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three, 2, 1. >> all right. good morning. >> my name is nateesha the development at bridge housing and this is an exciting day for you and i'm thrilled to see you it together with us it's been a long journey to get to this milestone with one hundred and 37 units and took collaboration and happy to see supervisor
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stefani and remember three years ago that supervisor myself, mayor london breed and brenda who is the former ceo of mission health clinic were all here in the mix of pandemic for the ground breaking celebration and to see the building and see our vision become a reality is really safely and want to kicking off things with inviting our before chair we have another one of the board members to celebrate this kim please come up to the podium. >> thank you welcome, everyone.
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>> smith has said i'm kim novack the chair and unfortunately, our members can't be here something before catastrophic surgery but thank you for joining us to celebrate the opening of this truly special community been at that a long time. and as you heard this place is one of the first major housing developments in nearly a quarter of a sin try this will make the life-changing difference for one hundred and 37 families including 35 names who are moving from that's my report terrace to apartments and that includes a new expanded location for mission health
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center and low cost medical behavorial health and detrimental and this facility underscores the commitment to serve not just bridge residents but our neighbors in the broader community we're thrilled to be part of this and couldn't have succeeded without the so forth support of partners and should know when you start to thank partners you will leave someone out so i apologize. this property was previously cited are family owned funnel homes and bridge was excited to learn the property was available more affordable housing in a community that greeley needs it and supervisor stefani and the mayor's office helped to arrange the funding and fortunately, this project qualified under b
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three 5 state law that expected the entitlement sea still we broke ground in the middle of pandemic 2021 and my gorgeously this is fwours those things take a it takes time and development was for the as expedited as we would search warrant hoped and many projects connected to the power grid for a variety of step back reasons this project at the time of electricity grid several blocks i say i see someone nodding had expense to the construction and grateful to the city for helping to provide additional funds for that was necessary to make that available and like to express our gratitude to the mayor and supervisor stefani and the mayor's office of housing and
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community development and the housing authority of the city and county of san francisco and also like to thank the bank of america, tax credit allocation committee and on the debt committee and also like to add that the construction team of b m w and the brothers and the many other consultants who worked on the project and finally, i'd like to again thank the bridge team for their extraordinary work on these complex projects we applaud you're unwavering commitment to tackle the housing needs for 40 years bridge has shared this commitment and look forward to continued teamwork with building health communities and improving that people's lives with that, i'm delighted to invite to the podium saving yes.
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>> good among this is a joyous joyous i'm saving yes and appreciate you for me this is a coming full circle i saturday in the city 24 years under willie brown and a lot of people don't realize that that housing was built most of that right after world war ii and balance as temporary housing not permanent but yet 75 almost one hundred years later those buildings still stand some of the apartments with the housing
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authority don't have showers when we start work in a sunnyvale and worked with governor gavin newsom the idea how to reimagine affordable housing in the city. here we go fast forward actuary years ago later on the site this is a free clinic and free detrimental care moving residents into the annex will be rebuilt and reimagined i've seen it as a supervisor one of the things i wanted to make sure that residents of this neighborhood would have a priority to house in those apartments as well. and so we expanded the ban for those technical in terms of finding affordable housing working with the mayor's office of housing
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and community development to expand for more working families because originally this design would have 20 luxury townhomes on the back of lights probably where we're standing when i came into the office that's not the vision of this neighborhood. they need more housing for working people. because janitors and teachers and nurses working to survive and thrive in the city should no longer live in this neighborhood a home use to sell for maybe $200,000 is selling for $2 million in this neighborhood that is out of reach for every people so this project and at the nibbi brothers for your amazing work and homeowners i think that nibbi brothers starred in the excelsior let's give a big a round of applause for the contractors and many i have so
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many people to thank we might have 7 or 8 project managers we made to the finish line thank you for your tenacity and many, many community meetings there was a lot of community outreach and a lot of engagement and input and this is what we have the results of a beautify community space and childcare space a clinic on the ground floor so bridge housing didn't walk away. but one part of story i think that is really important. and this is our treasurer fiance we were at the end of this project and for those who know affordable housing knows that like a cake layers of financing well, that final layer is the tax credit and she had the soul discretion
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and authority to transfer the tax credits we would have eventually gotten that but the timeline was accelerated i know show she couldn't be here today but thank you, fiona moss made this project happen so let's give a round of applause for fiona as well. >> so many community-based organizations were actually engaged i'm not going to name them all they wanted this site in fill housing this is a parking lot on the north side and west side and everything else was 200 be car parking lot we were able to turn concrete
