R herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry B
Best. We created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasnt used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. What the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. unintelligible . Where we would offer Food Delivery Services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. We had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an oldfashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a Million Dollar that of incre
Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you commissioner chow next 2. Approval of the minutes of the Health Commission community and Public Health Committee Meeting of december 19, 2023, meeting. Any corrections or additions to the minutes hearing none, motion to approve. I move to approve. My Public Comment on the minutes. Anyone in the room. Ill check to see if any handles are up great no hands so i will roll call. Commissioner chow i didnt see. Commissioner giraudo, yes. Vice president guillermo, yes. Commissioner christian and president green. And statement before we begin to take general Public Comment. Im to remind folks starting on january 16th remote Public Comment can only be permission for given if folks contact we by on a the day before two folks have permission. And here is um, a little script on general public agenda. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will
With land acknowledgment and take a second. To acknowledge. [land acknowledgment] thank you. Okay. Here we are. In the heart of San Francisco south of market. Serving the soma filipino Cultural Heritage district jean friend soma rec center. The site serving the Community Since 1990. Soccer, youth and after school programming. Seniors, a play grouped, weight room and more. This place like a few other facilities has been literalliful loveed death. It is time, it is is time to give this place a refresher, renovation we will make it bigger and grander. This project is part of the 2020 health and recovery bond. Although, i will note and you will hear from speakers, donny, and i will introduce you in a minute. This upon mine the very first reshg center i visited as gm, i have been as a San Francisco and might have the first one this goes become it 2009 this is how long this project has been percolating. You remember, you and your brother came and we did weight room way back when. I will talk
I dont want to be involved in the process after it happens. I want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. Our community is the important way to look at things, even now. George floyd was huge. It opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. Before rodney king. You can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. I think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. It is very challenging. I was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. Some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. The officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. That is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our Sheriffs Office regardless of circumstance. That influenced me a lot. Some of the storefronts have changed. What is mys is