For everyone, for our lowincome families and seniors, to our middleincome residents, to our teachers. We know that Housing Affordability is critical to the success of our city, and im grateful to the board of supervisors for passing that ballot measure, and i am hopeful with fingers crossed that the voters will support that, and we are putting forward that housing bond without raising property taxes again, so i just want to say that over and over and over again. [applause] the hon. London breed so today, we have another opportunity. Today, we are signing the legislation to put a 628 million bond on the ballot to help with our emergency facilities all over San Francisco, and we are also doing that without raising property taxes. [applause] the hon. London breed the goal is to put this on the march ballot, and so were going to have to work hard to get voters to approve this one, as well. I just want to start by that i thinking naomi kelly, and the work of the Capital Planning committee. Because of the work of the Capital Planning committee over the years, weve been able to have a very wellthoughtout plan for investing dollars in facilities that the city owns, especially our Public Safety facilities. And in 2010 and in 2014, voters passed these bonds without raising property taxes but with almost 80 of the vote to support rehabilitating facilities all over San Francisco. And just this year, i was really excited about cutting the ribbon on station 5, which is my home station, where i used to get my toys as a firefighter. Our firefighters and our police officers, fixing our buildings and making sure that they can sustain an earthquake is so critical to protecting the lives of our citizens. In fact we are all reminded from last week, the major earthquake that happened in Southern California and the devastating impact it had on that community, we are reminded that we have to be prepared. Its not about if, its about when a disaster strikes. So what are we going to do to make sure that our Public Safety personnel can focus on the work that they need to do to save lives and not necessarily the challenge that exist with the buildings that house them and what could happen to people that we need to shelter in a disaster. Kezar pavilion is not seismically safe. It is one of the facilities that could qualify for additional revenues so that if necessary, we can use that as a shelter facility in case a disaster hits. We have to be thinking ahead in not only repairing the buildings that we know need to be repaired, like park station, which is currently undergoing some renovations like police and fire stations and Public Safety buildings, and 911 buildings where we send our dispatchers, all of these places matter, so when a disaster hits, their only focus is on saving lives of the citizens of San Francisco and not worrying about the condition of their buildings and whether or not theyre in a bad place themselves. So today, we are announcing a 628 million Public Safety beyond for earthquake safety and Emergency Response for the march ballot, as i said. And i am just so excited and so proud of the work that we did collaborating with the board, collaborating with the Capital Planning committee to do this in such an incredibly responsible way. And i just want to thank all of you for being here, joining us, because this is exciting for the future of San Francisco. We know that there are challenges in our city, and we have to make the right kind of investments, not only the issues that we face today but for the issues well face tomorrow. This is just taking one step further to doing just that, and so im really excited to be here with so many incredible people, including the supervisor who represents district 5 [applause] the hon. London breed many of you all know vallie brown. Shes been a Community Advocate in this district for so many years. Not only does she spend time cleaning it up, i mean, personally, literally in the morning, picking up track with her own picker, but she also spends a lot of time fighting for resources in this community. Whether its our Public Safety locations or our community locations, shes been a real advocate, and some of you know the work that was done here, also, the track that was repurposed. And commissioner buell, what was the location over here by the triangle . What is that called . Yeah, with public and private dollars, were transforming this area. And when i served as supervisor, the person who was really actively engaged in working with the community and helping to bring together public and private resources to get these projects done for this community was no other than your current supervisor for district 5, vallie brown. [applause] supervisor brown thank you, mayor breed. Im really happy to be standing here today and to be talking about this. Just a few months ago, we were at fire station 5, brandnew opened. Not only is it absolutely stateoftheart and beautiful, but it is going to be a hub if anything happens in this city. And when i think about we have so many other stations and buildings that we need to have this kind of bond money to be able to fix them up so if we do have earthquakes, if we have things that happen in this city, that were prepared. When we look at i know that mayor breed was talking about kezar and other places, but when we have a major earthquake, and if we think about the earthquake that just happened in Southern California, and how strong it was, but it was in the desert. But think about what if it was here, and what it could have