It if they want to cut it, but it wont do the thing we are trying to do here, which is keep long term businesses in San Francisco over the long run. That would be my one comment on this is this makes me very nervous in terms of only the first people in, the people who just happened to turn 30 or over this year and if you turn 30 next year you may not get anything. I dont think that is what the people voted for or thought they were voting for. Good comment. Thank you very much. Any other member that would like to comment on the item . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Do we have motion to approve the rules, regs and application . I motion to approve the rules, regs and application. As presented as presented. Second . Second. Okay. Motion to approve the rules and regulations as presented. The rules and regulations for the rent Stabilization Grant Program as presented. And the second is by commissioner kathleen dooley. Okay. Question, could we include in the motionyou doing rules regulations and app. Could we include the addition of business account number. Including the business account number. The motion is approve them with the amendment of adding the business account number on to the application. Yes . Correct. Okay. Roll call vote. Adams, yes. Dooley, yes. Dwight, yes. Ortizcartagena is absent. Sorry about that. Commissioner toursarkissian, yes. Yee, riley, yes. Zouzounis, yes. The motion is approved unanimously 6o one absent. On to item 6 which is resolution to accept the rules, regulations and application as presented today. Do you have comments . I koonot have a Powerpoint Presentation for this either. Hala lieuia. Commissioners any discussion before i open for Public Comment . No. Any member thofz public that would like to comment on adoption of this as a resolution . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners do we have discussion or motion to accept rules regulations and application with the amendment to the application as previously noted in item fivel. I move. Yee riley. Second. Commissioner dooley, second. Alright. Commissioner adams, yes. Dooley, esi. Dwight yes. Ortizcartagena, absent cht toursarkissian, yes. Yee riley, yes. Zouzounis, yes. The motion is approved unanimously 6 to 08, 1 absent. Fantastic. Alright. Progress. Next item, please. It is election day at the Small Business commission. Must be why we had such a great turn out today. [laughter] to start off i am going to read the procedures from the rules of order. I have also brought copies for all of you in case you would like to have them in front of you. Okay. Here we go. I should probably read this into the record. Should i read the procedures first so the agenda order makes more sense . Whatever the ajendsa order is. Okay. I will read the procedures first and the Commission Shall vote to elect commissioner president and Vice President under separate items. For each office the Commission Secretary calls for nominations. Nominations require a second. Nominees are provided a opportunity to make a statement. After nominee statements other commissioners will be provided a chance to comment. Following nominee and Commission Statement the Commission Secretary will open Public Comment. Commissioners shall vote in favor of one nomnay for each office during each round of voting. A commissioner initial vote in faiv of a candidate shall be recorded and may not be revoked or changed. The first nominee to receive 4 votes during a round of voting shall be deemed elected. If no nominee receives 4 votes the process will be repeated. If no nominee receives 4 votes in favor after not less than 4 rounds may continue the election to the next regular meet frg the office of or offices for which inconclusive election is held. So okay. Iletm 7, election of officers. Small Business Commission president. In accordance are rules of order article 2 section 3 election must occur at the regular meeting of commission in january each year. That should say the second regular meeting in january. The president serves a term of one year and elected upon a vote of the commission. This is a action item. Okay, so i would like to open it up for nominations, please. For the president. Okay. I like to nominate president mark dwight for another term. Okay. It has to be seconded . Yes, a second is required. I second. Okay. Any other nomination frz the office of president . I like to nominate Stephen Adams. Is there a second . Alright. Without a second that nomination cannot be considered. Any other nomination frz the office of president . Okay. Then nominations are closed, so we have one nominee that may be considered because of the second. Nominees are provided a opportunity to make a statement, so commissioner dwight, would you like to make a statement . I would be honored to continue as president. Alright. Commissioners would you like to have discussion on this nomination . I just like to say um, that president dwight has taken this commission to a level the next level that what it was intended to be and we are taking it foothe next level and with his leadership, we are there and it is all of us on this dies if you have been on a while, kathleen and irene has, we are lot more respected i think than we were 10 years ago because we are more active and we do more and a lot has to do with not only all our leaderships but it is the leadership mark pushes us in thinking differently so i appreciate that. Thank you. Commissioner comments . Okay, i like to open it up for Public Comment please. Any members of the public that would like to comment . Public comment is closed. I will now conduct a roll call vote on the nomination. Commissioner adams, yes. Commissioner dooley, yes. Commissioner dwight, yes. Commissioner ortizcartagena is absent. Commissioner toursarkissian, yes. Commissioner yee riley, yes. Commissioner zouzounis, yes. 60 with one absent commissioner dwight will serve in the coming year. Thank you very much. Appreciate your support. Next item. We will do the whole thing again for Vice President. So, but first i should read this into the record. Item number 8, election och officers. Small Business Commission vise president. In accordance with rules of order article 2 section 3 election of Vice President occur in january each year. The Vice President serves a term of one year and elected upon a vote of the commission. Action item. Okay, i would like to open up for nominations for Vice President. I nominate steve adams. Commissioner yee riley nominated steve adams. Is there a second . I second. Commissioner toursarkissian seconded. Any other nominations for office of the Vice President . Alright. Seeing none, nominations are closed. So we have one nominee who is seconded and commissioner adams would you like to make a statement . I would be honored to serve as your Vice President for one more year. Commissioners would you like to comment . Or have discussion . I would like to say, commend commissioner adams for his long standing commitment to this commission. It is work and people dont really think about what it takes for all of us to come to these meetings, participate and to be as engaged in the public in particular as commissioner adams is. He goes to lots of events, he is very engaged. I am always amazed by how many people he knows out and about and especially as we had our legacy businesses not sure there is one he didnt know personally so great to have people on the commission who know the Business Owners and know the districts the way that commissioner adams does so i thinkand it makes him an effective leader here on the commission. I personally admire commissioner adams for involvement in the San Francisco community. Every time i come i learn from him, the information he gives about the neighborhoods and meetings he attend, so i think he plays a essential role on this commission and i would like to see him as the Vice President of this commission. Thank you. I like to add that in addition to his commitment and long standing of serving on the commission, he is out there everywhere. Everybody knows him and he knows everybody and i think only absent once all these years. Only once. Congraltulations. Probably in hawaii. I was. I just want to say after the conclusion of my first year on the commission, i want to say thanks Vice President adam frz showing me the ropes in the beginning and ill extend that to president twite, i learned lot from you guys so thank you. Any other commissioner comments . Alright, i would like to epien open up to Public Comment. Any members of the public who would like to comment for steve adams for vise president . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. I will conduct another role call vote for the nomination. Adams, yes. Dwight, yes. Sorry, commissioner dooley, yes. Dwight, yes. Ortizcartagena is absent. Commissioner toursarkissian, yes. Yee riley, yes. Zouzounis, yes. By vote of 60 with one absent Stephen Adams is aprointed to Vice President. Congratulations. [applause] next item. Moving to item number 9, approval of Meeting Minutes and this is the january 9, 2017 draft regular Meeting Minutes and action item, and motion . Motion to approve. Commissioner adams motions. I second. We may need Public Comment first. First off, any commissioners have comments about the minutes as presented . Any members of the public like to comment on item number 9 approval of our Meeting Minutes from last session january 9 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Motion . I motion. Approve the minutes as presented. I second. Thank you, mr. President for catching that. We have a motion by commissioner adams and second by commissioner yee riley. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . That motion passes 601 absent. 50i89m 10, commissioner report. Allows president rks Vice President and commissioner and commissioner tooz i dont have any knowledge to report other than beer week in dogpatch. We have 3 brewers doing a collaboration brew so that is exciting t. Is a big deal for the city to host beer week and just as a side note, if you are familiar with a brewery that does a beer called plenty the younger or Something Like that in sonoma i think it is, that single thing and the event every year to go and try that beer has brought i think well overa million in additional revenue that community. The opportunity for these sort of experienceal events whether it be arounds food which by the way it is rist restaurants week get a deal on a meal at participating restaurant the ggra sponsors, but likewise beer week and other things are the modern day attractions to our neighborhoods and can have very significant impacts on local revenue and therefore success of our Small Businesses as well as implication for tax revenue and things like that. Anyway i will go. You heard it here, beer week is coming up. I think the more of the things we can support and promote, the better because it is kind of the one thing that really adds vitality not only to our neighborhoods but the specific industries the small craft breweries are Small Businesses. Absolutely. Thats all i got. Commissioners any other i am now representing the castro merchants on the council of district merchants. I went to my first meeting last week and president dwight was there and i had never been to one of those and what a eye opener. Im representing the new Dogpatch Business Association at Council District merchants, so commissioner adams and i are two new seats at the table for cdma. And i will say that cdma, i have said has the potential to really be the chamber of comperse for Small Business in San Francisco. I have been on the board of the chamber of commerce on and off for the laest 10 year jz i took a break to found sf made be its chairman for two years but after concluding i went back to chamber of commerce. Cameber of commerce has done great thing tooz support Small Business but the chamber of commerce is not the home of Small Business in San Francisco and cdma is a billbit of a misnomer because it says merchants but it represents all Small Business in San Francisco and especially aswe are getting more and more Small Businesses as we know a uber driver is a Small Business. A individual consultant is a Small Business and this gig economy is actually causing a explosion in Small Businesses as they must be registered with the city and so i think that the cdma as the sort of place where merchants and now more Small Businesses come to talk about doing business in San Francisco, that the cdma has to the opportunity to take a leadership role for Small Business in general so i think commissioner adams and i both acknowledge that opportunity for cdma and are there at the table to try to move cdma to the next level and next generation in support of all Small Businesses in San Francisco. Any other commissioner updates . I attended the district 3 mta summit and then i was followed up with that and now part of the mta working group which will meet monthly. Good. Fantastic. Outreach and all the things that need to be addressed. Lack there of. Any other commissioner reports . Alright. We have Public Comment on the commissioner reports as presented this evening . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item. Iletm 11, new business allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration. I would like to based on our Public Comment earlier today i would like to recommend the office staff to do a Little Research for us about this ordinance. The ordinance for point of sale registration and inspection. First off, to determine how much of it is San Francisco specific and to what degree is this also a california state and or federal regulation, i dont know the answer, i just put it out there. Sometimes we are simply acting in response to state and federal regulations, so it would be nice to know to what extent that is the case. If be are on our own on this one, i think it would be worthwhile to consider whether this regulation is a sustainable regulation, whether it is something that we should take as a action to find a sponsor at the board of supervisor s to perhaps change it in a way that is more favorable to smalt business in San Francisco. I would agree with that one. Okay, do wethe other new business item i proposed last time and want to keep on the radar screen is a presentation about the Small Business registration for nonprofits of all kinds because i suspect there is knowledge that we should get out to the public about how to register your nonprofit in the city of San Francisco including business associations, neighborhood associations and nonprofits in general. We were going to talk about too and want to stay on top of this, kathleen you brought about planning come in and talking about the changes in the neighborhoods regarding formula retail. The first hearing is the third of next month. I try today contact the Merchant Associations and contacted Council District merchants about it, so you know, there are major problems with it, but yes, that came up at the Council District merchant meeting, your presentation and Steve Cornell said we need to do something and agree. I think they are way moving way too quick on this. I suggest the Merchant Association stand up and say slow down on this because there are problems that will have a substantial impact on the neighborhood corridors, yes. And spent many many many many months going over this with the Planning Department and at this point imtheir attitude is he who has gone to them and complained will have a adjustment only for their mcd, so case by case basis. