cooperation and former deputy city maternity dish attorney in oakland and now supervisor in our city, raphael mandelman. they will be of great assistance. and the person that will be calling upon them initially to do great assistance, as she did so carefully, so cleverly and so precisely with her other ten members during the course of the last several years, is the district supervisor, from here in this particular district, the sixth district. she also became a member of the board of directors that orchestrated the joint powers authority and orchestrated this entire project. she has gone through all the steps of being able to help produce what you see today in a most dramatic fashion. i'm speaking of course, of the supervisor from this district, jane kim. [applause] >> when i joined this board, the board of supervisors and the transbay joint powers authority, in 2011, as many of you remember, we were in the depths of the recession. many of our construction workers hadn't seen a job for years jake i still remember the day that we celebrated our groundbreaking with our director and our mayor ed lee, as w