>> thanks again. that's it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching san francisco rising i'm chris manners, thanks forrrrrrrrrrrrrr >> good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining me today. joining us all here today. my name is special agent jeremy brown with united states secret service and i'm the asian pacific enomic coordinator. the secret service and federal and state local partners joining me here today have been preparing for the apec leader summit, which was designated a national special security event. this event will take place in san francisco from november

15-18. the apec summit is a part of the apec leaders week and designated a national special security events. we refer as a nsse. due to the size significance and anticipated attendance. this will be the united states secret service 75 national security event. this designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. when an event is designated the u.s. secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the operational security plan. however, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u.s. secret

service, the san francisco police department, the california highway patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal emergency management agency, u.s. coast guard, san francisco fire department and many federal state and local partner tuesday design the security plan. during the last several months and in fact today, this collaborative team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. the number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders, the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in san francisco while the apec summit is here in san francisco.

because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of san francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. however, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. the public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. vehicular public transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. around the san francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood. residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a

security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be accessed online. also made available to mapping software people are familiar with here in san francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter under certain conditions. deliveries should occur between 10 p.m. 7 a.m. there will be

temporary flight restrictions. this will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. the federal aviation administration this and notice to all airman for all effected air traffic. again to include drones. there will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u.s. coastguard and notice to mariners. the summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. we have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the public and to the residents and visitors of san francisco. we thank the residents and visitors of san francisco for their patience. we will do our best to

collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. i like to personally thank chief scott with the san francisco police department as well as the san francisco department of emergency management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. it is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. my pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. >> thank you special agent brown. first of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. i want to thank and acknowledge

the partners at the cal highway patrol. we have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. we cannot do this without their help and this is a unprecedented event for the city of san francisco. we are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of san francisco. we are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceo's around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. our city is ready to meet this moment. the san francisco police department has a full time team working with all department bureaus to insure adequate service provided to the apec event and to the city as a whole. our department of emergency management headed by director carol and mayor office are

working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. the san francisco police department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u.s. secret service, their security mission. sfpd is working to insure first amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or law enforcement will not be tolerated. this department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. yearly we have the pride event. the 2018 global climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for golden state warriors and san francisco giants. we have experience with this but so do all our partners. that experience will make us successful with this year's

apec event. ypt to talk about our staffing. the san francisco police department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. work wg our department of emergency management and will have a joint information center to respond to inquirys and get information out in real time. we do not anticipate apec impact city services by ems or 911. emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and emergency response acrauz the city. and we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide the public safety needs of this city. all of our sworn members will be working. we are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of

sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the san francisco international airport. the california highway patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform law enforcement as designated apec venues and events. our san mateo county agency is supporting the san francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. here is our call to axz. we are asking the public, stay vigilant. if you see something, say something. we should do that always no matter what you see, we will check it out. don't be afraid to call. be patient. as special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street

closures, detours, buses rerouted, public transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. it will take all patience to get through this week. we will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for public transportation, what routes are closed so you can plan accordingly. we encourage you to take public transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. this police department and our public safety partners will be out 24/7 as always insuring our community is safe. last, let's please be respectful and tolerant of one another. many people from many cultures and many different countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of san francisco during apec. we are that city. we are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so let's make sure that we model that this week and beyond.

let's show the world that we are truly a world class city. the map has been provided. working closely with city partners and agencies to assist with road closures. working with mta on public transportation but pay attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. with that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. this will be a exciting time for the city of san francisco as we will be on the global stage. we are prepared. we have done this before. we have the experience. we have the collaboration. we have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip.

>> good afternoon everyone. thank you chief scott. my name is bob trip. in november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of the global population and 50 percent of global trade. the fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. we are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. we will work together with partners to collect threat intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. a driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same

principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. the fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. i'll turn things back over to secret service for questions. >> we can take some questions related to the apec event. first up. >> hi. there. what measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on? >> first off, thank you for that question. i know there is a lot of concern in san francisco regarding the homeless population. we have a plan that we work closely with san francisco police department on. i will turn it over to chief

scott. i think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. >> thank you for that question. first of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps. we have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. the main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is public safety and the safety of this event. there will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. they will have opportunities for shelter. they will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug into our regular infrastructure. the department of emergency

management. the fire department has a street crisis response team. we have shelter beds available. we have the resources to make this work and that's what we intend to do. i want to say this, it isn't a crime to be unhoused. it isn't a crime to be homeless. we are out there to make sure we help people. we are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. >> should people start expecting to see like, [indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state.

