A corporation that is just for profit, felon, and has broken the agreement for over 100 years. As a part of extinction rebellion, we are extremely excited about this move forward that we can really have a public system that is for clean power. No more nuclear, all of those things are gone. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Its wonderful to appreciate what our representatives are doing in this way. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Eric brooks with californians for energy choice, San Francisco green parties and the local grassroots organization. It would clearly be better for this city if we had public power. Some folks might remember back in the day, the San Francisco guardian did a study that showed we would get 200 million more per year, by not throwing money at pg e. With that said, weve got to be mindful that we are in a climate crisis. Getting a bunch of extra money every year does not necessarily solve that. Los angeles, the biggest public utility is dismal on Renewable Energy. Sacramento, one of the best leaders on Renewable Energy is not doing as well as a Community Choice programs. What that means is that we must have mandates. Whatever we passed here or at the ballot, that we have 100 local Renewable Energy master plan baked into that thing, like the document i sent to you, that showed you sydney, australias master plan. That is number if it doesnt have that, climate activists will not support that, especially community activists. All we need is a democratic electric elected board. Most consumer advocate are going to be deeply concerned about another agency that is ran by five people appointed by the mayor. Whether the mayor is good or bad is not the issue. We need democratically elected representation. That means we need to set up municipally elected board for this thing. Lastly, we wont even get a chance at this unless we amend ab 1054, and ab 11 that just passed in San Francisco. It makes it much more difficult for us to get public power. Those of us that are advocating need your help to push for those amendments and in sacramento, next month or next year. To end, with regard to ab 1054, this board is on the record and very clear, i think we indicated that we would oppose it if it was not amended, and indeed we opposed it. Next speaker, please. I am robin david, i am a retiree, i am retired from ibew 1245. I was also very active in the 2,001 campaign for public power. I am extremely designed delighted and excited that the seeds we planted in 2,001 are beginning to bear fruit. It is important to note, that not only this report, to my knowledge is secondhand, but as i understand it, not only does it take note of the fact that public power is concerned with the environment, but its also concerned with rates that are at least as good as better, and better than pg e. I would like to specifically address two issues. The first issue is that adopting this reports, and going through the whole process, is not the end, but the beginning of a very long process. When sacramento voted to institute smiled, pg e dragged on the battle for 22 years if memory serves correctly before smud was established. We have to be aware that we are in for an expensive battle, and be proud paired politically prepared politically and financially for a period the second issue, the report takes up the transition of the pg e labor force into the city workforce. In 2001, the labor moved in on the whole, was very much behind public power. The city union, the biggest local, and lead was chomping at the bit and salivating over the pg e workforce. Supervisor peskin wait one second. Number one, its good to see you after all of these years. Your time has expired, i would like to ask you a question about pg e, the city, and the workforce . Go ahead. Okay. Its a very important, despite whatever connection supervisors have to the city union that the pg e workforce remain a 1245 bargaining unit. A unit that has use to working together, without a lot of divisions, craft, trade and department. Whatever divisions come up are settled within the union, rather than dragging city officials, and managers into it. I think also, from a political point of view the city unions have nothing necessarily to gain out of this. 1245 has significant to lose. If they face losing it they become a formidable enemy, as they have been in every effort for public power since 2,001. I think it is very important that not only did the transition be smooth and generalized way, but that it remains a 1245 bargaining unit. Supervisor peskin thank you for those comments. Ms. Hale, i suggest you might talk to mr. David. Good to see you again. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors, a Community Organizer with the sierra club. The sierra club supports the takeover of pg e infrastructure, only if the city would commit to dramatically increasing the local build up pace since the new Renewable Energy, and efficiency upgrades. We urge that San Francisco makes the creation of new Renewable Energy resources part of the takeover proposal. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Thank you. Senior policy analyst for 350 bay area. It is surreal to be having this conversation having voted on public power every chance i have had since 1999. The whole city family is isnt working together towards this, and having reviewed the preliminary report, have thank you very much for the analysis. The quality of pg es infrastructure, as ms. Hale mentioned, looking at a deeper analysis on the quality of the infrastructure. I know none of us want to spend billions of dollars on a lemon, or infrastructure that will immediately require huge Capital Investments on top of the bio. To that point because, it was mentioned that the buyout would cost a few billion dollars. I just want to highlight, since 2013, advocates for Community Choice on Renewable Energy have been pushing for a citywide local build outs of, efficiency and demand response that was originally estimated at 100 million per year for ten years. Which adds up to 1 billion area that got laughed out of the room, every single time it was mentioned. That would have resulted in 50 local Renewable Energy, and 50 nonrenewable local energy for 1 billion. Estimated. The idea that we would be buying potentially faulty, and garbage infrastructure for a few billion dollars while i am not opposed to that, i think we need to put into perspective, what we would consider spending money on what is considered a laughable idea. Lastly, we really do need some kind of public oversight, besides a an to appoint a board if to have a system like this. That was mentioned before. I want to back up supervisor haney that we want to see governance change. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. First of all, youre not going to get first dibs on becoming an owner of equipment of pg e. Pg e owns their Insurance Companies multi quadruple billions of dollars, is that clear . That is why they might want our money . No, the persons in the Insurance Companies get first dibs at the property. The best way to take care of this problem, yall ready you all are ready on the right track, you have to build your own system to distribute your own electricity to the city and county of San Francisco. Get rid of pg e altogether. How many more examples do you need to demonstrate that pg e is not dealing in good faith, and by the same response never had intentions of reaching a legal agreement on this matter. About this contract agreement that you referred to, in may, if that contract was signed by pg e and they made a deal with the city, that is a breach of contract. If they pulled out and did not keep up their end of the bargain, understand me. That is an additional lawsuit that should be filed against pg e. Pg e has been busted by investigator that showed that well over several years ago they were told about their defective equipment and the electrical wires, and the electrical poles could cause a fire hazard. They did not do a damn thing about it. That is further proof. A minimum of 89 people have lost their lives in that fire, that took place, on the other side of the bay. Its disgusting. About you, talking about you want to take over their system, and their defaulted equipment is a waste of money. You can start by going and gathering god damn new semi get that 21 billion that he put in, and stop rebuilding and build your own system to distribute electricity that you already didnt it demonstrated that you can generate on your own behalf. Also, sorry. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors, i am a resident of district one. I am also an electrical engineer, retired, a graduate of davis and berkeley. I think i am probably the only engineer, graduate engineer in this room, of the presenters we saw today. I appreciate, mr. Peskin, you are a person with with attention to detail. That is what engineers do. Supervisor peskin i think the general manager of our puc is an engineer, but go ahead. Many people who talk about being an engineer, there are many with different flavors. My degree is in Electrical Engineering specifically. I wanted to speak to the risks, and challenges, little bit and say am probably in favor of the option that nobody wants. One of the things pg e has now is what they call a scale. The city will lose some of that. It costs that the city wont increase almost certain because of that. Im not going to go into details, but i think you understand what the scale is. Things like distribution facilities, maintenance facilities, all of the things that needed for infrastructure to support the operation are distributed along its territory and can be shared within the territory. We will lose out in San Francisco. Supervisor peskin we have some of that upcountry. May be some, not all. Not to the extent that pg e in terms of responding to largescale things like how many power lines down. Im not going to get enough time to speak. In terms of the cost, we just talked about the park escalator canopies, and the unexpected high cost, and that is typical. It is a very common thing. Im not going to go into that any further. Finally, about the employees, it has been reported the employees already saying if theyre only in San Francisco they will lose the ability to transfer out. They will be competing with tech employees for their salaries. Supervisor peskin thank you. No, sir. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this informational hearing . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Ms. Hale, general manager kelly, godspeed. Any additional comments from Committee Members . We will be hearing from you quarterly about the red, yellow and green lights of which i think around that long list you last furnished us which was pages long. Everything else was predominantly red, little bit yellow. If anybody out there, from pg e is watching and they have legions of lobbyists, Governmental Affairs people, would you at least be decent to the city on that issue. This is amounting to extortion. This has nothing to do with the rest of the conversation we are having. Why dont you stop that nonsense with that. We are adjourned. Clerk is there a motion on the item . We will continue the item. My name is naomi kelly the singlestory for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. Not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored United States and excited about the future. My name is is jack listen and the executive director of a Phil Randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in San Francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the Community Members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. I worked in hes Mayors Office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of