Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171209

The tax credits and Tax Exemptions given to lowincome are allocated allow a private developer it gives them more of an incentive or ability to create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. Were trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said. So i look forward to being engaged on this issue with all of you. Thank you, supervisor. Echo those comments as well. With that, a motion to file item 5. Councillor tang so moved. Okay. We take that without objection. Madam clerk, do we have any other business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Thank you, everybody. Were adjourned. All right, good morning everyone, what an exciting day in San Francisco. Let me begin by introduction myself, i am the San Francisco public works director muhammad. Were here today to break grounds on the Second Street Improvement Project and project that will change the look and feel of this busy corridor in the south of market area. Its not every day that we get to rethink a street, to figure out how it can better serve the people who use it and most importantly, make it safer for everybody. Through smart planning, strong partnerships among multiple city agencies and funding from the federal and local sales tax revenue, and community support, were able to move forward with the Second Street Improvement Project. It will turn in to a stretch that better serves our city for the 21st september century. At the end of the construction of this project we will have upgraded sewers thank to our San Francisco p. U. C. And a smoother road and most importantly a safer and more attractive neighborhood. But before we get started, and well hear from all the several agencies that are involved in this project i want to take a moment to thank the project team who worked on this project together so this point, first i would like that thank project led by our City Engineer john thomas sitting out in the crowd there. [applause] we are a number of project managers, christina oneil, mike rigor and richard from engineer ing and we have steve lee, jackie ying, Michael Smith and jane ko and from our last division who had work to do with the trees and Street Furniture and the designs that will come john dennis and david folig and robin welter and from streets and highway kim chang and from our Communications Rachel Gordon , the very best. Now id like to bring up our mayor ed lee. Mayor lee is someone who knows the importance of improving our neighborhoods and making our streets safe. He has been a big supporter and champion of street scape improvement throughout the city and we are very, very pleased to have him here today to help us kickoff the Second Street project. Please welcome our mayor ed lee. [applause] well thank you, good morning giants fans were here on Second Street thats probably one of my favorite corridors to walk down and get to the giants game and if we were reminded what this street is all about probably a couple of days ago when the water main broke right there at second and harrison it was a good reminder of the fragile infrastructure that we have particularly when pipes that have been touched for over 150 years and so when you saw that water, those are the exactly the water system that muhammad would mention with that the p. C. Will replace for this corridor going north and south. I want to sank supervise or kim foreign inviting us to her district its the eastern soma neighborhood and also a neighborhood that i know that has been working with public works and all our transit or m. T. A. Is here, county, transportational authority and all of the different agencies including planning and others for probably over five years and working together theyve been able to really plan out what will be a twoyear project and i know muhammad was celebrating a vision for its finish but for the next two years i want the media to know. Please dont blame me for everything that goes on for the next two years weve broken this up in to four phases trying to mitigate all of the construction that will happen but we have the walking folks that are advocates , we have the coalition working with us and we have pedestrian avenue vow kits that ultimately want to embrace all of the goals here along with the Small Businesses that are willing to suffer a little bit with everything from reduced parking because theyre going to ultimately gain a safer street, a street that is hundreds of thousands of people use not just during giants games but if you notice even during the offseason as a well traveled corridor and so its an effort to make it safer and to make it more pedestrian friendly and make it more bicycle friendly and make it more walking friendly and to allow more people to use this in the safeer way including cars and trucks. Soy want to thank all the agencies for working together on this and there will be an effort to mitigate all of this by breaking it up in to segments so that it doesnt interrupt everybody who wants to get to the giants games or also the next concert here but also to frequent all of the wonderful restaurants and bars and entertainment thats what makes this street so popular and all the businesses as well so we all as a city have to understand that construction does interrupt a little bit in order to gain something more valuable and its both beneath as well as above and on the streets and in fact, someone to figure out how to underground all the utilities all along this way thats another maiming or contribution that the residents and the businesses have strived for in this detailed collaborative effort so i want to thank everybody for their years of working together and getting everybodys goals in to this project and