done to our city. I think about that every day, and what i would do if my place was flattened in the city. I probably would be camping in the park unless i had someplace to go that was safe, right . I would. I know the notent rule, but i think they have a cot there for me. I asked them, can you put a cot . So i just feel that its so important that not only is this city ready for anything that could happen, unfortunately and we know it will someday, but we have to be ready individually. We have a responsibility. I actually just went to a fire in my district a few weeks ago. Everybody ran out of the building. There were, like, 12 people. The things they forgot when they ran out they forgot their i. D. , they forgot their medicine, all of those things, and it keeps going into my mind, am i ready . Am i ready for an earthquake . Am i ready for a fire or anything any other kind of emergency . So i went home, and i remembered an emergency kit that i had put together probably 12, 15 years ago, when i did nert, and nert was first starting. My water was expired, the batteries expired, the food expired. Im like, im not ready, and i didnt have the emergency little pack that youre supposed to have by your door to grab and run if something happens. I wasnt ready, and i think about that because i think about what about my neighbor thats elderly, and she has a hard time getting down the stairs . We should be going out, talking to our neighbors. We should be going out, training with nert. Please sign up. If youre not a member, its kind of fun. We need to start thinking about our neighbors and what we can do individually. Are you signed up for the alert, emergency alert, everyone on your phone . Your neighbor . This is the kind of thing that we need to do because it really takes us as an individual and our neighbors to really protect each other if this happens. And believe me if we have an earthquake, im heading down to cafe revelry, and if his coffee machine is working because these are the places were going to have to go to see, are they left behind . Do they need help . I say that because i appreciate all the work in this city that everyone does. Our police chief, fire chief, naomi kelly, and especially our mayor to say we need to look at this, we need to do this now, and being so creative for doing this. I want to thank everyone for coming to district 5. Its nice and foggy here, but cool you down a little bit before you go back to your job. So thank you, everyone. And the next speaker are you going to bring him up . All right. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, supervisor brown. And just a reminder, anyone can go to sf72. Org if you want to get prepared for any emergency situation in San Francisco. A lot of great information from emergency management. Sf72. Org. Now i want to introduce someone whos ae be whos been a 25year veteran of the San FranciscoFire Department and has a very thorough knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations and is why she is currently serving as the chief of the department. Please welcome jeanine nicholson. Good morning, everyone. I love our San Francisco summer weather. Speaking of nert, as supervisor brown just mentioned, i want to recognize, we do have some nert volunteers right here, and nert is going to be critical in the event [applaus [applause] in the event in the event of a disaster. We know its not if, its when. I want to recognize mohamed nuru. Hes been a great ally for us and working with us. In the event of a disaster, our Fire Department needs to respond immediately. Our firefighters and e. M. S. Workers work 247, 365, and we need to be able to respond immediately. And this bill will provide the funding that we need to invest in our Public Safety infrastructure so we can continue to bring the city and the citizens the best service that we possibly can, but especially during a disaster. So thank you all for being here today. Good day. [applause] the hon. London breed all right. Our last speaker for this program before we finally sign this legislation is the chief of the police department, bill scott. [applaus [applause] thank you, mayor. Ill be brief. I just want to reiterate what the mayor said. We have 13 San FranciscoPolice Departments and 14 other buildings. Many of our stations are over 25 years old. These stations, from the day that the doors open, they are open 247. They have always been in use, and many of them are in need of seismic improvements, significant seismic improvements. And we dont want in the time of an emergency, we dont want to have to worry about whether or not the station is going to be standing, even though we plan for that if it happens. Thats the last thing we want to worry about, so i, too, want to thank you all for being here. The vision of the mayor, city administrator kelly, and the vision of our city for looking forward so our city has the proper infrastructure to respond properly, so thank you for the leadership, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you. And again, i want to thank all of you for being here. Again, this is only the beginning. The real work beginning when we have to begins when we have to campaign to get this ballot measure passed. We have been successful in 2010 and 2014 in getting almost 80 of the support of the voters for a previous eser bond, and i want to make sure that we top that, so im going to need your help. Its incredibly important that we shrine a light on the measure that will be going on the march 2020 ballot for voters to support. I