The second street, exterior sun will also be in, grading, everything so that buses can be parked. And then, the Administration Building will be completed as well. Youll hear over the next few months, ill be presenting the construction updates over the next few months. So with that, ill turn it over to skip for phase two, the 2018. So for 2018, the plan for phase two is tjpa has been requested by sfcta to put the fcis on hold until the peer review on the street track has been completed in march. We will then submit the environmental document to the board fof your approval. The seiscs is with the fta right now, and they are doing their final qcqa checks and will be in position to issue the rod prior to the tjpa board approval. We have scheduled meetings with sfta to support their review for the tier three track. And were in place, once the rap study is available, well be in a position to address any of the recommendations that are presented from this study. Were going to secure funding to update the remaining Design Elements that were not done in the previous year, and then, well complete 30 design and cost estimate for the entire phase two project. We plan on entering the new starts federal grant program. Its a 1 billion ask for our grant, and its also identified in the 2040 plan bay area plan right now, and its all for the dtx project. The tjpa board approval, the environmental document, along with a record of the decision from fta is essential to entering the program to maintain the timeline required to secure the funding, so you know, to progress, we need to keep things moving. We will position the project for any additional infrastructure funding that may come available this year from any anywhere. Well be ready, okay . Thank you. Okay. The focus in 2018 is of course inform open. This can be thought of in three main areas. What i call lights on, doors open, marketing and promotion, and construction. Other than security, the other two Major Services that are labor intensive is the engineering and maintenance staff and the custodial staff. As we move closing to opening, lincoln will contract for e and m labor, mostly dictated by the hours needed to appropriately maintain the equipment. This cannot be accurately obtained until information is provided by webcore, however a staffing model has been built into the preliminary budget. With regarded to the custodial staff, the concept is to start lean based on projected visitor volume and safety considerations and then build from there. A staffing model, again, has been built into the preliminary budget. Additionally, the Major Service contracts that are already in place and mentioned earlier will be supplemented by other smaller needed contracts such as pest control. The computerized Maintenance Management system and it operations contract are singled out on this slide as a goal for 2018 because these are integral to keeping the center up and running. The it operations contract also includes a 247 help desk or will include a 247 help desk. With regard to establishing a robust Promotions Program to include a website, four proposals are in hand with focused work to occur over the next few months to select contract for and launch the program. Finally, lincoln is charged with planning, bidding and commencing the landlord what i call prework to be ready for the tenant improvements. This work would be starting to look at the electrical distribution and the mechanical and plumbing distribution branchs and taking a look at starting to build the demising walls which would be the main outlines. We will continue to seek sponsors for Revenue Generation. Recall that the concept is to provide activities that are free to the public with sponsorship to support covering operating expenses. An example from brb from other locations is seeking sponsorship for holiday decoration doe decorations. These conversations are well underway. Finally pearl is an important partner in structures these opportunities in that they will seek to pull brb into their advertising packages. Pearls goaled are threefold for the content management system. As mentioned earlier, the design work is done, so the focus turns to testing and implementation, so to be ready with the transit information, to be ready with the way finding information, and then, to work on Revenue Generation through advertising on the screens, experiencential activities in the grand hall. Pearl will be here in february to speak before the board for a comprehensive view of their work. The retail has two components, temporary and permanent. With the temporary, its straightforward. The goal is to be ready with pop ups for when the buses start to run. All the legwork is targeted to be completed by the end of march as noted earlier. A primary activity over the next few weeks is verification of the electrical outlets on the bus deck and the ground floor level. When this is completed, the preliminary plan can be finalized for pri to ge out and get commitments from the vendors. Colliers is going to follow in a little while, and they will include an overview of targeted activities that gets us to the Second Quarter of 2019 is the First Quarter that were looking at opening our first stores. So this is a visual of the pop up locations at the ground level with the pop up types noted in the key. And again, this is what were working towards and well be verifying the electrical over the next were going to actually do that one of the meetings is next week. Last, as mentioned earlier in 2018, full bus service. Im just going to focus on one as secretary, which is continued transition planning and ron mentioned this earlier. Over the holidays, a group of us met with the ac transit executive, salvador llamas and Steven Keller