making sure we did it and that its all not going to happen overnight but will happen in segments to respect as much as we can the activities going on here so, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody for your patients and as we go on and please be safe when you are traverseing this corridor because i dont think any of this is going to stop people from use particular but we just have to be more safe and appreciative that the end goal will be beautiful trees, sidewalks that are widens, bike lanes that are protected, street and Traffic Signals that are respective for a higher level of vision zero or safety for everybody and less breakage of the water system thats beneath thats over 150yearsold. With all of that i say thank you to everybody lets get on with this project and ill blame you if anything gets delayed. Thank you [applause] thank you, mayor lee. Give him another big hand for his leadership under his leadership were doing so much great work. Next weve the supervisor from the south market and other neighborhoods here in the south of market area and jane has been a huge champion of the Second Street project and shes been there with us at all the Community Meetings zester years ago she attended them and she helped us secure funding and has made sure that we have met the Community Needs and particularly safety for people who walk and bike in this area and that all those needs will be met and she was also welcome jane kim. [applause] interview when i first got here someone thanked me for coming to the Ground Breaking and i had said i would not have missed this for the world and for those of thaw have been working on this project, this is something that i have been working on almost since the beginning when i started in office and end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 and this was probably the first major vision zero project victory that we had in our district and i really worked with a lot of people in the community and public works and all of our agencies to fight to make this a reality and its a big project and its a complicated project and im so proud that were able to make it here today and i want to thank a lot of people that were involved in the years of planning and community out reach that it took the south market hasnt always been a residential neighborhood, it was commercial and production and manufacturing and as the people in the neighborhood change our streets didnt and the sidewalks are narrow, we have multiple lanes made for big trucks and cars that are commute ing from their offices downtown and to their homes all around the bay area and many of our residents were unfortunately the victims of the neighborhood that we have been building and Second Street was really the corridor that we had intended to be our neighborhood corridor and one that our residents could bike and walk down safety. Like first street and third and fourth that are meant for cars and Second Street was the corridor that was for our residents and our Small Business owners and its exciting to be here today as we work ok protected bike lanes on follow com follow so many street so we have streets dedicate for our pedestrians and psyche lists and i want to thank public works in particular christine and you really ran some of the best out reach meetings i have seen with doortodoor knocking and really large turnouts which is very difficult to do by the way and also i want to thank michael rig or as well for your work, many years of planning but of course, to our neighborhood residents because as much as we need a corridor for us this is still a major change for our residents and katie liedel who heads our south beach rincon mission Bay Association and alice rogers who is part of our south Park Improvement association who hads fought for it finally this year we were able to cut the ribbon on the beautiful new playground and park at south park and bruce part of our trance Bay Committee and Patrick Valentino who often came and were maybe the only voices or were minority voice saying we need wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes even if that meant loosing parking spots and loosing lanes of traffic onto the bridge and im excite inside is finally happening and this is the corridor that our neighborhood deserves and millions of dollars have gone to this both from the San Francisco county Transportation Authority as well as other granting authorities so i want to thank them for working to make sure that we were able to make this again this promise a reality for our neighborhoods so congratulations and i look forward to working with everyone during the construction process and i know the construction process is often the toughest part so we want to make sure we support our Small Business owners during this time but its going to be a fabulous corridor and i have to recognize of course the San Francisco Bike Coalition brian wedmire is here and also to leah sheaham who is here during the time we were advocating for this. Thank you for sticking with us and being strong making sure we got the core dough we wanted, thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Next we have the sfmta who is a key partner in the remaking the Second Street this project is part of the citys San Francisco bicycle plan and the Vision Zero Initiative to make the streets safer for all of us. Lets welcome district or race kin from the sfmta. [applause] thank you. Good morning everyone, its great to be here because Second Street is such an important part of the citys Transportation Network and its a unique street in some ways and it connects from the ballpark to Market Street and it has proximity to the freeways because of its ta possible ra fee its a street topography its good