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 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. >> 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 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 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 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. >> 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 medical 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. >> 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 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 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 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 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.) . 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. >> [music] hi. i'm san francisco mayor london breed i want to congratulate sfgovtv on 30 years of dedicated service as a broadcast channel for our vibrant city. you played a critical role during the pan dem and i can worked keep residents informed. adapted to changing situations that allowed our residents to engage and participate in government. thank you for 3 decades of

informing and inspiring and connect the people of san francisco as the voice that >> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've

been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue

responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of

emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san

francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to,

most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had

someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not.

we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more

leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive

director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date.

the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest

challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of

things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just

absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of

dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful

citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he

walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional

age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this ♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across

departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing

traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection.

gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures.

i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

and bonnie. yeah. oh, i didn't know. bonnie. great. okay. okay. all right. so good morning, everyone, and welcome to the our city. our home oversight committee. it is august 22nd, 2024. and we will start we're going to call this meeting to order. and we'll begin with roll call. and we'll also have a few excused absences to acknowledge. thank you. chair williams, okay. with roll call, vice chair d'antonio. absent she's on her way.