Thonned houses in mission bay and the bay area residents who will criminal the citys other new parkses bay front will be an amenity for those who visit. I want to thank the mayor for her leadership in developing parks throughout the city and supervisor dorsey for district 6 and our commissioners oci commission. Wee have commissioner gustos in the audience and Charles Whitaker and e lane forbes from the port and the port staff this will be their park and we look forward to turning it over to you in a year. I like to invite our great mayor to speak. Mayor london breed. Thank you. You know it is hard to believe that this entire area of mission bay just over 25 years ago was a place that was under utilized railway. And this was a place that most people never visited. So to see it come arc live and i started on the former Redevelopment Agency commission ocii for 5 years. Remember when the buildings and the conversation around ucsf and the things happening here, i thought to myself, how are they get being that done . Well, we look at mission bay today and it is truly a jewel of San Francisco. Over sick thousand new homes have been created. Over 25 acres of park space. New restaurants, new Small Businesses even i come for the market which i love. One of my favorite markets in San Francisco. But there is also people who work and biotech. They are ucsf, we all know has been extraordinary lead and helped us get through a difficult global pandemic. And last but not least i will say how excited i am to have the National Championship team the warriors right here at chase arena playing on a regular basis but the concerts issue events and activities. This is such an extraordinary place and now with this new park this bay trail park, tell be more beautiful to watch when we play in the final games and other things the arial views of San Francisco. And people will continuing is more beautiful than they remember. The past year. Already, weave have the docks the parking and other areas the bay trails and the bike trails. So many great things but i already know upon that this is going to be a destination. Get ready e lane forbes, because people are not going to want to watch the games at the thrive center they want to come here and watch a number of games played bite warriors. Some of the soccer games and other activities this will now be a place to be as it relates to getting together on the great lawn for sports and activities. We are luck tow see this community finely come arc live. I wanted to thank so many people for making so the developers, thank you for your work and leadership on developing this mission bay. And we want to thank the port. And ocii and so many folks including especially the warriors for really putting mission bay on the map like never before. We know that curing diseases and the important work ucsf does is truly remarkable but there is nothing that puts a smile on your face more than watching a game here at chase arena or any place in San Francisco. The spirit of San Francisco exists. Because of the warriors and because of the life that mission bay is bring to San Francisco like never before. Im excited be here with all of you to break grounds. And to get this park done. On time and under budget. Fingers crossed. Thank you. [applause] thanks im matt dorse im the prierz for district 6. And you know like mayor breed i will tell you, it hen a joy to watch mission bay come arc live. 22 years ago i worked on berry street during the. Comera i remember this space, it was under utilized. A year when they were building the ballpark and to watch this remarkable neighborhood come to life, i remember i think this was an idea that started as far as the Jordan Administration with ucsf it was envisioned as a place this was fwk to be an initial leader in limp sciences and biotech and health care and we are seeing that come to life and seeing the density that fulfills the promise of progressive urbannism. And an important part is open space and high quality public realm this park represents. So, it is just an honor to be able to represent that this and to be a part of this. I am coming up on my third month anniversary as a member of the board of supervisors, this is my third grounds breaking i was at one last week. Last week a graduation at one treasure i lands for young people who were trained got 17 certifications in construction trades and were going to work. We handed out certificates for them. And i was saying how important it is that the job that you have to do is not just it is a great job and contrary and provide for your family but it it is a way to shape the future of our city and right wrongs of zoning and things that happened in housing. This is meaningful. The work that they are doing is changing the world and making our city better. I told them a bit about what to expect. I wanted educate them and do my part. I said the beginning of projects you will have a ground break. There will be politicians who show up and for no reason they will put hard hatos there is zero chance of them getting hit in the head they will pick up a shovel and shovel one shovel of dirt and get the press and leave and you will do all the work. I said go with it. Because those politicians other people i need to work with to make sure we get the projects approved. I will go to the mat to fight for the projects like this open space and that housing and the kindses of work we need do to improve our city and fulfill the promise of our ambitious housing goals it is an honest torto be here and a part of that. And i would that i would like to thank partners the port of San Francisco. Mission Bay Development brew. Bay confirmation will ocii and everybody the members of the communities and one i say, among my favorite constituents i am so proud to represent the World Champion your World ChampionGolden State Warriors and happy to introduce brandson schneider. Thank you. [applause]. Cutting the cord with the celtics. I love that. Hello, everyone. And thank you all. Especially mayor breed. Supervisor dorse and he the team at ocii for your leadership and partnership o this exciting project. I wanted acknowledge we had titan in our sports world pass away. So first bill russell. Who we know speak of the Boston Celtics 11 time champion with the celtics. But perhaps more important low is civil rights pioneer. We know him as a basketball player, his contributions off the court exceeded what hoe did on the court. The other one, yesterday was vince skill. We are all giants fans he was a dodger. 