>> we're ready to begin. >> okay. >> good morning and welcome to the november 30, 2023 special meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. today's meet ising live cast on sf gov. tv and live stream online. clerk, can you please explain how today's remote public comment will be handled. >> clerk: sure, public comment will be available on each item. each member of the public will be allowed 3 minutes to speak.

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respectfully please address the questions to the commission as a whole and not. those who participate in shouting may be excluded from participation. >> i now call the meeting to order. roll cal. >> clerk: please finlive. >> here. >> chair lee. >> present. >> commissioner swashe excused absence. and commissioner sai. >> and today is the first meeting for newest commissioner. would you like to introduce yourself. >> sure, thank you. >> i'm david sai. i have been a resident of san francisco for over 20 years. i'm a live litigater i practice

intellectual property. thank you. >> let's go to agenda item number 2. >> chair, i can see if there are callers on the queue. >> it looks like we have no callers. >> let's go to agenda item number 3 which is proposed close session item. this item is closed session, [inaudible] this item has been scheduled for the commission discussion and possible action. i will now proceed to public comment on item 3. including whether or not to hold a public close session. >> madam chair, we're checking to see if there are callers on

the queue. again no callers. >> okay. let us proceed. b1 administration code section 67.10b to discuss public employee appointment hiring of executive director. do i hear a motion to that affect? do i hear a motion? >> close session. >> second. >> okay. >> second. >> motion has been made and second to proceed in close session. let's take a roll call. >> clerk: the motion has been made and seconded.

i'll now call roll. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> chair lee. >> yes. >> commissioner sia, the vote is approved unanimously. >> thank you, and we will now go to closed session. [commissioners in closed session]

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roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose the close session deliberations i'll now call the roll. >> commissioner finlev. >> aye. >> commissioner flores. >> aye. >> chair lee. >> aye. >> commissioner tsai. >> he's excused.

>> okay 3 votes in the affirmative, the motion is a approved unanimously. >> okay, agenda item number 4, additional opportunities for general public comment. >> clerk: madam chair, we're checking to see if there are callers on the queue. can looks like we have no callers. sorry, it looks like we have no callers. >> okay, public comment is now closed. now agenda item number 5 which is adjournment. thank you for every one's participation and have a terrific weekend and this

>> still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place? >> trees are widely planted in san francisco. with good reason. they are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. we have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in san francisco. we have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. this is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. you can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. you can see the two branches attached to one another at a

really sharp angle. in between you can't it is a lot of strong wood. they are attached so sharply together. this is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. this is what it looks like after the fi c.u. resolution s limb l. >> we see decline. you can see the patches where there aren't any leaves at all. that is a sign the tree is in decline. the other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. we don't want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. >> in a city like san francisco

our walks are not that wide. we have had to clear the branches away from the properties. most of the canopy is on the street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. that can be a factor in tree limb failures. a lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. why did we plant them in the first place? they provided the city with benefits for decades. they are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight climate change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. >> when we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. i got into this job because i love trees.

it just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. i have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. we have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. that is something we can't live with either. it is a challenging situation. we hate to lose mature trees, but public safety has to always >> first it's always the hardest and when they look back they really won't see you, but it's the path that you're paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. (♪♪♪) hi, my name is jajaida durden and i'm the acting

superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. and i'm over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. and some tree inspectors as well. i have been with the city and county of san francisco for 17 years. and i was a cement mason, that was my first job. when i got here i thought that it was too easy. so i said one day i'll be a supervisor. and when i run this place it will be ran different. and i didn't think that it would happen as fast as it did, but it did. and i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. and six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. >> with all of those responsibilities and the staff you're also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. and she's able -- she's displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these

different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the deputy director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. >> she's a natural leader. i mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. and the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, she's right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. >> my inspiration is when i was a young adult was to become a fire woman. well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. when i was in jail they had a little program called suppers program and i -- supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. i thought that the fire department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. so i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. while i was in jail.

