we assisted the newsom administration with the establishment of the community justice center. the mayor's office sent a coalition of tenderloin residents to the justice center, who bought into the idea of the community justice center because of what we saw there. we worked hard in the community to support that effort. at the time, it was very political. we believe it has proved itself. some future projects we are working on right now -- we are working on the development at a van ness and carry -- and geary. we also hope to increase the public amenities in the neighborhood. we have installed eight public benches. we are working on creating public bathroom access with some of our partners in the community who we subsidize to keep their bathrooms monitored and open to the community. that is, in a nutshell, what the tenderloin cbd is all about. i am happy to take any questions. chairperson campos: thank you. i do not want to lose the quorum of the committee. i wonder how long this is going to be. >> this is going to be brief. i will go over what the office of economic and workforc

we assisted the newsom administration with the establishment of the community justice center. the mayor's office sent a coalition of tenderloin residents to the justice center, who bought into the idea of the community justice center because of what we saw there. we worked hard in the community to support that effort. at the time, it was very political. we believe it has proved itself. some future projects we are working on right now -- we are working on the development at a van ness and carry -- and geary. we also hope to increase the public amenities in the neighborhood. we have installed eight public benches.

newsome at this very celebration. in january of this year, a new chapter was written when the board of supervisors unanimously voted in city administratorin lee to be the mayor of san francisco. he was noted as the best candidate for leading the city for work because of his more than 25 years of experience as a leader in city government. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the hon. edwin m. lee, the mayor of san francisco. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. thank you for that wonderful introduction and thank you for being here. it is the seventh annual celebration. sydney already explained our history, what president carter did for us, and what we are doing for ourselves, joining the whole city and region in celebrating asian-pacific portage month. i am so grateful to the board of supervisors for this whole four months of leaving this great city. i will say once again as i have said through many corners of the city, whether it is a town hall meeting or just your regular family association dinner, the hundreds i have been too -- i really feel proud of our asian community as a whole for allowing me to serve this great city and for all the

when mayor newsom took office, and spoke to him a number of times about resurrecting the report or doing something about it, and he turned the matter over to ed lee, the city administrator at the time, who looked over it very seriously and found that there were not any resources to work on this. he then with the mayor developed a sustainable district, some three years ago, and so declared civic center. with the help of congresswoman pelosi, the grant you have before you was made available. it on the surface does not describe all the activities that are going to occur. or you have to read it very carefully. because the public realm which is mentioned -- several hundreds of thousands of dollars will go to the planning department to do all the things that need to have been done since the 1998-1999 report was prepared. the whole area will be reexamined through a participatory process. the plaza will be redesigned. and an agreed upon plan will be developed. it will then go through environmental review, and of course, that plan will include all the wastewater and conservation ideas that are most current. basically, you cannot do wastewater and conservation activities without