>> thanks for the question. in the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout the city to prepare. you will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 15-18 period. it is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to early morning hours of the 15 of november. >> on the map, what are all the colors mean? can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] >> if i could get a map here i can refer to real quick. i got one with me and will try to talk through it.

so, the colors and everything on the map are self-explanatory. there is a legend at the bottom corner and so i'm happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. there is vehicle restricted zones. there is pedestrian restricted zones. there is closures of public transportation routes. there are reroutes available to the public of san francisco to take in lieu of the closed public transportation routes. those are all displayed on the map. those are what the different things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from a-z on that. >> [indiscernible] for people listening at home. where can people read and find out the closures that effect them? >> excellent question. i know this map is going to be most important to the public so i'll differ that question to a

san francisco pd or city partners. >> [indiscernible] >> you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that? people are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. we had a lot of people from out of town. what type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders? >> great question. again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so i'm not going to speak to specific numbers. what i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of law enforcement, military and public safety personnel in san francisco for this event, so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. >> can you give us the idea--we have seen the president in san

francisco before. can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be? >> i can't give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal presidential visit to san francisco. we are anticipating not just the president of the united states, also the vice president, also potentially heads of state from 21 other countries that are coming to this event, so you know, minimum, 21 times what you would normally see might be a good opening ball park, but again, very hard to specifically describe and compare because you are comparing apples to oranges. >> [indiscernible] >> that's a great question. so, the major closures around muconey will be from second

street to 5 ethstreet. those streets will be open beyond the points the streets will be closed. then from market street to harrison street. again, both streets being open, but anything beyond that boundary is closed to vehicular traffic. >> [indiscernible] >> i'm going to differ to the city of san francisco on the public transportation questions because they are the experts on that. >> good afternoon. i name is jeffrey tumlin the executive director of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. we are very grateful how closely the secret serve iss worked with us to minimize negative impact to the transit system and particularly to center naerbds like chinatown, union square, south of market and the whole southeast quadrant of san francisco. that said, for security reasons, the yurba buena station and 4th and brandon station of the central subway

will need to be closed for it duration of the event. we are grateful we are able to reroute trains, so the t3 trains instead of going into the central subway will simply follow the old route to market street subway and very importantly will be able to run high frequency shuttle trains between union square, market street station, and chinatown. this is very important for us to make sure we maintain strong conductivity to chinatown. bart, caltrain will be fully operational uneffected. sams trans and golden gate experience very miner reroutes so if you are coming to san francisco that week, please do take public transit. very importantly, we will be publishing very detailed traffic walking biking and especially transit updates under our website later this afternoon and will continue to update that as we get more information. please go to sfmta.com/apec.

where you can not only find information, but also sign up for regular alerts and updates. >> what about the cable cars and [indiscernible] >> yes. the cable cars will be disrupted by the nob hill area zone but grateful to the secret service and our team who found a way to continue operate the hyde street line from the cable car barn at mason street to the hyde street terminal so that will keep running. the rest of the line needs to be replaced by bus connectivity. >> it sounds like there are three areas. there is muscone, nob hill and waterfront portion. can you talk about the waterfront portion? >> i will differ to secret

service for the details of the dates and boundaries, but for each of those, they worked very closely with us in order to develop plans to make sure public transit can be rerouted around those closures as needed. >> i wondered about the-- >> if i can answer that question first and come to you. so, your questions about the waterfront. >> [indiscernible] three security [indiscernible] >> that's correct. so, the question i think is about the waterfront, and that will primarily be on the day of and especially the afternoon and evening of the 15 of november. we expect the embarcadero to be closed that day on the 15 of november from battery to broadway that will be a closure there. you will also see diversion of traffic before you get to battery or before to broadway to prevent congestion. also on the map you see a area