and the program that i was in, they re-trained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. and cement mason didn't require a high school diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. when i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area and i went there. my first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. i was an apprentice pouring concrete. and my first job was mount zion emergency hospital which is now ucsf. and every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. yeah, i did. i graduated as an apprentice and

worked on a retrofit for city hall. i loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. my first formen job was a 40 story building from the ground up. and it's a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. i'm used to it though, it's a challenge for me. >> as a female you're working with a lot of guys. so when they see a woman, first they don't think that the woman is in charge and to know that she's a person that is in charge with operations, i think that it's great, because it's different. it's not something -- i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. >> i was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman.

when i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. in the middle, they'd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she don't belong. oh, it was terrible. it was terrible. i didn't have any support from the shop. the ones who said they supported me, they didn't, they talked about me behind my back. sometimes i had some crying, a lot of crying behind doors, not in public. but i had a lot of mentors. my mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. what am i going to do? hang in there. it was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. but what they didn't understand is that because they didn't help me i had to learn it. and then probably about a year later, that's when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor

and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. it was scary. but the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. i knew that it was going to come, but i didn't know how long it would take. it was coming. in the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, that's my highlight. i can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. and i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. i'll talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me.

and they knock on my door and ask how i move up and how i get training. i'm always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d.p.w. and i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. although we don't like hearing it at the time that we're going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a person

>> san francisco is a positive impact on my chinese business. >> i'm the founder of joe-joe. i'm a san francisco based chinese artist. i grew up in the bayview district. i am from china i started at an early age i started at age of 10 my grandfather my biggest inspiration. and i have followed with my traditional art teacher in china:i host educational workshops at the museum and local library. and i also provide chinese writing in public middle school and that way i hold more people fall in love with the beautiful

of our chinese calligraphy. it is a part of our heritage. and so we need to keep this culture alive. hand writing is necessary field that needs to be preserved generation toieneration. this art form is fading away. but since covid i have been very dedicated to this art and i hope that my passions and serving this art form. there are many stores and shopping centers and companies that are interested in chinese cal iing ravi. i feel motivated to my passion for chinese calligraphy in today's world. so people can always enjoy the

beauty of chinese calligraphy, from time to time i have a choice to traditional chinese calligraphy to make it more interesting. we do calligraphy on paper. i can do calligraphy different low. >> my inspiration is from nature and provide calligraphy that was popular style of persons time. i will invite to you check out my website or instagram. and there is some events and updated upcoming events that you can participate.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e

community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting.

>> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ] know san francisco invest nothing resource sos care for people with substance use crisis on the streets. includes new program and successful pilots.

>> what is the location of the emergency. a san francisco 911 dispatcher. jot train that this dispatchers receive for street crisis team and our new program is to triage calls for mental health as a medical call. we don't tree it as a police matter more a medical matter enthusiasm clint iings, paramedics emt's and councilors are dispatched through 911. we dispatch teams trined identify the crisis. they sends an emt and medic. if you are upon experiencing an emergencior worry body machine's safety on the street call 911 >> nonemergencies use 311. you can learn more about the street

>> item 50 is resolution calling on department of public health to provide medically necessary transition related care for transgender related people and remove restrictions. >> in 2012 gender health sf was born out of advocacy from community stakeholders and local leaders. really as response to providing quality, accessible jnder aaffirming care for the most

under-served. (indiscernible) the way i see it, there is two ways of folks we serve at our program. the first wave of folks who never imagined surgery access was accessible to them. many folks who had to save money or par ticipate in underground economy to access the surgery outside the country. (indiscernible) really to make something real in terms of being able to connect with the gender identity and external (indiscernible) and so transform so many lives of many of trans folks who never imagined it was accessible to them. now we are in the different era and time where transrights is in the social political and general (indiscernible) and now we are serving young folks to support them and making sure their gender identity is connected to who they are, so providing

a space to support transfolks to live authentically and that is the goal to provide the level of care trans folks deserve. >> when it comes to access to healthcare, while we all believe in cost control and make sure we deliver healthcare in a cost effective manner, i dont think that cost is a reason or legitinate rational to exclude people from healthcare (indiscernible) colleagues i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor wiener. colleagues on this item can we do this without role call? same house same call, without objection the resolution is adopted. [applause]