for active engagement on getting ready for what is needed at the bus deck. This includes the work that webcore needs to complete to enable the Driver Training for the buses to begin Revenue Service. So this led to our restructuring the monday mornings transition meetings so that the first part of the meeting is for information and action that pertains to all the operators, and the second half of the meeting is just for ac transit. We started with a check list that will be expanded on over the next few weeks for a comprehensive task list from ac transit. This is for us to understand the intersection of what is needed by when as related to the webcore work, and that new format started this work. Finally, this monday, conversation and this will happen on a weekly basis conversation was started on vacancy of the temporary terminal. The request of the operators is to start to build their task list and then we can apply timelines. Well, were off to a fast start in 2018. The third item, staff will host integrated security, emergency exercises to train the security team. Tjpa staff, transit operators, Transit Center employees and First Responders to respond to emergencies at the Transit Center. Theyll execute a professional Services Agreement for information security, Cyber Security services. Staff will request the board approve the sales force Transit Center code of conduct. Its to support the centers goals and other purposes of the facility, preserving the publics investment, and promoting a safe Transit Center for all users. It supplements the park rules and regulations. Finally following the board approval in october, an ordinance has been drafted amending the park code to amend tjpas park to the San Francisco park code. It should go before the board of supervisors later this month, and ill turn it over to mark to introduce or next presenter. Our next presenter is going to be Christine Salvi deputy. Shes with the department of public works. Shes helped us with outreach, and weve given her a very small task which is planning for our grand opening. Christine . Thanks, mark. Good morning, directors. As mark stated, we are planning for the grand opening excuse me of the Transit Center. I thought i would start by going over who our goals are. Our goal is to have a regional selection for the Greater Community in the bay area, and i want to assure you that is going to be done in a very comprehensive way, culturally competent. Were going to be reaching out to all of our neighborhoods in the region really. Its a small staff, we have a lot of partners who really want to see us succeed and have a great grand opening. Our outreach is going to focus on the continued use of the facility, and our goal is to build excitement and awareness about the center in the months leading up to grand opening. So in order to accomplish this, you approved a limited Public Outreach budget to offset the cost of these events and to implement a Community Media outreach plan. First were going to transition riders from the temporary permanent until in a multilink wal way through maps, signage and an ambassador program. Next, were going to undertake a traditional media and social media plan thats going to highlight everything from transit leadership, transit oriented development, and really highlight the project and its going to have a continued benefit for continued generations of san franciscans and everyone in the bay area. Were going to work with our partners to plan and host a series of events. Were going to be having public, school and media tours, and open house, and something were going to call a neighborhood block party. We really want inclusiveness, to make sure everyone knows this is for them. Were also going to have the grapt opening and ribb grand opening and Ribbon Cutting. Finally, weve established a working Communications Group with the ac transit, sfmta and our other partners. Weve met and toured the facility together, and weve started sharing information and planning for the event, and im happy to come back in the months and update you. This concludes our presentation. In 2017 you can see we accomplished quite a bit, but we still have a lot of work in 2018. Weve got completion of the Transit Center, bus operations, advancing phase fwo, atwo, andg sure that the leasing revenues are competent, and making sure that the operators dont have to subsidize the Transit Center. With that, do you have any questions . Yeah. For christine on the last slide, do we have a best guess date for the grand opening . I do not. I have a good range that im working with, and our planning partners and myself are working together. All that im doing can apply to when the center opens. So i presume itll be in the late summer, summer or fall . Well, we have two people that hold the answer to that webcore and ac transit. Webcore needs to finish the building. I know ac transit will be part of the grand opening. Im just trying to get a little bit yeah, absolutely. So our goal is to open everything for the community. Partners, and Revenue Service well have Revenue Service in place it sounds like to me already. Probably. The goal is in may to start with public tours and school tours and really promote that its ready. And Revenue Service and the popup retail i imagine is going to open at the same time, simultaneously, so events are going to be planned in that way. Yeah. Our other plan and weve discussed that with ac transit is to have a june operations, but really, from rons report, that was based on an april substantial completion, and so now, theres a little bit of slippage, so if we dont bring that back, the may could be in jeopardy the june operations could be in jeopardy, so thats something in the next two months were going to