87 years as the voice of the dodgers but an incredible man and pinormal in our sport. I wanted to acknowledge those before i started. What an incredible day it is to be here with you all. To celebrate the grounds breaking for the Bayfront Park. As we go back im looking arc lots of you involved throughout the process, the vision in bringing the warriors here in chase center in San Francisco. What we talk about, the park was always a huge part. I hear peter in my head talking about every detail of what this park was going to be and how it would compliment when we were doing across the street. Talked going from a Basketball Team and sport and Entertainment Company the Basketball Team was the center piece we celebrate our fourth championship in 8 years. We are proud of. Yes. We think about our expansion and building a communities gathering place. So you heard a bit from the mayor and supervisor of what this is. Inside chase you have warriors games wee hosted the ncaa tournament in march fer the quest regionals the world finals coming up. Concerts. Family eventses that in the Chase Centers then outside, we got 3. 2 acres of open space and in the last week we hosted fitness classes. Concerts the live at thrive city series we the have movie nights we will add more restaurants and retailers for everybody to enjoy. And the park the site now, will be complementary to all of that. We are so we look forward to partnering with the city and communities organizations to have the right programming, to have something for everybody this is what this about. Diverse. We talked before we started a diverse wave of event its is crazy to here but not everybody is a warriors fan we want something for everybody that hen the goal. The park helps bring that together for all of us. We are so thankful for the partnership with ociiu mission bay develop employment mayor breed. Supervisor dorsey, Mayors Office and the port and mission bay community. And surface design, designs the park that we will see here. Thank you to everybody, we cant wait to be standing here a year from now. As we cut the ribbon on this incredible park. With that, i would like to welcome speak of the mission bay neighborhoods our neighbor and my new friends a member of the mission bay cac that is sarah davis. Thanks for coming out and having this day with us. What you are seeing here is years and years of people think burglar mission bay. When i grew upon here we moved here when i was 7 the house boat upon community abandoned train yards with jack rabbits and a group partnered with all city friends, some are in this room, to envisionmation bay and sat at tables with Building Blocks about what ideas the whole community would have. And what it needed to be an addition to the city. You know when i was a little girl, the mission rock would rent row boats row from mission rock to the Ferry Building and fishermachines wharf, tic toc was down the way. Everybody friday night you see along this strip, city workers gathering with their friends drinking beer and fishing along this water front. This areas had a history of people gathering and having a good time. I think for the people in the community when we saw this all this mission bay come in fruition, we were not sure like how it was going to affect us. And when chachs center moved in and the ballpark moved in, it welcomed people to this neighborhood. And i think that the challenge now is that San Francisco come down here and take the Bayfront Park and make it a San Francisco park and recreate the tradition this is we had in the past. It has been a pleasure to be here and i wanted acknowledge that we stands on the shoulder of great people and acknowledge woods from the Mission Creek harbor who yea, there is not a city family that she did not touch. And i wanted to acknowledge her today because she would be proud of this. Also you may want to explain what you mean by tic toc not. Okay. So tic toc burger was on the corner and weate there all the time. Waitresses give my family christmas presents. And it was funny when than i upon went away it was only when spashs came in and chase center came in i saw our Community Gathering in the same way it had. [applause]. Thank you, sailors. I want to thank the mission bay cac and their work. The early residents of the community had a lot of input to where this community was designed, parks and buildings. Now there are new residents we want to thank them. I think i want to thank everyone we will head over to dot actual dig. Everyone make their way over here. 4, 3, 2, 1. There we go. Thats all we are doing. [laughter]. [applause] [music] [crowd noise] [music] as a city we do a lot of parades and celebrations. Public work system in the middle of things, doing inspections and cleanings and organizing our crews so we are used to creating something it is something we know how to do. This is managed by city workers. They are out here doing the jobs to make sure our city looks good in our city time. We are also routing for the warriors whether we work. It was thrilling when they won and we had to get to work to plan for the parade and to make sure that everybody in the city everybody that come to the city is safe and taken care of. A lot went everwent in 100 hours of planning with the warrior and Mayors Office and City Partners it took a team to make today possible. Important this the department has the presence, seeing the priority and vehicles makes everyone feel safe we value our commute and serve it, it is important. The giant crowds we are to bring out our specialized equipment. We have small response united staffed by a paramedic and mt the small golf cart devices have a gender and he get in and out of crowds. Im here to help people get to where they need to go and figure out the bus routes and navigate things temperature is important we take care of safety and make sure everyone gets to where they need to so everyone can celebrate the warrior and be out on parade day. How is or ems book when we have been able to do is set up mobile command