His philanthropist hes helped to form a peace of the pie that made it a happy hed be honored to know youve recognized his philanthropy and relationship in the community by dedicating the Bob Ross Lgbt Senior Center thank you so much. clapping. tom and i will now do an untraditional unveiling of plaque a binder clip unveiling a new Ethics Commission and openhouse weve developed everyday new ideas well unveil to see the Bob Ross Lgbt Senior Center plaque clapping. boy laughter im here this time to want to bring up a friend of mine who works for wells fargo and Wells Fargo Bank is one of open houses oldest and longest ongoing fiscal sponsors thank you wells fargo over the course of a decade as openhouse has expanded and grown wells fargo has been there supporting our mission and expansion of our program we are grateful to wells fargo for the continued investment in open house and in San Franciscos Lgbt Community another benefit of partnering with wells fargo is getting to know people like Martin Martin is a former board member and Vice President of the openhouse a Senior Executive at well martin is a business and Community Leader that values people and relationships and is passionately committed to improving the lives of lgbt seniors im glad i know him and honored to serve with him unfortunately his current robot has managing director of Client Services at wells fargo advise is required him to be on the east coast were thrilled that hes here with us today representing wells fargo martin. clapping. i did not expect that marcie thank you. Congratulations this is a fantastic day im martin with Wells Fargo Advisors and i live in the same building as mark lenos sister in washington, d. C. We had drinks last month what a small world we have things in which we serve and many key members involved that open house over the years he is a current board member on the chairman and on Others Development committee i as marcie mentioned on the board and i joined the board because i want to honor those who paved the path of justice that weve been at the front of today and. clapping. yeah clapping. and as the mayor said they may live in dignity in a beautiful city wells fargos culture is about inclusion and respect for more than 25 years worked with the Lgbt Community specifically here in San Francisco we have 7 thousand key members and 50 pride organizations around the country and with our 14 years of commitment to open house the programs and the events and the support of Lgbt Community we look forward to doing that much more together congratulations to open house and mercy housing thank you very much. clapping. okay weve thanked a lot of folks ill thank more there are a lot of overlapping stories not only an amazing achievement for openhouse but the main thing were celebrating this is a project that really became the way it was for a lot of reasons and i want to thank the folks in the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association paul and gail is here clapping. it is you know mother that it isnt easier in San Francisco before you hard to develop Affordable Housing anywhere you rarely run across a neighborhood more Affordable Housing and not one like the Hayes Valley Association i want to give it up for them i hope you find more folks like them. clapping. the people that worked on the building you know we mentioned earlier the fabulous work from the city and many of you im not sure has been to an Affordable Housing opening ill give the one minute on this these things are built by 12 partners none does that alone the Mayors Office of housing has a tremendous staff worked for a decade on this project alone. clapping. and ill guess 20 different people that worked on is this is a rally race none does that alone this particular project went through 8 reverberations before we got to the one were at today, i want to thank all the folks from the Mayors Office of housing one of the weird ways our country will fund Affordable Housing through the tax credits why did he methamphetamine or mention that at this moment im rarely political but all the types of money we used to build the housing it you value what were doing today and i think that not only those seniors but seniors everyone lgbt and others veterans you name it working people people that are homeless if you think that is something we need to do get on the phone does just call the folks from San Francisco our Congress People in San Francisco theyre on our side not needing 0 thirty thousand new folks but your cousin from ohio and modesto and where it may be a swing vote but how for this money is the hud money is gone theyre serving the seniors rents are like one thousand dollars in a city with a similar apartment costs 4 thousand dollars we serve seniors that can only afford 3 hundred increasing this is possible because the federal government over time have invested in those types of development and the not investing anywhere this is an amazing okay. If you want to see that repeated over and over if you walk away from the housing front i hope you share the story and what it can do the money is building how are you for seniors on the streets for 25 years and building housing for families in the Mission District that are evicted we need your cousin in ohio and get on the phone. clapping. all right. Im allowed wore anyone moment im mark says thats it im done all right. I want to thank the contractors for this this was a labor of love and took an incredible effort an amazing general contractor and want to thank the folks at roberts thank you for the tremendous job when you go inside youll see what an circle work and the other friend i saw fred is behind closed doors e hyde behind randy when you go through the parks what an amazing job restoring this building thank you fred and for the rest of folks on your team. clapping. i want to thank Northern California Community Loan fund and the Investment Fund a moment in time we didnt have the money they lent us the money boarded Mayors Office had the money up the hill the one remaining part of the folks we want to thank them and as somebody that was to the doivent a little bit of drilling is okay. But thats my view i love my dentist sort of i want to thank the folks at the Allocation Committee one of the former directors of the state tax Allocation Committee the folks that allocate the money from the federal government for this clapping. mercy housing theyre a lot of staff that worked on this sharon and other folks we have a fabulous