Let me tell you, this centre is long overdue in the Omi Community. [cheers and applause] i want to start by thanking supervisor safaye, who is really, i think the best supervisor district 11 has ever had. Let me tell you, because of his work and advocacy, we are bringing more resources than ever to this community. We saved 21 units just on Mission Street where low income families were facing eviction. He took the leadership, we purchased that property and protected those units for generations to come. [cheers and applause] we know that you want your library and supervisor safaye and i are working to get it done for this community, making sure that even though sometimes i know over the years you felt forgotten, your supervisor and your mayor, were doing everything we can to continue to focus on bringing resources to this community. [cheers and applause] and you know, you only have to look at the data to know that a place to provide Employment Opportunities should have been here a long time ago. In fact, 94112 had sadly one of the largest populations of people who were looking for Employment Opportunities but couldnt find them. 1600 people in this zip code alone. Now while we enjoy this tremendous economic boom in San Francisco, too many residents in this community are left behind. We see a significant increase in the number of people who are unemployed and looking for opportunities and that number is even higher for our africanamerican community. And so we as a city have to look at those numbers and make the right kinds of investments in the communities where we know it could make a difference. And so, it is only fitting that today, we celebrate the seventh workforce or whatever this place is called, access point. They changed the name so many times. [ laughter ] they used to be job center and this and that, a place where you can come and find help to get employment. Thats what it is. [cheers and applause] so today is a celebration of something long overdue and i just, im so excited to be here and i know that innercity yout. Youre going to speak, right . [ laughter ] i know that i just want to really acknowledge and thank mike brown, who we all miss and remember for his work and his advocacy. And we know that his daughter, gwenn, carries that same passion for young people and were grateful for you for following in your fathers footsteps, to make sure opportunities are available to all of the folks in this community and she needs your support, your continued support to continue the work of innercity youth in the lakeview community. So today were opening this incredible place where you can come and get the help and the support that you need to either build a resume, to talk about job interviewing skills, to do mock interviews, to do whatever it takes and i want to thank Young Community developers and dj brrokter for partnering with innercity youth to make sure that this space is really a Space Available to the community to meet people where they are. Not let me just be clear, there are so many Job Opportunities in San Francisco. You can drive muni, you can be a police officer. Hell, you can run for mayor, but after im done. [ laughter ] there are so many opportunities and it is time that we look at the tech sector the healthcare sector and all of these other industries and we make sure theres a direct connection between all these companies that want do business in San Francisco and making sure that they hire the people of this city. [cheers and applause] in fact, your long awaited grocery store, what is it called . Hmart, hmart is coming to the Omi Community and here is the thing, theyll be hiring 150 new parttime and fulltime employees. [cheers and applause] and this center will be grounddaughter rogroundzero ft because we will make sure the people who live here have the first opportunity to work in their community, if thats the kind of job they want, we have to be deliberate in our investments and connecting the people of this community to these incredible opportunities. And i am excited to be here today. I also just want to point out that our workforce director, josh arsay, is here as well. Cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] so if you run into problems in finding employment, josh is always there and available. He will pick you up personally and take you to the job interview, take you shopping to buy the appropriate clothes to get ready for that job, whatever it takes. We will make sure that we change those statistics so that everyone in this city has an opportunity to get a good paying job so that they can take care of their families and create a Better Future for their lives. Someone who has been a real partner for me on the board of supervisors every step of the way, not just on citywide policies to address homelessness and housing and the things unnetted tthings weneed to do tn francisco, hes been a real strong advocate for this community, the community he represents. Leads and gentleman, your district 11 supervisor [cheers and applause] thank you, mayor. This day is a day of many years coming. I see a lot of history in this room. I see reverend amos brown, who has given his life and dedicated his life to this community. I see dr. Honeycut, marion harris. This community has been too over overlooked and forgotten. So when i came into office, it was president breed at the time and melia cohen were having hearings and they were extremely frustrated with Work Development at the time. They said where the unemployment is, where the violence is, thats where the jobs and resources should go. And that was just a reflection of what was happening in the community. So