning today is wednesday june 21, 2023. the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i like to reminds everyone to mute if you are not speak the first item is roll call. and if you have cell phones silent them. president bito. >> here. >> vice president tam. >> here. >> commissioner alexander-tut >> here >> commissioner neumann. >> here. >> commissioner shaddix. >> here >> commissioner sommer. >> here. >> next