>> good morning, every one. and we're so happy to see all of you. so alan and i will be coemcees today, come over here, alan. alan has been providing self-help all of our pro-bono attorney services for all of our rear. --real estate. sometimes we have more difficult document that's we need a lawyer to look over. of course our co-chair is also an attorney but alan is wonderful. he was our honoree and recipient for the elderly award as well as assemblyman, so we're honored to have, both of them, mayor and supervisor chan. so i want to start by saying hello, we're so happy to see all of you here.

and all of you really are, part of the self-help family. you've been supporting us just like alan for a long long time. so later we'll go through the program, but today we're here because we're standing in front of the our home our suit residential care facility for the frail elderly so. it's a dream come true. and mayor, wise person long ago told me, if you have a dream, share it with others. and really, that dream will come true. i said that many times. so when we open our first rcfe when you were director of the african-american culture, in the western addition, you helped me get the permit to build our first 15-bed for alzheimer seniors. at dress is 655 grove street. if you have not gone by, we welcome you to come.

so for the past 20 plus years, we open in year 2000. i think we have served so many low income and moderate income families with loved ones who they want to keep in san francisco. we call them assisted living, they are fast diminishing in san francisco. when we first started, mayor, you might remember, we have probably over 1,000 maybe such small size rcfe homes, but now i just went to the licensing and look a look, we only have 15 facilities and only 37 are six-bed to 15-bed, the rest are all over 100 bed and charge between $8,000 and $12,000 a month. at self-help, we charge $4,000, maybe $5,000 and some seniors who have been living with us over ten years, are paying a little bit over $2500.

so it's through your help, through your funding to funny and through the advocacy of fast, and department of health and mayor office of housing and community development. nonprofit can do this by providing affordable rcfe for our community and for our frail elderly. but we need the city and state and probably even federal money. so we're here spending, to realize our dream, this is phase one, the first step but very soon, we'll invite all of you back when our elderly start to move in to live here. so we're very very happy, it was kind of windy, a little bit cold but really thank you. [applause] so i know that, mayor will speak, assemblyman phil will

speak and councilmember chan will speak. i know carmen has to be on the grand jury so she just came to say hello, oh right there, sorry. i ask her to join us up here but she didn't want to but carmen, she has to go to grand jury. but carmen, i want to tell you that when we feel that the process was a little bit stuck. i remember i came to you and i asked you for help to kind of teach us how to move this process along. so you were there, you're always behind the scene and we thank you. i know it's a very very complicated funding process. the beyond is a little bit different from the usual beyond and they are just a lot of pieces involved. so along the same time, brian, i want to thank you and your team. you're doing the last, during the last last two months after we were selected there was a

lot of paperwork to be done. and we could not have done it without your staff to complete the close of escrow. please thank, eric and thank you very much, brian. so now is turnover to alan to introduce our next speaker. >> thank you, annie. you know, hate is easy, and we've been hearing a lot about hate. change takes courage and change takes leadership. to reenvision this abandoned restaurant space took change and it took leadership. and i'm very grateful that mayor london breed had the courage to stand up and make this investment and say let's make it happen so. let this be to all the haters, this is what change looks like and this is what we can do. it's my privilege to introduce the mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. [applause]

>> mayor london breed: well you are right that change is hard, but when you have the state, the local government and the community working together, there isn't anything that we can't do. this project is a real example of that. not only did the city step up working with the api council, i see kelly wong here today and others who helped, with the advocacy to ensure that resource right side provided to our api community for facilities like this. but we also had so many of our city workforce and i know carmen chu lead this process to ensure that we were able to get it done, doing business in the city is hard. and to make sure that we're able to get all of different layers of paperwork done is so important. so i want to appreciate brian and carmen and others that

