i had the great fortune of sitting down with janet riley, one of the board members of planning by the bay and she said i had this great idea. it will help low income san franciscans that have a hard time accessing good, reliable healthcare and access to good cost reduced medication. and so she bought -- brought in a group called serum. they started talking about the ability to take medication from individuals that may be have passed away or don't need it anymore and take that medication and recycle it without having it go into the waste stream. and sending it to specifically for free clinics. so we are essentially mirroring the program. we are getting access and then we reached out to the department of public health and work with them over the last ten months to come up with this legislation. we have had to make sure that we were abiding by state regulations and so on and so forth. because we are a city and a county, and made the process that much easier. a lot of people ask why we are a city and a county and what benefits there are, but in this instance, it was a direct benefit. we h

i want to thank clinic by the bay, janet riley and all the people on the board. i want to thank art span for investing in our community. i want to thank so many people that have been involved in making this a reality. our arts commission -- i see our arts commission director and the team there. thank you. these facilities -- this facility, and this is the uniqueness of the deal, the city is putting aside a few hundred thousand dollars, but both entities are going to raise over $1 million to restore these public facilities, and that is a significant investment from nonprofits. this is not a dollar-a-lease giveaway. it is below market rate, but it is not significantly below market rate. and in exchange, both of these organizations will go out and raise north of $1 million each, invest them in those properties and then turn jarnd and provide space for the artists and space for the indigent to have free health care. so for us, we think it's a phenomenal model. we think it's great for us to have the ability to restore these. other than the people that i've already men