many successes going on and we shared some tears with him a few weeks ago when we announced the alice griffinneighborhood choice program. we knew that that, along with college track, and his droction droction -- direction in getting this building and his leadership not only in redevelopment -- work with our school district, working with city college, working with san francisco state university, working with the private sector. he's crowning so many things before he leaves to be the deputy city administrator in oakland. i want to thank you, fred, for all your wonderful leadership and your commitment here. [applause] i know that college is going to be a reflection of everyone's success here and from the years that i worked in upward bound to now, i want to congratulate the kids who are here right now. because, guess what, not only have you joined a very successful program that will work very hard on your behalf to deal with things like academic affairs, college affairs, student aid, to get you where you need to have a sustainable economic forecasting so that you can be successful there, but you

we of project managers that cover hunters point, alice griffin, and the commitments we have with federal money, treasure island, and mission bay. the critical years when messrs. brown and newsom created mission bay, we used our re-development tools in such a way that it is attractive right now. when we have great entities like the giants, who now have development rights on their parking lot, we have a very strong biotech industry. heat is -- there is a major investment team with innovation hubs or write in mission bay. >> what are you going to do differently? >> we have to replicate the tools we used best. i know that is what mayor quan and i are going to. i created an oversight committee. they were all technical people that had been very much involved in the redevelopment processes we had before. i wish fred would have stayed with us. but the mayor did come in and rob one of our best talents. i think fred has been wonderful to us. he left us with a very good team, good vision, and good discipline. we are transitioning as we speak. now that we have established, with the unanimous oversig