conny ford. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is conny ford. i'm vice president of the san francisco labor council and happy to be here. i've been waiting for this commission for several years now to be in this status. just a little bit about me. i am not native to san francisco, but i raised my children here, who both went to public school. my son ended up graduating from city college. my daughter took some of her first nursing vocational classes at city college and that was a nurse practitioner for planned parenthood. i'm a strong advocate of city college and have always talked about, we have k through 12 as a free public education system, and i was always looking forward the day we can extend that for two more years. that came about three or four years ago as you probably remember. city college was in crisis back then, but we worked hard to get it reestablished and then i was a part of a great, great, great team, committed to making it and extending it to free for all san franciscans. took four years to do that, but we passed the legislation

some of them are behind me like lisa messer behind me and connie ford from the labor council. they know how to coordinate, connect the dots, build coalitions of strong allies in community and labor and even here at city hall that made city college free again, which has been one of my dreams for the kids -- kids. young people. everybody is kids now. you've really shown that compassion really belongs in public policy and it deeply affects individual lives. i can't tell you how happy that makes me. in d-1, we're seeing how we want to see compassion and inclusivity manifested. it makes me really happy. it's down right inspiring. we're ready to do outrageous things like knocking on doors, phone banking, gathering signatures, rallying, marching, even singing and dancing for things that have heart and meaning. thanks for recognizing our passion for a world with more compassion. because it makes me nervous when everybody sits still, because i'm a dance teacher, i want to invite everyone, including the gentlemen, to be honorary members of the loud lady's foot patrol for the next 30 sec

conny ford. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is conny ford. i'm vice president of the san francisco labor council and happy to be here. i've been waiting for this commission for several years now

my name is connie ford. i'm representing jobs with justice today. jobs with justice is a coalition of about ten to twelve unions and about 20 community organizations working all over the city but many are housed or live or work in soma. you can see by reading the comments today, that one of the big things that is missing out of this plan is about the good quality, the quality of jobs. you talk about jobs, jobs, jobs, everybody talks about jobs. but what are these jobs? are they going to be good jobs? are they going to increase the economic disparity that we all live in today? the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? we in jobs for justice support our members of the we are soma. we support the demands. my granddaughter is seven, and she lives in soma with her parents, and she walks four blocks every day to her school, which is bessie carmichael. in that school, at that walk, forward and back, if you haven't taken the walk down fulsome, you should see. these services that are being asked to be paid for by the community here is desperate and needs.

. >> supervisor yee: i'll make a positive recommendation to appoint conny ford to city college financial assistance fund oversight committee clerk of the board. >> supervisor safai: great. without objection, that item is moved forward. congratulations. congratulations. >> i worked for the new york city mayor office in economic development. i teach economics now in the design mba program at california college of the arts. my children going to school. i learned about the eastern neighborhoods a couple of years ago given my children's school expansion. i spend a lot of time in this neighborhood. it was my first exposure to san francisco. where i worked on project including the barclays center in downtown brick lynn, the revitalization of time square as well as lower manhattan after 9/11, i'm really interested in how the city of thinking of wholesale neighborhood in this space. over the couple of years, i've watched the population of the area has grown and changed and how new housing and retail has come in. as the space gets more active in the space of city life i'm interested to see how the

my name is connie ford. i'm representing jobs with justice today. jobs with justice is a coalition of about ten to twelve unions and about 20 community organizations working all over the city but many are housed or live or work in soma. you can see by reading the comments today, that one of the big things that is missing out of this plan is about the good quality, the quality of jobs. you talk about jobs, jobs, jobs, everybody talks about jobs. but what are these jobs? are they going to be good jobs? are they going to increase the economic disparity that we all live in today? the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? we in jobs for justice support our members of the we are soma. we support the demands. my granddaughter is seven, an

do want to acknowledge connie ford and alex lansberg for their comments. it's often just not housing, it's hotel components here, and if they want to be a part of this plan, and if they want expedited approvals, i think they know what they need to do to come in here and walk out of here with an approval. >> thank you. commissioner richards? >> so thank you very much again. this is like the 12th time -- it's been a long time. i've only been here four years, not eight years, but i appreciate commissioner koppel's and commissioner fong's comments. with mr. wertheim, we have an eir that goes to market street, but the plan boundary doesn't go to market street. what do we do with that overage? can we use it somehow? >> no. unfortunately that's no growth in c-3. >> you can't carve out. what's the difference between wmou -- wmuo and cmuo zoning. >> wmuo is a western district of soma that does not allow housing. it can be any other use, but not housing. cmuo does not allow housing, as well. >> as i honestly laid in bed last night, i was reading an article on how we