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into a beautiful affordable housing mixed affordable housing building so originally was about 90 units we got over one hundred and thirty unit that additional thirty were for the working and housing stock residents living in substandard conditions let's be honest potrero but those families will be moving into brand new wonderful apartments. so i know a lot of people say that because bye one of my proudest days i've been in office for 8 years this project means so much we have studio finish is our free clinic we'll get there in the next - no, no. not because of anything other than the electricity some of the other things that slow down the funding even if i don't see this
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before i leave office will come in the next few months an integral integral part and the - is a wonderful development so thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development and staying with us and the nibbi brothers and the mission health center and bridge housing for doing a tremendous job to help to reimagine this spot in the neighborhood the first part of san francisco to have affordable housing and apartments built haven't been built if 60 or 70 we've done 6 hundred plus units thank you, everyone, and have a wonderful day (clapping.) shall i bring up the next person that the next person is coming up is - do we oh, speaking on
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behalf of the housing stock area president of housing commission coming up next joaquin torres. >> (clapping) >> thank you so much for and good morning and the assessor recorder but serve as a housing stock and represents as supervisor saving i can't said what happens with the progressive values we hold dear our resources together to invest as the supervisor said in the layers. and on behalf of the housing stock and ceo for the leadership making sure that 35 of those onsite to be subsidized to be sure that layer of financing is matters to the
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health of the community and also represents the best of government we can layer financing, supportive services and the cooperation to make sure that families who have been living in sub steward conditions realize a holistic place to live their supported and at the from the mayor emanuel for making that happen and leading the strategy there mayor london breed direction to make sure we can realize the vision to support diversity of the city and county of san francisco and as as neighborhood like the excelsior too many by names but as former residents of excelsior on i can tell you what an extraordinary beacon of hope for the neighborhood to realize their homes are invested in and the streets are being invested in and a community of family
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members care about their future i hope the residents feel and and you see that and all of us remember how important to invest the time and energy and our hearts and souls to make sure we do who is bet best for the residents of san francisco first at the to the housing stock and those who that make that possible too many by name but congratulations to all you have who played a huge part and bridge and all partners that made that possible thank you. >> (clapping.) >> next up kera from bank of america. >> good morning all i'm keri a market exit for san francisco in
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the eastbound and my pleasure to represent bank of america provide financing and executrix and equity investment for this impactful community and this is the culmination of a decades vision of itch needed affordable housing for district 11 a huge win noble for the residents who call this place home but the excelsior will have improved access to healthcare with the mission neighborhood clinic on the ground floor. we want to thank bridge for over the 20 years relationship for the opportunity for the financing by this place over the past 10 years we have clofbd with bridge on the rehab construction of over 12 hundred housing units 90 in san francisco and look forward to doing more and
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finally strong partnerships with developers like bridge and partnership like mpdu and the hoefrtd with the ongoing support of creation of this sustainable and service rich affordable housing possible. finally thank you, again, for the commitment to our city and hard work congratulations to all and robert is next? >> (clapping) >> hi over first of all, congratulations to the bridge housing. team and to the city of san francisco. you provided leadership and commitment to affordable housing and to the excelsior community. this is a
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tremendous success in our neighborhood. i'm anderson with jones now j l l capital market we provided the permit wells to freddie manny, moe, and jack affordable housing group and they have a long established relationship with freddie mac and who understood the financing needs and worked with us to deliver a long-term mortgage this is a 17 year mortgage and where j l practice is a core business of our firm we have stand with bridge housing and it's partners on the long terms success of this place. your community investment is transformal. and congratulations and at this time i have the
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pleasure of introducing anna cco of mission neighborhood health center. (clapping). >> hello, good afternoon everybody um, gm. >> um, mission neighborhood health center was established in the 1960 as part affordable housing of a nationwide movement focusing think healthcare to the community and we are aligned with over 15 hundred community health centers across the country and in 2023 community health center provided healthcare services to over 32 million people across the united states. as one in 10 people in the united states. mission health center itself has provided care to over 15
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thousand patients in the community in fee. the majority of our patients are community members in the mission and excelsior neighborhood most of patients are pubically assured with medi-cal and medicare we take private as a community health center we serve everything that enters you are doors regardless of their ability to pay. through this clinic we hope to expand tour services to other 6 thousand community residents at least per year in the years to come and we will build on the communities health model to extend detrimental and behavorial health and general pc for children and adults and pregnant people who are residents of this place and the broader excelsior community. and we look forward to looking for our pardons and organizations our neighbors and
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businesses and community. mission health centers for the advocacy of communities and for health and justice and everyone here today for their support in moving this project forward and as you can see on the outside on the corner were in the process of the building up the clinic and hope to open in the spring of 2025. we thank the city leaders to serve the circumstance and we thank you for prioritizing m and detrimental we know an investment this is critical for the health of the community and future with that, i'm honored to introduce ra california a member resident here i hope someday will trust us to be her procedure of choice.