be pushing really hard to make sure we achieve that. But the intent is to be largely convinincidence with t start of service. It would be when the centers really open. I think thats roughly when the launch would be. Its Ribbon Cutting. So thats when the buses would come in and celebrate. Yeah. If its literally the launch of service, thats a whole thing that we have to get involved in, because that started at 5 30 in the morning. Im just saying, thats what you have we may have a little bit of preappreciations before that. Okay. And then, on slide 54, i guess this is skip yeah, slide 54, do you have any idea how many records and decisions been issued by the fta in the last six months . I have none. I dont. I hear its zero. So my question is if we dont get a record of decision if this continues as a means of just playing around with fta money for future i can tell you for this project, weve come to so close to getting that record of decisions starting way back to last summer that our teams are so closely connected on this project that we have every indication that as soon as were ready, theyre ready. And donald trump is still president. I dont yeah. Wiokay. Okay. All right. I just wanted to know what we had on that. Okay. And director, just on the last point, ive not hear that the federal Governments Holding up records of decisions. I think a discretionary Grant Agreement is another question, but were not there yet for this project. I just had a few quick things. Sorry that i had step out, but i had to read this, and it was a great report. As you said, a lot got done and theres a lot to do. Just three small things. The additional cellular revenues relating back to our earlier discussion, to what extent have you already contemplated those in the up coming budget . I apologize, i dont have the numbers in front of me, but off the top of my head, i believe the assumption was that they would have signed one or two carriers, not not all four, and then, the minimum annual guarantee is 125,000 a year, so that is included in the okay. It looked like i thought i understood from the slides, there would be additional beyond what they already have, and does that turn help address or gap so we dont have to rely on the operators to do so. I believe just based on timing assumptions that what i included was first and second carrier signings to be included. And there may be some upside there that we havent captured yet. Potentially. Okay. Thank you. The second question with regard to the code of conduct. What do we anticipate the process would be by which that would be established before it i assume it comes to the board, but how are you going to go about developing that. Oh, were in the process right now of developing it. Weve gotten Community Input from various different organizations since ive been here, and right now, im working with sfpd to get their input on that and then debra and i have been working closely on that to get it to something that will be unique to us, but weve been benchmarking it off of similar programs in the u. S. That have similar operations. Given that its in a public building that will be in a neighborhood in our city, we probably want a fair amount of Public Engagement in the Development Stage of that. I think that will help that board as it comes here, to know that its been vetted through Community Groups and the area, of course our cac and others. Yes. Thank you. The last point is not so much a question but more a comment. In terms of the goals of the opening, i think the targets, the existing riders, making sure they just understand the transition, thats really important. And then kind of the larger benefits to the public of the center, i think thats obviously important as well. The real you know, the real immediate winners are folks that are coming from the east way to San Francisco or vice versa, because the buses no longer have to toddle on the city streets. If it wasnt a good option for you before, it might be a better one now. I would hope and expect that ac transit ridership would benefit from this. Folks need to understand that benefit of direct freeway connections. Yeah, and i agree and well be working with ac Transit Marketing department, and weve met with them already to highlight that. Okay. I would join the other directors in just thanking staff for all the accomplishments and the great work that has happened last year. Ill keep mysxd fingers crosse that well meet our goals this year. I feel we do have a deadline, and that collaboration will allow us to get this. Webcore, in the room, we definitely are looking forward to opening the station as planned, and so other than that, i feel everybodys working hard and we should just use every little minute we have to reach opening of the station. Thank you. Okay. The last part of my presentation will be Erica Elliott from Colliers International with a very brief update on our leasing agreement. It should be a very short presentation. Good morning, directors. Yes to directors, at this point, i was prepared to stand here and say well, it was december and thats when everybody was not calling us to say were busy recouping our profits for the end of the year, but i have to say, that wasnt the case. They called us. We have not only did we have twice as many tours as we did the month before, but we also had 20 additional inquiries of people that were interested in the center, and we didnt think we were going to get any offers until our scheduled, you know, Second Quarter, but we have five offers already. And so what i want to just quickly go through here is this is our leasing report that youve seen for the last couple of months now, showing the different types of uses and where they are in the stage. So people weve