>> malcolm come up here! supervisor preston, come up here! today is a wonderful day. excited to be here with all of us family, friends, partners, community. and john. hi. john! community and john. i am the ceo of tnbc housing and community development organization building and serving community throughout san francisco. i mentioned today is an exciting

and important day for us. we are not here to move a bit of dirt. more important low, we are symbolically beginning to create community. 160 family and individuals will call this location home. and i'm beyond excited to issue creating this bridge of opportunity. [applause] today we are also celebrating the verifies community. and many, many, many friends, family and partners that came to make today and this project possible. i'm proud of this beautiful community. i'm proud of the holistic approach the community takes approach in the opportunity. to be here it takes more then and there a village it takes the entire staechl i like to thank mayor breed. for her steadfast leadership.

supervisor preston, continued support. director shaw and the entire staff the mayor's office of housing and community development. [applause]. and a true partner malcolm and china down community development center. support from bank of america and citibank is impressive and dynamic. of in our contractors the ones managing the big minutes. kay hill and hercules a joint venture and our architects. i would like to take this time and liberty to give thanks to all of the entire staff over the years dillien to making this project go forward inclusive of our board of directors.

[applause]. it is now my sincere privilege to introduce our very own dynamic mayor, mayor breed. [applause]. >> i came right on time. first of all, this has been a long time coming. i want to start by thanking our former mayor ed lee. when i went to him when i was on the board reporting this district. this property was not necessary low ump for sale. wee had a long conversation about the need do more and build more house nothing district 5 especially because we were able to get legislation passed for neighborhood preference that would allow for the people who live in this community to have a real chance of able to live in

the community many cases come were born and raised. he and i worked together and made it a priority. and it goes to show you that when the mayor and the board of supervisors work together >> many great things can be accomplished. and so mayor lee and i set out on reaching out to the upon owner of the property. there were challenges going on at the time. and eventual low after a few months we commenced them to sell us the property and went through the process and decided that we would work with the community. to ensure that we do something to allow for a level of affordable housing to meet the needs of the folks of this community. and i than there are a number of neighborhood associations this are air part and people who live here that are joining us here today. so we are grateful for your work and advocacy. know there were a lot of meetings and a lot of different

pregnancy what should and should not happen at this site. we know the people who live healer be the ones most impacted by when this housing come n. when i say impacted i believe the impacts will be extremely positive. because you are talking about 160 units. . families. of people who will be formerly homeless as a result of this project. people who are young folks between ages 18 and 24. transitional age youth. people who need a safe affordable place to come home. what i'm most proud of in san francisco over the years, we build housing and build housing and build housing. when i was growing up i wondered yet people who lived in the neighborhood dids not have the ability to access house nothing their communities. 43 of the units will be given

right of first refusal for people who live in the neighborhood and district as a priority. so they have a real shot of gaining access to live in the community they are a part of. >> this is so significant. and so important. because many of us, i'm suburbaning all of us here today; believe we need to address the challenges around homelessness and housing affordability. and we do that by making sure that we are approving housing projects in general. that we are getting the job done not rejecting housing no matter how challenging or small or what have you or big it is. we need to think about what happens with the future. i remember when i was at a debate when i was running for mayor. i asked the i was the only one at the time who supported scott wiener's bill sba27 to provide additional density not like a high rise in a neighborhood but

a few more sdmrors more housing i remember asking everyone how many have been in the city for 50 years. or raised here. all the hands went up >> how many raised your kids. >> i raised my kids here i love san francisco. and i asked. how many of your kids still live here. hardly any hands went up. the ability to build projects like this and get housing done is imperative to dealing with so many challenges our city changes. we can't say we passport and reject housing projects in the city this project is a prime dpachl of what happened when we are able to come together to get things done. the people who work in the city, our homeless folks, young people, the future of our city they are relying on us to make