San FranciscoState University and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the Taxicab Commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and. Having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our Workforce Development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. clapping. weve gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do Public Services but we also really build Strong Communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. clapping. i have a very good team around me were leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordablecare act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and were in support of of the women and support. In my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i dont know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. Education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of San Francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way cant get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we cant let adversity throw in th all right. Good morning, everybody. Is this working . What a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. You know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. Everybody is celebrating 88. Were here and going to be celebrating this new project. I am the director of public works here at the city of San Francisco. I want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. This facility will be a facility that will serve our First Responders and we are very excited about it. Just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. That project also is going really well. Then today we are celebrating another Capital Infrastructure project here in the bayview. This job is not only about serving our First Responders, but will also give a lot of people from the community jobs. It will be able to give a lot of our contractors an opportunity to participate in bringing supplies. Of course make our city more resilient. Its also been one of several projects that the southeast sector of our city has been benefitting from. Just in the last two years or so we finished the medical examiners building, the two shops for large and small vehicles are right around the corner. Coming up soon is the new Southeast Community center. So a lot of good opportunities here, and its great that the partnership that we have with all the contractors and all the city departments, that were all working together to really improve San Francisco. As you all know, today is very, very special because its the Traffic Company and Forensic Services division that will be in this site. The building itself is going to be over 100,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet is huge. Its two storeys as you can see. More than three quarters of this lot will be a building with a twostorey building. Were invited about that. Inside the building will be many labs that would be used to help solve crimes. Also our Motorcycle Police department, they will have their vehicles here but well also have offices for them so that they can do their administrative duties, which is highly essential because now theyre spread all over the place. This building will change that. This building will also be a hightech building. Our crews have been working very hard. As you see this pile of dirt behind us, right after this ground breaking, next week well be levelling it out. All that dirt actually is going to be on site here. This area is a little bit of a low land, so were going to be increasing it by 2 or 3 feet high. So were keeping the dirt. Were recycling. As you know, our city leads the nation in recycling. Were following a lot of the building technologies. With that said, the team that has been working on this, i would like to say a huge thanks to clark construction, our architects, h. O. K. And m. I. I. Have been on this contract. Some of our subcontractors, i just want to say thank you because this new facility will make San Francisco much safer and put us into the 21st century building. Isnt that a great opportunity . [ applause ]. I can theres a lot i can say because im excited about this building because i personally have worked in this area for over 30 years. The Public Works Department yard is just up the street. So every day we see these changes. Were very excited. In the capital plan the mayor is putting money for us to look at more opportunities to do more projects here. With that said, i would like to call her to say a few words and thank her for our leadership. Our city is changing in the right direction. Lets call mayor breed and give her a big hand. Mayor breed. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Mohamed is really excited about this project, isnt he . Hes always excited about projects that move the city forward in the right direction. San francisco is in earthquake territory. And its not a matter of if but when the next big one will be prepared. So we have to be prepared. More importantly, we have to make sure that our Public Safety officials are in seismically safe facilities so that when theyre trying to help the citizens of San Francisco, they dont necessarily need help themselves. We know that the Traffic Division and the Forensic Services division are located in buildings that are not seismically safe. Especially with the Traffic Division and motorcycles and their need to get to people and help protect people throughout San Francisco, thats going to be critical. If we have a next earthquake and something happens, how are they going to get their motorcycles out . We have to start thinking about the future and ways to protect all of our citizens, especially making sure that our Public Safety officials from the police and the Fire Department and other departments can get out there on the streets and protect and save lives. This project, along with so many other amazing projects that weve done