for taking the bus, it gets a lot of car and truck traffic and because of the vibrancy and the great mix of increasingly residentss but a great number of Small Businesses , and larger businesses its a very vibrant street so it attracts a lot of people on foot and it also has the dubious distinction of being part of the citys High Injury Network which means its one of the 12 of the streets that are responsible for more than 70 of the citys serious and fatal traffic collisions. As muhammad said, this is a vision zero effort, vision zero being our goal in San Francisco to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024 and by redesigning streets such as this one that are host to a dis purchase disproportionate amount and it has been a very long and challenging process redesigning completely transforming really a street is very challenging and so its been a Great Partnership between tractortrailer our Partner Agencies and our Neighborhood Partners the residents, the neighborhood association, the local business association, working together got us the point where when we brought this forward for the sfm ta board of directors lead by our chair to legislate these changes we were able to do so with the support of the local community with the support of the supervisor with the support of the mayor and that is what is necessary to get these projects done and i want to acknowledge a couple of our folks from the agency worked on this project but i want to acknowledge specifically Ellen Robertson and matt lasskey working with jamie parks on on the leadership of louise montoya in concert with ricardo ola working together with all of our agency and Community Partners to make this happen but, also, i want to finally again thank the leadership that makes this happen and when i sit down with mayor lee, he is always asking me how can we get these projects done better and faster and supervise supervisor kim we dragged muhammad and i in our office and said we need to get this project on track and get it done because its important to the people that she service and our chair who ultimately are those who have to make these tough trade off calls of parking versus safety versus all the other things and always leading with safety and putting safety first to make this project happen and i want to acknowledge the Disability Community which was an important partner. Part of the trade offs making sure this would work for the Small Businesses in terms of parking and loading making sure it will work with people with disabilitys as were doing new and different designs its a important consideration and working together to make the street better and fix the instruct under and above to make sure it will be last and something we can enjoy for generations to thank you to everybody who has been working on it and were starting the next difficult phase and we have work with the mayor and to do what best we can to minimize disruption so we can all be smileing and just as happy when were at the prib on cutting a few years out so thank you and congratulations to everyone. Interview thank you, as you heard this project is a huge project and its from king street all the way to Market Street that is about eight city blocks it is over 20 million that will be spent to make it safe for everyone as part of our partnership in securing funding, the San Francisco county Transportation Authority provided tax funding in the range of 1. 5 million for the project which was needed to match some of our federal grants we had to support this project lets hear from tilley chan the director from that agency. [applause] interview thank you so much, good morning everyone and thank you. To all my name is tilley chang and on behalf of the 11 members of the transport agency led by supervisor kim we want to congratulate the community, public works, the city family and all the neighborhoods who had the vision and stuck with that vision for Second Street to make today a a lot. They were pleased to provide matching funds in the form of our half cent transportation sales tax but importantly to Program Federal funds that are nine or ten Million Dollars of one bay Area Grant Fund programs that are allocate by by the metropolitan Transportation Commission when kim serves as a commissioner so were very grateful to the region for providing key fund withing our legal matching funds onethird of the project in recognition there are many folks here who had already been living here customers visitors, families as well as many more people who are coming new workers, new families coming to this area this rapidly growing part of our city and the purpose of the one Bay Area Grant Program funds and when they passed prop k was to provide Community Serving infrastructure to help make sure our streets are serving all users and safer liability way throughout the city and in fact when we programmed the Second Street project, many years ago, it was together with a few other vision zero and transit first projects ill mention where we had a wonderful Ground Breaking earlier this year and still to come broadway street scape so lets keep it going and congratulations to everyone thank you all for the partnership and theres an honor to help deliver this project lets keep improving San Francisco one street at a time. Thank you. [applause] thank you, tilley. Tilley talked about those Great Projects in the works all over town and those projects do not happen without the involvement of our Planning Department and our Planning Department is at forefront of a lot of these projects they conduct public out reach and they shape the concepts of what these designs should look like and they were heavily involved in the Second Street redesign and making sure we dove tail to the