reached out to, people that have contacted us, people that are deciding which space to pick, tours that theyve had with our contractors, tours that they wanted to have an overview of the center, and then pushing all of those into offers. So director reiskin, your question last time was how are we doing . So what we wanted to do is show you in comparison to the dock map of opening 11 stores in Second Quarter 2019. We wanted to show you where it would have to be and what offers we would have to have and in what phase to get to that point. Now, obviously this will change. Some deals will go quicker, some deals will fall out, by a good benchmark is what you see there on the screen. We were expecting most of our offers to come in and be negotiated this is letter of intent, Second Quarter. Were with 13 of them to get to that 11 opening, were five in it, and were not even on the board yet. So this is this is a great example of how well were doing. Does anybody have any questions . Just one thing, just to give you some action items here. So what we do is were promoting and were campaigning and were touring. Were working on putting tenants in the right placement. A lot of this is merchandising plans, which tenants should be put next to other tenants, which are placement in the most traffic, least traffic, more lounge and linger, and then working with the tenants on this mechanical and electrical and plumbing, so where do they best go in the center, where do they move things, work with lincoln and turn enter to review that. Thank you. One of the questions i have is leasing report by stage is how to read it. Ive never known whether the numbers were a snapshot or a progression. For example its a snapshot. All right. Its a snapshot, which means youve got three bar inquiries, and a separate three in preview . So let me explain each definition to you. Maybe it would help a little bit. So prospects are tenants that we have targeted that we are reaching out to that we have conversations with. Inquiries are those that have come to us through the website. They have registered with us. Preview are2q those who have ge through process and inquiry stages and are now seriously considering making an offer with you are working on which space to make an offer on. And onto this, we have three offers, but we actually have a little bit more than that. The total here is 172. Okay. Contacts. Yeah. 172 different interests. Yeah. Thank you. Director, this concludes my report. All right. Your next item is advisory review board update. Good morning. Direct directors. Id like to [ inaudible ] my name is bruce aggen. Im the chair of the tjpa citizens advisory committee. Im glad to see the smiles on everybodys faces. Because thats what that was supposed to do. Ill just start off with the staff report and i wanted to talk about the inaugural bus service. Month after month, ive realt really engaging and important process that ive had the honor and privilege of serving on. We talk about budget, we talk about services, we talk about schedule, we talk about mitigation strategies and so on and so on, but the reality at the end of the day is were going to have a transbay sales force Transit Center with sales force and retail and so on. So we didnt want i was so excited about the five local Service Starting on december 26th, my wife and i were out of town with the inlaws over christmas. We got back about 3 00 in the afternoon on tuesday, the 26th. I told my wife im going down to the Transit Center. You want to go with me . She said okay, so we went down there, got to the boarding platform area, and who was there . It was just a fabulous sight. It was fantastic. There was a transit inspector, there was a muni service planner, there was a Security Guard and a pco, and several buses. And my wife was a bit reluctant to join, but after she saw the smiles on everybodys faces, we held a little Ribbon Cutting ceremony. So i know that the real Ribbon Cutting ceremonys going to be awesome, but we couldnt let this go without a little celebration. So had a Little Christmas ribbon leftover from one of the present. The six of us held the ribbon. My wife turned to the director the production director, and she said well, lets take this picture, lets take that picture. That evening, i posted it on facebook, and guess how small the world is . One of my inlaws husbands cousins was the director was the muni driver whos in that picture, so the guy on the the guy on the right is is a cousin of one of my relatives. Crazy. World small. So it was really fantastic. And the pride i just want to share with you, the pride of the folks that was there, it was awesome. I spent 15 minutes talking to the muni service planner, matt. I want to publicly say i was so impressed with his enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, commitment. Being there, he explained the entire operations of how the 5 local was going to work during this interim, how it was going to work in the actual permanent service, how all the other lines that are going to come in and how theyre going to be staged, and why theyre staged the way they are. The focus was on safety, the focus was on passenger experience, and operations efficiency. And director reiskin, it was awesome. I couldnt stop smiling. I was listening to him talk, and my face was just it was an awesome experience. So i just wanted to share this. It was obviously you can tell by my excitement and enthusiasm, it was really an awesome experience. The only feedback that we provided at the cac was just you know, right now knowing when we went down there, it was a very slow period downtown, would be the communication of transitioning of passengers from the temporary terminal to the actual Transit Center is to ensure