Announcement because many of the people in this room are looking for that opportunity from all walks of life, from every community in San Francisco they see this as a city wide projected, not just on the waterfront. Its everybodys future. Everybody has to be heard and i know that even this weekend there was a telephonic ability to talk to people online and the telephone. There were over 4,000 people that engaged themselves with a conversation and the warriors and about what this project meant. Its incredible. I also want to give a shout out to the port and i know monique is here and theyre working hard with our team and continuing this ongoing dialogue and we will have more announcements to make. Right now this is just the beginning of this project but its a great beginning because usually when people talks about jobs and who gets to work on the project and i know supervisor avalos we have been through that and in the publicly funded projects they wait until the end to say whether they
With electricians and tim paulson with the Labor Council and mike casey president in the back of the room over there. This is a project of the kind that makes Building Trades workers salivate. It is a startingly beautiful design from what we have seen so far. I am going to embarrass myself and speak in norwegian and its the kind of project where we can look forward to bringing our skills to work on a project that will fully demand those skills, so that is quite apart from the hours it will bring to us, it quite a part from the food we will put on the table and the house payments and so on. Thats one of the reasons this project really excites us and its a dramatic project. However, we are happy to try to minimize the drama of actually building the project and this is what this particular agreement d a lot of things are in this particular agreement and i think its a real accomplishment, something that will provide us a practical and effective means of addressing local hire andet going sa
Advocates here in San Francisco. Without further adieu i would like to introduce our mayor ed lee. Thank you jennifer. Good morning everyone. Today is a pretty good announcement of another milestone that we have reached with the Golden State Warriors but before i say that i want to continue thanking the people who are very interested in the city of this city, the future of sports, the future of the waterfront and all the neighborhoods that we know that are continuing to want to have a great positive Economic Future for the city and also create jobs at the same time. Supervisor david chiu is here and he and i have talked quite a few time bs this project and what it means to the city. I want to also thank Supervisor John Avalos and he being a very strong advocate and working together on local hire we have been able to set course and ordinance for city funded projects that i think have been leading the nation in getting local people hired. At the same time i also want to acknowledge super
Goi want to thank everybody that is here. We are on our way and it will take a while. It will take some time. We are about once we do the fiscal feasibility which was never required with these projects in the past. Once we get past this hurdle we go into the Environmental Quality process and everything will be heard about the impact of communities and around the city but i think the warriors and all of us want to give you a vision of where were going and that needs to be kept in front of us and we cant use this opportunity where we have a fantastic investment in our city. Confidence is growing in our city and we will have our gollen state warriors here in 2017. Thank you to everybody for being here today. [applause] well, you cant have a 25 local hire commitment and a 50 local hire apprenticeship commitment with a private Public Partnership without a private partner. I would like to introduce rick welts, the president of the golden state warriors. [applause] thank you jenn. Thank you m