other projects especially those in the east and lets hear from our planning director john ram. [applause] good morning, everyone, its great to be here on this Beautiful Day and you know, weve been an advocate in the Planning Department for a while looking differently how we operate and design our streets and its important this project is a perfect example of how with all the agencies working together we can make sure it works for everyone and i want to reinforce a couple of things the mayor and supervisor said its important to remember one is that this is a classic example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts its not just a bike lane project and water line replacement project its not just a sidewalk widen ing project all those things could have happened independently and it would have been disruptive in the end and thanks to the leadership of the mayor the supervisor and some of the neighborhood residents we realized that by combining efforts we get a better project in the end it takes a little longer to organize and for that collaboration but in the end we end up with a much better and safer and importantly a safer street and secondly i think supervisor kims comments they are changing dramatically and the land uses here its a mixed use neighborhood than it used to be and many more residents and businesses many more office jobs and so on and it has forced us to think differently how we operate and design our streets and these streets were designed to drive through as opposed to being a neighborhood street so its important for us to look holisticly at that and as the supervisor said, Second Street is becoming the kind of main street of this district and there are streets what were going to have to maintain as kind of through streets to get to the bridge or whatever but this is an important street to think about as our main street and the street that is not only works for cars and buses but for bicycleists and pedestrians and businesses and for people just to hangout and i want to thank the mayor for his leadership and the supervisor for pushing us on this and my colleagues and all the agencies and staff of my department for getting us to this point and making this project happen. Thank you, all. [applause] so outside of the city agencies there are many Community Partners that also joined us in creating division for the improvements to Second Street and many of the other City Projects Brian Widener from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will be here to say a few words but brain is an advocate for making the streets safer and not just for psyche lists which he represents but for all users he has been a partner with many of the city agencies and we meet with him and his group on regular basis and his job is to hold us accountability so he is a partner also and his goal and what he sets out is to make sure that the vision is set out for the bicycle plan that they invisioned that has been brought to reality. Lets hear from brian. [applause] at least, many people have been waiting many years to see this day come i want to thank mayor lee and his administration for your strong support of thepe it and we dont have a stronger champion for the kind of streets that people who walk, bike and take transit need and deserve in San Francisco and also the City Department has represented here director raskin and we have great partners in sfmta and public works and planning to make projects like this happen and to pull them off. As director mentioned where we are standing at Second Street and king is part of the High Injury Network and what that means is that right here on Second Street, and actually on king street as well, we know that people are being hit and injured or worse and what that means for us at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and our 10,000 plus members is that we as a community and as a city have a responsibility to do something about that and projects like the Second Street Improvement Project are a step in the right direction to providing safe streets for people walking, biking, taking transit and driving. I am really excite today see this project break ground and its my pledge on behalf of the Bicycle Coalition that we will keep our members in informed about and patron eyes along Second Street and make sure and a safe way to get where theyre going which is the ball game and as our city gross and in particular someone that lives in soma, this neighborhood continues to grow and these are the Street Project were going to need to make sure were accommodating that growth and if everybody that moves here to work and live and rides and youre an a list and its the gridlock we experience in this neighborhood will only worsen we have to encourage people to get out of their cars and to walk and bike and take transit and only way well do that is if they feel safe doing so and so i hope Second Street is a start and i want to see the improvements projects and this is exciting day and thank you again to everyone that is here so much. One more speaker but the most important speaker for this event is we are all here to say it takes a develop edge and there are so many partners in this but to return people out and bring people out to all the meetings to make sure the community is really part of the design and that we hear what their concerns are so that we can design to meet their is katie ladel, she serves the Mission Bay Neighborhood association and from all my experiences and everything that i know of katie she is a they listened to us and thank you and there were a lot of contentious meetings and i know it wasnt easy but christine and her team and mike all continued to listen so we are very, very grateful to the exercise kim to public works