Very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat to the public right off their boats in San Francisco. Its not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but its evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. But how is it regulated . And what does it take for a boat to be transported into a Floating Fish market . Find out as we hop on board on this episode of whats next sf. Were here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. Its no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because its doing just that. Its the first boat in San Francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. How did you establish your boat into such a Floating Fish market . Well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. When you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. So being able to do this is really its a big positive thing i think for the entire community. A very positive thing. As a thirdgeneration fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. Since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. Right now were just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. So we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. Theres the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. And then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. Joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. We had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. Its incredible. I know, its hard to imagine. But this wasnt always the case for joe. The markets that we have left in california, theyre few and far between, and they really are restrictive. Theyll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. A lot of times its rough weather and if you cant make your delivery you will lose your rotation. Thats why theres hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. My boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldnt do anything with it because we had no market. The ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldnt take them off your boat. That was until the Port Commission of San Francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a Pilot Program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. The purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall Fishing Community at the port of San Francisco. We have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. Crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on Taylor Street and jefferson street. So this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. Its to basically to lift up the whole industry together. And if joe the program has been doing just that. It was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. And that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. Once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. Because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from San Francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. Because we really didnt think or know that wed get such a positive response from the public. And so were getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so thats pretty cool. They like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. And when they come down here the one thing that they say is that theyre so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and its still fresh all week in the refrigerator. So thats really cool. The fish is very fresh and the price is super. I dont think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. I can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. I just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. This Program Supports the Strategic Plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. Because its helping the fishermen to make ends meet. They have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. How does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did . When i was a kid and i used to work in my dads fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. So i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l. A. So its kind of cool that were still dealing with the same families. And this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. One of the advantages of this program is the Department People that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. The feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. And theres a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. In fact, theres people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at whats happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. So its generated some conversation down at the wharf and thats a good thing. As you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the Pilot Program has been a huge success. For more information visit sfsport. Com. Supporters of the eagle plaza. [cheers and applause] this morning, i was honored, my Business Partner, mike leon. On this historic day. I want to take the warmest welcome possible to the honorable mayor london breed, supervisor haney, supervisor mandelman. The greatest community, members of the leather and lgbt cultural district and the friends of eagle plaza. Were all here today after a long road. Great accomplishments. Eagle plaza started as an idea. Six years ago my Business Partner and i met, built and have a conversation about breaking ground for construct, where we floated idea of the construction of the plaza. Between the San Francisco eagle bar and the construction. A plaza unique to the world that will honor the leather and lgbt communities, serve as a focal part for them to have events. And now this idea is about to come true. Its fitting this was elected for the first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community. Its been the home for this community for decades. A special thanks to supervisor haney and mandelman for introducing and pushing forward the legislation to permit the construction of eagle plaza. [cheers and applause] without their efforts, eagle plaza would still remain as an idea. I would like to thank all of those who contributed financially to eagle plaza and to my eagle family for their support. And, of course, the most special thanks to mayor breed, who removed road blocks, constantly moved the project forward to where were here today at the groundbreaking of eagle plaza. I would like you to extend the warmest welcome to our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] mayor breed thank you so