Item number two, chairs report. I mentioned this, we have been getting our study of congestion management and pricing in downtown San Francisco. We are starting our conversation with stakeholders. This thursday, the policy Advisory Committee for the study holds its first meeting and the meeting is open to the public and will take place between 68 30 p. M. At the offices located at 1455 Market Street on the 22nd floor. For more information you can visit the Transportation Authority website. I would like to thank staff who have visited Treasure Island at various times this year. To meet and do outreach to residents and stakeholders. They did a great presentation. As always, i encourage my colleagues to visit the island and get a feel for how it is being transformed. That is the end of my cherry part. Is there any Public Comments on the report . Seeing then. We please call the next item. Item three, executive directors report. Thank you. I just wanted to build upon earlier reference i made regarding caltrans and director visit to Treasure Island that was the Transportation Authority. I will read it again, it was an honor to be the new caltrans directors first stop in the. We met together with commissioner Linda Richardson as well as district 4 staff to provide an overview of all of the different sustainability features of the new development and all of the work that is happening on the island with transportation choices. We have been partnering successfully with caltrans and our contractors to deliver them on time and on budget. I am very grateful for their partnership. To eric cordoba as well. In addition we talked about things like trying to launch a clean ferry service. We are super excited. We know the residents are keen to see the transit improvements up front in program. The water emergency transfer to a ration of Authority Leader who operates the ferry system they have agreed to apply for sb1 and funds of the summer, excuse me this winter and we hope to hear back by summer if that is successful. We will keep you posted. That would be a compliment to the ac transit buses as well as the on island and shuttles that we are also planning to develop over the coming years. We want to thank eric young, our Communications Director and rachel hiatt for all of the work they have been doing in terms of the outreach they mentioned over the summer. We did a lot of oneonone interviews with residential and commercial tenant stakeholders. We appreciated their kennett input and feedback. We feel like we have been able to incorporate them in our recommendations on the agenda today. Which is the first of many steps we will be taking over the next few months to reach a final conclusion to our policy work around the telling program. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments on the executive directors report . Is there any Public Comments on the report . Good morning, directors, commissioners rather. My name is jeff klein i am a 20 year resident on Treasure Island. I had a couple of questions for the director. You mentioned 200 million of federal money is involved in the Treasure Island project. I am wondering, i know Environmental Justice report was done for the ramps project. I am wondering if you have done a study or assessment for the Treasure Island congestion pricing and told . I have a copy of the u. S. D. O. T. Environmental review checklist. This was under the fast act, 2016. 60 million a year, in particular the technology deployment, the new Congestion Management Technology Deployment and San Francisco managed to get a nice chunk of that, almost. On this checklist, its a short checklist, number five is social and economic impacts, uniform assistance. Uniform relocation act. Will the proposed project potentially result in the displacement of persons or businesses . Yes or no . And, number six is the Environmental Justice executive order 12898. Will he project potentially result in a disproportionally high and Adverse Human Health or environmental effects on minority or low income populations. I am wondering if you have done your Due Diligence on the Treasure Island Environmental Justice. Thank you. Anyone else here for Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Mr. Klein. We are . Reporter aware of the requirements under the and have done so in prior stages for the capital side on the Mobility Management Program that work remains to be done. It is part of the National Environmental Protection Agency requirements and review. We will be doing that once we have a better sense of what the policy configuration would be so we can complete our analysis. Thank you. We please read the Consent Agenda . Items never7, comprise of the adjacent Consent Agenda. These items are considered routine. Staff is not planning to present on these items. If a member objects, and the of the consent items can be removed and considered separately. Any questions or comments on the Consent Agenda . Any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Can i have a motion on a second . In motion by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner viewer. Do we need a. [roll call] we have final approval. Please call the next item. Item seven, approve a total exemption for this is an action item. I believe we have a presentation . No, we are not. Did you want to say anything about the recommendation . Summarize it. Okay. Good morning. Rachel hiatt assistant deputy for planning. Based on the outreach that we heard throughout last fall, throughout this year, we prioritized looking at provisions to support current residence and we looked at several options including exempting current residence from the toll. Based on the demand forecast and the Financial Analysis that we did. We have identified what it would take, only a modest effect on travel demand patterns and the additional revenue needed to provide this exemption. It would depend on what the eventual toll level is but it would range from about 8. 