worked on the technical support to get us on the point. i want to thank bill for providing additional much needed state resources over 2 million to help with this project as well. and thank you for alan lowe for not only emcee but providing pro-bono legal services which is also very expensive these days. so it took this whole village of local and community and supervisor chan, we know on the board of supervisors allocating through the budget resources, every one had a role to play despite our differences, despite the challenges of the city, we came together for a bigger purpose and that is to support our community, to support our seniors and the people that we know who need these assistant live-in facilities the most so. annie mentioned how we worked together many many years ago,

and annie, it's funny, i forgot about that. it was when they were they want today have this facility not only did we go through a community process, we worked to make that happen. annie didn't know then what they knows now how sensitive i am about my grandmother and taking care of seniors in san francisco. and making sure that we protect and support places like laguna honda and other assisted living facilities. but what happens when we don't have enough beds? what happens when our most vulnerable communities need a place to be not only supported but cared for? and that's why this project is so important. this is about the future and providing the level of care and assisted live in necessary to take care of our seniors in this community. i also want to express my appreciation for self-help for the elderly for the senior

escort program that they started during a global pandemic to ensure that our seniors can get to their location safely. and another facility, phil chang and others provide the resources and make sure that our offices worked closely. our kids are over there and our seniors are over here, we have this great community that in the middle of everything, and the purchase of this restaurant to care for our seniors but how we provide different layers of services for the community as a whole. so thank you all for being here here. this is exciting times, it's a great project and i for one am looking forward to the first day when the first resident moves in and cared for in this facility because of annie's vision and all of us here today, playing a small part in make iting happen. thank you all so much. [applause]

>> thank you, mayor. let's give one more hand to the mayor. [applause] next up, i would like to first announce because it's almost big game season, go gears assembly member phil. there is no one more person that has done for the asian community than assembly member. no words can express how grateful we are for what you've done to china town and. thank you. it's my pleasure to bring up to the stage assembly member, phil, alumni of the goenld bears. [applause] >> yes, and big game week, go bears. i'm looking at briansinger i think he'll be there probably with his family on the other side.

but, i think our mayor said it really best, in that this project standing behind us does not happen if not for annie's leadership, the self-help board, alan your help. it does not happen without the mayor's leadership, the supervisors leadership, making sure that working together as a city that we can do this together. it does not happen without the state, and it demonstrates, annie, your extraordinary ability to make something out of nothing. this has been an empty restaurant for quite a while. i walk up and down this street quite a bit and i'm sure for a long time you've been waiting to figure out how to make this project an amazing project for our community. and why this is so important. and annie, so incredibly modest all the work that she puts to

each and every single one of our care facilities. all the work that her organization does to make seniors independent to make sure that they have an incredible life and this is on the health of my mind, my mother is aging and i spend a lot of time talk to go my son how we're going to support my mom making sure that we have enough family structure and assistance. and for those families that don't have children or families that don't to help the seniors, we're grateful for annie. and to underscore what the stakes r the fastest growing population of people who are becoming homeless are seniors over 50. it's not who we think they are. it's not the people bho have mental health issues, the people who have sub anza beauce problems. they get depressed they're the

one that perhaps when we walk and see them, they may be top of mind. but in terms of numbers, it's seniors and it's got to be the scariest thing that as you age, that you're not allowed the ability to age gracefully and you cannot age in your own home. you are one financial incident, whether it's your car, whether it's going in for basic healthcare procedure from being on the street and that's why this facility is so critical, because it's right at the heart of that need. it's for seniors and it's for low income seniors and that's why we're all here. we know how important this is. this is exactly the kind of housing that has to be built if we're going to make any dent in our homeless situation. that's why we're all here, we know we have to do something together. sxl annie, your incredible leadership, your guidance has

really allowed, frankly, mia loud myself, the mayor, supervisor, the entire city department to be here to support all of your efforts. and i know when you have the next brilliant idea, we're going to be there as well. thank you so much, it's an honor to be here today and congratulations. >> thank you, phil. the supervisor has a special place in my heart from the recreation and park department. but i want to recall a conversation i had with supervisor chan may of last year. she said, i have this idea, i'm going to recreate a fund for nonprofit to see buy real estate. there is not much money in it so you're going to do it for free. i said what. she said it's going to be great, you're going to enjoy