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Yeah. The mcd i tend to represent we were able to get a lot of things straightened out. Nobody one stepped up to say they had new problems. Richard was clueless at castro merchants on this. It is a big deal. I agree, so there is a lot of loop holes and they are unintentional loop holes but when you remove a entire section of the planning code and replace it without looking at how therefore the references and other parts the planning code relate to what you are removing versus what you are adding right, there are big differences and those kind of things can cause unintended consequences and i clearly see them coming our way. I dont really know what to do at maybe at the next meeting get someone from planning to come and talk to us about this. Their position is their minor and there is no need to go over it. Would it be a benefit to publish the changes that you were able to lobby for in your mcd to the other merchant i did send that out via Council District merchants. Minimally they can lobby for the changes you got. They should. In the north beach mcd we asked and received additional food category which i think is one everyone should have now, which is you know, the special food manufacturer that has retail. That should not be considered a limited restaurant. That would have a lower bar in a good way, which would be that type of business is generally very welcome. Absolutely. And so we insisted having that added to the north beach. Will that include businesses like confection tion makers and absolutely. We should make because we have them in my district. This would just be to fill a hole that we have right now and in my opinion it is increasing area of Small Business folks that bake the gred bread, sell whole sale and have a counter and sell retail. Case in point, neighbor bake house in my neighborhood, a huge success started out whole sale{abandoned whole sale because they Retail Business is so strong and anyone, myself included as a manufacturer prefers direct to Consumer Retail because you dont go through a middle man to sell whole sale so that is Proof Positive a business we think of as a whole sale business becomes retail is far more sustainable. The number of employees they hire, they have out grown their space and become a institution in the neighborhood in 3 ourfore short years and should encourage those type of businesses. I would argue that it is a lower Impact Business than lumping everything in the world under limited restaurants. I agree. Absolutely. Completely agree. I would like to request the Commission Just to send a letter to planning and say, these are the issues, i outlined them and can send them to you. There is also problematic things with formula retail, which is article 7 has a big list of what is considered formula retail and then thats is erased and the new change has half of what was under there. Once again, we re quested can you add the previous on to it, they are not like they have become suddenly non formula retail possible businesses. Thats again something that is unintended consequences of notthey added that very list is aminded numerous times on the basis of hard work to get it amended and this whole sale revised it as part of a general revision seems like rewriting law without go through the proper channels. May i suggest commissioner dooleys comments be put in writing and sent to us so we can efficiently communicated. Lets get those comments and maybe have staff prepare a letter to be approved by us pending our review of those changes, but i think delivering a letter from the commission from the Small Business commission to the Planning Commission alerting them of our concerns in these very specific areas including but not limited to the following list. It is a 350 page document. I myself have looked all through 350 pages numerous times but i have to admit there are some things in different mcds that i am might not catch and that is why i have been trying to urge the mcd to take a look. Look at yours and see if there is something there. This is the time to do it. Happy to snd that. Thank you, please do. Alright. Great. The guidance is prepare a or schedule a presentation from the Planning Department at the next meeting subject to their availability as well as start preparing a letter from staff on the basis of commissioner dooleys notes. I say we need to send a letter prior to the first hearing at the Planning Commission which will be february 3. And so just to get the process down, they will have a hearing, that hearing is that a hearing to approve it in its entirety or the first hear toog hear what people have to say about it . Dont know. Im not sure. The thing is these types of things are soit is very easy and i have seen this before in other issues where the person comes up from the staff and says it is nothing. February 3 . That thursday. Maybe this is call to cdma to get represented from each district. You were at the i just want to chime in here for a second. All you are doing now my understanding is you are putting new business on the agenda for a future meeting of the Small Business commission. We cant take action on anything. Right. Im not can we ask the office of Small Business to give us materials for the next meeting to make decisions, correct . That is we are not taking action, we are asking the tools to make a decision at the next meeting. That sound right to me. Great. And maybe just simply making a observation that concerned parties would be advised to show up at the Planning Commission meeting not knowing whether the outcome of that meeting is to accept these new rules and regs as written or whether there is discussion still to be had. As far as i understand it, you areany member the commission could also attend as a member of the public and give Public Comment. We have presence of two neighborhood associations here on the panel. If you are done with the new business i like to please. About the cannabis policies in the city and county of San Francisco. January 11 we got from the office of Small Business and specific a number of documents including but not limited to the state Regulation Task force report and just to sum upwe had prior to that a presentation from two prominent experts in our state, mr. Cur shid and tumar who made presentation and got a summary the notes which was [inaudible] work and i appreciated that. It looks like 2017 will be the launching year for setting these rules in our county and it seems appropriatea lot of agencies will be involved and regs will come out and it will effect Small Business and i find it appropriate mr. President that the office of Small Business be involved in that process and specifically also the commission in a sense we should havebe involved in the process because these regs will effect Small Business come 2018, so i strongly recommend to my fellow commissioners that we invite the office of Small Business to bring us experts. People working on these regs so we can bring our contributions to the shaping of these regs. We also have someone sitting on that task force from the office of Small Business. I think we do or at least regina i have to report to you that there is no one from the office sitting. There is a representative a Small Business owner and there is a person representing business interest but we dopet have staff on there. So no staff. I was surprised and maybe that is another issue beyond my new business discussion that the office of Small Business nor the commission is represented on the task force. The task force is behind this and need only 3 hours a mupth. What im talking about is to be aprized of the shaping and isnt that a unusual opportunity for our commission to be part of that. Okay. So my proposal for Small Business is first that the commission be involved in the shaping of these and then that we have regularly experts who would kind of aprize us of what is going on in the city so we can chime in and give our contribution. Okay. I would propose that those presentations be well thought out in advance and very specific in their analysis and recommendation to us. And not a general overview of the situation. Okay. Any otherso, we should get ahead of this cannabis legislation as it effects the city and our Small Business for sure. Alright. Any other new business suggestions . Alrightfelt any Public Comment on our new business discussion . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we haveon to item 12. Item number 12. Before we do item number 12 s frks fgovtv could you show our slide . As is our custom we end the meeting each Small Business commission meelting weminder the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop quh you vaquestion about what to do next. You can find us online or in person at city hall best of all all services are free of charge. The Small Business commission is the forum to voice opinion squz concerns about policies that efecktd the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Okay, item 12 is adjournment. Action item. All in favor. There is a motion. Motion to adjourn. I move. Did we do Public Comment on we did Public Comment on sorry, on the new business. Okay. The motion is from commissioner yee riley to adjourn the meeting. Second. I second. Commissioner adams. All in favor. Aye. Opposed . Meeting is adjourned at 432 p. M. Alright. Fantastic. [meeting adjourned] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the glide admiralty church choir the guide ensemble. 1, 2, 3. Yeah, yeah, yeah oh, come on sing it. singing stand up oh, yeah. What i do waited for stand up yeah. Yeah you need more than a lover just to keep our love undercover it is building in dont you lose your tune it is dont you lose our hope of living because love will set you free yeah. singing stand up what i have waited for stand up come on yeah. 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Yeah want to welcome everyone or everybody watching on the tv and also on the warriors flagship station hopefully life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on fm this incredible day is here and here it begins the same here that begins we broub on the next big thing in sports and entertainment dog gone the next big thing thats why we have clap please. clapping. the chase center will be the epic center on the wechsler and one of the mirror venues on the planet thats why you get estn this is my spot you know this chase center will play home 30 to the best concerts with the greatest sports the 21st century version of show time the Golden State Warriors. clapping. there are folks out there that is a at chase center will soon become the mavrdz of the west but maufrz is chase center of the east; right . All right. Were going to get started this day couldnt have happened without the folks to the left and introduce the people that made this decay a reality the warriors president and co o rick wells clapping. the 43rd mayor the San Francisco mr. Edwin m lee. clapping. the owners the warriors owner and ceo joe lake yes, maam. clapping. warriors coowner peter cubaer. clapping. the cso of Consumer Banking for chase u shawn District Attorney duncan. The warriors head coach the one and only steve occurring. clapping. this guy on the end they invited for fun the guy who is going to help bring the nba championship to the bay area kevin duran. clapping. were also honored to having dig a tars from the vip i want to acknowledge them and honored to have leader nancy pelosi here today. clapping. you know leader pelosi this is me throwing this out there i think we need in washington driveway anyone green. Every once in a while youll need a person that will take care of you and Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom. clapping. former mayor willie brown. clapping. assembly phil ting. Assemblyman david chiu. clapping. starter senator scott wiener assemblyman rob bank on to. clapping. assemblyman adam glare and judge and former senator quinton cox. clapping. commissioner kim. clapping. nice hat supervisor cowen. clapping. supervisor mark farrell. clapping. supervisor safai. clapping. supervisor katie tang. clapping. supervisor peskin. clapping. supervisor norman yee. clapping. supervisor ronen that end the supervisor portion of our show oh, City Attorney dennis herrera. clapping. treasurer jose cisneros. clapping. and Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu clapping. now selfishlyly i want to do one more shout in 1975 i sat in maryland and watched the Golden State Warriors swept the washington bullets this man was around inspiration to me the one and only al adams. clapping. i did come to game i thought the bullets would have won our first speaker the member of the Mba Community one of the most respected persons in the business i have a card of the accolades i have a speaker that was a man of goals and maximum missed and moved up to the pr director in seattle and good friends with bill russel at the end of the day a ball boy that knew where we were 4e9d in fact, ill end up in the hall of fame south of the springfield youll get there ladies and gentlemen, the president and co o the Golden State Warriors a a heck of a ball boy rick wells. clapping. oh. Thank you kevin what a day i want to know who the hell is running the city right now holy cal the cameras show up theyre all here mayor ed lee it seems like always one thousand seven hundred and two days ago that we were together on pow announcing this project the amazing part we had everything right existing where we are going and when; right . But we all live here; right . We know if anything is important as what were celebrating it takes time to get it done a lot of time and patience if you know about the two guys from the middle the patience is not the first one you think of; right . But you also know from the time we committed getting this project done it would be done right and the same approach with the warriors over the last 6 and a half years their passionate their occasionally grumpy but really care and what he see today is really the culmination of those efforts well build one of the worlds biggest gathering a place worldclass Multi Purpose sport and venue this place will think transformed into the court and that is where Budget CommitteeUnited Airlines will be family shows and conferences and graduations will take place creating memories for the lifetime up the road those 11 acres we stand with the weeds unlimited potential is very high price tag once we did that we commit to a 3 year open and collaborative process thats been as public as any process with the help of so much of that in the room we left hand and revised and collaborated is not not our day but really it is our day as long as we can thank every person in the you dont room i say first especially grateful to you mayor ed lee you extend your hand and supported us every step of the way clapping. we are absolutely in. Of the hard working people in the Mayors Office the office of Economic Workforce Development, especially adam and ken thanks. clapping. so many other city agencies are critically important but none than the investment and infrastructure ocii and its tireless you leaders tiffany bohe tiffany thank you. clapping. ocii is the guardian of this Redevelopment Area as mission bay a simultaneous room for revitalizing this meeting neighborhood