as mayor breed said, we looked at the numbers. We reached out to the then director of ycd and we talked by gwenn brown and said what can we do and what is the most important thing . Guess what . This is ground zero for a month before i came into office, there was a murder and the first week i was in office, there was a murder and it was a continuous state of violence. And then you looked at the unemployment in the black community that has historically been here and it was extremely high to the rest of the community. I went to then mayor lee and said we need your support. We want to put money towards a Great Organization and a great young lady standing and carrying on the tradition of her father and that young lady is gwenn brown. [cheers and applause] and we have a phenomenal organization named innercity youth and innercity youth should be the beacon and the leader for job creation and Job Development in this community. They can bring people together and so gwenn, at first was like, are you sure . I said, im sure. I said, well lock armed and do this together. We had the support of shamon and then to dj at ycd and we are here today now because then president breed and now mayor breed invested in i this community. She has been in office for a little over a year and we have gotten more year and more attention ant more investments than any other mayor in the last 25 years. [cheers and applause] so im just the beneficiary of great partners. Im the beneficiary of great leadership from the Mayors Office and communitybased organizations and those, like, mike brown and now gwenn brown that are taking over the torch for this community. I know gwenn, that your father is smiling down from heaven right now because he truly gave his life for this community. And what is the words they say . If you can give someone a job, you can give them dignity and respect for their entire family and thats what this is about. So i just want to end with saying, thank you again to the Young Community developers. Thank you again to gwenn and icy and owd and joaquin torez and never, never finally but least, mayor breed for your continued investment and dedication and love and support for this community because you all, this is called the hub, so welcome to the hub [cheers and applause] and i have a short certificate ill present to gwenn and icy on behalf of the board of supervisors and the mayor to congratulate her for the phenomenal job shes done and the phenomenal job we know she will do. [cheers and applause] take a little photo. And next up is our fearless leader and ucy and who will be taking this hub to the next level, miss gwenn brown [cheers and applause] thank you, guys, for coming to our grand opening. Im be the Programme Director here at this neighborhood access point that well be calling the hub. And the reason why well call it the hub is because this is going to be a place where anyone who lives in the omi, whether youre an entrylevel job seeker or experienced person that wants to refresh their skills and technology and get training, youre going to be able to get that here. I want to thank everyone whos here, all of the cbo partners, oewd, joshua, arsay. He was literally here at 9 00 sweeping with his team, fatinya homes, ground movement, shamon, asha. Hes not lying about what he said. Are you sure you want icy do it . He was, like, yes. So i thank you for leaving this in my hands and this is my way of thanking my father and grandmother for the work that theyve done excuse me. [cheers and applause] to be able to do this in her honor is my way and honor to pay homage to those who have come before me and who have created pathways. I hope to create pathways for other residents in the omi like i had. I went to school in San Francisco, born and raised in this community. I am so honored to be able to give back to the neighborhood that i grew up in and sorry for the tears, guys. At this time, i want to invite up my new boss, dionne j. Bri dionne j. Brickter. I work for gwenn and the entire district of district 10. Im the executive director of Young Community developers. I always tell myself we have the best weather in district 10 but i tell you what, this weather is beautiful in district 11 [cheers and applause] i dont think thats coincidence. I think it speaks to today. I want to thank mayor breed for her jovialness in participating today. But none of this happened by chance. It was a vision. It was a conversation that then executive director of the Young Community developer sat down and we had a conversation with gwenn brown and talked about the needs in our communities. It wasnt just one community. It was communities. And as we sat down and talked about those communities, we said, how can we collaborate and Work Together . How can we provide collective impact . Were stronger when we Work Together. Im happy to say this hub is just that. So i have an opportunity to tell a quick story and i dont even know if gwenn remembers. I remember the first time we came into the omi and we had to follow gwenn and we got an opportunity to talk to young men on plymouth and broad. We stood there for about three minutes and gwenn left me. So it was just me and folks from me and the Omi Community having a conversation. We talked for 45 minutes. They said for so long people have come into this community and do things and you need to be about it. And today, were about it. Cheer cheer. [cheers and applause] so i think as two organizations were collaborate together just to provide some of the Work Readiness training were doing in district 10 and really just want to allow gwenn and her team the resources that they need