posts. And we partnered with the private sector with verizon to provide priority communication so we can run our entire Emergency Response on that network for our First Responders. We know they will work even though we are getting thousands of people all competing for the same network to send photos and e maild and texts and video our First Responders are able to do the same amongst the large crowd. Get out here at 5 30 a. M. And saw employees cleaning the street its takes a team to build a champion. I love it and bum when he left im glad he is back no matter how much he plays or does not play that mans heart and spirit he carries everyone along and really mentor people and mentoring is so important whether in basketball or the fire service or ems. Mentoring is huge and having a presence like that around is huge. My favorite player is jordan i like he is a role player and come out as a starter i feel similar to the city i like a structure and plan when there is an opportunity to lead i like that, also. The player i like lisa. He is similar to me all there and game is in the pretty but gets the job done. Every time he scores all right. My man is back. Happy with seth currys wife strong. She is a leader and she just really puts on a great face for females and being strong and in the face of challenge and negativity. [music] [crowd noise] they were tons and tons and tons of blue and yellow confetti. Every wrchl the end we picked up 38 tons of trash. Mostly confetti. In terms of for our crews we were ready. After we had been data break and done carnival in may. Our team was prepped to do the work and they felt tremendous pride in part of the huge celebration and tremendous pride in the coordination we did with the Mayors Office, the Police Department issue Public Health and the city agencies that got together and put on a party for the bay area. Put on the party for the nation. [crowd noise] [music]c]c]c]c]c]] youre watching San Francisco rising with chris manors. Todays special guest is jeff tumlin. Hi, im chris manors and youre watching San Francisco rising. The show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. Our guest is jeff tumlin and hes with us to talk about our transportation Recovery Plan and some exciting projects across the city. Mr. Tumlin welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. I know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m. T. A. Having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. How are we doing with our transportation Recovery Plan . So we just got good news this week. Were getting an extra 115 million from the American Rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when well have to find some additional Revenue Sources in order to sustain the agency. In the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for San Franciscos larger economic recovery because downtown San Francisco doesnt work without muni. Quite right. I guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. Are we starting to gear up on those again . Yes, so its an interesting case study. Of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. Arguably the most important bike order in San Francisco. That got stopped with lockdown and then as youll recall, during covid, we invented all kinds of other new programs like shared spaces in order to support our Small Businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial activity. Those successes now that theyve been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. So weve gone back to the drawing board and we are looking forward to having some Additional Community conversations about other design ideas for valencia. Were committed to completing a quick build project on this calendar year. Thats such good news. Valencia is a really great street for biking. So there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. Lets talk about the bus Rapid Transit project on van ness avenue. How extensive have the improvements been . Whats called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100yearold utilities underneath the street. So all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from Market Street all the way to lumbard. The part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and were so excited were going to start Revenue Service for muni on april 1st. Thats fantastic. I understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. There were sidewalk improvements. We planted 374 trees. There is new storm Water Treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, theres a bunch of art. Theres all kinds of things. We put in new street lights for the entire corridor. Finally, the other big news is about the central subway. Can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. Yes, so the central tline project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. That project has also run into challenges. Its 120 under muni, under bart, 120 down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. But that project is nearly complete. Its at about 98 completion right now which means were testing trains, were testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and were still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. So fingers crossed on in a one. Were really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the Convention Center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. Its great to see all these projects coming to completion. Were all grateful for your teams hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. Tumlin. Thank you for the time youve given us today. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. And thats it for this episode. For sfgov tv im chris manors. Thanks for watching. Secretary silv can you call the roll. Before that good upon afternoon this meets in hybrid format in person at city hall room 4 huh human broadcast live on sfgov. Org and phone. We welcome publics participation. Public upon comment will be taken in person and remote by call in for each action the board will take comment first from those in person and by those call nothing remote. The number to use is 4156550001. Acces code 24848446856. Story 3 to enter the speaker line. You will have 2 minutes to provide comments. Speak clearly in a quiet location and turn off