it, and i said okay. so i convinced my partners and look what happened. she had the advocacy and leadership. i'm glad that we have a advocate for the asian community, supervisor connie chan. >> thank you, well for some of you who may not know, but last week, just last week, time out magazine announced that richmond is one of the coolest neighborhoods in the world! [applause] and i was interviewed by reporters and asking me like why do i think? why is it that richmond became the best neighborhood? and i joke, because it's bonkchoi, and goenld gate park but at the end of the day is the people. the people that make richmond

the coolest neighborhood in the world, it's you! [applause] and with that, it's really--i just want to thank annie and her leadership and all the help from the other board directors and staff. can we give them an applause. [applause] we're here for because of their good work and we get credit for their good work. but of course, i just want to say, when i say the people, is because leadership like assemblyman phil, and mayor breed that they put together and make sure that they recognize the investment in our community, block by community, starting from community youth center and now self-help for the elderly. assembly member, phil, saw it and taught me. and also thanks to mayor breed, and the commitment seen that even when there is a deficit, we prioritize our community.

we say that we will invest in our community. thanks to their leadership, to you every one in the community that we can celebrate this mild stone together. so i thank you all of you and you should be very proud for all the things that we have accomplished together and so i'm grateful to be a representative of you and so proud of the richmond. and i think for all of these investments and most importantly love and care, we will see block by block, this block and the many blocks, that direction and that direction in the richmond, we'll see that we will thrive and so thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor chan. you know, another story about this deal is when carlos serrano kwan who is here from sequoia commercial, came up to me and said that 933 clemence

street should be for self-help for the elderly. and i said who wants to buy that piece of property? but it took the entire self-help team to envision. and i guarantee, we're coming back for a ribbon cut anding we're going to see a new senior center for our most vulnerable san franciscans and we're going to see the employees, the senior citizens, make deposits at cafe chang. we're going to be buying coffee and old fashion donuts and going to ymy to buy number 45 spice chicken. it's going to have that affect. supervisor chan, bringing cool to clement street beyond 10th avenue and you're right we're going to do it building by building, block by block. this is how we build community, this is how we build back our

one city. and here to talk about the vision for this facility is the board chair, nick jay who accidentally called me uncle. so maybe it's time for me to en roll in self-help. [laughter] all right, nick jay, every one. >> thank you all for coming and thank you mayor breed and councilman and supervisor chan. this is new assisted living for the frail, and frankly our most vulnerable seniors. this is self-help second care facility after 22 years, we open autumn glow as annie mentioned. this is for the community and the families of the seniors.

one of the way that's i got involved for self-help, my family was looking for a place to bring my grandmother who was suffering from alzheimer and needed care. i know the stress that it put not only the senior but the family. and the fact that we're going to open this now is incredible and it should help every one. our board is keenly aware that it's difficult to have somebody live in a place like this, where it's usually between $8 to $12,000 a month to live. but thanks to the self-help and mayor's office and supervisors and dos and all the other organizations that are part of this as well as the donors and supporters. we're able to keep the rates at 40 or 50% of what would otherwise be on the open market.

again, i would also like to commend the self-help staff and also our board as well. maggie is here as well. another one of our board members and pat mar, long time board member as well. so again, this is a great day and i want to say, annie just like every one else is, you're amazing, and the ways you're able to get this done is just incredible. so thank you all very much. >> thank you very much, nicholas, alan, mayor, phil, connie. so we have a very exciting ribbon cutting part. but before we do that, i would like to really thank a list of people that have helped with this project. first i want to introduce our sellers, we have sellers mr.

willie tau and denny are both here. and they are so good. they are very easy to work with. i want to thank you both denny and whenever we meet, we brought lots and lots of sea food because denny runs a sea food business. when brian said that annie, every project need to have 15% incline and monetary incline contribution to match the city funds. so i went straight to the source and asked our two sellers, may i have 550,000 donation from you. that's right, mayor, you taught us to ask and ask bravely. without the blink of an eye, the two gentleman said yes, we will do it.

