Recommend, because they live in the neighborhood, theyve been impacted by drug dealing. Several of them have lived experience as theyve already shared, with the experience of open air drug dealing. And i think the committee would be wellserved. And these are Jesse James Johnson, sam dennison, Cheryl Shanks and Curtis Bradford. All amazing people. And also i would like to mention kim diamond too. I know all five of these individuals. They all do really good work in the neighborhood. And i think the committee would be well served. They understand processes, they know how to work in the group. They live and work in the neighborhood and real life experience. Let me read this one more time. Jesse james johnson, sam dennison, Cheryl Shanks, Curtis Bradford and kim diamond. I hope youll give due consideration to those five but whoever you choose, it will be a good committee. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Supervisors, my name is brian edwards. Im a Community Advocate and organizer with t
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
Units and after it was rebuilt through hope 6 which was a whole other program before hope s. F. , there were only 200 units built. So clearly, everyone was not coming back. Thats why when i first started as a commissioner on the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and we set out on our path to try and rebuild double rock and other places, it was important to me that we did it differently than we did in the past, so that residents played a Critical Role in not only deciding what fixtures and windows and how they wanted their community to be, but they remained a part of their communities. So thats exactly what we did. It did require a lot of patience and moving around and a number of things. Yes, again, i know that people were a little uncertain as to whether or not we would get this project done because promises have been made over the years and promises not kept. But today a promise is kept. 439 units of Affordable Housing for people, for families, for this amazing community. Through th
I personally love the mega jobs. I think theyre a lot of fun. I like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. We do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, Transit Center, a lot of the note worthy projects. Im Second Generation construction. My dad was in it and for me it just felt right. I was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. In college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. The Transit Center project is about a million square feet. The entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. It has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. Bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. I love going to the workshops. Its where i met jes
The corporation was exonerated in the late 7. 70s. We had subcommittees on each development that came in that we had one for childcare, one for parks and rec, development and everything. So the Training Programmes we had with the college and also with model cities, we trained people in our community for each phase of the projects that were coming into Hunters Point. Where there was business, we had a Business Programme to train people with businesses. It went through the hunter Point College which was the first campus college. Every college we started through model cities, we started a minister witmission with hiringl of the others. But for those familiar will the mission, talk with i forgot the directors name now don markham . No, he was the director of the model cities. They could link up with the colleges out there, training with childcare. We had over 40 people through the Childcare Programme and each were able to buy homes, so if we want people to stay in our community, we need to