its really clear for both. Just ask that maybe muni to check in and kind of see what the ridership looks like to really be taking advantage of the service at the new Transit Center because there are even with the ambassadors, you still kind of have to maneuver your way through and so on. But again, it was just a real positive experience. The next thing i want to move on in the staff report was that the tjpa team as a as indicated, is applying for the application, 275 million of tircp funding for phase two, and the cac submitted a letter of support and assisted in reaching out to other advocacy groups to do the same. Moving onto the annual report, ill just touch on a few items briefly. The accomplishments, the cac wanted to acknowledge and compliment the project team, contractors, and the skilled union labor for their skilled work and progress to date in 2017. Safety is critical, and although metrics for recordable injuries are comparable on osha recordables, the fact that lost time injuries are 25 of industry average was excellent. And so good to see as we cant celebrate the success of this project if were saddled with injuries impacting the lives of our workforce. A specific highlight that was mentioned was the community engagement, and we wanted to applaud the project team. The fact that there were only 12 customer complaints in 2017 as compared to 68 in 2015 and 48 in 2016 really showed the effective engagement. And the cost after the challenges on the life of the project, the team has been holding the line on eac. There were a few areas of concern that were already talked about, and then, other items that the cac would really like to keep a close eye on over the coming months. Again, we were disappointed to see the slippage of the substantial completion date from april 23rd to may 11th, and what was immediate concern and director harper, you mentioned it, and executive director issapiti, you mention they wanted to get it ready to go in june, with substantial completion in april. The fact that its pushed out to may really becomes a problem for the june startup. The focus has always been on substantial completion, and we know that the project team is continuing to work with webcore to pull that back in. One thing that the cac wanted to make a recommendation is on the construction schedule, when youre looking at substantial completion and youre looking at a few key dates of muni transit starting and right now, that shows the end of april, and we just talked about the june implementation for ac transit, the fact that the schedules pushed out to may 11th, we actually have muni bus Service Starting before. If you look at the schedule, thats what it appears, so interestfrom a tran parency perspective, even though the operators will be ready and are planning to be ready on those dates, if you cant start service, you cant really show that as implementation, so we recommend that as a change of how the schedule is prepared. The cac is also interested in a presentation at an up coming meeting on the status of pop ups. What is the mix of offerings . How much of the space is already committed . Although its understanding that this is or will be this aspect of the center will be ready, we would like to be able to provide input prior to the plans being finalized and brought to the board for approval. Were also recommending more visible and specificity of planning for the retail during 2018, insight into the schedule, forecast versus actuals, month to month changes from baseline, in addition to the types of retailers who are expressing interests in committing in contracts of interests to the cac. Public interest strategies. The cac requested a presentation at a future meeting of the overall elements involved and the narratives that are being highlighted. The center the real Center OpeningRibbon Cutting, were pleased to here that the comprehensive ceremony will be planned, including all neighbors, city and region wide, and the cac looks forward in participating in this ceremony. One last item i wanted to mention is i wanted to follow up on our discussion regarding the integrated planning effort to address and compassionately support any issues with potential Homeless Population which could be attracted to the center. The cac at this last meeting had a robust and passionate discussion. Regarding the discussion the panel presented last month. Although overall we were pleased with the progress to this point, we are working on a set of recommendations that we will provide to the board, our district six supervisor and the department of homelessness for consideration hopefully in the next few weeks. Sorry for going on so long here, but tr for the opportunity to provi thank you for the opportunity to provide this update. If i could, i just want to thampg t thank the chair for his full and comprehensive report of the cac, but in particular for the ad hoc Ribbon Cutting ceremony. I also wanted to commend the staff, ron and mark and the project team for all the work they did with the whole team to get ready for the 26th. When i went back and asked my folks how things went, it seemed that things went off smoothly and well. I asked them to make sure that the rider experience would be positive and not make them feel like they were in the middle of a construction site, and from the photos, i feel you guys did a good job, get an early attest of what the full experience will be when the center opens. Please convey to the whole team or gratitude on behalf of our riders for making that happen. Will do. Thank you. Great. Thanks. Item 7 is a public comment. Opportunity for members of the public to address you on matters that are not on todays calendar. We have jim patrick. Thank you. Jim patrick, patrick and