much. I am so excited to be here today. Were going to have one of the most beautiful plazas in San Francisco. I remember when it first became mayor and i knew that this idea had started over six years ago when state senator scott wiener was on the board of supervisors and i know a lot of the work he did helped to get us to this place. But i was really frustrated over the two years of bureaucracy. We already had the support. We already had the plan. And the city bureaucracy continued to delay this project. So two years delay was just really unacceptable. So when i first became mayor, i made this one of my first directives and we got the approvals done in three months. So im really proud [applause] that we were able to Work Together to accomplish that goal. In addition to that, because this was such an amazing communitydriven project, 200,000 from the Community College grant was made possible to help fund this project. The work from build inc. And i want to thank Lauren Seguin for being here, as well as the folks from the Park Alliance and the friends of eagle plaza, you all came together to make this incredible project possible. And i also would like to say a special thank you to senator scott wiener who put 100,000 in the state budget so we can have the Additional Support that we need. But heres the good news. We know that there is still a 50,000 funding gap and so that we can focus on the work and not on the resources needed to get the work done, i work with supervisor mandelman to come up with the 50,000 that we need to get this project done. [cheers and applause] mayor breed so to the folks of the leather and the Lgbt Community and this cultural district that was made possible for the purposes of celebration coming together. And in the spirit of pride month here in San Francisco that celebrates inclusiveness and love and all great things we are here in our great city, i would like to say congratulations and thank you all for your hard work. I know when this plaza is completed, its going to be used by so many people, to hang out, drink coffee, read, and celebrate and all the great things we do that make San Francisco such a unique and special place for people to visit and live here. Thank you, all, so much. [applause] now id like to present a very special award that the San Francisco eagle bar to a very special person. This is called the leather feather. And its given in recognition of someone who not only has supported the Leather Community in a special way, but performed Extraordinary Service in doing so. So for making eagle plaza a reality, eagle bar is honored to present the leather feather to the San Francisco mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you. Thank you so much. Mayor breed thank you. [applause] i want to have you guys now with bob, the chair of the leather and lgbt cultural district. [applause] i am proud to be here for this historic event and the leather district is delighted to have the eagle plaza in our district. And we look forward to its use as a gathering point in the district. I have the honor of introducing rafael mandelman, the District Supervisor and native san franciscan. He supported the Leather Community even before he ran for supervisor and can be seen in local venues periodically. [laughter] now hes reaching out beyond his districts boundaries to take real action to help make spaces like the eagle plaza come into being. His actions to make spaces for leather communities will keep this neighborhoods historic vibrant which will help perpetuate the city as a city for tolerance and acceptance. With that, i present to you rafael mandelman. [applause] supervisor mandelman good morning, everybody. This is such a wonderful morning and as i look out at this crowd of gorgeous people who are doing Amazing Things in our city for so many causes and communities. I see race bannon. Race always deserves a round of applause. [applause] San Francisco is a city that does not forget its history. We build on our history. We celebrate our history and make new things happen next to old things and that is part of the magic of the city. And im so pleased that this plaza is as the mayor said, it took a little longer than would have been ideal, but it is now finally happening. I want to say just a few maybe a year ago, or a couple of years ago, we were worried about whether there even would be an eagle, right . More than a few years ago, but the Community Came together and city hall responded and now not only is the eagle still here, its still a place to enjoy on sunday afternoons and all the time. And thank you so much, lex and mike, but now we have not only the eagle, but this amazing plaza coming here. So thank you, all, for coming out. Thank you all for coming out. But have a very, very happy pride. [applause] thank you, supervisor mandelman. I now have the proud honor of introducing district 6 supervisor matt haney. I met matt when he reached out to the leather and lgbt district when running for office. He expressed support for our community then and is following through with his action. Its these spaces that form a community and those spaces for the leather and lgbtq communities are under constant threat in this neighborhood. Matt haney is not only talking about preserving the culture here, hes sponsoring legislation to preserve the spaces that make soma a destination for people across the country and around the world. The fact that he is here today showing support for the eagle plaza is one sign of his commitment to the communities. With that, i present to you supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, bob. Well, i want to say this one more time. This is going to be the worlds first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community. Isnt that incredible . World first. And not only is it the worlds first public plaza dedicated to the Leather Community, it is in the worlds first cultural district dedicated to the lgbtq community. Give it up for that as well. Bob, tremendous leadership. I want to thank all of you who worked hard to make this happen. Sf parks alliance, mayor breed, supervisor mandelman, senator wiener. This is an extraordinary effort that made this happen. Far too often the things that make this city wonderful, the things that built this culture, created our identity, the institutions, the businesses, are the ones that are constantly under attack. And sadly thats been the case here in western soma as well for the Leather Community. And with what were doing