and to the mta for supporting the process and listening to us and making Second Street a better place to live, to work, and to come and visit the giants so thank you very much. Thank you, katie. So you haired from the mayor when he spoke the next two years could be a little rough but you know, work with us and were going to do our best to make sure that every step or everything that is happening in the neighborhood that we get enough information out to the people who live and work on the street so that they know what is happening and the end result is great from past projects, fishermans war of and some of the other projects weve heard great reviews of the project thats been completed so im looking forward to this project really today and it is in four phases and they have been worked out very, very carefully and were going to accommodate the giants games and accommodate everyone and you know, well get through it so i am excited and this will conclude our press part of it and we have a ceremonials shovelkindof event and well let the contractors go at it and thank you for coming out and lets go Second Street improvement [applause] 3, 2, 1 bayview. A lot discussion how residents in San Francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and theres not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the Arts Community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. Nonprofits cant afford to operate here. My name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in Housing Insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. My name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to 10,000 a most. And chad of the arts project pursue. The evolution of the orientation the focus on Art Education between children and Patrol Officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. Im the nonprofit manager for the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute Technical Assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. Snooechlz is rob the executive director and cofounder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of San Francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know theyll not renew our lease the last years the city with the nonprofit displacement Litigation Program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and Technical Assistance. Fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around 40,000 a year now 87,000 taylors dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota Street Project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a Nonprofit Organization National Anthem and turned out the Northern California fund they accepted us into the Real Estate Program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the Litigation Fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. Which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didnt know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits Displacement Mitigation Program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a 946,000 grant that is provided through the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and thats going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. The purpose of the Organization Trust to stabilize the arts in San Francisco working with local agency i go like the Northern California platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property were sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years well renting 10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. The loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been weve had tremendous support from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. Our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as were doing the work weve been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. The single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. It has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. With the Economic Development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of Economic Workforce Development oewd. Com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit Mitigation Program and the Sustainability Initiative and find their information through Technical Assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the all right. Good morning, everyone. I am mohammed nuru, the director of the San Francisco public works department. I want to gyp by just thanking all of you by joining us to celebrate the completion of our new office of chief medical examiners facility. [ applause ] just to acknowledge a couple of people that are joining us today i see the fire chief. His wife is here. I see commander laz is r is here, along with commander ewing from the police department. Of course, our sheriff, sheriff hennessee, who will be actually providing security at this facility, tom dewey, the director, and the office of occi. The office of Community Engagement and involvement. Yes. And, of course, all of you. I just again want to say thank you. What a tremendous project this is. It brings me great joy to welcome this new addition to the citys infrastructure to Hunters Point the neighborhood the prom has been in the works for a while. Were glad to have it in bayview. Not only is this facility a worldclass facility, its this facility has been delivered in a very fiscal matter and timely. I think, for me, one of the most important things that we like on a job and it happened on this job, it was delivered with a great safety record. Not one injury in the two years this prom was built. This project is a support project. Its and as the director of the project i want to say how proud hi am to deliver this project. And i want to take this opportunity to thank the Public Works Team in all of the