and closer to home the warriors and the mission bay Advisory Committee led by a no nonsense chair corinne woods thank you that theyve spent months with the details of the plan to make that better and safer and make that right corin i learned a lot of from you and i can tell you i was only occasionally afraid of you laughter just kidding kind of citizens radical to make that 0 warriors novices like the united playaz and the mission bay Merchant Associations, the fans that make up sf and the residents that live in dog patch and potrero hill and mission bay. clapping. we thank you you all and assure you the warriors are going to be great neighbors speaking of neighbors i need to thank the San Francisco giants and the usf. clapping. early on we had our issues but we all committed to a great outcome that is what we really appreciate about usual work the giants are one of the biggest champions in support thank you for being here today larry and setting the bar incredibly high for us it shaped us usf with Charter School is education and innovation leader sam couldnt be here he was going to be in switzerland another is an economic femur your invitation got lost in the mailed were truly proud to be your neighbors when it comes to fighting disease and save lives and treating e treating the sick youre the warriors thank you. clapping. the economic is doing a project financed completely privately i mentioned did i mention few minutes ago completely privately is daunting our partners another j. P. Morgan chase share our vision of a transformtional project from our first meeting with chase their commitment to the bay area is a possible list of reasons to be involved youll hear more about that shortly but thank you to shawn duh for being here today. clapping. also with us representatives from two other companies that have been announced the United Airlines i thank you to our brothers and sisters in organized labor that stood by us and chase will bring thousands of job and agreements weve entered into once once again, well do this right. clapping. this has been an unbelievable undertaking for the warriors our staff is with us names like david kelly and marty and steve and peter and chip and others they dont show up but i can tell you the kevin durans for this project thank you. clapping. to jesse and clark and those folks that helped us navigate this crazy city by the bay and t. J. Johnson and not everybody started is going to be able to is a finish by from the city in two sections. clapping. we lost jim in 2014 but the spirit remains with us well feel her steady hand on the shovels people are standing there because of their incredible work we passed the board and regulatory and political body the Planning Committee the board of supervisors almost all of them unanimous yes i said that in the same sentence San Francisco unanimously all right. clapping. the plan was challenged in the superior court we won there now we won at the California Court of appeals unanimously and in case i havent checked our phone i have news this morning the California Superior Court annunciates declined to accept the case it is over. clapping. so here we are on this 70 year for the warriors to call the bay area their home today we literally break the ground now the term groundbreaking is a noun refers to turning the earth to begin construction but websters has another definition meaning initiative or unprecedented thats going to be chase center and this is warriors ground groundbreaking in every sense thank you. clapping. thank you, mayor brown for making a big entrance thank you. Now my pleasure to introduce a man the man that reached out to us were here to welcome the warriors stuck with us through thick and thin has things got rocky edwin m lee is the 43rd mayor he started at a housing rights attorney with an activist heart in 2010 he was chosen by the boarding to take over when Lieutenant Governors gavin newsom left from the beginning championed this was one of the main reasons were able to broub ladies and gentlemen, our point number 43 mayor ed lee. clapping. thank you, rick what a wonderful day i know every one of you see existed to be here today and finally welcoming the Golden State Warriors home to San Francisco. clapping. you know, i tend to find moments of having fun with owners and rick and want to share with you some ways in which any corn i didnt jokes will have an impact the first time i met him, i introduced myself as the journey man of mayors and honored to help mark to end a four and a half year journey to celebrate the years of construction what become San Franciscos 4r5sh9 state of the art chase center. clapping. im happy to say that no longer will San Francisco stand alone as the only america city without an inside venue of 10 thousand seats when that opened in 2019 the chase center will make history not only as a home for the gooirdz but as the only 100 percent privately financed arena in the entire country of the united states. clapping. this no, this is no small feat as every at mba in public land includes the taxpayer money in its construction not here in San Francisco the warriors are paying for this venue they reprimand remind me of that constantly on the land they perturbed is an accomplishment and speaks volumes to the commitments of ownership and sets the bar in our city what were all about and speaking of what were all about how about what is this team all about isnt that great yeah. clapping. what a game last night as was pointed out most all the greatest things we saw last night in that game coach let me help you and all of us define a infrastructure grant foul i think a infrastructure grant foul is any delay in opening the chase center in San Francisco thats a infrastructure grant foul of those warriors have the best record in the mba leading in the league in almost every category have the best starting rotation in the mba and, of course, they captured the imagination of the most casual of basketball fa calling names waits not to love. clapping. so the real question is coach how far will you go . And, of course, laughter all the way; right . . And, of course, the chases center will not only play host to basketball games but a prime designation for worldclass companies family shows and Convention Activities generate over thousand of good paying construction and permanent jobs that jobs that contribute more than enough money to pay for the extended Transit Service and new light rail vehicles and launch the covering the transportation and sculpture costs that serve the entire neighborhood on days without the feptsdz the project will add vitality amenity to mission bay neighborhoods along with a much needed office space and, of course, the warriors are going to be great partners to all our kids in the Education System this venue will be a model Sustainable Design that will include over 3 acres of open space and trigger the development of a 5 and a half acres of public parks right on the waterfront none of this would have been possible without the dedicated commitment of my Dear Colleague jennifer the former head of the citys office of Economic Workforce Development who tragically passed away from cancer over 2 years ago and spent much of her diminished career in the city running its trail and in many ways the park across the street from the eastern jennifer helped to plan a symbol of her commitment to San Francisco so today im honored to commemorate her legacy with a trail in the park so future neighbors runners and visitor will know her impact in the city thank you jennifer. clapping. im also excited to announce that speaking of really deep broach j. P. Morgan chase are generously sponsoring a brand new warriors citibuild program in cooperation