in the water that is maritime restriction zone. that will be in effect the afternoon and evening of 15 of november that include ferrys and such diverted around that zone. we made large enough to account for safety needs and security needs we intend to have for that particular venue, but also allowing as much traffic as possible around that zone to take place. >> [indiscernible] >> i wondered about the people in the area they might have to undergo security check. is that bag check or beyond that? >> great question. for people that live around or operate businesses around some of these venues, particularly mos coney if you are trying to access for example the met rion or something of that nature, you will have to go what is effectively a bag check. any packages or bags you have with you would have to be

inspected, but nothing beyond the bag or package check will be the procedure there. >> how are you planning to respond to protesters and can you confirm if and where there will be zones that protesting cannot take place. >> appreciate the question. the question is regarding protest and demonstration. so, i'll answer part of it and turn the rest to chief scott. so, from secret service perspective, to answer your second part first, secret service does not designate protest zones, no protest zones. we designate general public areas and areas restricted from the general public. as far as your question regarding any concern over protests, as chief scott stated in his remarks and i'll second this, during this planning, we accounted for the fact there will be perhaps many different groups and many different type of people that want to come to

san francisco and exercise their first amendment rights and we are prepared to see that. we dont want to discourage that, however we want to make sure that if anybody is doing anything in conjunction with those activities that result in violence or criminal activity, that will not be tolerated by the u.s. secret service or the san francisco police department. i'll turn it over to chief scott for any second comments on that question. >> thank you special agent brown. i just reiterate what was just said. it is about facilitation of peaceful first amendment activity and also about the general public safety for this event and the public as well. including the protesters themselves. we will facilitate like we always do first amendment activity. we do that very well and we will employ similar tactics and strategy we always have and it is about facilitation. if and when protesters show up we will be deployed to handle

that. we have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. the message is this and want to reiterate, criminal activity will not be tolerated and anybody think they are going to come in name of protest and hurt somebody or do crime or start fires that will not be tolerated so want to reemphasize that. we will do it consitutionally and respect rights and professional in our actions but will not tolerate the nonsense so i want to make that clear. we are all professionals up here. we respect the country consitution and will facilitate that, but we also want to make sure this is a peaceful event. >> question for chief scott. well aware sfpd had under staffing issues working with

mutual partners in other counties and cities, is it safe to say during this time that sfpd might be fully staffed? >> everybody is working, so we will be fully staffed and we have assistance. i said earlier in my remarks, can't thank the california highway patrol enough, the u.s. secret service, all our partners, we are all in this together but the municipal policing is the san francisco police department with help from other local agencies. we have motorcycle officers from other agencies, squads to deal with the security assignments and we have squads to deal with the fixed posts and we are prepared to adequately police the rest of the city during this event, so we are ready, and we are short, but thank goodness we do have the assistance of calling everybody in that make this work. thank you, great question and fair question.

thank you. >> businesses operating in some of the security zones, is there going to be any impact to their hours and also, is there cases where there is inconveniences because of dignitaries? is there compensation for some of the [indiscernible] >> so, appreciate the question regarding the impact to businesses. with very few if any very rare exceptions there will be no businesses asked to effectively close. there will be impacts. already discussed that people that are patrons of the businesses may need to undergo screening if they wish to do business with these places or perhaps the business workers or owners. there will also be impacts

during motorcade movement. there is restriction of traffic and restriction of pedestrian traffic during key times so there will be impacts, but we are anticipating any full closures of any private businesses here in san francisco as a result of this. because of that, we are not anticipating any need to compensate business owners due to these impacts. it is something that as part of this national special security event and the fact it is here in the city of san francisco and hosted by the city that is anticipated these types of impacts will occur and i'll turn it over to the city for further comment on that, but that's effectively comes with the territory of with these type of events. >> from a city perspective, our mayor's office worked very hard to coordinate with small businesses, with all businesses. office of economic development, our office of small business development have been working

at this for monthss to keep everybody informed as to what the impacts will be. online there will be a lot of people in the city that attend the conference. we hope it helps our businesses economically, but that only happens if we are well coordinated, people well informed and people understand what the closures are, how to get to and from daily routine of life and we will do that well. the department of emergency management does a great job informing the public when we have these types of events and public notices particularly if there is a emergency that are tied into this or as a result, or emergencies around the city. we will keep everybody informed and i think that will be the key to making this a smooth as possible, but we definitely are--we understand the businesses will be-people will be disrupted and why we are here today and continue to message to the public to make sure we minimize the disruption and businesses can go about their routine.

thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> hello dog patch. [applause] extend a warm welcome to our community. our city leaders and staff. and our collaborate rirts to help make this possible. we are very excited have you here i'm with my clothes and we

want to welcome to you our construction site. we are sorry about the dust. we are doing our best. but there are things optimistic as a ground break confirmation as a society we gotta build for a bright are tomorrow. and for us, this is exciting stuff. 2 years ago we were here in the pandemic and shock our city and globe. and we started on the infrastructure that you see here. we said then when it locked rough we would not stop. we set the ground w to build the future neighborhood that san francisco needed. and today we are excited that is getting started. want to look back. [applause] it is good if you were here 12 years ago you would number the middle of a former power pleasant and about to build another there brave people

said, you know may be we don't need another power plant here that leadership starred with former supervisor so far maxwell, we honor here today. [applause]. other leaders like joe possess. let's reimagine the future if they have were successful in putting another power pleasant this land would have been closed for another jeneration. instead we are here. thank you for your courage we would not be here without you. so, [applause]. this is know optimistic mobile home. we got a beautiful day and beautiful site this is wonderful opportunity for optimism. the world's not optimistic about san francisco now. i am. because i than every time people say san francisco is over and that happens every 20 years here

we come become better, resilient and invest and invent the idea this is change the westerlied. we are a funny place. 110 thousand of the world's population the things we do here change the westerlied we have an ininfluence on the planet. gave worsts the blue jeans. slot machine. television, juke box. a couple community renovations. and social changes. we were the first to recycle and the first city to give major equality and we are not done yet. >> this city has been a place of pioneers. and what we brought here and how we been this world is how we build the housing. so in san francisco.

i can't think of a way to start this project then and there with 100% affordable housing. the building we are embarking on today will be very special. will be built for a population whom housing is riverly built crucial workers that make our city thrive. teachers, first responders, nurses and the people we want in san francisco to keep it moving i'm excited that is the way we are getting started the way we do it is unique i thank eric shaw who gave us idea. this is weird recycled bond thing a way to reuseo affordable housing bond fist you can figure it out that's how you can get started. we other first in california to do it and the first in san francisco to do it now we got another tool to build housing i'm so excited. thank you eric shaw.

[applause] society building we have today and start is named after former supervisor maxwell. she started her career as a union electtrician i can't think of a better way to honor the site. raise our hands to supervisor maxwell! [applause] >> i want to thank our other supervisor. walton. he is a constant communicator for his community and we are grateful for his leadership, advice and nudge to make us do better. and i will tell you he taught us one important thing. progress is in the measured by how tall our buildings are butt depth of our commitment to the community. thank you, supervisor.

appreciate your support. and to our mayor. she has been an advocate. if she would not have pushed in ways like today that no one's done we would not be here and a generation of inference france fremantles would not have homes thank you to the mayor and the city staff to keep the project moving we would not be here without and you madam mayor this , housing you are helping help is a commitment to makes san francisco affordable for sxefrn that is awesome. thank you. now as we break ground. and start think burglar transforming the power pleasant we are not just building housing we are generating a new energy that symbolizes hope. resilience and optimism the important commitment we can make in san francisco is to give everybody i place to call home. wore not done.

welcome to power station. thank you. thshg, thank you for your leadership that guided the community and our team to continue to build infrastructure to preserve the incredible historic relics this will be trans formed and occupiable and knit back to the fabric of our community. i'm tina tang and humbled to welcome you here and to welcome the champions that he mentioned on stage. to that end i like to bring mayor breed. our champion of housing and fighter for today's city. as a former plan exert i current resident, i know first hand how important your leadership is. it is to the efforts of your administration and you that we

have this project going and able to keep it going. so. everyone, join me in welcoming mayor breed. [applause]. >> good afternoon simple it afternoon? morning? well, supervisor walt only says the sun is always shine nothing bayview. thank you for being here. enrique thank you for setting the tone. are you trying to add yourself to the list of people running against me or something. that was a great. thank you for the optimism and the excitement! around not just the power pleasant butt excitement around our city! and the excitement of finally getting rid of the red tape to get housing built. for the people of san francisco. and let me tell you. i remember those battle. at the time i was not on the board of supervisors but sophie

maxwell when she ran for the board of supervisors one of the things she said was the main reasons why she ran had other everythingth everythings do do with closing the power pleasant that was polluting the community she was a part of and followed through on her commitment and med it happen. fact that we are here today to break ground on the first project 100% affordable that is named for her. it is irrelevant just the locality we can do to honor what she has done that will create a new community in an area that has not been open and available to the public for more than 150 years. you did this, supervisor maxwell. you made this happen we're honored for your presence and grateful for your leadership and advocacy and this project will be an extraordinary part of your legacy in san francisco. thank you very much.