to ensure that we dont just come into the community and provide economic sustainability. Were about economic mobility. And thats one of the things well focus here at the hub. So i want to thank everybody who was involved. Of course, our phenomenal mayor, mayor breed, supervisor safaye, supervisor walton, who has quietly been behind the scenes but hes never quiet. Pretty sure you know that. Our director joaquin torez and gwenn, all of my team at Young Community developers. When you look in this room, there are so many based communitybased organizations and helping to negotiate and get this space. It took seven to eight months to get into this space. I want to thank toni brock. All of the things youve seen, thats through toni brock ang ad the work she does in ensuring our Community Stays beautiful. Lets enjoy the hub and this weather and we look forward to providing services to the communities in our communities. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, dj. You know, these important moments of legacy and creating opportunity for our residents are impossible without leadership and partners beyond d those who are standing and talking to you today but all Community Members who are tirelessly put efforts and hard work and volunteered time on commissions at volunteer associations, demanding resources and i want to give a shoutout to Joseph Bryant who was here earlier today. [cheers and applause] to apri, jackie flynn, to the governor sending his california director here today, to a success center, to the Community Leadership to reverend brown and, of course, leading efforts for our youth on behalf of mayor breed and cheryl reed at the human rights commission. Thank you all for being here and to the urban services ymca and the beacon team who are also here today, thank you. [cheers and applause] and i want to give a shoutout specifically to josh arsay and the element team. They go above and beyond to make this work happen on behalf of all of you. To morris young, thank you for all of work youve done and now, lets cut this ribbon [cheers and applause] we create opportunities around here. [cheers and applause] there we go. You all ready . Ok, you ready 54321 its open [cheers and applause] when i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if theyve got a neon sign, theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here, weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street, and as Market Street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. The film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. One of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt Rita Hayworth with neon signs in the background. I think what the office of economic and Workforce Development is very excited with is that well be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. The first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the Western Hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. Neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. We want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in San Francisco, and so do they. We bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. People in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. As youre driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. Knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. Its a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. Theres so many ways to improve Public Safety. The standard way is having more eyes on the street, but theres other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. But what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. When i see things coming back to life, its like remembering how things were. Its remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just it all right. Hello, sunny day. [cheers. ] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. I am sorry for those we dont have chairs for. We didnt expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. I am so glad to see the residents here. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. Today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. As someone who grew up in Public Housing, i have lived these conditions. I know these conditions. I dont expect everyone to understand the challenges of Public Housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. I wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. Thank you to everyone who joined me today, especially the members of the board of supervisors and we have the president with us, norman yee, thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you for being with us. Supervissupervisor per visor gor and earlier we had supervisor safai, and he had to take off. Why arent you in your seat . You know, today is not just about the investments we are making in our up coming budget, it is about the commitment behind those investments. Commitments to communities like s un nydale for those who have been left behind. San francisco is a city with a heart but we also have to be a city with a memory. A memory not only for the commitments we have kept but also the ones we have failed to keep. For too long our Public Housing communities were one of those failed commitments. We are changing that with our programs where we have rehabilitated over 2500 Public Housing units. [applause. ] and through hope sf, which is revitalizing and france forming communities in hunters view and right here in sunny dale and with the reconstruction of the long overdue transformation of the San FranciscoHousing Authority. We are building and rehabbing housing, creating stronger and healthier communities