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>> good morning, everyone. >> i'm a little bit short i'm here honored to share any shire story with you grew up in lake view that is affordable housing with my grandparents here in san francisco i'm a san francisco native and some girls dream of marriage. and a white picked finances he dreamed of being independent air force a teenage mom i found a clear in civil services where among i helped housing. after nearly 12 years i moved back to california and started a successful business in
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construction electrical and jailer services with a retail brand until a covid and the pandemic hit my business took a tremendous loss. and i took the brunt of lose and found myself displaced and that's when i found my way to this place. many parts of people like andrea from the mayor's office of housing and community development i learned how to better advocate for myself and today, i have a home not only and long term care for any husband has had health issues but it also had provided me a foundation to dream again. and to start charting the course
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of life for the future i have a bigger dream i know you have better things for me to do. my goal to move on from affordable housing and make room for other families to receive the support. but for now grateful to be here and lastly, i want to thank god more importantly and tremendous gratitude that he has put in my life as a blessing. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you ra california and stories like yours bring it together for us it takes time to get those projects off the
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ground but great to see stories. i want to introduce another resident here in our community and i also want to introduce maricela who introduced for carla. thank you. >> buenos dias. >> good morning, everyone. >> >> (speaking spanish.) >> i'm grateful for the opportunity to getting us safely. >> (speaking spanish.) >> for me and my family. >> (speaking spanish.) >> me and any family were
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homeless living in an entering shelter for 10 months. >> (speaking spanish.) >> god gave me the opportunity of winning the lottery. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and having a beautiful spatial us apartment 40 for me and my family. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we are very grateful with bridge housing a place and property managed for being kind and working with me. >> thank you. (clapping.)
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. thank you. so much pablo for sharing your story and maricela for helping u.s.s. share your story with us i'd like to invite back my colleague to welcome london breed. >> (clapping). >> thank you, ra california and carla for the wonderful and inspirational comments it is important for us to stop and remember that you and your families and neighbors are why we're all here can't lose site of that proportion now any pleasure and honor to welcome mayor london breed. mayor london breed a staunch advocate for housing if not the first time
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you've done this but the mission dovetails with the bridge. and been grateful and a friend and as we work to improve the lives in the community in the hometown welcome mayor london breed (clapping). >> i love greenish but love ribbon cutting much more. i got to say i'm happy to be here in this parking lot community because this is on the second one hundred affordable housing developments that we built here in over 25 years so is that a big deal (clapping.) when he take about the needs to build more housing we have to get series serious about that
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and as someone that grew up here i remember the mistakes of pass we tear down like the projects we for down three hundred places we lived and built 200 we knew everyone was not going back. well we're not making those mistakes no where not only one by one placements like potrero hill but providing opportunities to build new places in underutilized properties in the city those become the safe affordable places for people to call home and taken that a step further. with neighborhood preference so that when we build those places, the people who live in those communities the people who are from the communities and the folks have their dry cleaners and nails
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done and schools and get right of first refusal that is how important not just about building that but making sure that the communities that the part of this community that has faced the possibility of displacement they get a chance to be parts of their community in this extraordinary way i'm happy to be here to thank every single for making this possible a beautiful bringing nice building with clean and working elevators i want to thank a bunch of people it it it takes a village and the village are the people that steps up to the plate to make this project a reality thank you to the bridge housing for all the amazing work you do to produce affordable housing in san francisco and
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wounding the voters, of course, we had two affordable housing bonds pulling in one billion dollars so thank you to the san francisco voters for supporting the affordable housing bonds and the mayor's office of housing and community development for implementing those bonds to help build those tints and to bank of america for continuing and thank you to the housing stock for continuing to provide those section 8 vouchers to make that affordable to mission health center and ymca urban services, to a lot of the advocates and residents and i see william and others in the house thank you, for a making sure that the businesses and the opportunities that exist for in communities are directly connected to this community. it does it takes a village and i'm so grateful to
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be here to celebrate this new village of outer mission neighborhood of san francisco. the safe affordable place to call home that up lifts over one hundred and three 7 families looking forward to cutting this ribbon and mostly giving other families an opportunity to live and grow and thrive here thank you for being here. (clapping). >> thank you so much, mayor london breed we support not just on this project but to create much needed affordable housing in san francisco. our chair kim began the program thanking the team and staff but i wanted to take a couple of minutes if you
