i like to invite executive director reverend norman fong to the podium. >> i'm supposed to thank everybodyady did it. i'm supposed to introduce the mayor, she already did it. we're going to do it together now. people blessing, just repeat after me. we want to bless this project. you can yell, all right. peace! wall ping! justice! love, peace, justice and love. it's an honor from chinatown to the mission, working together like this and there's so much love and advocacy that put us together. i love it. we're going to do the shovel thing now. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! >> give me something here. >> i want to say congratulations. this is amazing. we are so excited. >> thank you supervisor ronan. i'm going to hand it over to preston. >> we're going to continue on with the program folks. preston here again with chinatown. it's an honor and so grateful to be standing in front of you guys today representing this wonderful partnership. i joined the project last fall. i've been getting more and more excited about the work we're doing here. we're not only building a construction, 127 units of new affordable h

norman fong, and most importantly to the rank-and-file members of the san francisco police department who you see gathered around here today who do the incredible, culturally competent, linguistically competent work here in district three in san francisco's beloved iconic chinatown, i want to thank you for your service. you are the definition of community policing. the first one of these events i went to was 18 years ago, and i am pleased to say that the number of incidents not only here in district three in chinatown, but in the archipelago of other districts, in the richmond, the sunset, and in the southeast corner of san francisco, have gone down. we remain resolved, we do this year in and year out, and i have to say it's come with profound results, and i want to thank the san francisco police department and the working men and women of the police department for making that happen. [speaking foreign language] >> supervisor peskin: and happy new year of the boar. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor peskin. now we're going to have assembly member david chiu. [applause] >> good aftern