today, the city is finally saying, not only are we going to preserve those institutions and that culture, were going to celebrate it, have a permanent home for it in our city and were going to do it in western soma. There is no west soma without the Leather Community. Im excited about the future of this plaza for a number of reasons. Also because we need more open space in this part of the city. Soma and west soma has some of the least amount of open space, parks, places for people to relax, to bring their dogs, hang out. And i know this can be an extraordinary open space. I may not have been to many leather events, but i have been here for the beer bust a couple of weeks ago. And this is a community that knows how to come together to have a good time. I want to give a shoutout to a group of people. I want to shout out to the construction workers behind us, who are actually going to build this thing. For all of their hard work, were going to put on hard hats, but they do the work every day. Thank you so much. T thank you all for being here. Well champion the leather district, the eagle and the plaza. Thank you, all, for being here. Good morning, everyone. My name is victor, im the Communications Director for senator scott wiener. This is a project he has spent a lot of energy working with lex and mike for the last six years to make this happen. He was very proud to get in the budget 100,000 to help make this a reality. [applause] i want to thank mayor london breed as well for her continued support of the plaza, as well as supervisor mandelman and haney. The Leather Community has always played an Important Role in the lgbtq community. At the height of the h. I. V. Epidemic, the Community Stepped up to raise funds for h. I. V. Care, research and care for the entire community and continues to do that to this day. This plaza will serve to commemorate that and to continue to allow that work to happen. I want to thank you all for being here today and all of you that helped make this happen today. Thank you so much. [applause] id like to bring up lauren from build inc. Thanks. I dont know where to start. I mean, so many aspects of this are important. People think of us as developers, but really were urban placemakers and this exemplifies the work that is important to us, every project we do. The neighborhood makes its place and has influence on what we can do there. So this is amazing. For my partners, on behalf of my partners, our whole build group, the team at the office, this is the work that is meaningful, rewarding and just makes it all worth while. So thanks to mayor breed, to supervisor mandelman, haney, lex and the whole community to help make this happen. It takes a village and this is our village. Thank you. Lets dig dirt and make it happen [applause] we have shovels right here. Lets go dig. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 turn that dirt woo hoo [applause] love that. Thats a great shot. Thank you. Neighborhood in San Francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them were in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the San Francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district Fishermans Wharf exhibit no. North beach Telegraph Hill and part of union square. All of San Francisco districts are remarkable im honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach Fishermans Wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in San Francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tightknit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, im one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the United States been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. It is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbucks exists and it created a really welcoming pot. It is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the Jefferson Starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet Lawrence William getty and jack herb man go hung out. They work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it theres a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you good morning, everyone. You guys should be excited. Good morning. Thank you. I serve as the director of public works in the city and county of San Francisco. On behalf of public works, we are very excited because we are going to be a tenant in this new building 49 south vanness. How about a big hand for that. [applause. ] i am also excited to be here to celebrate a Major Construction milestone. Today is very, very exciting not just for public works but for the other nine city departments that will be relocated into this stateofthearts building upon its completion. At the end of our ceremony, we will raise the final steel beam into place to complete the structural framing of this new 430,000 square foot building. 430,000 square foot building. How about a big hand for that. [applause. ] it will house approximately 1800cit1800city staff to movet summer. This gives us a good reason to celebrate. I want to thank all of those forgetting us here today. Thank you builders, the prime contractors. Lets give them a big hand. The Development Firm and the architects worked on many projects. Lets give them a big hand. Public works takes great pride in the Public Private partnerships such as this one as they help bring the citys vision for a modern advanced San Francisco to life. I also want to give a special shout out to the project management team. Lets give them a big hand. [cheers and applause. ] all of this work would not happen, however, without the leadership from our elected officials who allow for Capital Infrastructure projects to be approved and implemented. With that said i have the pleasure of introducing our mayor london breed to say a few words about this project. Welcome, mayor breed. Thank you. You know, as someone who grew up in the city and someone who has had to get permits and get permits specifically for festivals and community events, it was often times frustrating works through did bureaucracy. One minute it is the Planning Department in this building then to city hall, then down the street somewhere that you couldnt find, and the fact is this building what is so amazing. We are bringing 10 city agencies together in one building with a central permitting system that would make it easier to do construction projects, would make it easier for entertainment, easier for events and all of the things we do in San Francisco that make San Francisco such a great