fred blackwell, jenn, ken, john ram. the planning department has been doing all of the planning with the different agencies, the different challenges that are here.

fred blackwell. sir, thank you. without the head of the redevelopment agency, without the leadership of our redevelopment commissioners, this city would be in probably a perilous state. would you agree? we need every single leader we have and i look forward to cultivating new talent to come back and continue to serve san francisco because that is exactly why we're here. i started my public service journey when i was 8 years old. 8 years old, i met the then dine feinstein who was mayor and she took the moment to talk about the importance of public service and it was in a brief two-minute exchange that she planted a seed in me that has come to bear fruit which is why i'm here today. ever since i was in the third grade, i've been walking down this path of public service. so to my future senators and business men and women and doctors and entrepreneurs and engineers and architects, i welcome you to the table, to the -- what is it, the hundred million club? the one million dollar? i've increased the vision. 100 million s

because people like fred blackwell, people like naomi kelly, sophie, all of them working with people right here with the housing authority, with the henry alvarezes, with carlos, working together with our community partners and said years ago that we don't want to just talk about hope. we want to deliver hope to this place with you so that we have a program that is committed to not only on paper, signed with our signature to represent a contract, an agreement with all of you here, that when we we build alice griffin, it is not a physical rebuilding. it is a community rebuilding with everybody, so that people who live here know there is no displacement going on. they are going to actually help with our city-build program, our partnership, our labor unions, build the housing for themselves on-site with that help. that is the major difference. i think that got through to h.u.d. it got through to ophelia's seem and other teams. i think it is registering with president obama, because he put out that notion we've got to do things better. we have to get right into our communities. that is t

fred blackwell, jenn, ken, john ram.

fred blackwell, jenn, ken, john ram. the planning department has been doing all of the planning with the different agencies, the different challenges that are here. there are a lot of challenges that have been presented by this complex, futuristic, a beautifully designed building. there is just going to be such a transformation of the whole downtown and community because of this project. but it is also because of a transit center to replace what was here was the center, and their times, a transportation hub for the bay area when the old terminal was here. and so, in the vision of our city, and when maria took this up, she knew, because she had worked for a number of different mayors throughout the process, envisioning what this would mean to the future of our city, that we do need a brand new transit center that is not only modern, not only has all the amenities that you heard, whether it is housing, office, so forth. that it represents the future of our city. because at the center of it, the box for the high-speed rail.

fred blackwell, jenn, ken, john ram. the planning department has been doing all of the planning with the different agencies, the different challenges that are here. there are a lot of challenges that have been presented by this complex, futuristic, a beautifully designed building. there is just going to be such a transformation of the whole downtown and community because of this project. but it is also because of a transit center to replace what was here was the center, and their times, a transportation hub for the bay area when the old terminal was here. and so, in the vision of our city, and when maria took this up, she knew, because she had worked for a numbe

>> currently, fred blackwell, executive director of the redevelopment agency, myself, nadia, brian from the capital planning program, and jennifer from the office of workforce development. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on number 12? >> hello peter i am executive operating director at sfjazz. i want to respond to the comments regarding the outreach to the western addition, fillmore, and the jazz heritage area. we have been listening to and have been taking action on the request to reach out further and more closely to those areas. we held a community organization roundtable in may of this year. we invited members of community organizations in to talk about what they might want and what they might seek from the sfjazz and to see how we could benefit in partnerships. representation that that committee -- commended the session that we had, there were members of the jazz heritage center there in the jazz heritage district. and they all thank us for having that open forum, because they felt it was a good step to building the bridges across al

and asked the executive director of the agency, fred blackwell, to serve as the president of that boardd asked myself, then serving as director of real estate, but i have continued in that role as city administrator, along with michael cohen as the director, and now that position has been taken over. the agency formed this nonprofit. the agency agreed to provide staff for the entity. we applied for and received recognition as a community development entity, and we had to have that status before we could apply for the new markets tax credit. then in in february 2010, we put in our first application for an allocation of new markets tax credits, and we're very happy because oftentimes you do not get any allocation for your first application. we were very happy to have been awarded $35 million in tax credits. there are rules that apply to those where you have to spend them with then, i believe, 18 months. so for us, we have to get those allocations deployed into the community by september 30, 2013 or we will lose the ability to use those. our first allocation was to the college track projec