good decisions this is eighty-one of the very bestment i want to appreciate the partnership of tndc and china town community development. they are two important nonprofit housing developers that not only do housing in the city to provide for the most vulnerable. but they also provide services and support to help ensure that we keep people housed that is an important part of what we needs to do. >> a lot of work and i want to be appreciative of our bank of america supportful thank you for helping to finance the project. and thank you to the housing authority for vouchers. secretary fudge has done an unpreps debted amount of housing vouchers. section 8 vouchers to san francisco -- we are proud we got

so many people housed because of it. i thank the mayor's office of housing and community development. eric is joining us because it takes a village. it takes a lot of people to get a project like this done. i. to thank the haight ashbury community and the people in cole valley for your support, advocacy, for showing up for meetings. having the hard conversations and getting us to this point. with a childcare facility on site and other space, what this will do for the community i believe will be transformtive. and it will be an amazing addition to the haight/ashbury community. thank you everyone who played an important role in this. we are finally delivering on an upon pros that has been years in the making and i can't wait until the first resident move in their unit here at stanion. thank you so much!

[applause] thank you, mayor breed. it is a privilege and an honor to be here today. hello, everyone. i'm joana mccarthy president for bank of america in san francisco and the east bay. and to issue part of a project like this is really special. as the mayor said, it does take a village. i want to thank a couple of folks. this is about the best reason i can think of to get out of the office and celebrate a public/private partnership that is so important especially on the prime piece of real estate. it will be an incredible project. you know we are ceebrating a building here will have 160 units and 11,000 square feet of community space. thank you to tndc and ccdc for work and making sure we have a community space and they work with our teams and community

development to make sure all our projects support the residents as they are meant to. >> so you understand i have a couple of folks from community development banking. our team is here. the past year they have been busy at work. last year bank of america for our community development group invested 7.85 billion with over 13,000 affordable housing units. we are committed to making sure affordable housing is not just a dream but something we realize together. >> ment to make sure we thank the city of san francisco. mayor. supervisor preston the mayor's office of housing and community development. eric. thank you very much. again. it is about everybody coming together. we talk about a village it takes heart and that's when we have here in san francisco. everybody is coming together to support the upon community in ways we know you need. >> thank you very much. i'm happy to be part of the team

that helped pull this together. and thank you again for your support and recognition recognition today. >> [applause]. now supervisor dean preston. >> hello irk everyone. it is very incredible to be here. not much gets a supervisor now or the mayor either out of city hall on the last day of the budget fight happening and everyone was at each other's throws what they will get in the budget i was over joyed to leave that and even if the sun is in the shine to cell brit this with you all. and you know look around where we are for those who are not as familiar with this neighborhood that i have a privilege to represent. think of 160 units of affordable

housing truly affordable housing. here in the haight/ash burref across the street from the golden gate park. in one of the most richly served by transit and most walkable neighborhoods in this city. this is exactly the location where we should be building affordable housing in san francisco. and it is incredible we are here to celebrate breaking ground today. i want to recognize all the folks that got us here and it has been a road. right. and the mayor said, a lot of meetings and out reach. it started as the mayor said. with the mayor when she was supervisor working with the late ed lee and identifying this site as a site for acquisition. i appreciate that happened then and the announcements over the last week of other sites that are acquired by the city for

this development. if we are going to hit our goal under the housing element 46,000. new affordable housing units in san francisco, we are going to have to be doing this. all over the city. and i for one as the sprierdz of d 5 welcome as much of this as we can do. in this district. alost folks stepped up along the way from the point acquisition to the communities group and mayor referenced a many different community groups i want to thank the haight/ashbury council. for support. we really have the dream team here. we are blessed, you are lucky if you have tndc developing a project in your district for

affordable how doing over the track record of the 2 organizations and developing affordable house nothing san francisco is incredible. we in the haight have both. and it hen incredible to see their work in keeping this on track despite obstacles and keeping the community updated and -- through these meeting its has been an important part why there is a consensus in this community. i will say one thing this gives me joy and that i appreciate every day. is that i upon represent a community that supports affordable housing and that is not the case every where in california notteen in san francisco. we have our stories on projects. we'll not bother with that now. i will say that this project here of 160 units of affordable how doing heads overwhelming community support. even with different visions how this should you can used or this