in this city, were headed in the right direction. The new Public Safety building that just opened in mission bay is absolutely incredible. The medical examiner building that just open not too far from here is amazing. Station 49, the firefighters are going to get a new stateoftheart building. We just cut the ribbon on station 5 and 21 for the Fire Department to make sure that our First Responders have seismically safe buildings that are just really outstanding and worthy of San Francisco. Now, moving forward in the capital plan finally, after the voters approved a 2014 ether bond, we are finalley here breaking ground, ready to get this building built, not only by 2021 but also on budget, right mohamed . On budget. I dont see many claps for on budget. So i just want to thank everyone whos here today with us to celebrate this milestone and just raise the profile of how significant it is to get these projects done. In fact, the voters have been really generous because through the work of the capital plan and under the leadership of our city administrator, weve been able to bring the bond for these projects forward to the voters in a responsible way, without raising property taxes. I know they usually love that. Which is why in march of next year, well be bringing forward another bond to continue the great work that were doing to make all of our buildings seismically safe throughout San Francisco. This is a great step in the right direction. I want to thank d. P. W. And the Capital Planning committee and all the contractors and people that are going to make sure that this is not only a beautiful building, but one of the most environmentally friendly buildings and it will be a safe, great place for so many people who serve our city day in and day out to work. Im looking forward to it. Im sure these guys behind me cant wait to use a nice bathroom for a change in a great facility. With that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the supervisor for this district, supervisor walton. Thank you so much, madam mayor. First of all, good afternoon and welcome to district 10. Youre actually in a place that is going to be very well protected in the future in San Francisco. As the mayor mentioned, we have crime lab out here now in the district. Were going to have keep your fingers crossed everything goes according to plan our evidence facility. Naturally we have the Traffic Company and Forensic Division that is coming right here. Our district is going to be well protected, which is exciting for us. Any time we can have Brand New Community gems that are going to be in our district, we get excited about that. So i want to thank everyone for coming out here today. I want to thank the commitment from the voters. Thank the mayor for her commitment and dedication to district 10. I want to of course thank mohamed who is a constituent here in district 10 and who worked very hard to make sure that we have the opportunity to bring facilities like this here into the district. I want to thank the chief for his partnership on all the work and for looking at district 10 as a place where we can bring stateoftheart 21st century facilities to the district so our police and Law Enforcement can be a staple in the community. Were all excited that this will be here in 2021 and we look forward to all the seismically safe opportunities were providing here in district 10. Thank you all for coming to the district and thank you for being here this morning. [ applause ]. Okay. And now lets hear from the chief of police, bill scott. He is a big partner with public works every day, 24 7, all of the partnership we have with the Police Department, thank you for everything that you do to support public works. Thank you for everything you do for our city. Welcome, chief scott. Thank you, mohamed, and thank you for your partnership. First of all, i have a lot of people to thank here. Mayor breed, your leadership and commitment to this Police Department and city is just off the charts. This is a Long Time Coming and it took vision. It took commitment. I just want to thank everybody who made this happen, beginning with the mayor and the director, all the contractors that will take part in this. The officers that are standing here behind me and onto the sides, this is for them. These are the frontline people that do the work. They keep our city safe and they deserve seismically safe facilities and facilities that are stateoftheart as stated. We thank you for appreciating our work and your gratitude for voting to allow this to happen. This facility will not only move our department into the future, but through the advanced services that have been built into this project, we will be better able to serve our city. It will be seismically safe. Our employees will be able to respond to major emergencies quickly and efficiently. And as supervisor walton said this part of the city is excited to have us here, and we really appreciate that. Our crime lab will be fully modernized to accommodate evolving technologies and employ sound scientific principles to process data. At the end of the day this is about keeping our community safe. We thank everybody for making this happen. Our elected leader, the voters, the architect, the engineers, the consultants. Finally, we thank you, the people of our city again for allowing us to be here and making this happen. Thank you. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go over to where the shovels are and we will throw a little dirt and then these contractors can get back to work. Right . All right. [ ] all right. Thank you all for coming. We really appreciate it. This building is going to be ready in 2021. [ ] my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in Law Enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Good morning, everyone. Im tom mcguire and i have the privilege of acting as the San Francisco m. C. A. Were here to celebrate the opening of this beautiful train platform. This is going to be the best way to get to the chase center arena. Were exciting to be cutting the ribbon on that platform today. This arena will be the most sustainable, transitfriendly and most successful arena in the nba. To celebrate this opening, i would like to welcome mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you, tom. There are a lot of folks here today to celebrate this platform, and i just want to start by thanking each and every one of you for being here and helping us to get the word out, but i especially want to thank the warriors. Not only have they committed to making sure that this is the most transit friendly chase center anywhere, but they can put their money where their mouth is by making investments in our Transportation System here in San Francisco. This platform is just one of their many commitments to supporting transportation to chase arena for the over 220 events that they plan to host every single year. We announced a few weeks ago that any event that you attend at chase center, you can basically show your ticket as proof of payment to get on muni and pull up right to the almost front door and walk over and enjoy a good time. And then when youre ready to go, you can hop right back on muni to get back home or wherever youre trying to get to. A year ago we formed a committee to talk about how we were going to be the most transit friendly location when chase center opened, and the warriors have been at the table, ucff has been at the table. The legislators have been at the table. I really want to thank ucsf for being here today and an incredible partner to make sure that people are able to get in and out this community, whether theyre going to the hospital at ucsf or going to class or coming back from mission bay or going to chase center, this neighborhood which basically used to be a railway and empty space has now become a real part of San Francisco as an incredible, thriving community, with people, restaurants, places to go and things to do. Ive got to tell you, chase center is like the icing on the cake because this is where entertainment is going to happen, this is where the championship warriors nba champions will play right here in San Francisco starting this fall for the well, actually coming home for the second time in our great city. Im so excited about whats to come when we open this new center. But today is about really promoting our transportation plans and how we need to get people around this area safely, securely, efficiently. The thing that people ask about the most, first of all, San Francisco has a lot of congestion, but now that were adding another 18,000 people who are going to visit this area over the course of 220 events, what are we doing . Well, we got bike share, we got plans with muni, we have so many incredible opportunities for people to choose the Ferry Service and transit options first. Our goal is to get the word out and to hopefully when we open this amazing place well see tons of people getting right off at this platform to attend the first concert here and attend one of the first games happening here for the golden state warriors. Im excited about this. Thank you to the neighborhood for your patience and all the people that have had a tremendous role. Id also like to add my real appreciation for the warriors and the four Additional Trains that were going to be getting in addition to the platform and some of the other Infrastructure Improvements as their commitment to doing all they can to provide transit options for the visitors to chase arena. Theyve been an incredible partner in this city. At this time, id like to introduce another incredible partner, someone whos helped on the legislative side and continues to advocate for not only resources for San Francisco, but continues to push the envelope around the kinds of transit options that we need to make San Francisco and the bay area a more transit friendly, a more efficient place to move people around, thats Assembly Member david chu. Thank you, madam mayor. San francisco, are we ready for basketball . Are we ready for the warriors . So i was trying to think of something pithy to say that would be appropriate for this day. This is what ill say in four words this is the station for dub nation. All right. This is ride, this journey, has been long in coming. I was just talking to rick wells about how it was eight years ago when i was serving as president of the San Francisco board of supervisors, i got a call about the possibility that the warriors might move to our great city. A lot as happened over that time. I remember asking him the question how are we going to move 18,000 people in and out games this many times a year . Today we announced we unveiled part of the solution to that blueandgold question. I want to also along with the mayor thank so many folks that were responsible for the day, starting with the mayor and her team at muni, along with our contractors and our engineers, our builders. Of course to the warriors for your vision of what an amazing venue could be about. Ucsf, thank you for not only your science but also partnership. I want to thank a moment to thank the neighborhoods, the neighbors, our transit advocates for bringing us to where we are today. I want to take a moment to thank the legislature and the bay area voters who last year passed regional measure 3, which is over 4 billion of transit and congestion funding to help ensure that we are building the best Transit System in the world here in San Francisco. Let me also mention today is a Ribbon Cutting, but this is not going to be the last transit stop Ribbon Cutting. As i mentioned when we were moving forward with regional measure 3 it was suggested to me and my colleagues that we also invest in a ferry system that includes a future mission bay ferry stop. If