[applause] what do we have here? when we are didn't this project. we will have 2600 units. 30%, alcohol be affordable. we will have a library. community space. so much. we are creating a now neighborhood in san francisco. as enrique said tried to count san francisco out. but they don't remember the history of san francisco. they don't know that we have been through very challenging times before and we have e merged strategier. places like the power plant. as well as dog patch and pier 70. those were not things that were locked at to be develop in the new neighborhood and look when we are making happen. this entire project was under project labor agreement. the fact that leadership on

enric competence tina came together they worked with labor and community and worked with the city. brought people together this is how we need to do projects in san francisco to get the job done. there is nothing bert than that. we may know funding is difficult. enter rates throughout roof am expense are through the roof am san francisco have 50,000 units approve and not able to move them forward the fact we have a creative financing too long to do this project one that will will be used for the next 43,000 units that could qualify, will help us get on our way in meeting our goals of the state

housing element to build over kwo,000 units in the next 8 years. we have to get out of the way. i'm grateful that the governor signed major housing legislation including redevelopment financing this we'll be able to use for replace am housing the promises redevelopment agency med they did not honor in terms of their commitments to make sure that there is replace am housing. the financing tools will help us improve our process, and our financing for getting the projects doneful getting people housed in the city of san francisco. i'm excited and grateful for the opportunity to lead those efforts. >> and the other thing that makes me proud. is the fact that we fought when i was on the board of supervisors the able to make

sure when we builted the projects, the people who live in the communities have right of first refusal. and 40% of the units this will be built here today. are going to people who live in and around this community. upon i know that was another reason why supervisor walton was excited and enthusiastic about this project and i appreciate his leadership and working with us hand in hand to deliver this for the folks of the city but especially of the dog patch neighborhood and hill and bayview this will be i game changer of a project. and again enrique, i appreciate your leadership in wing with lbe's here as well so many hire locals to work on the project. exit know how important it is to make sure this we have

partnerships and opportunity. this project checks so many box. and that's why we have many people here today. we are grateful to each and every one you have, it does take a village i want to take a moment to acknowledge and recognize all people that got us to this point. i thank supervisor and current pu c commissioner maxwell. i want to thank enrique and tina from associate capitol your leadership as a developer has been extraordinary and brought people together for this project. i want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership on this event. i want to appreciate many of the community organizations the potrero boost and dog patch neighborhood association for working with the city to make this happen. thanks to labor partners. we appreciate the building traiteds who was harassing me to

move the barrier so they can get the work and get jobs on the project. thank you to an taupia the office of workforce development. for your commitment and work on the big frequents and thank you to judson true our housing ecpel indicter what you need to do to dig and make changes that does not sound cool it is hard work and requires us to work together with a number november partners. thank you to dins herrera when he was our city attorney who worked with supervisor maxwell to shut the power plant counsel of i'm so excited and grateful to be here thank you all, least break this ground and get folks housed!

give it up for our mayor. your enthusiastic is grit. i like to welcome our champion of d 10. our constant fighter for d 10 who reminds us what important including building community and developing community, which is why we are here today. without further adue, supervisor walton. [applause]. >> good morning! good morning! first question is, who said you cannot build house nothing san francisco? you know we have been work very hard with community >> dog patch. potrero, labor, developer. all of you who work with the city and w with our lbe and work

in the development field and construction field to make sure that we have projects like this. this is one of those projects where like the mayor said every box was checked. it went through planning. every commission and every committee unanimously. and that is because it is public to have responsible development when you have people near committed to the work. it did not guilty start that way. i remember when i first met with enrique and i had got elected but we had done w to make sure that all the projects on the southeastern water front would be possible. when i met him i tooktd mayor with me and did that for a couple reasons. one i wanted him to know we meant business and this you were going to listen to the community if you were going to build here. 2, i wanted him to know this we had leaders in the city nacare

and concerned even when they may not be part of the civic doubt to do so and after that meeting, and enric embegone to talk to the community about what the plans were at the power station. when we wanted see. what was going to be developed would he listen to communities. made a lot of changes on design. a lot of changes on the height of buildings and when we would see that's because he listened to community i say thank you to enrique being responsible develop they're listens to community. and then as we continue to push affordable housing and that percentage of higher through conversations and the commitment to community, we thought about now we have the building that will be built. and who are we going to name this building after? tell be a building represents the w force in san francisco.