company. To the board of directors here. Id like to call your attention to the San FranciscoTransit Authority that agreed to spend 188,000 on a peer rephrase for the design to bring together the rav report, two track versus one track, and the proposal to the tjpa has been made, and i believe mark or one of our representatives are going to sit on that board. Thats a strategic thing, and as this peer Group Reviews it, theyre going to finally make a recommendation. It seems to me, from an outsider looking in, that no one can do what the peer group doesnt want to do, so it will essentially be a decision about how the dtx and the connection on down the line is going to go. Its a clever political move, but id like to see reporting and i had id like to see an agenda item on this board as to how this process is going. We have to Pay Attention to this, and im also curious what the board policy direction is to our staff relative to what we should be reporting and promoting to this peer group. Ive heard nothing from this board and that ive seen, so what is our plan and can we bring a report back to this board as to how this peer review is going so we can influence it necessarily if we need to. Otherwise we sit like a dummy in the back of the truck, and the truck leaves town and were without. Thank you. At this time, you are scheduled to go into closed session. Weve not received any indication that a member of the public wishes to address you on th. All right. The tjpa regularly scheduled meeting of january is 1, 2018 is back in session. There are no further items on the calendar that need your support. Okay. We are adjourned. Thank good morning. Its such an amazing, wonderful, wonderful morning. Thank you for coming to this incredible event. Im the director from the office of the mayor. I want to do a few House Keeping notes beforehanding it over. I want to thank the office, our incredible leader here who made the event possible. And the partners at jon stewart company. I know i see kathryn back there, the amazing people. Thank you for your leadership. applause and the community of infrastructure and investment, nadia, you are somewhere here. Thank you so much for the investment in the Amazing Development and the Mayors Office of housing and community development. Thank you for coming here. So without further adue, we want to start the celebration this Ribbon Cutting, this amazing moment, we have our Supervisor Malia Cohen and mayor london breed here. First, i want to bring up our director to kick us off. applause thank you very much for being here this morning. This is a really, really important time for me and for all of us. As a child growing up here in Hunters Point, i actually played on this very spot where were standing. Which is a surprise, that our Childcare Center is now here. We lived right there in the building right there in the place right here we were playing as children, my sister and i, who is the cofounder and there was a lot of housing in this area here. When we opened up the center and my Program Director tracy and i was walking through and i was telling the story, she said gladys its here, the Childcare Center. And i was very moved but it couldnt be done without all of you helping and supporting us. Im not going to be up here long but i really want to quote a saying by Myriam Wright elder man. Children must have at least one person who believes in them, it could be a counsellor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend, it could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a special seed of hope. One of the things that we work very, very hard to do at frandelja that has now been open 17 years, is plant the succeed of success to ensure that all children have an opportunity to succeed in life, as well as their parents. Again, i thank mayor london breed and Supervisor Malia Cohen for being here this morning. Thank you so very much. applause we will now hear from our mayor. Thank you everyone and good morning. Its so excited to be here today. I grew up in the western Edition Community in Public Housing there and we were fortunate, the childcare facility i went to as a kid was just right across the street. Mary lee would pick me up while my grandmother was working and we had a community, we had a lot of support. We would walk to school together, we grew up together and thats what being a community is about, making sure that our children have these incredible opportunities to start off in childcare to grow and thrive in our communities. I want to take a moment to acknowledge our mayor, mayor ed lee who constantly was an advocate for making sure we were fulfilling the old promises that we promised decades ago to the residents here in the bayview Hunters Point community. This is a promise fulfilled today, its an opportunity for our young people to grow and thrive. This is an opportunity to make sure that every single child here succeeds and going to preschool is just really the first opportunity any kid gets to grow and learn and thrive. And so im excited to be here, 70 slots. 70 slots. Childcare applause childcare just like healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. Every child in our city deserves this Incredible Opportunity and thank each and every one of you for being a part of this wonderful event, actually this is really cool, this floor is really soft and im kind of melting in it. We didnt have that, we had to play on the concrete. These kids are lucky, they have toys and new equipment and great stuff to play with. This is absolutely incredible and im so grateful to be here and im grateful for the amazing leadership of supervisor cohen who represents this district. Shes a hard worker and cares about the community and steadfast, constantly pushing to make sure were headed in the right direction and i think about ed lee again today, often times supervisor cohen and i would be the main persons going into his office talking about our districts and what we want and fussing a bit about what we want. And the mayor would just tell us, look, im going to take care of it, and he did take care of it. He took care of it and malia cohen has been a fierce advocate for making sure the community is taken care of. Ladies and gentlemen, supervisor cohen. applause thank you. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. So today really is a celebration no doubt. But this is truly a combination of all the work that started almost three years ago, frandelja has had a fantastic story that is rooted here in our community, started at gilman at true hope with the vision of a few Community Members that recognized there was a gap in service right here in the southeast. People should be able to walk their kids to school or drive a few minutes to drop their kids off. So thats when the leadership of frandelja got together. Now, years passed and they came to me about three years ago and said were in jeopardy of losing this, we need to move and find a site. I dont know if you remember that conversation, it was difficult to have, but its true, ed lee was at the table and neighborhood and campaiommu partners as well as the developers of this project that assisted us in moving from one location to another so we dont lose any services. But lets be clear, we still need more quality Early Education opportunities here in our neighborhood just as we see across the city. This is a fantastic day we have come to celebrate this resource were pouring into our community and the childcare facility that will make it a little bit, just a little bit easier for moms and dads to go to work, knowing that their child has a safe place, not only are they playing, but theyre also learning. I think its property to highlight theyre learning basic fundamental principles that will put them on the pathway of being successful for education and then ultimately a Career Opportunity and who knows run for supervisor or mayor. We have a good track record right here. applause youre looking at two products of the Public School system before you, good things do come out of San Francisco and working class communities and i think thats a very Important Message we need to speak out over our little ones. So im proud to stand with the women that founded the high Quality Learning Center and you know whats really beautiful is that it started with a vision and tenacity of Community Members that saw the need and they just took action. They werent elected officials, they werent appointed to anything, they felt the urgency and the call to action. They felt that urgency of now. And they stepped up. I want to give my humble gratitude to sandra and gladys for their leadership. Theres Many Organizations here that help us with the funding of such an endeavor. So we as a city are proud to be part of working together to make sure this facility and others are successful. I want to say congratulations, its a big victory for all of us here and i hope we can take a few moments in the early parts of 2018 to recognize this and celebrate. Congratulations everyone. applause thank you supervisor cohen. Madam mayor breed. Im looking over to gladys, i believe we have some special guests, i see some amazing little ones over there, a special treat for the mayor here. But first, i think im to bring up miss ariana smith, miss smith is a parent of a child enrolled at frandelja. Welcome. Good morning. Come on mama smith. Dont be nervous. Im not really a speaker but i want to say thank you to frandelja for being accessible to me as a single working parent and you guys have been so helpful making my child feel shes at home. Its been very helpful to me. I thank you for everything. Thank you. applause miss gladys would you like to introduce the special performance or Ribbon Cutting first . Special performance first. As you come up, we have a few elected officials here, our school board president. Thank you for coming. Miss gladys. They are very excited, maybe a little nervous, so if you know the songs, i would like for you to help them along. Heres our performers. Round and round the wheels on the bus go round and round all through the town the baby on the bus goes wahwahwah the baby on the bus goes wahwahwah all through the town the mommy on the bus goes shhshhshh the mommy on the bus goes shhshhshh all through the town the bus driver on the bus goes move on back move on back all through the town applause were going to stop at three, is that enough . 3, 2, 1 we did it . Hi, im frank jorge golden go up a utility supervisor for the Distribution System i offer seizing see the personnel that install water maidens and water Carbon Monoxides ive personal proud to work with city and distribution place whether a fire or main break those folks come on scene and get the job done 3450r7b9 what time theyre here to take care of each other and make it so a safe and secure way i was encouraged to learn to deal with the services and breaks and i wanted to move into understanding how to do main connections one the great things that the sfpuc to move to different sections in if youre tdr in learning a different job you have the ability to move up i courage anyone to step out of their comfortable zone and work on a system as large as a our water system we started from one end and keep on going its a fascinating job and im going to stay here because ill never learn everything to learn about this system pledge of allegiance id like to call roll. Please do. Commissioner president turman. Commissioner Vice President thomas mazzucco