Aye. Ok. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag, of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Item eight, Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Ok. Item nine, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, Vice President adams, members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. Im Elaine Forbes, t
Commercial or residential builds as much Residential Housing as possible. We have huge crisis here not just in San Francisco but throughout our region. We need to make sure were not just building faces for more jobs but housing for our existing residents and new residents as well. I just wanted to take a moment to thank a number of people that helped bring this decade to fruition today at the board of supervisors and first, i want to start with our community. I want to recognize those that were, i think, in our 5 00 a. M. Session with the giants, the council of Community Housing organization, peter cohen and fernando, teresa imperial, ian lewis and mike casey of local 2 who brought the lollypop rings so we could have our own World Champion rings at the table and united educators of San Francisco and finally, shes no longer with us today but april from my office who spent quite a bit of time working on the negotiations and this deal. I also want to thank our residents that have been act
Aye. Ok. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag, of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Item eight, Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Ok. Item nine, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, Vice President adams, members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. Im Elaine Forbes, t
Blurry eyed but happy the deal had been done and i want to recognize the giants. I think one of the things missed in the conversation but eluded to is that the giants are very prolabor organization. We have a lot of folks from Labor Community represented in the room. Not only the workers on site but the workers that will build the facility and this is going to create thousands of jobs for them and then also this was forward thinking in the sense that now we have many projects on public and non Public Land Following in the footsteps, i know we spent a year negotiating a project now that will be 40 affordable and so the expansion of that and this was the groundbreaking project in that regard. So middle class and working class families but also the long conversation we had on inclusionary housing. This is not just lowincome affordable, this is really and truly middle class housing that has not really been done. Weve had that conversation and this is all being done on the dime of the devel
Most excited about and why i coauthored the legislation is the amount of Affordable Housing and middle Income Housing thats being created. 40 of the units will be affordable, and they will be affordable to a wide range of income. This is exactly how we should be developing Affordable Housing in San Francisco. It will be for low and middle income residents earning up to possibly 150 ami. This range captures, as supervisor kim has stated, so many people. Im hoping as a result of this project, that many of the people who are members of local 2, who work at the ballpark, can actually qualify for the housing thats right next to the place that they work. So we have, along with our neighborhood preference legislation, along with the opportunities that will exist here for Affordable Housing of all income ranges, we are hopefully not just going to create a new opportunity for housing. Were going to make sure that residents of this city, people who are part of the workforce in this city and at t