we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i've got to say this. if we can't get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don't know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) >> but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. and they are joining with me and with the supervisors and with the department heads to do what mrs. obama asked us to do. whenever we occupy these public positions throughout the city or throughout the state or throughout the nation, we do the right thing, we keep the doors of opportunity open and enriched for everybody else

we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departmentsi've got to say this. if we can't get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremendous progress, i don't know where else to look because this is a great start. yes. (applause) >> but we

i saw rhonda simmons and her team. we've got a lot of different agencies engaged in here so that nobody sees us as just the physical part of the buildings going up. we've got lives. these kids want to be here. they see this as their long-term place. they're part of a community now, one that's shared by everybody. it's the responsibility of everybody to share in this as well. and, again, i want to thank not only the sf foundation, but the enterprise community partners. they've been such a great partner with us as well. and they are working with us to make sure that the private sector and the nonprofit sector are engaged all the way through this. so, these are all of the different partners. it's complicated, yet housing authority and the way we did public housing was also complicated unnecessarily. and i know now this is the way forward. and this is what we have to do for everybody that lives in public housing. and we've got to get away from that isolation that we had been comfortable with in the past. now it can't be co