Very honored to be part of this project. This will be our first small sights in the sunset. The first on the west side, and hopefully part of many future ones here in San Francisco. Thank you. I know how complicated and challenging it is to move forward on opportunities like this that we identify. So now i want to introduce rebecca foster, who is the c. E. O. Of the San Francisco housing accelerator fund. She played such a key role in helping to finance projects like this. And make the program happen. Rebecca . Thank you so much. We are so excited to have been part of funding the acquisition for the first small sights project in the sunset. An echo that we hope that this is the first of many more to come. I think that what we see here is just another proof point the preservation really works and it is proven as an effective strategy for preventing displacements and building the citys permanently affording 40 will Housing Stock dock. This also is a big milestone for the housing accelera
Welcome everyone. [applause. ] we are pleased this afternoon to get started on this big project in front of us. We are going to be having some seismic upgrades, a new elevator, we have a two Story Building wit out an elevator. We will have that for patients and staff. We are happy to have the mayor, supervisor, director of health, director of primary care, finance guy. You cant do things without the finance. We are happy he is here. Our Patient Advisory committee is here. Of course, several members of maxine halls family are with us today. This work honors who she was in this community, a leader and we want to keep that work going caring for the people in the community. We are excited about the project and i want to welcome mayor breed, who grew up in this neighborhood. Please join us. [applause. ] mayor breed thank you. First of all, hello, hello. This is somebody taped the microphone. I am going to hold it like this to make sure everybody can hear me. You grew up in the neighborhood.
San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respo
Next is 2. Approval of minutes for august 20, 2019. I will ask for a motion for approval of the minutes. Motion. Second. Any Public Comment. Seeing number none, it is closed. roll call . The minutes are approved. The agenda item report from executive director. Thank you and good evening, commissioners on my topics to discuss with you this evening, i wanted to first apologize as i mississaugmiss reported somethiu at the last meeting regarding streamlining. I think i said it had passed when in reality at that point it passed through first reading. My apologies. I will give you an update. It has passed now. That is great. On wednesday, september 11th mayor breed signed the legislation and it will go into effect on october 11 to enable Retail Businesses to diversify offerings to attract new Business Models to vacant storefronts and increase opportunities for retail and nightlife businesses to sell vacant storefronts. It will support live music by limiting doilycative inspections and will r
Speaking over 12 languages. That is a big asset to international visitors. We have my sf which trained 400 people to be tourism ambassadors. San francisco saw 25 million visitors. We hope that continues to climb. We will continue to try to make that number climb. We 4,375,000,000 3. 7 million visitors and that is over 1 21 Million Dollars in impact. Our twitter had 215,000 followers. Our facebook over 500,000. I want to note for context that our Destination Management organizations were in the top tier in terms of social impact. These are impressive when you look at other dmos around the country. Our moscone expansion had 500 million project. It was completed on time and on budget and opened earlier this year. We had a phasedin portion of the construction so we allowed the building to stay open to accommodate Convention Attendees to continue to come through the building. This was challenges with construction noise and impact. We were able to mitigate the impacts to continue the economi