work they did on this project. That was led by city architect edgar lopez. Several of our project architects, magnidina royal. I also want to thank our talented construction crew and construction company, clock construction, who did a very, very good in delivering this. And, of course, k. M. D. Architects, the designers of the facility. And, most important, our client and partner, dr. Hunter, and his staff. And i can tell you, with all of the projects in this city, none of them would be possible without the leadership of our mayor, ed lee. Who, ed, before you became mayor, you were at the city administrators office. You will hear from the city administrator today also. But his commitment and his dedication to making sure that we invest in capital improvements, especially towards our infrastructure project. And he has made that a top priority of his administration. And through his leadership, a lot of projects that the city desperately needs are actually happening. So im not going to say a lot of great things that ed has done, but lets hear from him, our mayor, ed lee. [ applause ] why arent you going to say a lot about what ive done . Whats wrong with that . Well, let me say this this is a fun day because a number of accomplishments are made. You know, i see our president , london breed, who is here just sitting down now because shes so busy doing so many other things. But she found the time. And working in partnership with the board is really born when it comes to earthquake safety and Emergency Response. So let me give you the larger picture of why today is so important. We have to get ready for the big disasters. Weve seen it happen. Its gotten really close with the fires up north. And you realize how much things that should, could have been done to prevent that. But we also have the your honors in but we also have the hurricanes in the south. We have manmades and we study them. Thats why so many of our participants today are part of our First Responder agencies and personnel because this facility is that important. When we were in recruitment and interviewing dr. Hunter for this job as chief medical examiner, he asked because he toured the original place. Im sure he mild at the recent news that were getting as many people out of the hall of justice as possible. Well, buried in the basement has been dr. Hunters office for quite some time. He smiled when he sat down with us and said, youre going to help us build a brand new facility, right . Because he cant do the worldclass modern Toxicology Laboratory work at this office that hes commanded to do. He cant have parents and families of people who want to know what happened on any incident be disrespected in the basement of the hall of justice and sometimes waiting for weeks, in fact, months to have some dignity for what happened h. You cant have sheriffs and other people waiting for the same reason. And you cant have less than professional standards operating in that office. And not only did we head up one of the best in the country for that office, we had this office. Thats why i enjoy working with mohammed so much and the city administrator. We had this whole office and the chief medical examiner inform us about how to design this place adequately. Thats with edgar and the k. M. D. Actorra tects architects designed the building. When you involve the professionals, you are going to get a topclass product when you work with them at the top. And when we have the firstclass responders of a worldclass facility, then youre going to get that. But the real conversation is this with supervisor cohens support, with the entire board of supervisors, the conversation started back in 2010, where we want that conversation with the public what should we do better and be prepared better for . And they voted in a very strong, over 70 support for earthquake safety Emergency Response. And they did it twice in 2010 and again in 2014 when we asked that all of our police facilities, our stations, our fire stations, our department, our Emergency Response facilities get upgraded to withstand a major shake. Now we have a worldclass medical Examiners Office that, for all of the reasons i said earlier, the public can trust. We did it, as mohammed said, on time and on budget. Thats why i invest in public works. When we want to get something done, our board and mayor says lets get public works in charge and, with our city administrator, we get the job done. We also get the job done when we work with our partners in labor. And i must say to the carpenters union, to the labors union, thank you, thank you, thank you for making this such a safely built place, but also for your embracement of programs like city build and local hire. Because there are 44 individuals from San Francisco that help build this if facility with allf the work and that is a great milestone for the Bayview Community. Because the saying says around here, if the community doesnt build it, nobody builds it. I know thats the feeling we accomplish right here in this building. And more an more of our public projects will always involve graduates of city build, local hire, the community. Thats how we build things with the communities, with our own hands. Its not just these buildings. Its the downtown building. Its the chase arena for the warriors. When people say we built that, then 2010 and 2014 conversations with the public about general Obligation Bonds and all of the other financial tools that we have to have our voters vote on, theyll be that much happier. When we finish this project and i know our city administrators and our finance officers are really happy. When we retire debt, then we create even more room for the next bond programs. And the public will put trust in putting their