property manager if youre from mercy housing raise your hand. clapping. i really meant what i said earlier an honor wejs to work on something i know that marcie long before i was at mercy housing he feel we all felt this incredibly lucky to be of the vision thank you and look at as i said to continue to partnership and move forward have a few more people to thank i want to take the time out but first acknowledge we also appreciate the work of wells fargo not only the lender but on so many things i see him in the back and others we truly value the work theyre one of the best Affordable Housing lenders in the country and lucky to have bank of america here a lender and investor an incredible, incredible participate for us as i said earlier those projects bring together 7 or 8 furjd sources part of beautiful things of the bank they make sure they want to lend us the money and want to invest Million Dollars and were lucky to have janet representing the bank the bank is the lender and investor on the project and for those of you who dont know that bank of america if in San Francisco across the city what used to be the former Public Housing the Transportation Authority their renovated and bank of america has step forward and played an circle role across the city around the block so with that, im introducing janet and thank you very much for your work. clapping. appreciate. Thank you so much ill be very brief im wanting more tours what an exciting day honor and privilege to be here thanks to all the elected officials here and not here to have the vision to make that happen and bank of america we are so proud to be a partner project not only because of Affordable Housing in our commitment to Affordable Housing in San Francisco is as mentioned but our doesnt the to the Lgbt Community we made a 38. 7 Million Investment in this project and it is going to help provide safe it possible and quality housing for the low income seniors and it truly wonderful bonus is the residents will have the immediate access to Great Services and benefits provided for openhouse but our dlvr investment is one of the ways the company we support our Lgbt Community our customers and our employees first we were one of the first banks to offer domestic partner benefits to provide benefits for medically treatment and especially proud of 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign for over a decade i invite you all to look at the this property it is a place in which our values will have dignity and sincere and pleased to be part of it thank you very much clapping. we saved the best for last now my honor to introduce richard, richard is a member of Lgbt Community and one of the residents at 55 laguna when i asked how to be introduced he told me i was not allowed to say, of course, now all the things cart before the horse through my head ill tell you richard welcomed me on my first day outside of building and helped the volunteers in addition to being worked out part of the community and he told me karen you remember everyday youre here i feel more alive than ive ever felt i come everyday thats what i need to start everyday i bring to the stage the amazing welcome come on buddy. clapping. to be steady on my feet this is an amazing day i cant believe after 3 seven years in california and thirty years in San Francisco that im standing here before you there was many reasons i came from skilled nursing, hospice, assisted living and now extinct living with integrity. clapping. im blessed to have my bus trust dog when i heard that 55 laguna was announced i joined openhouse immediately i watched the progress i read the articles, i heard the complaints, i also prayed my experience in the application process was amazing i had a lot of support but the one factor was the electronic lottery it made me become number 11 and i was in. clapping. i received tremendous support from many people but openhouse helped me get through the trauma of having to move after 20 years they helped me with the moving expenses and gave me support im proud to live in an lgbt Senior Center didnt think i would make that but im here. clapping. i absolutely love my living space i actually went to school here in the 80s this is really a remarkable place and i just from my heart i cant say thank you enough to open house and mercy housing to jay leno and i mean im sorry laughter why do i say that . I know scott wiener and the mayor and to all of you had worked so hard to put this together thank you so much this is a very special day and a great day for San Francisco clapping. thank you a well, im glad we know what mark will do do the late night show my first memory when you were championing the night club youll be some more fitting go ahead. Now i dont know what i was supposed to say i had to spend time on that i really did let me say that if i forgot to thank you, thank you its been a tremendous day we know that folks are cold and want to see this tremendous building we do a lot of building options at mercy housing this is one of the biggest crowds weve ever seen it speaks to the size of the community that is working to make that happen and more thing like this happen i hope youll do more and more of this at openhouse and more and more of the advocacy. Thank you to everyone for making this happen. clapping. im going to do one more thank you quickly openhouse as a tremendous relationship with San Franciscos department of aging Adult Services they are an amazing supporter of our outdoors i want to acknowledge tom nolan representing and part of board of supervisors in san mateo thank you, tom for being worked out here and dos for having our backs youre amazing and thanks it is amazing to be the leader that stand up here he relish that but la jolla leaders scott welling born and many others thank you to the people i get to stand up here and give the speech well wrap up one the coast guard the door to the Bob Ross Lgbt Senior Center at the 65 laguna please help yourselves to refrernlts lets go from there thanks guys welcome to the regular scheduled San Francisco Ethics Commission. I will call the roll call. Chiu here, renne here, kopp present, hayon resigned last week from the commission, so we have a vacant seat that the mayor will be filling. Surely we help. First we will take Public Comment on matters appearing were not appearing on the agenda. Thank you chairman. Members of the commission. [inaudible] friends of ethics [inaudible off mic]
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