Hell get to see it so give him a hand clapping george has always told me dont go to willie brown for the small stuff. So i really want to thank even for being here. This is a spell your last name day toro everyone dr. Davis family is here the family is in the house the daviss. I want to acknowledge the board of directors and were going to do that theyre my boss and theyre in the house well have them stand but i want to thank them from the bottom of my heart so thank you. I want to start out by thinking a little bit about what dr. Davis meant he was a forward thinker and thinking about bayview in the day and bayview has changed and is different but he was thinking about it 20 years ago. And this took 20 years. And later on im going to talk about the Beautiful People and how theyve helped us and supported our organization but it was really dr. Davis is the reason were here so i want to remember that and to know were his legacy to carry it forward when he passed it had to be hundreds and
Finding the people making lives changed and transforming them and making sure the people who wanted to be here will have the opportunity. This is what dr. Davis was about and exactly what kathy it doing weve got Senior Housing 20 will be for Homeless Individuals weve made that promise and 3 thousand unit are fulfilling that and tony is making promises im there to make sure we getting get to those promises so sophie is saying im still waiting shell be enjoying progress and milestones. Getting another story for you kids so when you take over kids were not giving us detect this is an enjoyable day but lets turn around and call other to this movement so we built this build more and more theres so much more to do and im calling you out to bring other. Thank you very much ive enjoying being here today clapping i had the great pleasure i dont know, you know, so moved, commissioners, that motion passes sometimes when youre working as mayor of San Francisco you get so concentrated open what you
The Public Housing and c l and we have Community Partners such as a mr. Walton and ed williams and dr. Honey cut and dwayne jones and then we have Department Heads mohammed the man of the hour for me he made this happen and Barbara Smith the head of the Housing Authority and ann is here clapping so were going to have supervisor cowen come up because oh, another supervisor in front. Were so proud to have her in our district and she said he did i was her master of thesis and every time we need something shes right there like sophie we appreciate her and glad to have her with us good morning. Im glad the speaker put the breaks open kathy that is what happened when our the baby on the stage and keep me to two minutes. Its going to be more than two minutes ate an amazing day to celebrate. You know, i really want to talk about what exactly were here youve heard about the 20 years but what 20 years has brought us is one hundred and 20 units of Senior Housing thats right here where we are toda
Kathy davis clapping as we all knows kathy is unstoppable and unflapable in. Com building you dont want to get between kathy davis and her vision. When she whacks the traffic at the capita the traffic parts as if missouris was in the building laughter and she reminded me in putting the financing together one of the loose pieces was 20 million that redevelopment agencies in the past recollection is dollars we had to go to the difgdz those were owed and due and the governor was not going to use them to use for other purposes but to use on this project so contacting thank you for a carrying on the vision and keeping up the fight and doing it with a spirit and style of elegance ive never seen so from the state to you dr. Georges memory clapping. okay. We want to get to groundbreaking and nancy pelosi has to get somewhere else. Do you have time of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor William Kennedys work. Okay clapping. i can relax a little bit. While we thank supervisor dr.
Matthew i was hunger when i was in prison you visited me. Christ said that. Elevating those people. As our responsibility. George davis taught us how to incorporate that in what we did as a value. And that if we skewed we were better for it. So, i mean i loved him much and i was proud to go to the floor of the house and talk about him as he and contacting had so much energy and never down. It was just keep on keeping on. And think about how it grew im thinking back over 25 years ago with balloons and all the rest and bigger and bigger and now here we are this great mrirnt. Its an honor to be here with you but more important its personally its a personal Opportunity One that i wouldnt have missed because when george davis is honored were doing gods work why do we always prayer for gods work hes already blessed that george davis did gods work and kathy did just that clapping just think just think of those people in this housing when it comes to be warmed comforted, housed, respected with