with the office of office of Economic Workforce Development whats the citibuild program this is a new 9 week construction Training Private program will be called the chase center works and that will equip local trainees in the low income and Underserved Community chase center will help us to address the shortage of labor in the city but equip people with the education and skill necessarily to be successful in the Construction Industry and, of course, in life itself thank you. clapping. thank you working with labor. clapping. this dense active trade training will start in march and provided masonry and iron work and carpentry thank you chase morgan son and all the unions and trades who helped to make that a reality and finally i want to thank joe and peter for your vision commitment to getting us here today, the university of San Francisco state their neighbors in the biotech destroy the entire community all of our elected officials working to expedite even four and a half years is incredibly expeditious; right . Yes laughter for a better integrating this event center in mission bay and the entire San FranciscoCommunity Everyone resident, kids, all the neighborhoods we thank you for your thoughtful input your patience and help in refinancing our platoons i cant wait to be back here in four and a half years to cut the ribbon on the greatest Attraction Center and the new home for Golden State Warriors in San Francisco bay area lets go warriors. clapping. congratulations mr. Mayor on our work and you know what i was watching the parade after the warriors won you may remember the mayor said hes favorite player was steve occurring whyy you think that was bad in the 90s im governing and up you know, i come to a hole there is dell and his kids what play wow, you guys are the governor and i look at dell your crazy if you let that kid play basketball over golf. laughter that kid is stephanie curry plays a little bit of basketball i told you we started with the choir and heard about a ball boy that is no changing the game and this next speaker he started out selling peanuts at anaheim stadium he really did i i mean the guy is one of the top have you ever gone capitalist and good in building things in the ground up you want to talk about gold he went to playing in the stadium to ownership an mba team if i can quote the poet and mba awry combraim start from the bottom and the owner and cso of the Golden State Warriors joe lockout clapping. thank you very much kevin and thank you, everybody in a way i think were still selling peanuts peter i dont know. I cant escape it you you know this has been a very exciting day, in fact, an exciting that weekend for those of you who dont know three or four days we had the Warriors Foundation hooker which i shouldnt event and raised one . 3 million. clapping. thank you nicole in in addition a basketball game to play last night and that was pretty good too. clapping. and here we go with a groundbreaking for this incredible endeavor and ordeal its been a lot of work 3 days rick mentioned the fantastic news this morning about the right correct decision by the Supreme Court were totally good here today. clapping. one way or another that hard to sit here it is surreal peter and i and rick has been a part of this we had a vision thats where we started i think over 6 years ago really this arena project began that was an incredible amount of work but the people in this room you helped us a lot and say we really appreciate you as rick pointed out it is not to surreal in fact, that the real and one of the reporters kim i dont know his last name made a bet a number of years ago we wouldnt get it done by 2015 but jim thats the year and day today is the 17 does that qualify . A few years late it been think an incredibly difficult but this is the greatest city on this planet honestly the best clapping. in every dimension a greater city ive been a venue capitalist we point to Silicon Valley but Silicon Valley is also San FranciscoSilicon Valley north it is a great transformation of the city and a good one here we go on the outer arena the only one in the country and i will say that is over when we broub this is so fantastic well build this great venue and youll see a shovel into the ground proolg and see some amazing tractors and other things out here today it is a just a fantastic thing im a businessman and not the most patient guy in the world this is 5 and a half 6 years ago a long time this great venue will be done in 2 and a half years half the time is took to get it approved i dont know if i can make that stuff up laughter . So chase center and thank you chase for your greatest effort rick noted is a a special thanks or thanks to a number of people who helped us, you know who you are the phenomenal people certainly the mayor the San Francisco first and foremost edwin we love to have you here in San Francisco we will slide the path and make that happen i appreciate all our efforts and didnt tell me that would cost that much but nonetheless were happy to be here mayor ed lee. clapping. all the agencies that rick mentioned the city and those who had an impact thank you very much i know youre doing our job i want to also thank all the laura bay area all the fans with us start with a few boos we we got over this we have mba champion and another 5 year plan now which is to win another championship one more thats what i tell them here and steve. clapping. but also in addition to winning a championship we are going to do something great in the next 5 years well build a great, great venue you can all be so proud of you look at every arena in the country weve toured them all i assure you like we assured you 5 years ago we eight hundred deliver a championship that district will be absolutely incompatible would you like be proud of San Franciscos district bay area folks to be part of it thank you. clapping. chase center will be built by the best in the business with a great local flavor and the architecture the architect for the building a National Leader in venues of this type interiors of chase center a legacyy firm in San Francisco clapping. the criminal streetscaping youll see beauty is a part of it lets face it we will build a fantastic building by another fantastic firm. clapping. also the Office Buildings on the site not San Francisco architecture firm. And the construction of the 11 acres by a joint venture the marriage of two Construction Companies in california they have a lot work to do that construction starts for real not surreal today. clapping. were not going to give away to many surprise but a few of them coming we worked on the innovation and peter said hell sing when it is done it will sick and takes my breath away with the rendering and the models and all the work i think youll be proud of weve made that smaller the oracle we love our home court well replicate it with the side and the loudness the venues well replicate that it is a 50yearold building well have a better venue so for basketball and in addition concerts and other events having this arena is not only great for the city of San Francisco but us as a business operator but great for the Basketball Team kevin during rant came w to us without an arena thank you kevin. clapping. and for also for resigning this summer. clapping. yelling players diverse great facilities on site in addition to the great venue the fans will be able to attend and we had a great acquisition well strive to be the very best this organization dont we will takes more agents well do whatever it takes to be champions again kevin. clapping. well the final thing i want to comment were also this is important to all of our owns not just me important to be a you know a great part of Community Important to be dedicated not just bring back basketballs and bring venues and pay for it all we really it is important that we contribute to the society in 09 ways we a diet and mr. Chairman we are one of the best in the world ambassador we want to be able to give book to the community so im proud of our teem and playgrounds and coaches our entire team hung out with Holiday Cheer down the street from the Recreation Center in the bayview. clapping. stephanie curry in piss Fourth Annual feed the children we provided food for 12 hundred bay area families thats great. clapping. and by the way, our newest member kevin fits into this in the same kind of vibe with the homelessness settler provided food for everyone there thank you kevin. clapping. so Going Forward we intend to be good partners and members of this not only San Francisco but the entire bay area east bay and north bay and peninsula all of that okay. And in addition to winning basketball games give us prides to set up the Warriors Foundation we raised 1. 