and mrs., and so, and acting director, i'm scott madison. i am here to speak in support of this item and this is a piece in the puzzle of the shipyard that is coming together finally after all of these years. when i first became involved in all of this stuff in 1985 and it looked as if they were going to be kicking all of the artists and the businesses at the shipyard off of the property shltion it never occurred to me at that time that we would probably prevail, and certainly never occurred to me that we would be seeing these replacement facilities to keep the culinary artists in my case and the fine artists in the case of the fine artists out at the shipyard. i hope that the staff will do what they can to address those particular problems. but generally speaking i think that this is a very good thing ei hope that you will support this. >> hello this is stacey carter and i am the vice president for the shipyard of the arts and i am a professional visual artist whose has rented and maintained a studio for the past 16 years at hunters point,

it will become a beacon of hope in the southeast sector in san francisco at large pr we thank scott madison for his wonderful management and lastly the cac takes the opportunity to excess our gratitude for providing jobs to the kiss franchised and creating business opportunities such as a being presented before you commissioners today so, please join the cac to make sure that accident activities are being disseminated correctly for the public. thank you for your time >> ace washington. >> you know after all my years of going over the hunters point first of all, i want to condemned scott i didn't know he ever the head of the organization like that he has integrity and respect and honestly to talk about this at a meeting to talk about this i didn't, he has the stamp of approval (laughter) seriously i didn't know that if emphasis integrity was shown over in my community where our community would be much, much better. i'm amazed. a production at this magnitude would have ail the intermits and races working together and they had something to eat two i condemned him. i see him as a chairperson he

i'm scott madison one of the owners of the ecliptic cookery i have the material for the commissioners and staff. good afternoon chairperson johnson and commissioners and special hello to commissioner singh who's history with the shipyard is a history as my own. acting attorney. it's a pleasure to be here for our business that's also a milestone for shipyard redevelopment i'm hoping you will advance from the design stage in building one 10. i'd like to acknowledge the positions of folks. ecliptic cookery is owned by four partners i'll ask our ceo ms. susan heller who doesn't work in the business but is a silent partner and mr. bill robert and myself operates the business on a daily business we've been friends and partners since 2010. we've been led by the michael and others working with lanar ralph and building engineer lewis and kitchen architect mr. joe. they've worked in the fashioned of designing an unconventional kitchen to meet the needs of our business i want to thank paulette who's company made similar services. with us today are a number of customers who came down to show supp

vincent and ali and scott madison. thank you guys for taking the time to come out her and see the commission. today, the commission is considering authorizing the issuance of a special tax refunding bond for the city and county of san francisco community hunters point shipyard and in an unanimous not to exceed $40 million and he approving an screw all the time and body purposing agreement and 3 will sxhier the shipyard and give you an overview of the documents getting approved and give you a forward look at the process coming back to you. we're financing the variable rate bonds you began the chain procedures and approve the procurement and separately the commission has to approve the action and this begins the action process that 0 won't be final until the department of finance comes back in july. the shipyard is a multiple project it includes land on the shipyard and candle stick park and it totals one hundred 8 acres. the disposition were approved in 2003. one of the important financing sources for the project is the

and this was a process started by the businessman scott madison and the artists of the hope and a long time shipyard tenant and over the years they were supposed by nancy palosy and many hunter artists and the advocacy continues and is currently led by star, the non-profit co-founded by madison and hope and others and during the course of planning for the replacement building, oci met with and responded to the concerns of artists on numerous occasions. and the concerns have been many. and all concerns were acknowledged and most were resolved with the positive out come, in many out comes. and agreed to make the modifications, and in january of 2014, we learned the projected nutrient rate would cause a 50 percent increase in rent for 50 percent of the artists being relocated and despite this was below market rent rate. for the artist that had been there for many years at a lower rate this was a shock. and ocii and star conducted a survey to determine whether or not artists would actually be able to afford to move into the new building. and well, some were happy with the rent rate and des

madison >> thank you scott. as you can see elliptic cookery is a great educate to the shipyard and we'll glad they'll remain an international part of the future. i want to now get both into the excuse me. acting design. i'll ask my colleague to talk us through the schematic design >> thank you. i'm with the urban. madam chair nice to be here we're happy to be here the kitchen will be the first building erected in phase two that's a milestone right there with many more to follow soon thereafter. as mr. madison outlined we're fascinated by the business we saw the trucks coming and going we brought out our tape measures and there was a beehive of activity if you ever get a chance to get a tour ever that place before it's torn down it's a constant activity every inch is being used by several businesses. we view that as certainly a major positive asset for your flej new neighborhood so getting into the design i'll be brief i'll turn this over to the architect ralph. we tried to do and achieved to replicate their spac

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