all goes well, in 2021, we will hopefully do a Ribbon Cutting there as well with the temporary option, as mayor breed just reminded me. Let me just close by saying that we all know that the greatest 21st century cities have great transit. We know we have more work to do in San Francisco, but this is one of the major stops to ensuring that we have great transit here in San Francisco and here in the bay. Go dubes. With that, its my honor to introduce someone who needs no introduction. Someone who has overseen three championships over the last five years, the the of the golden state warriors. Thank you. Another great day. We have been on this journey for about seven years now. I know its a distant memory, but we had some press conference on pier 3032 about seven years ago accepting the mayors invitation to bring the warriors back to San Francisco. Obviously a lot has happened since then. Two people up here actually, all of them, but two in particular at that point in time were critical to this project david chu in his former role at the board of supervisors was one of the first advocates for this project. It seems really easy now that its all done. At the time he took some arrows for us and there were some times when it wasnt the easiest position to be taking. David, we owe you a great debt of gratitude and the support you gave us then in guiding us to our new home at mission bay. Im going to introduce this guy in a moment, but i want to Say Something about him before i do. Chancellor hagad has been an amazing partner in getting this project done. Through the time that i have known him, which initiated with this project, ive come to respect what an incredible steward you are for this amazing institution. Hes a really good negotiator too. I will tell you that. He was you know, we had a common vision, but we had to figure out how to get there. The getting there was the part that chancellor hagood was so instrumental in making happen. Mayor breed before she was mayor was a supporter. She even came with us to china a few years ago to see the warriors play there. She has since the time she has been in office has been an inbelievable advocate in focusing in on what its going to take to make this project successful for the city. I think her encouragement is what resulted in our muni program. Remember that, your ticket to any event at j center is our ticket on muni. Free transportation on muni the day of the event. Thats an incredible opportunity. I think its not only going to be great for getting people familiar with muni on muni. I think its going to bring a lot of people to muni that have never tried it before because of the guests from outside the bay area and outside of San Francisco who now will have an experience with muni that hopefully theyll repeat over and over again. I think, mayor, youve assured us that tom has made sure with all this demand that were creating, that the service is going to match that demand, right . Isnt that what you told me . Thanks to each and every one of you. You deserve to be up here. Were less than a month away from cutting a ribbon and welcoming our first event, metallica and the San Francisco symphony. What else would you do in San Francisco on september 6. Thanks to all of you. Im going to turn this over to chancellor sam hagood. Thank you, rick. Let me welcome you all here the Medical Center and university here. Were delighted to be welcoming the equally world class warriors to be our partners. It has been a journey as rick mentioned, but i am confident that everything is in place to make this a spectacular success not just for mission bay, but San Francisco. At ucsf we strongly believe in the mayors transit policies. We run our electric Shuttle Services to keep our patients, staff, students out of cars. We promote the use of transit whenever we can. That includes allowing City Employees to access our transit to zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. I would like to especially thank the mayor, who from day one has made a commitment to the opening of the chase center and the operations of the chase center the Great Success that i know it will be. With the cooperation of the m. T. A. For their terrific work on this new pavilion. My office is just here. I can actually see this Transit Center and see the chase center from my office. I believe ill be looking directly into ricks office. Well be able to monitor very carefully how this all works, but were very excited about welcoming the warriors to our neighborhood. I thank the members of the ucsf community, but the Broader Community who have tolerated a lot of construction including our own construction and the warriors and the transit. It will all be over soon and well be able to enjoy the fruits of everyones labor. Thank you for being here. Its a very, very exciting day. Tom. Thank you, chancellor. Thank you again for your patience and for all the neighbors here in mission bay and all the neighborhoods who have been so patient with the amount of construction that has taken place and that has been required for a great station and a great arena to take shape here in mission bay. Thank you also to our elected officials for their leadership encouraging us to put transit first. Of course to the warriors for funding infrastructure investments. Making your warriors ticket count for your muni ticket. Im looking forward to seeing what our peer cities and other teams in San Francisco, thank you, madam mayor. Also joined by our board member who has been terrific. Thank you to all the m. T. A. Members who have been working so hard for the last few months to make sure that this station opened before the arena so weve got a great facility for all the fans who are going to show up in one month. With that, lets go across the street and cut a ribbon. Ready . Five, four, three, two, one. Yay. 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