[applause] i remember willie and denny, willie said annie you can count on me for the future donations. so please help me thank our sellers. willie and denny. also our architect that did the rendering for brian's rfp is here with us and steve zenseki. you should run the and, we love the asian neighborhood design which is a community architecture firm that helped us design a lot of sros, he's architect for expansion project and because of steven, we managed to almost close the project construction and planning for opening in january or february of next year.

so thank you, steven. [applause]. so mayor is right, it took a whole village to put this project together. not only do we construction money but renovation. but mayor, in order for us to charge $4,000 versus $10,000 we need the city to step in for operating subsidy while we're applying for the license, which might take. so last comes n please help me thank kelly, our executive director of the department of disabilities and aging along cindy. our go-to person, tiffany and paulo, we run two sites. actually two blocks from here, at the venus restaurant is a innovative program run by dos, every senior love there. and if you have time and over

60, you can stop by and enjoy a meal over there at a few dollars instead of the restaurant prize. so we run that and then we go to dos for staff, along with joe mellacre who is a expert in communications. joe is over there besinger every time we need joe for the elder abuse awareness day and whatever we do, joe is supportive and caring and cindy, we cannot find a funder who is as good and as supportive as you. thank you. and then we want to thank carlos our broker. and you know, we're nonprofit, we don't have boundaries for time. not to copy or week nights, we just call them whenever we need them. carlos, you have to open the door because we're doing the

phase 1, report. right. wayne, you've got to come right now, because we need somebody to go in to inspect the property in order for us to submit the application and they really are good brokers. whatever we need, carlos is there and carlos also serve on the city planning commission. so we have a lot of expertise between the two of them. so thank you, carlos. and alan talked about the background through api council, our executive director quell' wong and david ho, so thank you so much for doing this. and beyond the three projects that were picked for round one, mayor and eric and brian, will fund another group of cbos so they get the headquarters and program space as well. [applause] connie mentioned our work with

supervisor chan and angelina and robin are here. so we jenny our senior is helping us represent. come over jenny, almost every month robin and angelina, angelina is somewhere. i'm sorry, robin is over there. anne, is over there. keep that, i don't know if we can give one to our bodyguard, get one too. you protected our mayor which is very very important. now our seniors make these leis so they are very special. so jenny, come over and robin has one and angelina. sol we doing a safety workshop with connie and jackie chan site and almost here, every month, connie will bring a

special speaker like fire prevention. so thank you, connie. also, connie introduced us to captain, captain, caning. mayor, captain was to special. i need thised space and manson called captain and he said done, i'll personally go out to make sure you have the space. thank you captain. and also our seniors feel much more comfortable coming to you to your offices to report the crimes because now they treat you as a friend. thank you, yeah. so we mentioned that eric supported this project and also all the affordable housing. and i have to mention, a few past former supervisor, under the president norman ye, he started the investigation work

on the lack of affordable rcf for san francisco. and thanks to kelly and other city department, they did a really comprehensive report, stating that the city and the state and the government really have to step in to protect the diminishing of these homes. so thank you for doing that, norman ye. i invited him, i invited cindy and gordon mark, gordon, i forgot to mention besides the acquisition and the renovation, the third part is the subsidy. so gordon work with us to provide us a hefty subsidy for the two years while we're applying so. it takes a lot of these pieces. so again, i want to thank our officials for caring about our seniors and keeping them right here in the city. so i know that, i could thank all of you, you know, thank

every one our seniors here. we ask lens to bring seniors who are more english speaking so we don't need to do the translation and lens is really good and these are the group of seniors who always attend phil's meeting, connie's town hall meetings and mayor's budget meetings and. so we've gotten ivy and a lot of our seniors pretty well trained to express their own needs to you directly instead through a middle person. thank you every one for attending this. we're now going to line up our speakers and our supporters to do a ribbon cutting. five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] welcome,

creative and dell library future the union square the opening of millard lux. >> yeah. >> (clapping.) my aim my name is phil ginsburg and have over 200 parts parks in san francisco and this would think is beautiful amazing union square might be you are most historic our most celebrated in the world it is perfect that we have one of the most