votes in on that. Not only did we do it in this fashion, as i said. We involved, yet, another examination that i think is becoming more and more important to the quality of work we do in these buildings. That was the Art Commission. The Art Commission got the first 2 out of this public project, the full 2 . And i know susans really happy she she doesnt like the 1 . She likes the 2 . And shes done really well because im i havent gone in and seen it yet, but weve honored and i know dr. Hunter is really joyful to honor somebody that hes known throughout the country having been the historic medical examiner hex pert for the city, dr. Boyd stevens. And i know his own coat is somewhere in there in some remnant in some classic fashion of art work. So we honor our historic leaders, as well as our art and art for this, for them that will work here and people that will visit here. It is about infrastructure. It is about First Responders. Its about the first level of medical professionalism in the medical examiner world. It is about having a worldclass forensic Toxicology Laboratory. Thats a lot of scientific words. What it comes down to sometimes is we need to know what happened. We need to have Scientific Trust to it so that our trust and public knows what happened to a person, what happened to a family, what happened in a major event. We need to have it safely done in this building. These bonds are going to be important constantly. When we build on time and when we build within the parameters that the public expects us to do, theyre going to give us a lot more support for our public bonds and for our public programs. So public works, city administrator, to all of you and the way you did this, thank you very much. Lets get on with not only opening this and having people move out of the hall of justice as quickly as possible. If the courts were smart, they would not be at the state level. Theyd be at the county level. So theyve got to get them out as well because we need everybody to be out of the hall of justice, quite frankly. Its not a safe building. Everybody knows that. So lets get on with building the worldclass, safe buildings for all of our staff. But, ultimately, these are public buildings. We want to respect every role that the event plays. When the event hits we want everyone to be prepared. Dont forget your 72. Org. And thats what they wanted me to say. Thanks for supervisor cohen, for the Bayview Community supporting this. It is not easy having a medical issue in your neighborhood. Sometimes people have a little issue with some of these public functions in their neighborhood. But this was embraced for the right reasons. Well have a lot more people down here who will be active in creating a higher level of safety for everyone. And i want to thank our police department. Weve got a couple of our officers at s. F. General right now. I pray for them for a quick recovery. Theyre doing the work we ask them to do. Community policing isnt easy. Its not easy these days with the Opioid Epidemic and, perhaps, some of the things the medical examiner is going to be engaged with. We need to support our Public Safety agencies because theyre doing a darn good job to keep them safe. Thank you, everybody, for supporting this. Congratulations. Thank you, mayor lee. I see ken bukowski. He was definitely instrumental in making sure all the monies were there and on time and thank him for this. I see our director, john updike, who has also been helpful in many of the projects that the city has been implementing, so thank you also. And i know you heard the mayor talk about those 44 individuals from the community that were able to work on the job. Those 44 people actually represent more than 40 of the work force that actually worked on this job. So i want to give a good congratulations and thank clark for giving our residents an opportunity to build something in their own back door. It gives them jobs and theyre able to take care of their families. And i know, you know, as you heard the mayor, it takes a village. So there are a lot of people who were involved in making these projects happen. And at this time im going to welcome our president of the board of supervisors, london breed. If you would. Thank you, mohammed. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Im really excited to be here today. When i first became a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, i would get emails and phone calls from people who were trying to find out exactly what happened when their loved ones passed away. They wanted closure. They wanted to know what happened. Because of the if a will silts the medical examiners was in, we were almost at risk of losing our accreditation. This is why this building was born to build. This is why we needed to build quickly. And, yes. As the mayor said, we needed to move rapidly in getting people out of the hall of justice. We know that no one should be in that building. Here we are a step closer to moving one of those departments at least out of that building and into a stateoftheart facility. Members sometimes will have to make that journey to this particular place in order to find out exactly what happened. And the great news is that they will have a warm, welcoming, beautiful facility, incredible public art. I think that the staff will probably feel a lot better, too, working under these conditions. So im excited about the future. Im excited about what is to come. I think this is a step in the right direction. I wish it were raping money all over the place so we can do this for every City Department we know needs to be out of the hall of justice. I know everybody shaking their heads right now actually work in the hall of justice. Were going to get to each and every