2 million it will be given away for education and the golds we set out to accomplish but also in the last 4 years given watt 7 point plus Million Dollars from the organization. clapping. were focused on education and improving the lives of kids in San Francisco and in old well continue to do that so this afternoon id like to bring up a few of the organizations that benefit from those grants and as part of onehundred 2 million weve given away to 51 organizations id like to bring up the boys and girls club like the boys and girls club in oakland am and united playaz i hope youll join me in bringing them up to the stage. clapping. hold on guys i want to give you this check always ask for the check okay always ask for the check there you are. clapping. thank you, john i want to mention the Warriors Foundation has given away more money thats 7 million. clapping. all right. Our next speaker rose to family being a movie producer a is bananas you have to deal with arcs by the way, everybody was talking about the acting in oracle anyway and also bringing financing together to make things happen and thats what this man side he is one of the reasons this is project is 100 percent privately functions we cant say that enough i was reading his bio on. Org hes a prominent member of hollywood like saying kevin duran is a small acquisition you changed my life in 1983 with a flash cam laughter to this day i cant look Jennifer Beals in the eye today here to celebrate the beginning or the end of the beginning or a new beginning . I dont know is that the beginning im not sure but heres the owner of the warriors peter god bless berry. clapping. you got to be kidding me i had a check everything i was going to see check, check, check check they said it all terrific really nothing else to say only thing they especially\cover youre here with the shovels i was wondering if this was what was thrown at us over the last four and a half years laughter the best goals always started as a dream and the people give it a time limit all our group to help made this happen so for the opening is the worldclass venue required 9 years 9 years who but dreamers would undertake that kind of a journey you have to be a dreamer and allow yourselves to be pulled through it has to pull you and compel and make you go over all the obstacles and believe in that dreamers they face all the way down kinds of things and difficulties but push forward their dyslexia they push, push, push to get they are goals done. We all draw if past references certainly for our dreams i had mine in the entertainment business the entertainment business you have a lot of surveys they use the f word and boy it hurts but have to give up we had a lot of bumps those bumps made us stronger and better and the changes made us better ive had films that takes 5 years to get made and shown in the theatre willie brown we built together the audience was so upset and stormed out of the theatre and shock the limousine how you handle the corrections and how you do that determines our ultimate outcome always determines the outcome you make necessary changes the men and women in our organization we speak to and for today none westbound passengers all worked the three has made the different their tongue and wallet traveled in the same direction you believed them and they could lead you to o so the infrastructure grant fouls all because of the groundbreaking probably not next time builds a range of people and thing that will be protesting well see it through we havent started shooting this movie you hear something say lets see a film on budget no, we have to do the work our teem with all the bumps in the road rather we doubled down on the commitment to see it through and shape our dream much more to realize much more we cant suffer the faded of prematurity jubilation but our perseverance and determination will see us through but this dream is more than a venue of concrete youll attract the artists theyll be drawn to this vessel in San Francisco so perform and be the beacon and live and work rod other teams the glorious political events every city needs e needs one it is con superstitious but why is it so important because this we are not vigil people were analogies we chore the diversity of our species men and women and different gender and everything sharing laughing and crying together thats the purpose of those campfires and those venues every city needs it it had been great for San Francisco. clapping. think of the essence of products with the house of dreams our dreams and childrens dreams and shared expense the key wont would be the aptitude but the attitude of the builders did attitudes puts an to do on stare resides and attitude makes the difference show me someone with great attitude ill show you a hit a success. So the key to us now is to build it to get it done more action and less talk the whole damn process will be fought with parietal we have to cast it away and keep that vision strong and pull it pull up to it. Nelson mandela said to me this misguided adversary cant take away your dreams colleagues this will continue to challenge you theyll scare you but keep you motivated youll take greater focus to get us theyre up there lets hope we didnt come this far to come this far yesterday is not the dedication only a station to realize this dream go for the great and enjoy the journey it is show time god speed. clapping. that was show time. clapping. you know you mentioned greatness anytime you can be part of the group that is a greatest we think about the greatest players in mba history and rick berry and the late person we lost in july. clapping. our next speaker is one of the 50 most powerful women in business. clapping. hello. Ladies and gentlemen, please please help me welcome to ceo chase to shanda duck even though. All right. Oh, my gosh thank you all im absolutely trifled to be here on behalf of the j. P. Morgan chase and our 3 thousand bay area employees yes. clapping. it was just about a year ago we announced our existing partnership with the Golden State Warriors to bring a worldclass venue to the bay area the bay area it a beacon for technology, innovation and education and we expect the new chase center will become a beacon for sports and entertainment and cultural as we prepare to break ground it on the chase center were well aware the baby boomer is at the center of social changes as technologies and cities are revitalized remust make sure that the individuals at the margin are brought in and 3w506r9d up while those in the middle are not pushed out over the next 3 years j. P. Morgan chase will be investing 25 million to support initiated that help the bay area to continue on a pathway to more inclusive