6 up to 24point 4 million over the course of the buildout over a 1520 year timeframe. Based on that finding, we do recommend a policy to exempt to current residence from the toll. We would need to identify specific implementation tools and definitions as part of the toll system business rules which will be brought back to the timma board in the spring. We will also bring back a complete funding recommendation along with the rest of the toll policies in the next six months through a course of several policy actions that would address the remaining policy issues that are undecided. We know we need to identify recommendations to support workers and to support future low income households on the island, and the rest of the toll policies themselves. Hours of operation rate. We will bring all of these things back to you. The action before you today is the policy to exempt the current residence. That includes revisiting of this at the midpoint of development or 4,000 units. Im happy to answer any questions. Think you Deputy Director hiatt. I want to thank you for your extra ordinary work on this. You did give a very informative presentation with the subcommittee. Thank you everybody that was involved with the extensive outreach to residents and for listening to them and what you forward. I think it is very important that current residence no that this is not something that is going to fall on them, particularly at a time when we are still building out adequate transportation infrastructure. Most of the residents of Treasure Island are low and middle income. Many rely on cars because we had, at this point that the is not adequate. We will have an opportunity at the midway point of the development to assess this policy and look at it at that. , the services on the transportation infrastructure that is on the island. I would underscore that we decided we were going to have a revisiting of this, not a sunset this is not automatically going to go away in terms of the exemption. There are decisions that need to be made with regards to businesses, future, low resident and comes on island. This is a very important step that we are taking. It does have some revenue consequences. The board of supervisors will need to look at how we are able to meet the demand and needs of transportation on the island and funded appropriately without relying on tolls initially on the current residence. I want to thank commissioners. Far find walton who sit on the subcommittee for their strong support in coming up with this policy. I do see commissioner walton has questions or comments in then i will open it up for Public Comment. Thank you. I was going to save thing you just said to make sure it was on record. I do want to say thank you to direct chang and the entire staff or listening to concerns. Thank you, vice chair walton. With that. Are there any other questions or comments from colleagues . Lets open this up for Public Comment. Jeff klein again, 20 year resident on Treasure Island. I think the board for hearing my comments. I want to thank supervisor haney and the staff are responding to residents concerns with this resolution and thanks to all who helped to move it forward. While this exemption for existing residents provides wealth and relief, does not address the potential disproportionate and adverse impacts of the toll project on present and future tenants. The logical solution is to return to the original 2,006 Transportation Plan where the developers propose that the toll would apply only to residents of the ti project. It was passed in the California Legislature in 2,008 to allow for creation of a Transportation Agency with authority to implement and manage the congestion toll among other things. The intent of the author of 8981 that the toll would apply to residents of the ti project. Not to existing residents through other drivers. Similarly the Treasure Island project Environmental Impact report to the board of supervisors in tran11. Specifying the visitors would not be charged, that is on page 45. Sometime between tran11 and 2014 when timma was created the toll was radically expanded to apply to all drivers going to and from Treasure Island yet timma staff did not tell any of us residence until 2015 while most commercial tenants do not hear about the toll until late 2018. I urge the board to resolve what would be a huge problem for businesses by returning to the original plan to toll new residents of the project. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you. Good morning. My name is steve stallone. I am from Treasure Island wines and the Treasure Island organizing committee. There was talk about it not just being decided at the midway. Of 4,000 units being built, but also in that consideration we would be looking at where we were, as far as the alternative transit being part of what was going on on the island. The idea being that we really need to have viable alternative transit systems before we start moving into having the tolls. I dont see that reflected here. I am wondering if that was decided to leave that out or what . Anybody else for Public Comment . I will respond to that when we done done. Hello. My name is carol harvey. Im an investigative reporter. Ive been reporting on Treasure Island for the last six years. Treasure island, i understand you have an exemption for the residence. On an island that has one access point to toll businesses, or anyone on Treasure Island is unacceptable. These businesses, vendors, will not go to their businesses if they are having to pay tolls. The businesses have employees who cannot pay tolls. These businesses will not be able to get employees to work for them. The businesses should not have to pay tolls to have people work for them. This whole idea for businesses is simply unworkable, unsustainable, and it needs to be dropped completely in my humble opinion. Treasure island as he have a supermarket. They need these businesses. They need them to stay there, and they need them to be continued there. I urge you not to toll businesses. Because one of my research on this, i cannot see any reason why the developer whose idea it was to redevelop the island, cant pay for these tolls . The residents wont even be able to use the infrastructure they are going to build if the toll the residence. They wont be there by the time this new infrastructure is built. Thank you very much for hearing me out on this. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Public comment is now closed. The question raised about what exactly we are proving in terms of action whether it explicitly includes that when there is revisiting that we will look at the Public Transportation infrastructure in the services . That is certainly my understanding of the language. I know some things still need to be figured out with the business rules on such. I just want to reiterate that was certainly our understanding and our expectation of what the languages that we will approve. Director hyatt . Yes, rachel hyatt. I want to confirm there are a number of points actually in the Development Project where we are required to evaluate, or will be required to evaluate the performance of the program. The first is set out in ab981. That is no later than three years after the commencement of tolling. We are called to evaluate its performance overall including Transit Service levels. What we are achieving an report that to the California State Legislature as well. I do agree and want to confirm the midpoint evaluation will include evaluation to Transit Service that is being provided. I want to reiterate in this action we are taking today we still need to have a conversation about businesses, employees. We arent making a decision on those things today. I appreciate the comment about our continued need to focus on that and understand the realities and the challenges, the equity issues that our businesses face. That will be a conversation we are going to have to have here in terms of a decision that is made. With that. Can i have a motion on a second to approve item seven . Motion by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner brown. Can we take that same house same call . All right. Will you please call the next item. Item eight, introduction of new items. This is an information item. Any new items . Seeing then. Is there any Public Comment on this . Public comment is closed. Will you please call the next item . Item nine, general Public Comment. General Public Comment . Good morning again. On november 8, 2018 i sent a letter to supervisor kim on the subject of errors and omissions of the 2016 Treasure Island mobility Management Study for the third project and copied the supervisors and executive director. I pointed out that the study failed to mention that 53 poverty rate of Treasure Island residents and instead claims only one third of households although income. They use their wrong standard when they should have used hud housing a fort ability numbers based they used the federal poverty level. Thats wrong standard. If you used it the right standard that would result in 80 of households being qualified as lower income. The city wrongly claimed that Treasure Island driver spend more on transportation than average San Francisco drivers. Claiming 9,000 versus 7,000 a year ignoring the fact that median San Francisco households have more than twice as much income. The correct expense numbers are roughly 7,000 a year for Treasure Island households and 11,000 a year for San Francisco households. These are numbers three years ago. This is a 2016 study. Census data show that the population is with a 53 poverty rate. The study did not cover justice for low income and minority communities which requires federal agencies to consider Environmental Justice in all programs, policies and activities. Director chang did answer that question that the Environmental Justice report will be done. I look forward to seeing it, and reading it when it is available. I hope that is soon. I would just like to correct the record on the flawed study from 2016 as the basis for Going Forward with this congestion program. We need to go back and correct the record on that study and get the numbers right. You completely misrepresented the characteristics of this community. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. We please call the next item . Item ten adjournment. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. For joining us here today. We all know that our Public Transportation system in San Francisco is important to our present and it is definitely critical to the future of our city. As our city grows, as our economy grows, as we build more housing, as more people work here, we know that we cant continue to grow in those areas without thinking about improvements to our Public Transportation system. As someone who grew up in this city, i relied on muni, the 31, the 22 philmore, the 44, you name it, i was on those buses. The 19, i know the routes by heart. But the fact is, you know, we need to do better. We need to make sure that people, especially people who rely on muni to get to work, school, doctors appointments, so many of our seniors who cant drive and need to pick up their medications and other things, we need to make sure that our Public Transportation system is reliable for all of our communities, in all parts of San Francisco, especially on those communities that have consistently been neglected. It means safer streets for pedestrians and bicyclists and all of its users. We know over the years the city is a lot more congested than it has ever been, but we also know to make it a better city and to reach our climate goals, we have to leave it less congested. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing the work. In june we created a working group with city leaders and staff and Industry Leaders with the goal of making this better. I am looking forward to seeing the recommendations coming out. Over the past few years we have made some significant investments. We committed to doubling the pace of building more protected bike lanes. We established a Quick Build Program to increase the delivery of lowcost units. And we expanded our focus on traffic safety. Thankfully the voters gave us one more tool to improve streets with the passage of proposition v. This will allow us to invest 30 million in light rail vehicles anduses as well as Street Safety improvements. So the work continues and we will continue to do the work that we can to move these objectives forward as quickly as possible. These objectives are the responsibility of the San Francisco municipal Transportation Agency. The m. T. A. Managing our streets, Public Transportation, other Mobility Options like bike shares and escooters, and a lot of Public Infrastructure projects, like the central subway and van neessb. R. T. This is a system that looks at daytoday operations as well as looking at the future and how we make sure that the challenges that existed now dont continue to exist in the future. This requires a strong vision and strong leadership. So today im proud to announce that the s. F. Board will be recommending the s. F. M. T. A. Board will be recommending Jeffry Tumlin as the next director of s. F. M. T. A. This is jeffry. You can clap. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed jeff is an International Transportation expert who brings over 25 years of experience of improving transportation in cities. He was recently the interim director at the Oakland Department of transportation, where he laid the foundation for the agencys future success with a lens on environmental benefits and equality. I believe jeffry will do the same at s. F. M. T. A. Throughout his career, he has been known for bringing a visionary perspective on transportation in cities and helping to implement innovative ideas that are desperately needed. He will be joining the city as a longtime resident of noey valley and will be the first lgbtq director in s. F. s history. I look forward to working with jeffry to help us deliver a great Transportation System in San Francisco, and i want to thank the board, including the president of the board who is here today, malcolm heinikie and gweneth borden, thank you for your leadership and coordinating the interview process and everything that you did, to make sure that we found the best person possible to do the job to make our Public Transportation and infrastructure and all that we need to do to improve mobility in San Francisco in a safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly way to choosing that person who could do just that. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeffry Tumlin. Good morning. My name is jeff tumlin, and i have been in the Transportation Industry for a long time, for 25 years, advising cities and transit agencies how to clarify their values and then use transportation investments to make those values manifest. I like asking questions about what is most important, what does success look like, and more importantly how would we measure whether we were actually successful or not. Thats where my Technical Work comes into play, trying to use tools to be able to measure social equity and environmental outcomes and to align our transportation spending in order to best achieve the public good. I ended up in this industry against my better judgment. I discovered very early in my career and sort of by accident that we in transport have a bigger impact on Public Health outcomes than the medical industry does. We have a bigger impact on Economic Development, than Economic Development programs do. And more importantly, we are arguably the biggest driver of opportunity. We decide how many jobs people can get to in a reasonable commute time. We determine whether children can get safely to school, which impacts their academic performance. We are fundamental drivers of Economic Opportunity or destroyers of Economic Opportunity. We have resources. If we use those resources wisely, we can correct the ways in which my industry has historically destroyed opportunity and wealth for people of color. Early in my industrys history, if you wanted to build a highway project, you got extra points for removing light. Light of course being defined as africanamerican and latino ownership. The city and county of San Francisco did not escape that dark period in our industry, and we have a key responsibility to correct for the past and to equalize opportunity for everyone. We can also do what some Mobility Tech Companies