Supervisor kim. First of all, i want to congratulate everyone for the amount of work and dedication and leadership in district 6 were looking at doing a filipino and lgbt social culture as part of the plan. One of the changes is not only recognizing the history but making sure were able to stable likewise residence that make the district what it is i dont know which department to address but thats one of the challenging things i was wondering what other pieces from oewd to make sure were able to support beyond the historical importance but the Community Importance in the district areas i can answer that as part of the office of Economic Workforce Development through our investing in neighborhoods actually, the 24th street were because of the uniqueness of the street and also in wanting to strengthen our businesses we developed a Pilot Program which we refer to as sf its a strengthening program. We initiated and 24th street is one of our corridors we basically conduct several times. And
Good afternoon. Welcome to the board of supervisors San Francisco Land Use Economic Development committee. Im scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is cohen and supervisor kim will be joining us shortly and were joined by supervisor campos. Our clerk andrea and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing specifically jonathan and jessie railroad madam clerk, any address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Okay. We have one item on our agenda madam clerk call item one. Establishing the latino district. And he item one is cosponsored by mayor ed lee and supervisor campos. Thank you and happy monday to everyone. I want to invent by thanking the Land Use Committee for hearing this item and also by recognizing members of the community in the mission who have been working on this for a long time. Were going to hear from some of them and you can imagine this is a very momentous and historic momentum f
Watershed for the water we drink it has a national effect her in the bay area were lucky to have two wilderness sites the fair wilderness and the seashore so again, today is earth day we commemorates the passage of this landmark legislation and celebrate the significance of our presently system and look forward to our support and thank you supervisor campos for you support. The last item is very important to my district and its a resolution that i am proud to introduce today along with mayor ed lee. I want to thank you mayor Ed Lee Office for their help in pitting this together including diana and Parker Torres from the office of office of Economic Workforce Development. I want to thank the following Community Members who have been working eric and another gentleman from the social society and desiree from the heritage. 24th street features vibrancy and unmatched moifrlg in San Francisco at least most of us who live in that area building so. This resolution establishes the latino curre
Director of the Theatre Center and brav voluntary for women in the arts im happy to be here. Thank you very much for having this hearing and presenting this to the board of supervisors. We who work and live in the corridor really appreciate the board of supervisors taking the time to make this happen. Ive worked in the neighborhood for over thirty years ive done Financial Management for a multiple of arts organizations during that time and arts for my prospective has made a huge difference throughout the city particularly in the mission its been known for 50 years of contributing to the viable and professionalism arts in the landscape of the city. We feel the arts is part of the healing process in the 80s it was drugs and gapgz and the continued now the arts city plays an Important Role in the gent indication process so this means a tremendous amount to the community. As supervisor kim mentioned funding to support of the arts organizations to carry out the work we do and contribute to
Continues to be a center of the artistic movements and the proposed culture district has a History Associated with the Latino Movement and the chicano and latino Labor Movement to name a few. The culture district will help to recognize the culture and help to preserve the commercial corridor as mentioned by other speakers it is a Community Statement on latino Heritage Resources in San Francisco. Which were corresponding with the local Historical Society to dissolve into the heritage of lower 24th street as well as the city as a whole. We strongly support this district 0 resolution and look forward to working with the community and city to develop an efficient district following others models like japantown where we were heavy involved. I want to announce the first Public Meeting on saturday june 7th from 10 through to one p. M. Thank you very much we strongly support the resolution thank you, mr. Buell i appreciate the support. That completes our presentation of the items and colleague