appreciate you all being here, and also dont forget to vote for the housing bond on the ballot this november. All right. Lets get this signed. [applause] the hon. London breed 7, 11, 19, done. [applause] you. Well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if youre a renter you can get earthquake shushes well take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode im the chief resilience officer for San Francisco im joined by my good friends for the Earthquake Authority were at the el cap center for the city and county of San Francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city youll see one of the demonstrates weve built the model home and i encourage other episodes well be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as Property Owners to employ you work for the california Earthquake Authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if youre a renter or Property Owner how the insurance issues. Im the chief mitigation officer or c e a a Property Line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. What make the c e a deft. We work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy youre not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. Am i covered with Homeowners Insurance. No California Homeowners understand their Homeowners Insurance doesnt cover earthquake they need a separate policy if youre an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. So explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. Irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. Were talking about the homeownerships buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters whats my opposite. The option for renter the earthquake be Insurance Company is affordable i think people dont realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as Emergency Repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit thats whether earthquake is important. Youre title youre the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i dont think about mitigation. So as part of Public Safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had 45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for California Homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. Whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. Earthquake authority. Com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. What does mitigate the home mean. Strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. Thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the Earthquake Authority but well talk about good morning, everyone. Lets secelebrate. [ cheering and applause ]. Im going to get you moving. I want you to follow my lead. When i go like this, were all going to say secelebrate and were going to do it three time s. Secelebrate. Loud er. Secelebrate. Secelebrate. Fantastic. I cant even begin to tell you how shocked i am. Im standing here at this gro d groundbreaking. Im ashly mccumber. Im the executive director of meals on wheels in San Francisco and have been for the last 12 years and im really excited to welcome you here this morning. Obviously were here to do a ceremony where were going to throw some sand and mark the beginning of construction, and that in and of itself would be a michiganiraculous thing to selc but frankly were secelebratingo much more this morning. I believe that were putting another mark er i eer and stake ground in support of this mission, and thats why were here today, to secelebrate. [ applause ] it. Its certain dserendipitous projected opening of the building on this project in 2020 aligns with our 50th anniversary of our founding. [ applause ]. So today we are absolutely secelebrating five decade s of service here in san franciscaning San Francisco. Were secelebrating a mission tt started with a handful of people 50 years ago who recognized they had neighborhoods who needed help and were elderly elderly and needed food. They volunteered to cook food and morphed into an organization that today is one of the largest meals on Wheels Organization in the country and definitely in my opinion is wumone of the best ig services in San Francisco and in the country. [ applause ]. Were also secelebrating sin that founding count leless vo volunteers, Board Members, Staff Members who have carried that submissi Mission Forward and creatueach made it stronger and bigger and more responsive. We were secelebrating partnership with adult aging and county services in the city of San Francisco to make sure that we can do what we need to do and were currently grateful to our current mayor and board of supervisors to seasocontinuing mission and seascontinuing to d that. Were secelebrating thousand s doe scenarinors and foundations allow us to realize 50 of our budget each other year. We secelebrate the restaurant sd vit answers tha s s vintners. I want to call out chef in nanc oak for your leadership and that effort. Were secelebrating also that w have embraced our responsibility to affirmfy the emphasis voice of seniors and make San Francisco all it can be for t m them. All of us together have embraced some very important and simple values of san fran siciscan s. No considsenior or no person sh ever go hungry because they are home bound or without the resources and support that they need. Number two, no senior should be in vvisible or alone. Number three, that all senior s have the right to live in their community and neighborhoods that they helped build, they raised their familyies in and have the right to selfdetermination and ha to