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bear with me to recognize the individuals here with us um, and really without them would have been impossible. so i want to start with recognizing our architects please stand up i know that rick is here and the team a round of applause for those folks and actually collaborating with them on another large project the reservoirs this redevelopment and excited and looking forward to doing another one in the three or four years sooner and have a couple of people from the lynchburg nibbi brothers i see mike please stand up and anyone else from your team (clapping.) and a couple of other folks i
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want to name if you're in the room please stand up our construction manager and civil engineer, landscape architect and our financial consultants with the california housing partnerships and i also want to once in a while thank the urban ymca. and, of course, to our joint partners health clinic we're looking forward going to be done i understand by march of next year and just been a long time in the making they're involved in the vision along before bridge got involved i'm looking forward to that opening up soon leasing i'd like to thank my team and if you can please stand up and call that anna and john. and the bridge team please stand up the
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development team (clapping.) everybody all of you. so i want to folks to know we have 5 developments under construction totally 5 had the units we have others working on potrero and working on another project under a construction. and cumulative 14 projects average under construction. and have 6 or 7 any construction projects the ones i named. in our pipeline not possible without you guys a big a round of applause for them (clapping.) and a lastly, i really want to thank you, for taking the time to celebrate with us and actually hold on a couple of seconds i'll i would be remiss to not thank the property management and team once our
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work is done in the success of those vomits lies in their hands and have a couple of folks have. >> (calling names.) >> our residents manager and want to name a couple of folks on the team melissa martin property management and natalia williams and. >> (calling names.) >> a round of applause for them and (clapping.) and as mayor london breed said certainly does take not a small village to get those things done i see ed, i apologize i forgot to name you but ed is the project manager to convert the loan this is the final step for
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that before we hand it over to property management and invite you waiting patiently to go out to the courtyard and the we'll have the official ribbon cutting there thank you so much again (clapping). >>. okay. here we go. >> 1, 2, 3. >> television i'd like
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to thank you all for coming today, we are going to be announcing a first of the kind law enforcement the first largest website combraemd in al those websites create a now and then conceivable and what we are talking about those webtdz allow yours to upload photos find legal individuals al technology will porch light on the aide of the photos and a creating forensic incidents generated without the content and virtually indentureable from the points out and some websites create adults and others child porn. >> something going on someone out through? so who are those victims? the proliferation have
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existed a shocking number of women and girl, aye. >> those websites have visited over $200 million in the first 6 months of 2024 that is phenomenal commissioner ajami from taylor swift and hollywood to middle school and others and earlier this year ailing generated 16 eight graders at at bleldz middle school and similar i wanted in california and washington and new jersey and those images to fully humiliate threaten the girls and women and fbi has age explore tension team and the impacts think victims has been devastating open their reputations and health and loss of anatomy and some incidents causing strildz to be suicidal
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and this investigation has taken our office into the darkest corners of integrity all of us us have wherein horrified for the women and girls to enclosure this and the law enforcement describes how persisting those website operators violated a plethora of state and federal laws and revenge and child frontage and other unfair competition and bringing to lawsuit to the websites to shut down and sound the alarm that has an numerous and clinics are impolite and we must be clear this in the innovation by statute of limitations this is a big misrepresent affiliated
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problem we need to solve as soon as possible and crack down to exploit people including children i want to thank a number of the folks in the office. there iceberg and david. >> (calling names.) >> as well as others you'll hear from a moment and at this time our chief deputy city attorney brought this to my attention. >> thank you. >> so david chiu said i'm yvonne the chief deputy city attorney, i see all al defendants and seeking not only as this office as chief depth but a mother a
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few on what grounds i read about a girl al non-casual porn graphic images this describes the personal pain and visitation and humiliation this girl faces that was rough own that girl but here mom profound nobility to hold those images occasionally and no way to help her child i say of recent our or more filled that because of my 15-year-old daughter how she'll feel if her image was distorted and privacy vitality and as a lawyer i was wondering how can this go that seems wrong and unfair and made me angry. so i spoke today to the city attorney we put teeth a
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team flanking me and started to investigate those actions and build a case we quickly learned several things first, as david indicated a numerous global low businesses and websites that have this may i say practices and individuals victims of this construct have the row course it is redifficult for victims to determine what websites are used to show their i'm going to turn it over to and because those images don't have any legal right of the dpifk marks once those are distributed it is impossible for victims to removal all from the in-debt to unring the bell, if you will, leaving those images to circulate online. without a base this is sex call buses it is