and investing in the people who live there. We owe it to them to keep our commitment and make a difference for this community and those across the city. With every decision we make, i want to make sure that equity and accountability are at the forefront of our minds. We have to be focused on people in all neighborhoods, like the people who live here, who for too long have been living with broken pipes, mold, infestations, dilapidated conditions. People like breanna, a Third Generation resident. She and her Three Sisters have lived through the conditions you saw today. Despite these challenges, breanna is a leader in her community, and she is fighting for the next generation. She has not given up on this community and we will not give up on you. We have to be accountable to the thousands of residents across the city living in Public Housing and our low income communities. Our budget would be accountable to them both by continuing our work to improve the conditions here and our continued commitment to provide funding to keep thousands of Housing Authority residents secure in their homes. Yes, Joyce Armstrong and happy birthday. Also by recognizing that we need to do more to keep people in these neighborhoods safe and supported. For too long this was not a safe community. Families were torn apart by violence, gunfire, crime, tragedy, frustration. This community has lived with that. That is why i wanted to come here to acknowledge the past, yes, but also to make a commitment to a better and brighter future. To make communities like this safer. It is not just about enforcing the laws to make sure we have more officers on the streets. It is about giving people opportunities and investing in changing peoples lives. [applause. ] it is about interrupting the cycle of violence and despair. That starts with doing more for our young people and so that the next generation can transform their futures. Offering stipends to teachers who commit to teach in Public Schools facing those challenges. And fully funding Free City College so that everyone has a path to higher education. [applause. ] we are expanding Public Health recreation and nutrition programs for kids, including Mental Health services to provide support for kids experiencing trauma so that he can build up their lives and thrive. All of our young people, no matter where they live should have access to the amazing opportunities that this city has to offer. applause . And as we work to support the next generation, we also must do more to help those who sadly are living on our streets. In this budget, we are following through on our commitment to add 1,000 new shelter beds by 2020. We are also using our funding to create 820 new units of permanently supported housing over the next two years. However, reducing homelessness means more than just creating places for people to go. We need to do more to prevent homelessness and keep people housed. That is why we are adding 5 million to increase Homelessness Prevention and diversion efforts. We are fully funding our tenants right to counsel so they have a right to Legal Defense when they are threatened with eviction. We are providing housing for transgender who are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population. We are creating a new five Year Pilot Program to provide rental subsidies subsidies for seniors to keep them secure in housing so that rising rents dont force them out of their home in the first place. With these commitments, we can keep people stable, keep them housed and prevent homeless necessary for ever becoming a part of their live. We are helping those with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder by adding 10 new behavioral 100 new Behavioral Health beds including 50 at San Francisco general for homeless residents with Mental Health challenges and 50 beds for those suffering both Mental Health and Substance Use disorder. [applause. ] combined with the 100 beds we announced earlier this year, that means we are committing to 200 new beds for our most vulnerable residents. There is the most significant expansion of Behavioral Health beds in a generation. And, chief nicholson, we are expanding the emx Emergency Response crew helping those on the streets suffering Mental Health and substance disorder issues. This will provide coverage 24 7 so the city can help people every day of every minute. These are some of the investments we are making to help our residents today. We have to be accountable to the next generation. We have to have vision and not lose sight of what is going to happen to San Francisco 10 and 20 years down the line. We know the crisis on the street is not just about a place for indoors or Mental Healthcare. It is about housing. The costs of housing are too high. We know these challenges did not develop overnight. It wont be fixed overnight. It is going to take fundamental change. Lets start increasing funding for Affordable Housing. I am proud to be working with so many members of the board of supervisors to place a 6 million Affordable Housing bond on this years 600 million Affordable Housing. Thank you, president yee, for working with me on this. It will be on this years ballot. This is the largest Affordable Housing bond in the citys history without raising property taxes. [applause. ] we are providing support not just for low income households and seniors but also for middle income residents. We are increasing investments in the budget to add over 140 million for the production and preservation of Affordable Housing so we can buy moreland, fully fund more projects and preserve our much greater rent control housing