live with dig nity. Lastly, that cityies and communityies should be judged b how it treats the elderly and we need to work every single day to make San Francisco the number one agefriendly city in amer a america. [ applause ]. So today we secelebrate a mar milestone, but this day has been a long, long, long time in coupcom coming and we secelebrate the hd work thats kind of led us here. The path has been extensive to say the least, but one mietric that led us here is simple. In 2007 as an organization we decided that no senior should have to wait longer than 30 yda s to receive our service and we partnered with the department of aging and Adult Service s to mae sure that anyone who is in emergency is served within two to five days. That simple commitment has driven us to the growth that weve seen thats brought us to this need today to build this new kitchen. In 2007, just to give you an idea, we served 523,000 meals in the city and delivered them, and this year 2 2. 1. Think about that growth. We were touching the lives of about 2,000 individuals u unduplicated in the city. Now were touching over 5,000 a year. That growth has been predominantly in seniors, but weve also in that tenyear period worked with the department of aging and Adult Services to serve those people who are under 60 represents about 50 of our population and also were partnering with the food bank to deliver groceryies to about 500 people a week in the department of aging and also working with this mayor and administration to make sure that people in inactinavigation cens have meals. Were very grateful to be a part of that effort as well. It mabelibecame quite clear abo years ago that we needed a plan to deal with this. We first conducted a fullscale operation ental review. Is there any way that we dont need to build a new kitchen . Is there anything else we need to do . That plan basically was Pretty Simple and straightforward and said, hey, you need to get out of this kitchen pm. So that began the process that were committed to the fact that we need to build something new, and we designed the kitchen with the help of kitchen concepts ionic that ionic inc. That will carry us forward for 30 years. Thats the second step. Then we got to the hard work. Where the heck can we afford to buy a piece of labbed land in San Francisco and where can we find that. We originally wanted to keep our operations in one place, but un fortunately that wasnt in the cards. We have an amazing plan b. We will build our kitchen and Distribution Center and keep our site three minutes away on the other side of 3rd street in the bay view as our Office Production facility. So were going to have a tw twocampus operation. So we purchased this site from l luxor cap. Does anyone remember this as that site . Were about to make it differe t different. At the end of the day the price tag is going to be about 41 million and well tell you a little bit more about how were doing in that goal in raising, but you can rest assured that weve done well enough that were here today and we still have some work to do and so forth and well secelebrate tho ha who have carried us so far. Heres what were building and the great features were building. On this site will be a 34,700 square foot facility, slug including a state ooftheart cook chill area, freezer, storage, assembly production, distribution yard and receiving docks. This is the big news in this construction. Were going to move our daily constructi production from 8,000 meals a day to 20,000 meals a day. [ applause ]. It will be one of the only facilities in the region and we think in San Francisco that use s this cook chill equipment to produce bulk food and used in meals. The other thing im very excited about is where we are. Were in the middle of the San Francisco wholesale product district. Were food. Were great partners with th s e michael gentlemjanice, and loo forward to partnering with these businesses in this neighborhood and working to continue the efforts that are here in the neighborhood. It also will have a test kitchen that will help us improve the quality and choice for our clients and tailor meal s as we look to improving our service s for clients. Maximumly ally were doing solar on the building so we can save the planet. Isnt that a great facility . [ applause ]. So were excited to have with us this morning mayor london breed. Before inviting her to speak, i just wanted to take a moment to recognize a few other elected officials who are going to be here shortly or are here alre y already. Hope fulfully soon, supervisor gordon mar from district 4 and supervisor waltshamann walton f this district will be with you and hope fulfully you get a cha to chat with them. We want to welcome the form er district 10 supervisor who is now chair of the board of equ equalization, malia, and representing state isnt that right scott weiener is rose gu i guiliano and representing is n kenneth chan. Thank you for your service. And lastly, i think that the new captain of the Bay View District is here. I want to just give a shout out and a welcome to captain Troy Dangerfield who has taken on as chief of the bay view station. Hope fulfully well get chance meet with him. I was one of the lucky people who last year on july 11th was at a historic event where this city welcomed its first africanamerican mayor in the citys history, frisk nati sfri San Francisco native london breed. It was an absolutely Beautiful Day and i have only one regret. I should have worn a big hat because it was sunny and it was a long time out there with a lot of fun. Its hard to believe it was only 12 months ago that that occurred because this mayor has hit the ground running. It feels like years of work has been done. Shes out there with laser focus trying to tackle the issues fa e facing our city, tackling the home leless crisis, adding more beds, expanding Mental Health and substance deuabuse programs creating more housing for all san fran sciscan s and keeping city streets safe and clean. It is my sincere pleasure to introduce and welcome to the stage lamayor london breed. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you so much, it is great to be here and i want to recognize alex ran doff, thank you so much for joining us today. Ive got to start by staying ths is probably one of the most organized and neat groundbreak s ings ive ever been to. Just the gravel on the ground, the need and structured system here. I mean, this is absolutely i indecreed able because ive been to a lot of groundbreakings and you know, malia, how many gro d groundbreakings weve been to. This is probably the nicest one weve ever been to. Thank you all for creating this wonderful environment for what i think is one of the mobest programs we have in San Francisco. I want to start by thanking a ashly and all the people who work for meals on wheels because you do the hard work. I know from experience how amazing the employees at meals on wheels are because they served my grandmother for so many years. They did it with kindness. They always asked how she was doing today. They can tell maybe when she wasnt having a great day. So they would spend time and put forwa forth effort and talk about the food they were bringing over. It really for seniors who are living in isolation, how amazing to have at least if no one else is coming to see you, that person whos delivering those meals sometimes is the only contact that so many of our Senior Community has when that feel meal is dropped off. This program and what it has done since 1970 has been absolutely amazing. This analyticfacility, to go fr meals a day to over 20,000 meals a day will make sure that we get rid of that wait list once and for all so that no one is left off the list moving forward in the future. You all, the contribute entor s people on the board, the folks who have supported this program over the years, the investmens s that you have made have had a pro foufound impact on so many indecreed able lives and you know this because thats why you support this program. I had the opportunity because i visited over the years since ive been an elected official various clients for the progra s and have had great kfingss, including the one i just had with mrs. Lee earlier this year. She was just so grateful and so excited and so happy and just talked about her experience and how she probably wouldnt honestly she said i probably wouldnt be as big as i am if meals on wheels didnt deliver these programs. She was not big. She was a tooiny laidy, but shes so very happy and food really brings people together. We help and support our Senior Communities in this way. And another way were going to be supporting our Senior Community is the housing bond, a 600 million housing bond without raising property tax es with the largest amount ever dedicated to Senior Housing and this is the largest housing bond weve ever done in the history of this city. So im really proud of the investments, the deliberate investments that we are making to support our senior populat n population, our dis ababled population, and also again thank you to meals on wheels for supporting our inactinavigationr s because we know that home l s homelessness is one of the the number one issue that we face in San Francisco. We have a lot of people is it truing ling sw Mental Health and Substance Abuse dis ororder. We are changing how we provide support and services and it involves making sure we have i indecreed able partners and whee meals on wheels has been pushing the envelope and doing the great work for years and this facility that will be absolutely amazing is just one step forward in it happen ing continuing the great work theyve done for decades. Im so excited to be here and cant wait to cut the ribbon when we open. Thank you all so much. [ applause ]. Thank you so much, mayor breed. You know, nothing this monument al happens without a lot of effort, gathering the skills and leadership necessary to make Something Like this happen. So we want to acknowledge how weve gotten to this day and acknowledge the team thats going to help us finish this up. First and foremost, i want to thank my board of directors and the many boards of directors who have been engaged in this conversation. I was talking to someone about this earlier. You know, boards by design are the kooerps of the mission and frankly very hesitant to take on risk. This group of people did their job. They made sure that we were taking on something that we could accomplish and the fact that were sitting here today is a testament frankly that they xem pexemplify the type of leadp and stewardship we want on all our boards across the city. Lets give all these Board Members a big hand. [ applause ]. I mentioned earlier we went through the slog of trying to find something to buy so then we can figure out what we can build and how much it will cost. The first person who probably had to go through therapy after joining me on this effort was dan mckue our real estate representative and literally we worked for two and a half yeas s to get to this site and