[ laughter ] >> yeah, i'm not going go over everything we've done because i know mohamed nurue gave youll of the sexy details. but what i see is this neighborhood coming together and saying, ok, this is painful and especially the merchants, but we know once it's finished, it will be amazing and $21 million later, yeah, it looks pretty amazing, i'd say. i want to thank people and i have to read this because i always forget one person and then i get in trouble after wars. afterwards. so thank you, mayor, breed for starting it, city administrator, naomi kelly and mohamed nurue from public works. i mean, this is something i have to say was -- he really jumped in and said, let's make this happen and let's make it as less painful as we can. acting director for sfmta, tom mcguire and san francisco's puc. i would call everyone on this list and said if there was a pile of dirt and they couldn't park their car at 7:00 at night. so the responsiveness of their teams were amazing. i want to thank all of their teams because every week we had an issue, whether it was the veterinarian or people getting

very proud of the neighbors and we will support them in any way week at public works director mohammed nuru says. >>his department supported the boulders. but ultimately residents who would not speak on camera asked the city to remove them because they were receiving threats. >>we're e-mails some kind of a bullying. you know just feeling you know. there was a a lot of pressure being put to. >>on them. another reason the boulders were removed is because people were pushing them into the street creating a safety hazard. city officials will now work with residents on a more permanent solution we need to look at the design and make sure that the appropriate design, what the solution is and that could involve having may be eligible doesn't involved, going ask a planned the boulders have been a distraction from. actual causes of homelessness san francisco's coalition on homelessness says affordable housing in more shelter beds of the answer, not the landscape plans and bigger boulders. you can do this on anymore streets. it's not going to make the people who are stuck living on the streets go awa

>>you know i stand with san francisco public works director mohammed nuru says his department supported the boulders. but ultimately residents who would not speak on camera asked they be removed because many of them are receiving threats. >>the neighbors have been getting a lot of you know hate mail and i'm not feeling comfortable with that. >>another reason for their removal people were pushing the boulders into the street creating a safety issue. city officials will now work with residents and a more permanent solution could be to go bold as it could be some kind of landscaping we could be something different we're going to look at the neighbors of something that they want so what's next putting boulders and every sidewalk that's not going to solve homelessness san francisco's coalition on homelessness as affordable housing and more shelter beds of the answer, not bigger boulders. we have a shelter, wait list that is has over a 1000 people on it just waiting for shelter, not people in shelters, people who are waiting for shelter and as long as that shelter waitlist as that high. >>and

with that i want to introduce mohamed nuru and thank him and his team for the fantastic work helping us make these improvements in a historic building. thank you, mohamed. >> thank you, carmen. yes, kelly and carmen bring in the money. i get to spend the money. [ laughter ]. >> i think a few years ago when carmen brought up the idea of doing the project, we were very excited. it had a lot of different work that needed to be done. it is a historic building. so trying to match things and to really make a place that really works with all the things we heard from carmen was something that we were excited about. what's great about this project is it involved many parts of our building of bureau repair, carpenters, glazers, locksmith, laborers were all involved -- well in fact, every shop in public works was involved in one way or another in making this happen. it's a very unique project because we have a lot of staff that actually custom-built many of the shelves over here, matching the doors, all the things that we had to work with. all of those were built at public works at our shop. it

the president of the tjpa board, mohamed nuru, shared his statement with me yesterday. i think he -- i don't want to put words in his mouth, but i think he appreciates the findings of this d.t.x. expert peer review. i think we all agree this project is of critical importance to the region, the megaregion, and the state. of the two points raised in his statement as we move forward together, i would like to echo and clarify what i believe is our intent at the transportation authority. first, on the strategy and collaborative manner of work that the panel recommends, this one needs to be a truly regionalized process. we heard very clearly from the expert peer review panel that we need to reposition, reset the project, and confirm its business case. it will involve a hard look at the funding and phasing of d.t.x. to ensure its competitiveness for funding. we not only need to draw on the expertise of the stakeholder expertise and funding in major infrastructure project delivery, but most importantly to empower this group to work in a truly integrative way and not just as pee

>>san francisco, public works director mohammed nuru says his department supported the boulders. but ultimately residents who would not speak on camera asked they be removed because many of them are receiving threats. >>the neighbors have been getting a lot of you know hate mail and i'm not feeling comfortable with that. >>another reason for their removal people were pushing the boulders into the street creating a safety issue. city officials will now work with residents and a more permanent solution could be the global does it could be some kind of landscaping we could be something different we're going to look at the neighbors of something that they want so what's next putting boulders and every sidewalk that's not going to solve homelessness san francisco's coalition on homelessness as affordable housing in more shelter beds of the answer, not bigger boulders. we have a shelter, wait list that is has over a 1000 people on it just waiting for shelter, not people in shelters, people who are waiting for shelter and as long as that shelter waitlist as that high. >>and as long as h

>>san francisco, public works director mohammed nuru says his department supported the boulders. but ultimately residents who would not speak on camera asked they be removed because many of them are receiving threats. >>the neighbors have been getting a lot of you know hate mail and i'm not feeling comfortable with that. >>another reason for their removal people were pushing the boulders into the street creating a safety issue. city officials will now work with residents and a more permanent solution could be to go bold as it could be some kind of landscaping it could be something different but uh we're going to look at the neighbors of something that they want so what's next putting boulders and every sidewalk that's not going to solve homelessness san francisco's coalition on homelessness as affordable housing and more shelter beds of the answer, not bigger boulders. we have a shelter, wait list that is has over a 1000 people on it just waiting for shelter, not people in shelters, people who are waiting for shelter and as long as that shelter waitlist as that high. >>and as lon

feel very proud of the neighbors and we will support them in any way we can public works director mohammed nuru says. >>his department supported the boulders. but ultimately residents who would not speak on camera asked the city to remove them because they were receiving threats. >>we're getting e-mails some kind of a bullying. and you know just feeling like you know. there was a a lot of pressure being put to. >>on them. another reason the boulders were removed is because people were pushing them into the street creating a safety hazard. city officials will now work with residents on a more permanent solution we need to look at the design and make sure that the appropriate design, what the solution is and that could involve having may be eligible doesn't involved, going ask a planned the boulders have been a distraction from. actual causes of homelessness san francisco's coalition on homelessness says affordable housing in more shelter beds of the answer, not the landscape plans and bigger boulders and you can do this on anymore streets. it's not going to make the people who are stuck living o