population served and good faith discussion about those things. there was never a time when there was a question about whether the haight supported affordable housing here on this site of the former mc donalds and empty lot this . is truly you know people talk about the division in our city. this is truly an example what can wham what happened when we boshg together. mayor and director of major's office of housing iric shaw and his team and everyone working together to make this happen. i hope we'll take the moment upper and the words we are saying today and make sure we go from putting shovels in the pile of dirt to having residents move in as quickly as possible. and that can sometimes be a process and we all share a commitment in city government and the development team of

making sure that process happens quickly as possible. i want to say, thank you all for your support of this project t. is difficult on put together the financing and all the work that goes to getting us to this pointful i can't thank everyone enough who hen a part of this and made this happen more of this, please. thank you for being here and your support. [applause]. malcolm. take us home! >> first, i want to start with something that ccdc tradition introduced by our retired execute ever director fong. look at the person on their left. take a look at the person on your right. and tell them you are beautiful. and you are all beautiful. >> thank you. first of all i feel conspicuous

i'm only one who kept pie construction hat and vest o. thanks to everybody for throwing me under the bus. we're posing for cameras. secondly, i want to say, i saw you last nighture did not tell me you had written remarks. a bit upset about that i'm glad we are here after our cocktail hour. >> i want to start by acknowledging the vision that it took to get this project to this place. it started with the mayor. i really recognize and basketball that -- it was her vision of working with mayor lee to acquire the site that allowed you to be here today and we know the mayor's office of housing is looking at this more and more and wield want to encourage that. china town will be a beneficiary of that model with the project coming up there based on a city

acquisition this really it was mayor breed who i think got the ball rolling on this one. supervisor now mayor. the major's office of how longs for continued support they provided around this project. i said before, they are true partners in a wayy don't see in other jurisdictions that is very real and i think we need to recognize and appreciate that in a different way then and there in other jurisdictions and i want to thank supervisor preston who from day fwhon his office supportive of the project we had many conversations and his support was vital to get here. it has been a journey no question. along the way we done incredible things. added 2 additional floors. [applause]. figured out how to program the space and include that as part of the development process which is a now model that a lot of us

are looking at. again and again this is a model that i hope the city looks at and propagate across developments this concept of the developers responsible for building out the commercial space to make sure it is something that serves the community as part of the over all design from the front to back end. this brings mow to the most important component commute this . community in peculiar. tndc and china town cdc we had this conversation, organizations this deeply believe in accomplice when we say deeply believe in mrooes accomplice we mean that the people in that place should drive the conversation about what they need. and we know, china town cdc knows for us, this is a place. i want to thifrng this mount for inviting us in and allowing us to be a part of your community.

i want to say to the kay hill contracters and hercules if you see asian dude skate boarding on the site that is probably my son. and he does this stuff. will give me a call. but -- thank you to everybody who made this happen. thank you to b of a and stele for being great partners we need to more than ever in the next. coming years we have to build 40,000 affordable housing units hoping you are staffing occupy municipality banking side and appreciate be being here and a part of this moment. thank you. [applause]

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the

community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe.

we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business.

>> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview.

>> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing.

a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

>> my name is marta i'm the management here with public works. it is found in the upon 1997. it is the only public access glass studio in san francisco. we give access to everybody. you don't have to be an experienced artist to take classes we offer beginning level programming. events. fund raisers, it is about giving everyone who is interested in the opportunity to try glass to work with glass and experience mediums. >> i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in japantownful i'm hope to create a destination. not only do we have our huge selection of origami paper and book but a museum everybody can

enjoy that and see what can be done by folding paper >> good to see amazing origami. a selection of paper. got wonderful gifts from japan and great customer service. >> i'm holly and i am the owner of [inaudible] in san francisco. >> we offer classes. and open studio access. workshops lead by local artists that you can see here we have a [inaudible]. and people should expect to join the community and just learn about local bay area artists in the process.

>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor chan, chair of the committee, joined by committee member supervisor safai, also joined by supervisor engardio who is sitting in for vice chair mandelman. our clerk is brent jalipa. i li