bewent through three pricing scoping and buying exercises and so forth. Did you thank you, dan, for working with me and still being able to call me a friend. We also have identified an al allstar team to help us with this kitchen and build it. The first person i mentioned earlier but i want to call out specifically again is mike bal divrks dwin from kitchen concepts. Mike was chosen not because hes one of the best in the field nationally, but because he served for decades in the meals on wheels in anaheim. When i saw his work there, i said youre the right guy for s us. Youre the person who understand s how were different and uni e unique. Thank you. We also want to thank that we have a local San Francisco lve, local business entrerprise, ja k jackson and lyles architect uru is our architect. The architects could not be here today, but iron ically their parents are. Welcome and thank you for being here. We also have engaged a really good friend of meals on wheels for years, an excellent general contractor ain plant constructin and we have an amazing team assembled under the leadership and the determination of don b libby. We also have a great owners p rep. This is the person that keeps our staff from having to deal with the mash nations and tell us what that means is keith d debrian from skyline partners. Keith, thank you. And an amazing three iio of peoe to make sure we build the best building. First is david who is under arrest our operations officer. Frank scotted our director of facilities. An amazing asset to the organization. The guys that keep s me out of jail as well as making sure having money in the bank is the cfo. [ applause ]. Even with the bestlaid pl s plans, we would not be breaking ground today without an Extraordinary Group of organizations and people whove g come together to allow us to move this process forward quickly and they have done there through this through the new market task credit process. For those of you who dont know what those are, youre blessed. [ laughter ]. But just for the sake of education, basically the federal government incentivize s throug tax credits investment s and stressed communityies, programs that serve dis advertistreasurer that serve dis advertistreasur s distressed populations. Our propositiject definitely f t that. It aligns credit s that organizations manage to give to projects and theyre aligned with these approved projects and then at the eback end take s a ba bank credit. At the end of the day thats going to deliver about 8. 1 million to this project. [ applause ]. I just want to really acknowledge the team that really have pushed this forward quickly on this project. First of all , david wilkin sos has been our consultant from Northern CaliforniaCommunity Loan fund. Thank you, david. Thank you for helping me understand this weave of stuff and so forth. Leading the way to make sure that we anchor the new market tax credit that we needed for the project is the city of San Francisco and the San FranciscoCommunity Investment fund, or as we call it sfif. Without them jumping in and p putting their projestamp on thi project, i dont know if othes s would have joined as easily. We just wareally want to thank e sfif for supporting us. Along side of the sfif, San Francisco sfif was california loan fund who in vvested with u early as well. The group that put us over the top is an Organization CalledCommunity Impact partners which is more of a National Partner and they came in to push us forward as well. The irony is that two of these organizations are doing more than just giving us credits. Theyre actually funding our construction loan and thats Community Vision and Community Impact partners. We want to thank you for keeping us sane and giving us that option. We really appreciate it. I mentioned only the the back et a Bank Investor partner usually comes into a project like this, that partner is j. Pvmentep. Mo chase. We want to thank them to chase bank. Lastly, obviously you know that in order to put together a complex transaction you have to have a good team around you and i want to thank liouise rodrige and also chris and brine and v novaradik our cpa. Youre probably going like, gee, thats a lot of people, but its not the end. We ultimately also have to bridge our pledges the jen ro generosity the people have pledged to make sure we dont have longterm debt. We need a bridge loan, we want to thank our piartner First Republic bank to bridge that pledge loan and fragile for frankly for banking our loan. Well mention again later, they also gave quite a big gift to the campaign. Thank you. Its now my pleasure to really move us into thanking the other people who really put down significant mark er s and donatn s and pledges to this campaign and invite other people who have really lifted for me so long to come up and thank people who have participated, thats russ flin and hjose allen. [ applause ]. Thank you, ashley. Good morning, everyone. I am hjose allen. Im a member of the board of meals on wheels frisk San Francisco, and along with russ flin, i co chachaired the 50th s anniversary capital campaign. Us russ and i are proud to be part of this vital project and to be able to thank each of you for your support of meals on wheels. Clearly to be successful in r e raising almost 41, dlr 42 needed for this project require s extensive jen rgenerosity for, many support er s. Luckily we have been successful in raising the funds necessary to move forward and have secured 80 of our goal. We have 20 left to go. Now, it gives me great pleasure