Economic Growth yes. clapping. as part of this commitment we announced last week chase center assist is Community Initiative that will tackle head on the bay area economic and social challenges by creating pathways to opportunity in a series of powerful local partnerships chase center will focus on 3 pillars last year Small Business growth and Housing Development and education and Workforce Readiness we believe those are a powerful compliment to the important work the warriors are doing an Incredible Team and one of the most vibrant regions in the country i want to thank the team orientals joe and peter uber and wanting rick wells and mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors coach steve occurring and all the warriors players for all the pirnl and thank you for all you do i love basketball as sports growing up any entire life and love the quote teamwork makes the dream work, yes. clapping. thats whats going on in the city well bring incredible things to life on this site thank you thank you, thank you giving chase the opportunity and the principle to be a part of that thank you. clapping. to shanda you were fired up, too you delivered doorway you delivered. Next speaker great speaker and coach to things that impress me on one dbi in the room with the game sat next to michael just for the record said you ready and actually delivered he did the series winning shot the thing that best me most about the Golden State Warriors during the 1989, 1999 during the lockout you bring those guys to vegas it get crazy in the casino goose in the private rooms gambling for a lot of money he look over at the 5 tackle between a grandmother and two guys in cowboy hats is steve occurring nursing 20 chips a man that will not get caught up in the behind the coach the Golden State Warriors steve occurring. clapping. thank you thank you im going to change gears everything has been said about the buildings ive been in the bay for 2 and a half years grew up in los angeles god and boo i spent the last 12 years of my life in san diego you can go ahead and yawn if you want my point im a southern californian you mating may be able to tell by my attire i got dressed up i did there are fans and dress fancy really want to say if youre lucky enough in lifelike ive been you reach a point you get to choose when you work with and includes where you live and choose where you work by those metrics i want to stay here forever. clapping. im also an nba coach this building will take 3 years to build the chances of me standing on the sidelines for the warriors are slim to hope as far so good hopefully, ill still be here. clapping. i want to Say Something very important that say that i was lucky enough to get this job and to be become part of the partnership with joe and peter and rick wells and bob myers when i interviewed for this job thats the selling point thats what i bought into this is an incredible franchisee that is only begun to scrape the surface the fan base i placed for 15 years to play against bad teams the fans went crazy we have amazing fans the ownership and the support i get from this group is fantastic behind the scenes emails and providing constant support is amazing rick and i worked together in phoenix for several years knowing rick was the president of the Golden State Warriors made me want to come an Amazing Group of people i want to point out bob myers that may have nothing to do with clapping. he may have nothing to do with the construction of that but everything to do with the construction of kevin and our roster the most important asset we have bob has been an amazing partner an amazing general manager but an even better friend in his mind when you put together a group of people that are committed to each other and the franchisee and to the warriors special things can happen thats exactly what happened here i want to make one final point about the ownership the fact that arena is privately functions is so important because ive before a sports man fanning any whole life living in san diego the late 12 years the charges were ripped away from that community i know there are a lot of economic factors and political issues you have an Ownership Group that recognizes they dont really own the team they write the checks but the community owns the team thats true. clapping. but the bay area owns the team and they have a tremendous task as guardian of franchise and their taking on tremendous risk with the financial commitments at no cost to the city that is almost unheard of these days in professional sports i want to acknowledge that with an o vacation. clapping. the best way to mitigate it risk to put a great team have our business did not have a great product to sell were fortunate weve been able to do that we only enhanced that with the arrival of the k d and. clapping. and i can be very honest when i say that is a thrill a enjoy to coach and team as talented as this group and more gratifying to come to work everyday and enjoy the playgrounds for who they are as human beings kevin is representing our team today, our roster other guys are practicing potrero and i are taking the day off we earned it after last night. clapping. but ultimately what will make that building successful it the fans and the fan base that has supported this franchisee and the players who are playing highlevel basketball in providing entertainment so at that point id like to bring up cal works d well move on. clapping. one of the things that has been talked about today is what an amazing practices the bay area is the physical bout and cultural aspects i know one of the reasons you wanted to come here have you come into the city quite a bit. Oh, yeah, he come a lot 0 one thing i see i talked with people in San Francisco over in oakland and the east bay they selected this team for their team with the support and love is key makes coming in work better and we are existed for the future happy im here. You come here every night after games. Yeah. A couple of restaurant he drives across country every game why not. Why not. I know that mike was here and amazing i mentioned night every night the feel from the crowd when you talk about what it feels like to be a warriors is good when you own the team. Ill tell you that laughter . You know when you step out and put on the engineeringcy no matter in cleveland or the worst team in the league to play in front of them it amazing and makes us want to play harder we love the support and every time we 12e9 out there we try harder. How is the coaching. Well try to step that up a little bit and try to get you to battling. Coach before you guides sit down im not going to let you go kevin i want to ask you something what ive ill ask one question what does it mean to get that one the way you won. Well, its not the finally but you know it is an important game when you play 82 games some of the games take on more importance we wanted to win that game i think that was apparent. Kevin you seemed like from the jump you were coming posz your will. Yeah. The last game too against detroit laughter . Im assuming you are getting points every night. You did it against miami. What is the win last night. It was great to get a win take care of the home court and the infanticide were great tried to give them a good show. Do you want to tell the owners anything. It will be very exciting. Theyre going kevin duran and steve occurring thank you, gentlemen. clapping. right now kevin agent is screaming what are you doing you know talking about the chase center we mentioned, of course, the home of the Golden State Warriors but an entertainment venue now to entertain you well bring out the world renowned the San Francisco symphony and some of the members. clapping.