economic development, we have put together, with community partners, renaissance parents for success, ycd, and others, hunters point family, put together at the bayview opera house, a hiring day focused on this particular store. over 250 people came out to put their applications in. and from that recruitment day, there were 40 people that were hired for this store. 52% of them were from 94124. that is a remarkable achievement. [applause] thank you for that persistence. and then another 8 from other san francisco neighborhoods crossing the city to total 72% local hire for fresh and easy in the bayview. that is another remarkable achievement. that is to be celebrated. it is a model for the rest of what we do in the city. it can be done, and we know that. we just have to get a success story out here to make sure that it can happen. so poor billing a promise of jobs, neighborhood vitality, health of our neighborhoods. that is what this store represents. now this store is not the only thing that we are going to do. it is part of a movement that we started years ago, with gavin newsom's promise

ycd, ldc, and cyc. the groups that are coming before you to oppose represent african-american, asian american, latino, youth programs, and they are opposing pretty vehemently, as you can see by the youth in the background here. they are opposing this project from going forward. there is obviously a disconnect between the local community and this project going forward. what i want to basically encouraged that there be further dialogue between the local community and the project sponsor. it appears from some of the material that i have reviewed, that there still needs to be some of that the question is going to be whether that is going to happen before you take a final vote on this item or whether it is going to happen at the board of supervisors, which i think, if it moves through this commission, that it will end up at the board of supervisors. and i think that there is, from what i gather and what little due diligence i have done, as a community advocate and leader, is that there is support to bring th