to thank the individuals. I call them our First Responder s p who helped jumpstart this campaign. First, there are two familyies who have been part of the meals on wheels family for over 30 years and have led the way with their lead gifts. The first is my he esteemed co f cochair russ flin and his wife leigh. Actually they didnt stop with just making their personal gift to the campaign, but they added to their gift by challenging their family and friends to join the efforts. So for that, were very, very thankful. [ applause ] sjts. The second family i would like to thank is the sanjakamo family through the yvonne and n angelo sanjakamo foundation. Here today is the daughter to recognize her mom who could not be abowith us. Thank you again and thanks to the sanjakamo family for their support. [ applause ]. Next, while they could not be here today, i would like to thank our meals on wheels hon honorary board chair andy and a carrie good mman, who have led e way in this campaign not only through their financial contributions to the campaign, but through their in sigsight s un titiring deadication to meal wheels. [ applause ]. Now, there are 42 additional individual donor s thus far, bu our Program Schedule today doesnt allow me to call each of them out individually, but there are a few that i would like to thank. Here they are. Emily and sam glick, diane pe c pelaconi and susan sanjakamo, debbie and andy rat cliff, craig and maureen sullivan. Rosemary and harry wong and lisa and todd zabel. We are truly grateful for these and other individuals who have helped bring us to the threshold of a successful capital campa n campaign. I look forward to being with all of you at our dedication in the last quarter of 2020 when we will have an opportunity to memorialise all the gueift s toe campaign through naming and donor recognition. Thank you sooch for your supp t support. [ applause ]. Thank you, hjose. Im russ flin. I would like to start off by acknowledging ashley and all of his hue mmility for having the leadership ability to drag this board, some of who left the board because they didnt feel this was a possibility that we could realize. Ashley thank you sincerely for our efforts. Now ill get back on script. Hjose, thank you for all youve done. Without hjose i wouldnt begin o know how to raise money. Hes done this socio mamany tis. While ive raised money for political campaigns, ive rarely raised money for floirp p l philantropic. I would like to thank all the organizations and foundations that have contributed to this. The urps foundation, city of San Francisco office of economic and workforce development, First Republic bank, kooeizer perman e permanententy, crescent port ee hail foundation, walter and a s alise habb foundation, the bob ross fowks foundation, and our only one technology contributor, usual uber, and that un fortunately has been a little bit of a shortcoming in our campaign. While we have the mayor here [ laughter ]. Id like to challenge her to maybe open the door to a few more of these folks and give e jose and i a chance to see if we can convince them to make contributions. While weve raised 80 of our funds, we still need 20 fmore. So id challenge everyone here who has already given to re consider and think about just stretching just a little bit more and that can help put us over the 41. 2 41. 5, 42 million that we need. Thank you all for coming today and, ashley, its yours. [ applause ]. Sincerely, i think you can see it pretty easily how blessed we are to have russ and hjose ad frankly every board member and b donor associated with this. We wouldnt be here without you. Were coming to the end of the speaking program. I give you the chance to re lla but also to secelebrate a littl bit. We now were going to do somethi something i dont know how were going to do this, but i do want to offer a few closing thanks and instructions. Flawl first of all , can we jut give our staff that work every day delivering food [ applause ]. Answering the phones, i just dont think none of us who dont do this work think about what it means to walk up buil buildings and six flights of stairs with food in our your hand and buildings with he wieor s that dont work and getting in and out of a car. We have pretsocial worker s goi trying to help people who literally have nothing and people who have challenges and so forth and we have a staff that back them up thats unparalleled. Again, my deep eest and most sincere appreciation to them. I specifically want to thank our Development Team led by Jessica Sweedler and weve been working together now for 12 years and we almost feel like were kind of a dentist function ental di dysfunction al family, but a god one working together. Frankly i think why both she and i deserve credit is we didnt staff up to run this campaign, were just running it. Were running it on top of the 7 or 8 million that we have already. We had the heart to do it and weve been successful. Thank you all. I also want to thank the team who worked hard on this event specifically, david miranda, our events manager, jim on hzwald O Communications and marketing director. [ applause ]. And the person who has the hard eest job on earth, being m assistant, michelle fur longi longing fur long. And if i didnt call your name, please know how appreciative i am to you for what you do to support us in this work every single day. Its not possible to do. What were going to try to do okay. Everybody lets count down from five. Five, four, three, two, one. Yay. [ cheering and applause ]