stock. [applause. ] all land through this bond our current budget, our previous spending and other efforts over the first year since i have been in office, we have identified 1 billion in new funding to build, preserve and support Affordable Housing. [applause. ] thank you for your help in building housing. This builds on top of the over 900 million that we already have committed to build and support Affordable Housing throughout our city. However, our support for housing cant just be about funding. If we are ever going to make a difference on housing, we have to make changes to how we build housing. We cant fear solutions that make it easier and faster to build housing. If we say we support Affordable Housing, our actions have to follow our values. We have to cut the red tape to barriers not just for some Affordable Housing and not just for some homeless shelters but for all housing for everyone. [applause. ] and was we build we must expandr transportation and infrastructure to support outer neighborhood goes like here in the southwest. Every neighborhood in our city needs better and more reliable access to public transit, and they need better and safer streets. This budget adds 30 million to fund transit operations, including speeding up the purchase of new light rail trains and modernizing the train control system so we see fewer delays in the subways and so that we know that we can get to where we need to more faster and more reliable. applause . We have also added 2. 5 million for vision zero improvement projects to make our streets safer. We have seen too many traffic related deaths on the streets. This funding will help double the pace of the protected bike lane and make the streets safe are for pedestrians on the most dangerous corridors through the capital plan we will spend 130 million over the next two years to improve our roads. This will get you excited. That means fewer potholes. [applause. ] and smoother rides for buses and bicycles and drivers. You are the one who have given us the potholes. We will invest in strengthening the support for cultural centers, libraries, health centers, Public Safety facilities and improving parks and open space. We will also continue to support improvements to making neighborhoods cleaner, safer and more vibrant. We are adding 12 million to our existing cleaning budget to expand our street cleaning in the tenderloin and soma and chinatown. We are fund being 80 more big belly trash cans and adding new pit stops including expanding the hours so people can use the bathroom with dignity. This is on top of 74 million that we spend every year to keep our streets clean and not only are we going to invest money in keeping San Francisco clean, we are all going to make sure people know we wont tolerate dirtying up our streets. We are supporting our plan to hire more Police Officers to get more officers out walking the beats in the neighborhoods and we are going to continue the work to reduce violent crime, property crime and auto breakins in the city. We are committed to 9 million to support Small Businesses and commercial corridors which builds on the work to streamline the bureaucracy that gets in the way of growing businesses. Our Small Business owners should focus on serving customers not navigating the bureaucracy of city hall. These are just some of the priorities we are funding in this budget. I am proud of the investments we are making and proud of the city we are working to build. I really want to thank everyone who put time into helping with this budget including the budget team and budget option director kelly. Thank you for your hard work and thank you to ben from the Controllers Office and your work. Thank you to harvey rose and the budget afternoon r analyst analyst team who is not going to touch the money i am proposing in the budget. You know, so many people have been working tirelessly day in and day out to get the budget done, and i am so excited about this. I want to end by talking about a young man named wallace pullet. We are so proud of wallace. You know, life hasnt been easy for him. He grew up with the violence i talked about earlier. He faced challenging times, including his own challenges with the law. Unlike so many others, we lost to violence or the criminal justice system, wallace worked through all of those challenges. He is now focusing on doing what is right including raising his daughter right here in sunnyda sunnydale. Now, just down the hill from here is a construction site. It is the first new building being constructed here at sunnydale as part of hope sf. It is a bright sign for the future of this incredible community. Wallace is a member of this construction team. He is building up this Beautiful New Community with his hands and with his heart. He is being accountable to himself, his daughter and his community. He is being accountability to the next generation so they have a sunnydale to grow, live and thrive and building a better San Francisco. I am committed to this community. I am committed to this community because people likua like wallae committed. Let us remember our job is to be accountable to everyone in the city, not just those who have time to show up and advocate at city hall. We have to be there for those who have hope, those who need hope, this budget is part of the commitment and represents is very best of our values in this city. By keeping those commitments, we can and we will build a stronger, more resilient San Francisco, a city not just for some, but for all of those in San Francisco. Thank you all so much for being here today. Everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like