city. It is about making bureaucracy more efficient. That is what this building is about. I know people dont get excited around efficiency, but i do. Because i know you all remember when it was taking us 18 months to build one accessory dwelling unit and putting out an executive directive to bring in the Fire Department and planning and Building Department to Work Together. We completely reduced the time. Now it takes up to six months. Streamlining the process is critical to building more housing and making sure the festivals and events and nightlife that we are so excited to have in our city continues without delay because San Francisco as we know is a special place, but we only work when we work more efficiently together. I am excited, and i know those over 1800 employees are excited to have new bathrooms and shower and places to park bicycles and the other great things we are adding to new buildings. I want to thank everyone who is building this place and the work you are doing to get this building built on time and hopefully on budget. You know that is important to us. More importantly, how this is going to be one of the projects that really changes how we do business in San Francisco. No longer will you have people going on line to those different places where they complain about the process and what they have to do to get a permit. What i want to see them going on line to say is, wow, the city makes it easier. They have a new permitting process to get permit online and it doesnt take that long. That is what this place is about. I want to thank all of you for being here today. I also would like to acknowledge which i think is absolutely incredible that we will have an on site child care at this location as well so that families who work for our city in those various departments have a place to take their children. This budget that i Just Announced last week also including 7. 7 million to digital the city permitter and create an electronic review process. San francisco is the technicaltal of the world but our city is a little behind schedule. We have to make the right investments to get to a better place. This is making bureaucracy more efficient. I want to thank all of you who have played a Critical Role in doing that. Probably the only member of the board of supervisors who cares about efficiency the way that i do is my former colleague on the board who is supervisor for district 6. I want to ask supervisor aaron peskin to say a few brief words. Supervisor peskin thank you, mayor breed. I am the supervisor representing the Northeast Corner of the city, but i share with mayor breed the desire to have a one stopper hitting shop for everything in San Francisco, and this floor print of almost an acre, 40,000 square feet, is precisely the right way to do it whether it is integrating planning and building and health and fire. This is going to be a huge step forward for the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you to related, thank you to public works. I cannot wait for it to be finished. [applause. ] it is not easy to get projects done in our city. The person who is a leader to make sure we put forward the responsible policies and budgeting practices to allow an opportunity like this and recognizing we need to make the city more efficient and provide facilities that are safe and Energy Efficient is really the leader, one of the leaders of the city, our city administrator, naomi kelly. Good morning. I have to say i am so honored to be here today. I want to thank mayor breed, supervisor peskin. They were with us in the beginning. We had to go to them to help with financing. Part of that was selling off three city buildings to get into this one beautiful building that will have a one stopper mitt center. Part permit center. Why they supported us to open a restaurant you need 20 permits from 13 different city locations all over the city, not just one spot. If we get a one stopper mitt ste permitting that is how we kick started this. I promised we are not just about brick and mortar colocation. We need to streamline that process to make the permitting process more customer friendly through digital. I want to thank the mayor and board through funding those opportunities. In this building is the department of public works, building inspections, city planning, environmental services. In the one stopper mitter shop in addition to those major departments it will include the Fire Department, public utilities, office of Small Business, Entertainment Commission and we are looking at other satellite departments to touch the building in here, m. T. A. , office of cannabis, disability. Police, board of appeals and tax collector. That is all important. As the mayor talked about a. D. U. Pilot and trying to streamline that process, let me drilling down what our team is looking at. As we currently before if you were an a. D. U. Permit resident you needed five different departments, answer 516 questions and navigate multiple applications and forms, as we looked at that we want to unduplicate questions we are asking over and over. We needed 289 questions. We could stop asking the same question 227 times. That is what we are looking for. One clap is good government. That is the bureaucracy mayor breed and supervisor peskin wanted eliminated. Then we will make it digital. I am excited to be here today. Thank you tom, john, stephanie and all of those and ken leading this out of my office and Melissa White house. You have all been fabulous to make sure we are not thinking about this as brick and mortar but streamlining the process. Thank you. Next up our partner in the begins, matt woody is instrumental to make sure he works with us every step of the way. He works on many projects. This is one that is near and dear to my house. Up next matt woody from related california. [applause. ] thank you, mayor breed, city administrator kelly, director, i am matt woody. We are overseeing the development of this unusual project. In the city like San Francisco that is so land constrained, it is rare to find a 2. 