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illegal and actionable. the city attorney offices had a history of bringing those challenges to be addressed this is one of those challenges as my colleague said i heard said we are changing our anger and mounting that fight to stop those illegal and unfair practices as a public larry lawyer a mom i'm proud and extraordinarily grateful to the city attorney to their incredible hard work this is a challenging site but one worth handling way can't do to alone we do on a doing everything we can to stop this to support and protect women and children. so with that, i'd like to invite from my colleagues to speak a little bit more about how those websites work and the claims
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we're making a good morning, everyone i'm a deputy city attorney and i'll be talking about how those websites operator. so to take a step back starting points for those websites the availability of powerful sfofdz al models able to generate the models or modify the existing images those are an open source anyone what modify them er activate them and it is what it is not a bad thing can foster collaboration but makes sense those models can be existed for illegal reasons this is what happened here bad actors have taken incredibly power molds and retrained them and positions them part of inks of
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child work all buses and generate porn graphic images identifiable people entirety without the content of the defendants this is a technology that backs up those websites that purports unjust images primarily women and girls as city attorney mentioned we're suing in our law enforcement has 16 popular websites and to undress women and girls i'll talk about whats websites look like. those websites offer an interface simply upload a image of a woman or girl without the website can generate nude arrest go porn graphic image in a matter of seconds and again,
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entirely without that person's consent those websites have clearly intend to have unconscionable images off those girls they're not shy. to quote one website. quote image wasting waving time taking out our database you can use websites duo to get that. >> this is the motivation of what those websites are being used for and put other out there and the owners come to require to describe or generate nude images. we can the identity of some of the website owners and have hidden in the studios in the law enforcement we hope to obtain their identity. as yvonne imagination those are so far operated without immunity
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because of challenges the victims face emotional to deal with the proton we believe those kwebts are environmentally numerous state laws and federal laws there are state law and forehead laws this ban porn graphic and children and state law our law enforcement ladies and gentlemen the california unfair xefks law a i am board member law of the protection laws and hope to hold o individuals websites occasionally and send a message to all the websites that continue this kind of conduct and with that, i'll invite questions? >> thank you and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >>. or anyone in our team to
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answer questions. >> um, we um, from looking at the webtsd themselves you can't definitely determine what specific models are used we know the models include earlier investigations of that model were susceptible to this kind of xroipgs and newer models have step forward, please in place to make it difficult for them to be used for this year purpose and early versions are still out there and modified versions online thanks just to characters
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we're talking about three sophisticated resources al models. and als yes. >> so many victims have shared their stories with us courage at the end and actually reads about the stories we referenced some of the materials so that's how you can (unintelligible) and others? >> so our office has similar civil authority as the attorney general for law enforcements under the unfair expectation law in california suggests we have brought law enforcements against explain manufacturers and
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others. because of the the fact those are actors have individualized state law and federal laws that is again best practices and we have the ability to bring law enforcements against them others? >> sure so certainly the fact we have victims in california and the jurisdiction the fact they're vitality california laws gives us jurisdictions. by certainly there are actors outside of california it engage in this and hour hope and intention to hold them accountable. others? >> okay. that was quick and holding interviews by otherwise thank you for being here. and anymore about this in the kevin
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>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
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>> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day.
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i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll
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heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away.
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they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪♪♪ ♪ by the power ♪ ♪ of your name ♪ >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to
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offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have
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church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is
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a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.
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president heldfond you may begin the retirement meeting of august 14, 2024. >> roll call, please. >> gandhi? >> present. >> president thomas. >> present. >> president heldfond. >> present. >> driscoll. >> present. >> bridges. >> present. >> thank you, quorum, mr. president. >> thank you, let's apologize number one for the noise. and if anyone wants a good humor about this vocation, you need to read what happens to wamo in the summer garage right across that alley.