and here in the community and i building represents dog patch. and building live here in san francisco still have the opportunity and then building -- so immediately enrique supervisor maxwell excited that we get to see flours while you are with us. thank you for your leadership and when you demonstrated to make it possible for people like me to serve in this role. the reality is -- we are at a time where we need more housing here in san francisco. we'll be at the forever front of

building house nothing d 10 and continue to not just talk about the opportunity but we will continue to make them a reality. we worked hard, there were ideas on how to get it financed this is the first but not the last way. and i want to thank the director shaw and enrique and the major's office and my colleagues for understanding and supporting and honor president of the board of supervisors supervisor peskin, thank you for being here. which also demonstrates how important this housing and this project is to our city. with that said i want to just again the mayor thanked everybody. and -- but i do want to thank the dog pitcher and potrero for commitment and labor and thank all of the lbe and folks wing on projects and the workforce who is going to be from the community and also a nonprofit

developers who will have opportunity to build here as limp we come i language way and have a long way to go we will build in d 10 where the sun is always shining. thank you. thank you. supervisor. and left but not least i want to welcome champion of the community fighter for environmental justice, ms. sophie maxwell. you inspire said us in many ways thank you for making today possible. >> who you, who does have thought. who would have ever imagined. i want to thank the people before and i want to thank the mayor and enric and he his team. thank you. this is important.

and it is in the the i'm representing all the people who have been here and who were here. i want you to imagine a crowd of people behind me. i want you to imagine city departments. on the side of me and joe and harris and john decats i don't and linda i want you to imagine the people. some on the side and some in the front leading the charge. this is corrective leadership a collective vision . that we saw something this nobody could see except our city's. they gotta generate power in the city. well, we had another vision. we had another way of doing, no the state will never allow this.

closing 2 power pleasants these were some of the among the oldest power pleasant in california. the most polluting power plant in california. the people in the crowd behind me were mother and fathers the pick their children up early. buzz they had asthma mothers like me who child died and i always blame it on the power plants and these were the people we had no chase to have a vision and determination. that's when we had. and with that. anything can be done. i just was reminiscing with my colleague and my heartthrob aaron peckin the city attorneys dragged us to the puc to testify. we were thinking what in the world but it worked, obviously. but there we were and many

people went to the preponderance iso. and sacramento we were on a mission. we went through 3 mayors did in the matter who was mir and not mir we were here the potrero boosters. ledge was here. sage was here. dog patch association we were all still here. that's what made the difference. you see here this is so appropriate to be affordable housing who will live in our city. is it the food and are we going to be diverse in population. it is that diverse population. are we just going to important middle class or going to build and credit middle class. that is when cities do. that's what cities do. and i want to thank our mayor. i want to thank for a number of

reasons i will say have introduced my grandson. i call him now a grownup machine i kent do this my grand son and his family. when they got red to have a family they moved to oak land. last week i got a call and saturday. grand mother are you in the city because we are over here. on [inaudible] we are in the program this the mayor's office of housing has. and they help you with down payment assistance. and i said, i was not. i am so happy and you don't know because that's what it is b. that's when all in about generations of people who care and love and live in our city. so -- this is just the begin and iing want to thank you here. i want to thank the major's office and everybody else and their mother who is having a part of this this is important. and this is when we do. we are again, showing what we do, when you put your minds to

it with a collective energy and a collective vision. again other thank you all. thank you, aaron, i love you. >> >> supervisor maxwell we are not done with you yet. yes , i would love for to you come becomure today's star we are honoring you today. -- we want to have you hand print your hand in wet concrow hollywood san francisco style. so we can hang this in the lobby of our building so all residents everyone who walked throughout halls know the story. [music]

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