5acre site, much less acquire it in the heart of the city close to Public Transportation and codevelop it. That is the reason we are here to celebrate. I would like to recognize the vision and leadership of our former mayor ed lee. Many years ago as city administrator mayor lee began creating the one stopper mitt center to simplify the process. This including the food truck to a project like this, everything you need approval for in San Francisco. This is less than a year away from realizing his vision. Later on, as mayor, he was instrumental in acquiring this site from Goodwill Industries in 2014. This is the type of thing we look to do. It is something we are going to be proud of it a year from now when it opens. I would like to recognize the people you have heard about from the supervisor and mayor. Chief among them is john updike, josh keene, john ram, jeff jocelyne and dan snider from planning. Edgar lopez at public works and Charles Sullivan from the City Attorneys Office who work with us to get us to this point. Related has been partnering with the city and working in San Francisco for over 30 years on large projects of this type. Innovative Public Private partnership is the type of challenge world class developments we work to do. 49 south vanness fillings the need to consolidate the city to one place as you have heard. By designing abconstructing both buildings at the same time we had the unique opportunity to plan and consider the needs for both buildings. I would like to kill out som and their team who work with us and the city to get these two buildings less than 200 feet apart to look as compatible as we can agree they do. The results of 1. 3 million square folk and two magnificent buildings to bring 1800 City Employees and apartment complex is unique in San Francisco. This mixed use is proof of what San Francisco can accomplish when we Work Together with optimism. Thank you very much. Lets hear from the team on the ground getting this building done. Come on up. Thank you for introducing me. I am joe mckeown. I have the honor to stand up with this great group of speakers. I hope i can live up to their charm and wit. Welcome. This is a place of pride for all of the workers. This is our daily life and family. We are here to Work Together to build this great building for the city and county of San Francisco. We appreciate related california and the city and county of San Francisco to build this building that will live on for the next 100 years to serve the city and county of San Francisco. A special thanks to the teams that show up every day and work hard building this building. [applause. ] it is the Skilled Trades men and women behind me today that have worked over 260,000 hours on this building. They excavated 92,000 cubic yards ofvillsoil. Today will hang the last beam of 2200tons of 2300tons of structural iron. I am proud to represent this team and i would like to ask you to join me in a great round of applause for the men and women behind me who are the heart and soul of this project. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you. Now, mayor, we will go sign the beam and we can get our signatures and it makes the journey to the 16th floor to complete the structural work, and next summer this building will be occupied with the city agencies you heard and the one stop to get anything you want done in the city. Come in the door and someone will take care of you, right melissa . Thank you. Thank you. Manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. Im kate sosa. Im cofounder and ceo of sf made. Sf made is a Public Private partnership in the city of San Francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in San Francisco. Sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other Small Business support organizations who provide more generalized support. Everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. For example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide Small Business owners with education. We have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city Seas Partnership with Small Business, creating a 100 Company Selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or twoperson shop, and who dont have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help Companies Set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in San Francisco. Im amy kascel, and im the owner of amy kaschel San Francisco. We started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. San franciscos a great place to do business in terms of clientele. We have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. I think its important for them to know where their clothes are made and how theyre made. My name is jefferson mccarly, and im the general manager of the Mission Bicycle company. We sell bikes made here for people that ride here. Essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. Our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. We care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. When people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. Its a pretty fun shopping experience. Paragraph. For me as a designer, i love the control. I can see whats going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. Going through the suing room, im looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look . Is this what shes expecting, maybe if weve made a customization to a dress, which we can do because were making everything here locally. Over the last few years, weve been more technical. Its a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a Small Business owner. Sometimes its appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. We need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. Moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how theyre going to use it, whether its the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so thats the direction i hear at this point. The reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that were sharing the opportunities that weve been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that three, two, one, uhhuh. [cheering]. [ ] the ability to respond quickly in an emergency situation in San Francisco is one of our primary functions. Today is a very exciting day in our city. Were down in the south beach part of San Francisco on gerald avenue, that is the future location of the new employment facility. The city they are currently in is long overdue for an overhaul. The facility will be a fourstory building that will be able to store many of the ambulances, many of the supplies , offices, training and even a gas station. We are excited about the improvements and investments to good evening. Welcome to the june 19, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. President rick swig will be presiding officer tonight. To my left is deputy City Attorney who will provide the board with any legal advice. We will also bej