want us to do, which is to provide more exquisite convenience for the privilege. Im committed to doing the former, and using transportation as a tool to make San Francisco achieve its potential. That includes addressing problems like the fact that 25 people have died in our streets this year and were on track to injure nearly 3,000. We lose in injuries and fatalities about 647 people in San Francisco. I want to change that. You can see from my social Media Presence that ive long been an outspoken proponent of changing core practices in my industry and using the power that we have in transportation to reduce climate change, improve quality of life, foster Small Business success, and advance equity. Ive reached the point in my cle career, however, where its time to stop advising and start doing. Ive worked all over the world, and San Francisco remains the only city that i felt was my home. San francisco has assembled all of the pieces that we need in order to create dramatic and progressive change. Weve got a visionary m. T. A. Board that i cannot wait to work for. We have the most talented agency staff in the industry. We have a tenacious and harddriving mayor who i know will make a great partner. We also have a progressive board of supervisors ready to ask the tough questions. I am ready to serve all of them. I dont have a 30 or 100day plan. My first task is to listen carefully to staff. We do have the most incredible assembly of talent of any city in the country. I trust their professional expertise. It is my job first to listen and then secondly, and more importantly, to remove obstacles so that they can do their good and productive work. I do not know all of the answers yet. Its going to take me a while to learn from staff what the best answers are. I want to close by saying that we have talent, resources and some clarity about what our resources are in San Francisco, but there remains a gap between San Franciscos potential and its current reality. I am deeply excited to do the hard work to close that gap. We have the tools and all of the resources that we need, unlike really any city in the world. I cant wait to get started, particularly with the help of all of you in this room, the press. With that, im happy to take questions. Malcolm, did you have words to say . Absolutely. I know i stand between you and the questions for our new director of transportation. I am the chair of the new m. T. A. Board. If i seem excited, its because i am. We are in the process of hiring a star for San Francisco. We are very excited here today. The first person i want to thank is is the mayor, not just because of her commitment and support, but also i want to thank the mayor for not just her support and partnership in this, but the fact that you challenged us you were the result of a challenge to get a bold leader to take this agency forward. Im grateful for that challenge. That challenge led us to an international search. We searched far and wide. I want to thank the Search Committee for the wonderful job that was done to conduct a Truly International search that led us to someone in our backyard, a san franciscan to run our agency. What has struck us about jeff more than his expertise, dedication, and his experience is his passion. You just heard it. He recognizes how transportation affects peoples lives, making it better when it goes well and worse when it doesnt. With that, we are very excited. I wish jeff the absolute best. I know he wont need luck because hes a true professional and im excited to see him be a star and a partner. In my closing comments, i would like to say this, the last few months have been tumultuous at the agency, but not as much as without a director. The acting director kept the ship steady, was professional, calm, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Thank you for your service. With that, i will turn the podium back to the super staff to answer our questions. Thank you for the questions. What questions do you have . [ indiscernible ]. [ ]. Lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much, phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands, so im a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is, and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend, drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13mo 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks Department Work Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to, we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here, but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that im a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said, this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from kaiser permanente, they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. Are you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown, youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five, four, three, two, one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] hello, everyone. Nice to see you all tonight on the 20th annual transgender day of remembrance. This has always been a very heavy and very important day for myself. This is the 50 15th to 15 th time that i have been participating in this. I work with the office of transgender initiative. Our office is the first trans led Government Office in the country. We work with Community Members to advance policies, programs, and equity for transgendered and nonconforming communities. That is why we are here today. This is such an important day. Today, like as we have been paying attention to a lot of
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