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of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuruitional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in >>> good morning everybody. thank you. it brings me such joy, gratitude, pleasure to welcome you to the re-dedication of ellis gardens. i hope you will join me in welcoming to the podium our mayor, london breed. >> mayor breed: i thought you were going to the project and talk a little about it. fine, i will get started. thank you everyone for being here today. i am excited about this project. this is the city and county

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

in an op-ed, muhammad nuru and carla short, mentioned the survey only in passing and not by name. hopefully in the next few years, buff will get an accurate tree monitoring system, and until then they will use anecdotal data, and as a result, urban canopy will suffer as a result. thank you. [buzzer] >> next speaker. >> hi, my name is diane sheretta, thank you. i have a personal story about a tree in my neighborhood. i've lived in the same neighborhood for 15 years on and off, and i walk up and down the street, and there is beautiful, large growth, mature growth trees. at present, one of the trees directly in front of our apartment is slated to be taken down. and i'm just here to say that that tree has been there for 15 years. and i don't know why it is slated to be taken down. but i it has never obscured anyone's need to walk up and down the street, even though the pavement is coming off around it. i wonder if there are any other pocket possibilities about how the sidewalk could be addressed to accommodate the tree's needs, as opposed to having the tree taken down? >> thank you. [

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