supervisor mike farrell (clapping) supervisor ms. cowen (clapping) supervisor london breed. supervisor kathy changing and supervisor jane kim (clapping) our fire chief joanne hayes (clapping) our police chief greg sir, (clapping) and i just as a personal note you know your living in the right city with a fire chief and the police chief show up (clapping) our city administrator who is going to have a very big job ahead in the coming weeks. joanne kelly and commissioners andrea and tom nolan and michael (clapping) and i want to close that i under scoring the point. we're going to celebrate today like you can't believe. and we're going to have a hell of a time. and it's going to be one amazing fing pride weekend (clapping) and we deserve it. we've worked hard for that. all of you made it possible so every tough conversation you had with your family and i'm not coming home unless you let me bring my boyfriend but remember every one of us came from somewhere where there's no protections even in the face of those ruling. so there's many of our lgbt partners are watching with a - t

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supervisor mike farrell (clapping) supervisor ms. cowen (clapping) supervisor london breed. supervisor kathy changing and supervisor jane kim (clapping) our fire chief joanne hayes (clapping) our police chief greg sir, (clapping) and i just as a personal note you know your living in the right city with a

ms. pam (clapping). >> thank you supervisors cowen and wow. what a beautiful day in san francisco wow. arrest (clapping). >> and want an exciting day per it's my pleasure to be here today to the official project 25 years in the making. (clapping). >> this really is a historic moment in time for this community and today's celebration assigned to honor all the people who have fought for this. but to build on what is already here for a bright future and a for those who live here in the future. there was a song it's a long time coming but i know change is going to come. oh, yes, it is (clapping) >> change is coming. we're honored to have a number of people who made this project possible. we want to acknowledge the key citizens and supervisor cowen the mayor of san francisco and the former mayor willy brown and supervisor cowen thank you for being here and senate file if he maxwell is here to make this day happen. her form colleague and the community thanks you for your support. congresswoman nancy pelosi and dining feinstein are holding down the for the in washington. welcome to leroy king

ms. lombardy could we discuss it a little bit. i know that supervisor cowen is very supportive of moving this forward and i see in the transportation slides there's one package of the public concerns >> we propose that our citizen advisory committee we've responded to him. >> good morning transportation planner with the authority. i do have a presentation if you're interested but i can go over the key concerns we heard from the community last fall and what we've done since then there are 4 major issues. first of all, a couple of issues with the design of the road. we've redesigned the intersection of the connector road that would provided alternative direction. the connector road would serve all the same connections that quinton street does today. the second is providing u7b8gd landscaping and we're coordinating with the property owners that would represent on enhancement over the exiting quinton street. the third is to coordinated the schedule of the project and the connector road so we're minimizing the closure of the road by building the connector road fir

ms. hawkins and i'm a native of san francisco. been here my entire life. i want to thank supervisor breed and cowen and the other supervisors. and thank you for staying to late. i bring you greeting from the black lawyers an organization that i belong to in the anti apartheid headquarters and the fillmore district is known as the harlem of the west and marcus bookstore is very well known where bill clinton went after he left the white house. they admired the bookstore. i would buy literature for their grandchildren. their young adults and temperatures very astute and very well - they understand their cultural and they're going on to college and i thank marcus bookstore for that. marcus was born august 17, 1887. he gave us his identity and he hooked united states up with our motherland african where we found out we all came from. okay. and that history in that store is where children can learn. not only ourselves but yourselves too. it's worth saving. redevelopment was tearing - >> thank you. next speaker. . i live in the western edition. marcus books needs to stay in fillmore. i grew up and was living in chinatown. it looks